BMW 550 owners have reported 19 wheel related problems since 1996. Table 1 shows the 1 most common wheel problems. The number one most common problem is related to the vehicle's wheel (19 problems). For details of each of the problem category, use the links in the table.
| Problem Category | Number of Problems |
|---|---|
| Wheel problems |
Nexen tires n5000 plus sidewall on all tires are starting to crack and split with less than 30,000 miles and 24 months of use. Going to replace tires with another brand and remove these due to unsafe and potential catastrophic failure of tires coming apart or blowout at highway speeds. .
BMW tears up tires causing them to shread while driving down road. After two alignments in a year. No front end damage per BMW.
Goodyear 245-45-19 2 tires tread separating. Verified at discount tire not safe at any speed.
Wheel cracked - run flat tires would not hold air due to unexplained crack in wheel.
Driving my 69 year old wife's 2011 BMW 550ix with m sport pkg. With goodyear run flat's o. E. M. German tire's when the left front tire side wall ruptured for no reason. Car always garaged and 4900 miles on car.
I have now driven my 2012 BMW 550i x drive for approximately 22,000 miles. I have been forced to replace 5 run flat tires in the past 11 months. Two goodyear excellence rof and 3 dunlop sp sport max gt. Three tires developed bubbles on the sidewall and I cannot think of a previous impact that stood out in my mind. Two tires rapidly deflated after coming in contact with pot holes. The combination of the tight suspension along with the low profile of the run flat tires makes this combination very dangerous.
I have goodyear 245/40r19 run flats on my vehicle. A huge bubble came up and I took it to the dealership. They said it was due to impact and not covered on my warranty. I know, there has been no impact. Since then another bubble on another tire has manifested. It is a cost of over $1000 to replace the two tires. Very frustrating when reading all the complaints online; clearly there is an issue.
This complaint is concerning my 2011 BMW 550i. I have been having problems with my BMW since about 7000 miles on the vehicle. The brakes keep locking, the rotors keep grinding and grooving, nose coming from the brakes while driving and stopping, and the dealer has changed them more than 4 times and the issues continues to happen. They advised me that they cannot fix it and there is nothing else they can do. Please help me with my vehicle issue. It has been parked from more than a year and a half and I feel that it is a safety issue. I feel like my life is in danger if I drive this vehicle.
We were traveling on a highway, hit a small pothole and immediately our low tire pressure warning went off. My husband who was driving the car, pulled to safe location, got out to inspect the passenger front tire to find that the goodyear tire had actually blown out. We had a 4 inch tear in the tire just above the rim. This is the third dunlop tire that we have had to replace with the same issues in the last three months. The first tire we had an issue with bubbled, the 2nd also bubbled but with only 100 miles on it, and then the last which actually blew out completely. We have had made numerous calls to dunlop and BMW expressing our safety concern with these tires.
I have had to replace 3 right front tires and 3 left front tires because they are constantly getting bubbles on the tires. The last tire was replaced on 8/20/15 and had only 204 miles. The first tire was replaced on 6/10/13 and it has not stopped. Average miles for the tires are 6,000 to 8,000. They are good year excellence 245/40 r 19. Two times I have had blow-outs. I have had 5 BMW's and never experienced this before. They just told me this car is to go to the store, etc. , not for long trips. I have not used this car for a long trip yet. But I feel something is wrong and should be corrected. The tires are unsafe. The tires are $ 500 each, which I spent $ 3,000. So far. Are this tires in a recall? please get back to me with a suitable answer.
Both rear wheels are cracked.
Bulge in sidewall of goodyear tire many complaints online.
Tires - as with all other complaints regarding the goodyear "run flat" tires, I have had no less than 7 bulges requiring 7 new tires. I did purchase an extended tire warranty so BMW covered the tires. The alarming thing is that BMW of north houston refuses to admit there are any issue with these tires. From reading all of the complaints, I have a hard time believing it is the driver or potholes as I have been told. Replaced the rear tires with comparable firestone tires and I have not had one issue. I still have the goodyear tires on the front and just two months ago had to have it replaced. My tire warranty expires November 2015, will replace them with firestone then. Please do something before someone is killed.
