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Highly recommended if you're considering A/S type tires.
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I love those. My favorite wheel for these cars, they are just a little pricey, but very nice. I would get a set of 18" M3 wheels 513M style if the spacing weren't just a bit too aggressive for the F30.
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I like the 513Ms too, feel like they have a motorsports vibe. But yeah, flush is the furthest I go on fitment as well, not into poke like some of the kids these days. My indy mechanic from my Audi days was really good at stretching tires and I'd always make fun of him when he was working on ridiculous fitments for the VW poke/stretch crowd. He agreed. |
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I just swapped mine today too. Love putting my summer set on because they look 4,573 times better than the winter set. I don't think Europeans know what All-Season tires are. They do obviously but when I took my winter set off today I also took the stupid 'no faster than 210 kph' sticker off too! Where's the Autobahn?
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03-25-2017, 09:22 PM | #29 |
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I changed mine out today, too. Goodbye to my Michelin Pilot Sport A/S 3+'s and my 397's. My 403's are back on...and I'm back to the RFT Bridgestone summers that the car came with.
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The PS 3+ A/S's are quieter and softer than the Bridgestone summer RFT's....with everything that comes with that. Turn-in is a bit quicker and steering was lighter, but the sidewalls are really soft and they squish around corners pretty significantly. Even after they were broken in, they compromised off-the-line acceleration and braking to some degree. For all-seasons, they were great but compared to the mediocre summer RFT's my car came with, they were a performance hit.
I don't regret buying them. We had enough real winter that attempting to retain my summer tires all year would have resulted in possibly crashing at least a couple of times. Our "snowpocalypse" was only about 7 days of driving so real winter tires weren't really needed, and we were near 40 degrees so much this winter that real winter tires would have had an issue because it was too warm for winter-tire rubber compound. Moving from staggered 19's to square 18's was also interesting, and it's hard to say which bit of interesting came from the A/S tires and which bit came from the skinnier square setup. The back-end of the car was more playful, and the car was a touch less stable at highway speeds. |
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Hopefully life will calm down a bit and I can have a little more play time. |
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I've never met a car that changes personality so much with tire and wheel changes. My old '13 328ix with 17" A/S RFT's is what I think of when people complain about "where BMW has gone wrong" and that issue was mostly solved by using Conti RFT summers on my spare 397 18's. Bigger wheels and tires, but it still had floaty base suspension...and it was enjoyable. The softer the tire/wheel setup, the less "BMW" these cars get. As far as I can tell. I might be wrong. I never had one of the fabled old "perfect" BMW's. On both of my F30's, the tires have made the car what I expect it to be, and compromising for winter made the 328 and my current 340 less than I want them to be. With the 340 (adaptive instead of base suspension) though, it didn't actually make me dislike the car as it did with the 328. |
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Yeah weather looking good in the Toronto area too... might switch out to summers this coming weekend.
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i too just changed the winter setups on both my wife's car (320i Sport) and my car (328i M-Sport 6MT)...always look forward to changing to my summer setup versus changing to winter.
I think my 328i has the stock Bridgestone S0001 RFT which to me seem to be a huge improvement to the Bridgestone RE050A on the 135i...those tires were not pleasant at all. |
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