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With respect to gas mileage, I was typically getting 16.5 mpg until 10K miles and am now getting 18.5 running the same local daily routes. Bart :shades:
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FYI - not a safety issue, I live in FL, so no snow or ice to deal with, and I only drive about 500 miles per month
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Max
I am not happy with the original equipment Good Year Eagle RS-A tires.
Looking for 245/45 18" VR All-Season tires, with good noise and ride comfort, acceptable dry-wet-snow traction (I am in Toronto, Ontario).
Would you please recommend your top choices, here are some of the tires I am thinking about:
1.) Bridgestone Potenza RE 960 AS Pole Position
2.) Toyo Versado LX
3.) Yokohama Advan S4
4.) Falken Ziex ZE-912
5.) Pirelli P Zero Nero M&S
6.) Yokohama Avid W 4S
Thanks for your help.
'21 Dark Blue/Black Audi A7 PHEV (mine); '22 White/Beige BMW X3 (hers); '20 Estoril Blue/Oyster BMW M240xi 'Vert (Ours, read: hers in 'vert weather; mine during Nor'easters...)
I hated the GoodYears as well.
I must say, the Continentals look fantastic! Ive actually had people compliment the tires while complimenting the car.
The tires are very quiet, handle perfect in the rain. I used to be nervous driving my M35x in the rain. I would have C-Classes passing me on the turnpike. I feel much more secure with these tires. AMAZING!! AMAZING!! AMAZING!!
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tests/testDisplay.jsp?ttid=86
Two tires plus alignment will cost $700 or so. I'm leasing so not really interested in changing all four tires to a better tire if it's going to cost me more (seems like the goodyears aren't particularly well liked or rated based on this board!)
Any recommendations other than replacing the two front ones with the same goodyears? Should I be suprised on this wear on my tires? Anyone have problems with using outside places to align the m35x? I remember there were some issues 2 years ago when my M was wrecked and there were no specs on the M then. Thanks for comments.
On what planet? These aren't run-flats, are they? The best high performance tires cost ~$200-250 where I live, and significantly less if you shop around.
Go to Tire Rack. Insert your car model & year and/or your tire size. Enjoy. I don't think you're going to see any $300 tires.
I could be wrong.
Get back to us.
I will say that when all four tires aren't very close to the same diameter (don't remember the spec) on an all-wheel drive car, it will create some big problems with the computer sensing variations in rotation rates, and activating the all-wheel function. It can also mess with the anti-locking brakes. It is often better to replace all 4.
245/45VR18 Goodyear Eagle RS-A
Blackwall In Stock 2 $261.00 $522.00
This is the OEM ones (there may be better or much better ones but I don't need to return my m35x to the dealer in 1 year with better tires than it came with.\!
So $522 for the tires, $100 for alignment (dealer), plus labor = $700 if I'm lucky.
I can live with cost but thought my low mileage and usually nonaggressive driving would have minimized the wear and tear on the tires. Is the M prone to alignment issues? Plus the car was aligned by the dealer 1 year ago and tires were rotated by the dealer on schedule. The roads in central jersey aren't great but probably not the worst out there either.
If you ever drive up into the mountains, or cross over to say Vegas when it can be cold in the higher parts, you'd be better off with an all-season in my opinion.
Paid $1100 for 4 tires, 4 wheel alignment and 2 year road hazard from the dealer.
The OEM Goodyear RSAs lasted 33k miles (2/32) doing 7.5k rotation. For the last 10k miles they were terrible.
That said, they do have a serious flat-spotting problem in cold weather, and I'm talking 50 degree temps, hate to think what sub freezing will be like. My commute is 12 miles one way, and for 10 miles the tires thrummed pretty bad ... it gets better after about 10 minutes so if you commute a high speeds for the typical 30-60 minute commute, brobably not a real problem.
I just traded my early '06 for a close-out '07 (both M35x) and the new RS-As reminded me how rough they are, but they don't flat-spot and I don't miss that "feature" of the 960s. But, I still went back yesterday to see if I could get my 960s back!
Starting to lean more toward the Yokohama ADVAN S.4 as immediate swapouts for the horrific Goodyear Eagle RSAs on the M45X.
My commute isn't long enough for the Potenzas to warm up.
Changing lanes can be an adventure. It seems that the grooves in the road just snatch the car over. It can be so pronounced that sometimes when changing lanes, I just grip the wheel and hold on because the car seems to be driving itself.
Straight line driving can also be a challenge depending upon the road. If it is a smooth surface, it is a pure joy to drive. If there are imperfections in the road, the car tends to want to go where the road directs it, which is usually too close to another vehicle, and not where I want the vehicle to go. So I get into this battle with the road. I can feel the road pull the car in one direction and I am trying to steer in the opposite direction to compensate. This is just not what I want to do driving at high or low speeds and like you, I have not experienced problem, to this degree, in any other vehicle that I have owned.
Since you e-mail confirms that this is not my imagination, I am anxious to get this corrected. Everything else about the car is just about perfect but this handling problem ruins the driving experience for me. What I read seems to point towards tires but before I do anything, I want to be sure. Please post what you discover and I will do the same.
Mykal56
I have to look at it this way ... every car I've ever owned has been a compromise in one way or the other. I'd love for the M35x to have the road-feel and feedback in the steering wheel of an early 90's BMW or the dead-on-center feel of my Audi A6 4.2 (actually sort of numb-on-center) but it just doesn't. As imperfect as it is, the M35 has too many positives and they outweigh the negatives, IMHO. Having driven German cars for over 20 years I have to say that Infiniti is not quite there yet, but close enough, and given the current aesthetic appeal (well '06-07' anyway), reliability and ergonomics they are hard to beat. As they say ... YMMV.
RECALL???????
2006 M35X loaded, Nav, 15 speakers, a/c seats. 28,000 mi. Goodyear RSA OEM-next to go.
2007 M35X DG w/CHARCOAL , TECH & AERO PACKAGE--500 miles
The dealer replaced my steering rack. That's the cure.
New tires afterward helped the ride. I got Conti Extreme from mavistire. On line oder and install at their store. Tire Rack has same price $135 each.
Steering rack replacement included alignment under warranty.
I hope this can be resolved.
Ryan (?) was my service rep. The new guy there.
Pepe only makes money on warranty work.
Best results if you go there and they test drive.
Potential recall IMHO.
Also,the ride is rough for a luxury car because of the 18" wheels and low profile tires. Has anyone tried putting 15" or 16" wheels and higher profile tires on the M35 to give it a softer ride over the bumps?
Only selling M35X's in NY. Only M45s are rear wheel.
See reviews on tirerack.com