The contact owns a 2010 BMW 550gt. While driving approximately 35 mph, the tire pressure warning indicator alerted low tire pressure. The contact maneuvered to the side of the road to inspect the vehicle and then resumed operation. The vehicle was taken to a tire center where the technician informed the front passenger's side wheel exhibited two hairline cracks on the inner portion. The wheel was replaced. The manufacturer was notified of the problem. The approximate failure mileage was 20,120.
After driving only a few thousand miles the tires on the car failed. The two front tires "bubbled. Within one month after, the left front failed by "blowing". In the next two months all four "new" tires failed, with the same "bubbling" issue. 4 months, 7 tires - something is very wrong with the engineering of the car as it related to the run-flat tires used by BMW creating a very dangerous riding condition. BMW service in the one service center I visited claims to change up to 15 tires per day. Multiply that by the number of service centers nationwide and you have a veritable BMW epidemic of tire failure.
I have a 2007 550i that I bought in 2009. I several problems with the wheels, all of them are some what bent, but the rear left wheel is cracked. There have been several issues with many BMW owners regarding bent rims. I suspect there is an issue, as wheels don't just have hairlines, straight cracks on the inside wall without some sort of bend in the wheel. Even the tire guy, where I bought my tires, said it looks a little suspisious. This crack is about 1 inch long on the rim endge.
I own a 2007 BMW 550i sport. I ran over a raised road marker while in atlanta and rupured the side walls of both left side tires, while also bending the factory 18" rims. In my judgement the contact was not significant enough to cause the damage that occurred. Once I had the tires removed I noticed that the inside portion of each rear tire was worn down to the metal mesh imbedded in the tire. The outter portion of the tires showed at least another 10k miles on them. This was/is very disconcerting and alarming to me. I see it as a design flaw, and a significant safety concern. One should not have to have their car lifted into the air every 3-6k miles to inspect for this issue. This is a $60k + automobile. While exteremely satisfied with some aspects of the vehicle, and satisfied with others, this is a deal breaker for me. If I ever recommend a BMW 550i to anyone, it will be with the caveat of be careful when it comes to the factory wheels and any type of tire that you mount on it because of the ongoing rear alignment issues. I had the same exact problems with an otherwise great 99' 525i sport. The realignment wore out 2 michelin pilot sports/rear in less than 10k miles.
I have just suffered my seventh cracked wheel in 13k miles / 18 months! according to wheel wizard in atlanta, they see an inordinate number of BMW 550i, m5s, 650i, m6, 750i cars. They subcontract for all the majors - Porsche, Jaguar, BMW, Ferrari etc. Wheel wizard believes that the Bmws (particularly with run flats), chose an alloy for the wheel that is defectively soft or and prone to cracking given the weight, power and suspensions on these cars. I agree!! 7 times in 18 months. I work out of my house and do not drive my car hard. Over the last 30 years I've been driving, I've owned mercedes (clk430), Jaguar (xk8), Toyota, 3 Ford suvs, an Infiniti and have never had a single cracked wheel or rim in 30 years! (if it were my driving - there would be at least one other instance in 30 years). But not once. Now, since November 2009, I've had 7 cracked or bent rims! this is beyond statistical probability of just bad luck. I have had other BMW drivers tell me similar stories. A very good friend had a 650i then an m6 - he had bent or cracked rim problems on his Bmws. A friend has a 550i - he has had bent or cracked rims in the first 12 months. Wheel wizard, when I was in last time, said they had seen 5 to 7 5, 6 and 7 series in the previous 5 days. And they said that BMW has an unusual high frequency of bent and cracked rims on the 5, 6 and 7 series post 2005 models. Today, the manager said he thought Bmws, particularly those with run flat tires, experience a much greater than normal bent and cracked rim problem (something that makes his business money - repeat problems). I am hoping the ntsb will open up an official investigation. BMW national tried to tell me they have good engineers. I responded, that's what Toyota said too when they denied safety problems even though we now know they were lying. That's what Ford said when people were having high number of roll over crashes in their suvs. You can't trust these car companies. Please investigate!.
Have had this BMW 550i for about 2 years, and in that time I've had 3 bent wheels and one cracked wheel. I have cars with similar, aluminum alloy rims and lower profile tires on them - and have not bent or cracked a wheel on the other cars. The rear wheel cracked, but it was along the inner edge - and was not noticed. The only reason it was checked was because the tire kept leaking air. Luckily it was caught before the wheel cracked even more (it cracked for about 1" long from the rim edge to just past the tire bead). Updated 12/02/10 updated 12/07/10.