E92 M3 Tyre Wear - Help !!

[Cumbria]

Has anyone out there with an E92 M experienced excessive rear tyre wear. I'm very used to fast rear wheel drive cars, and in the extreme get 8k from the rears (previous M5 lasted almost 14k!), but I've covered just 1800 miles since new, and 1300 of that is motorway driving. I have not raced away from a standstill and drive the car no differently to any other such car, but have erroded approx 3-4m from the rears already! At this rate I'll need a new set every 3-4k !!!!! Has anyone else suffered a similar problem?

[-Z-]

Are you on Michelin pilot sport cups or ps2s?

[Cumbria]

The former....

[foresterlad]

My E90 was supplied with cups which were far from ideal over the last winter period. There is less tread depth compared to PS2's and within 3000mls they had worn down to 2mm. This did include one track day. I now have a set of PS2's which have 4mm of tread after 6.300mls so hope for 9/10,000 before replacing.
This is pretty much in line with my experience running a CSL which had an earlier version of the cup rubber and wore out in 2,000mls!!

[Cumbria]

Thanks, kind of makes me feel a tad better, but I've got to admit, this coupled with the requested £350 first service bill after 10 days is starting to feel somewhat expensive !

[foresterlad]

Try providing your own oil. Castrol Edge 10/60 is available for around £36.50 for 4 litres which in my experience is at least 40% cheaper than your dealer will probably charge.

[Cumbria]

Thanks, good idea, although I managed to complain my way from £350 to £100 for the first service. Interesting concept the first 1,000 mile or so service, my previous RS4 didn't have it's first visit until 16,000 miles, although admittedly, the M3 is the better car, so perhaps I can forgive it... Those tyres though !!!

[MrBet]

My 1st service was free. I've done 11k on my original tyres, with still lots of tread. Don't know what i've got fitted, but its a November 2007 car.

[Cumbria]

They started charging for the service during 2008 so I'm told, before that it was always free. Thanks for the tyre comment, just made me feel bad again !

[m30dus]

I've done 34k in mine and have averaged 12k to set of rears (PS2's). The fronts were changed at 24k.

About 60% of those miles being motorway.

It's worth it!

[waremark]

PS2's - new rears at 12k, new fronts at 18k. Cups are an expensive way to go, quite apart from the poor winter performance.

Is Castrol Edge the same as the recommended TWS Motorsport? Where do you get Edge?

[john_p]

BMW charge for the running service? lol, that's ridiculous.

Edge is what BMW use instead of TWS. Don't get Edge Sport, it's different. opieoils.co.uk stocks it.

[Cumbria]

Thanks to everyone who's replied. I guess that within another 1-1.5k miles I'll be needing to change the tyres, and looks like the PS2s should be the choice. Good to know it's not just me that's experienced this. Thanks

[E30M3SE]

Michelin Pilot Sport Cup's only come with 5mm tread out of the box not the usual 8mmish that most other tyres have when new.

[Cumbria]

Thanks, I look forward to finding out the discs and pads are "pre-worn" to 50% of life expectancy !

[taffyracer]

my PS2's have lasted just over 14k with 2 trackdays....they're very very worn now but 14k is decent life in my book

[Soovy]

Cumbria said:

Thanks, I look forward to finding out the discs and pads are "pre-worn" to 50% of life expectancy !

It's a high performance car. What did you expect?!

[Cumbria]

what did I expect???? Well, given I've spent many years owning/driving high performamce cars, I expected more than 2,000 miles out of a set of tyres when over 60% of that is on the motorway. Sorry if that sounds unreasonable.......

[E21_Ross]

Cumbria said:

what did I expect???? Well, given I've spent many years owning/driving high performamce cars, I expected more than 2,000 miles out of a set of tyres when over 60% of that is on the motorway. Sorry if that sounds unreasonable.......

definitely not unreasonable. something wrong though, E92 M3 now with 11k on the clock, still with original front and rears. rears will need replacing in not too long though.

[Cumbria]

which tyres are you on, seems there's a huge difference between mine and the PS2 given previous comments?