Tyres

If you're going to sell it this year, then I would replace like for like, especially as the S001s are are the lower end of the price range. Might just be me and it will probably make zero difference when you sell it, but I don't like having mixed sets of tyres and haven't done since I had a company car and no choice.

It would be different if you were keeping it longer. I'd be suggesting swapping all 4 for either the newish Pirelli PZ4 (which has been getting good reviews) or the P4S if you were happy moving away from RFTs.

Both rears. I don’t want one rear tyre that is old and half worn and another that is new.

Bank holiday weekend here due to Paddy’s day and we had another public holiday on Friday.
Cue me going out for ice cream today and getting a puncture.
It’s the 5th puncture I’ve had in my 30 years of driving.
It’s also the third one I’ve got on a bank holiday weekend.

The Mondeo has a space saver wheel which is now on the car.

I miss my run flats!

Will call into the tyre place tomorrow and get it fixed. They’re on the same road as my job which helps a lot.

PS5 are out now , no doubt an ‘S’ will be coming soon. 


www.michelin.co.uk/auto/tyres/michelin-pilot-sport-5

Is there an option in the correct load rating that isn't an XL tyre?  If there is, I would only worry about the load and speed ratings. 

edit: Just had a look.  It needs a minimum 92 load rating, so as long as it has that you'll be fine.  Ideally with the BMW * on the sidewall, but that's not essential. 

Done. Should turn up to my local garage of choice and be ready for fitting on Thursday.

Thought about having the alloys refurbished first and then decided against it. As it is, I think all four are lightly grazed on their edges, and therefore if either of us kerbs one, it's now just a passing moment of irritation rather than a full day's sulk. 

Forum ban if you can't! 

I'll be amazed if you don't feel a difference.   Have you bought a can of foam/gunk now you don't have RFTs or a spare?   When the lease company swapped put normal tyres on the 520d, I bought some Holts Tyreweld (there are two sizes).  I had to use it when I woke up to a flat tyre and it was excellent, got me to the tyre place without issue and they were able to clean it out and repair the tyre.  Only about £10 from Halfords iirc. 


Edit:  £9.00 from Amazon or Halfords, I'd buy a couple of cans and keep them in the boot. 

When I got the winters on the 430 I initially couldn't tell much difference but realised that was because I'd been driving so carefully with the summer tyres on due to the general lack of grip.

Now its warmer and I'm pushing a bit harder on favourite bits of road the difference is pretty clear and I'm looking forward to some summer tyres but planning to wait until we've been up north in a couple of weeks in case the weather up there is significantly colder.

So after a c.300 mile trip to Suffolk and back, I haven't detected any particularly noticeable difference in ride quality or tyre noise (albeit I've had the 18" winters on for the last three months so not a back-to-back comparison and possibly because the new tyres are XLs), but at the first roundabout on a dual carriageway (ie the sort that is well-sighted and you take with a degree of speed if no-one is coming the other way) the positive difference in turn-in and bite was enough to make me sit up and think "oh yes, that's much better". Just felt crisper and keener - like HD versus normal TV.

I've got a slow puncture on the rear offside tyre. It was losing 1 x PSI every 24 hours and not getting worse, but I got the local tyre place to have a look and they found a nail in it. They didn't want to repair it as it's lined with noise reducing foam but I asked them to trim a bit away, repair it and buy a bit of time. It's still losing pressure, closer to 2 x PSI every 24 hours now and there's a slight vibration which you can feel on some roads and it's worse at 75 leptons plus. Maybe they didn't balance it properly or maybe the foam is coming loose.

Whatever the answer, I need to replace it, which isn't too upsetting as they are down to 4.5mm and have covered 35k miles. As the fronts still have 5mm left and (I believe) a 3mm difference between front and rear axles is just about OK, I was going to just replace the rears. But I'd like to try the LR marked Scorpion Zero A/S tyre, as it's supposed to be better in all areas other than wear and they are rated A for fuel economy and 69db vs C and 71db for the Scorpion Verde. The Pirelli website rates them better for both wet/dry performance, the same for snow/comfort/off road.

As I've said before, I don't like mixing tyres, so I've decided to replace all 4 with the Scorpion Zero. Blackcircles wanted £1,220 for a set, but Asda Tyres were only £1,065 and they use the fitters I really like who aren't available via Blackcircles any more for some reason.

I wonder if I'll notice the difference.....

If the tyre was repaired but is still losing air, sounds like something is wrong. Was it not reseated properly on the rim? Is it a bad repair? Trimming away the noise reducing foam shouldn't promote air loss

Definitely quieter at motorway speeds. The car was really quiet anyway, but at 75mph you could hear some tyre noise which isn't there now.  I've only travelled 7 miles though, got a 200 mile journey later including a newly (terribly) surfaced road which will be interesting to use as a comparison.

Pirelli say these tyres have a higher wear rate, I wonder if that's because they have less tread new?  The Verdes had 8mm when I bought the car, I assume LR had put a new set on, these have 7.4mm in the centre and 7.0mm at the edges.  Not a hugely different tread pattern, but quite a few difference in the details.

I decided to hold onto the front tyres and keep them as spares, as they've still got just over 5mm of tread left. 

They are a definate improvement over the Verdes, which is good because it's always really annoying when you spend money on a car and don't feel like you're getting any benefit.

The wheels don't look massive on the car, but it did amuse me when I put them in the garage.....

It is one of the downsides of Mrs M leaving Asda, losing the 10% discount on tyres!