Tires Worn Out Too Quick????

[jenny1941]

I bought a 2003 540IA with 12,900 miles on it - I now have 24,400 and the dealer tells me the front tires need replacing. Is this normal?? Seems I should get more mileage than 24,400. They tires are Michelin and came with the car. I need some advice. Thanks Jenny

 

[shadymilkman]

It all depends how you and/or the previous owner drove the car, but 24k miles on one set sounds right to me.

 

[Big Daddy]

And what the treadwear rating of the tires is? High performance tires can have ratings of 80 or less, that would mean an average of about 10 - 15k maximum usage.

 

[codex57]

Welcome to the world of high performance tires.

 

[J to the O]

you need to rotate your tires every 10,000 miles to get maximum life of all four tires. Its sounds to me that your tires were not rotated so the front tires wore out faster than the backs.

 

[Big Daddy]

BMW does not recommend rotating tires. You do not get any more life it just causes them to all wear out at the same time. Disrupting the "balance" of the car is not worth the difference, and if you have different size fronts than rears, as in the case of most BMW's with a performance setup you cannot rotate them anyway.

 

[MrElussive]

Most BMW's have a staggered-width setup, where the rear tires are wider than the fronts. If your setup is like this, you cannot really rotate the tires, even side-to-side. The car wears the tires down from the inside-out so as Big D stated above, you do not want to disrupt the tire wear.

If it makes you feel any better, I just purchased a new set of tires and I have almost 24,000 miles and they really should have been replaced one or two thousand miles ago.

 

[///M SPEED]

BMW does not recommend rotating tires. You do not get any more life it just causes them to all wear out at the same time. Disrupting the "balance" of the car is not worth the difference, and if you have different size fronts than rears, as in the case of most BMW's with a performance setup you cannot rotate them anyway.

I agree, especially with the camber angles most BMW's have....

 

[Average Jae]

rotating directional tires is a bad idea, even if the setup is not staggered. (supposedly just moving rears to the front and vice versa without moving it left to right does the tires no good)

it is kind of paculiar that your fronts wore out before the rears, but maybe the rears were already replaced at 12k mark? with a 540i, i'd say chances of that happening is pretty good.

 

[Big Daddy]

Good point Jae, my roadster rear tires wear out about twice as fast as the fronts and I do not do burnouts!