Correct, however once the tire is replaced, you have to buy a new certificate for the tire. They will try to patch it if it’s fixable (despite dealer claim that runflats can’t be patched) but they couldn’t in my case and easily replaced. Love that place. Free rotation too. Service is always awesome too in my experience though I wish they had more locations.
If you are in SoCal, it’s a must IMO. Roads here are so bad.
Nice. I live in NorCal and will be driving in SF + surrounding highways so the road conditions aren’t the best either lol. I see a store 25 minutes away so I will check them out and get the tire certificates! Thanks for the info!!
There are a bunch of tire chains with similar sounding names- make sure it’s the right one.
Except for that whole pesky safety thing, not only for you, but the other thousands of people on the road you’re driving around.
99% of people will not get 3/36k out of a set of runflats before lease is up. I got about half that myself. Others here have said the exact same thing.
IMO…the added wear/tear package is pure profit for the dealership, and will likely cost more in the long run than repairing the damage out of pocket yourself. If the damage is that severe, use insurance. That’s what you pay for when you are required to buy it.
We drive like the proverbial little old ladies in our cars, but even then with the relatively soft tires BMWs come with, this is a very solid additional reason to go with a 24 month lease.
In six years you can do two 36-month leases or three 24 month leases.
From a purely OOP cost perspective you’d need to calculate the cost of two sets of tires on 2 * 36 vs. an extra acquisition fee, doc fee, and sales tax (etc) on 3 * 24.
The extra sales tax on the third lease could be the killer.
In six years, so many of us here will have probably have done six leases, or more 
It probably depends on the sales tax structure of the given state, in my states case sales tax is always pretty low upfront and then 7% of the payment.
And, what’s an acquisition fee? On the short term leases (on all but the most expensive of payments), waving that is what I gave tended to do. The $38/mo saved ($925/24) is some low hanging fruit. I haven’t done this, so maybe somebody here will, but it would be interesting to see (with the current MF for a 24 month lease)…all else equal, what payment is the break even point for waiving the acquisition fee?
Of course it depends.
People need to compare for themselves, instead of just assuming that having to buy a set of tires automatically makes a 36-month term a poor choice.
Also, this is the second time this morning you have selectively quoted me, so I’m taking your lead. 
Yes…Without the quoting it gets too hard to know what post ties to what when they get separated…It is nothing personal towards you… I do it all the time here :-). Most forums automatically do this.
In any case, no doubt each person has to calculate this out individually. This forum helps provide general guidance, but we all have to try and work things individually
I agree with you about the appeal of quoting, but the context should be preserved.
[edit] LOL, the bot stripped out what I was trying to demonstrate.
And if you’re doing this right you should be rolling all up fronts, waiving acq when it makes sense.
I think the finance guy made a couple boat payments with this deal, he’ll be sad when it’s cancelled
Who needs a boat anyway? 
It’s all about tires. Soft/sport tires can only you push you to 25k miles top. The rest can go to 40k miles easily. Real cost of end is lease is around $750, well that’s what I paid 2 years ago. I’m not familiar now. They usually starts around $1500. Negotiate at finance. Good luck.
We’re signing for our BMW today.
I checked… original equipment tires are $283 each at Discount Tire. Wheels on eBay are ~$350.
$1,500 would cover four tires and one wheel, give or take.
Not like you can get wheels refinished or used tires or anything…
I’ve been leasing bay since 2007. I know they changed a lot but one thing they never changed, that tire at lease end. They are notorious. Most m sport package has the sports tires that only last 25k max. And the all season expect 40k miles easily. When I get all season tires, I don’t purchase the lease protection. I had a key scratch on one of my car, returned it after spending $100 to just buff it and they didn’t charge me at all. Lesson is, know the type of tires you’re getting. Sports tire, get the lease protection and enjoy it. You will probably need to change at 20k anyways
Good to know! They’re all season run flat tires (not sports) and they told me they should last for the entire duration of my lease 3 yrs/12k miles.
Lol. Well I called and now they’re saying you can’t take it back and that they’ll have to submit a request to the corporate BMW office to see if they’ll remove both the end of lease protection & wheel + tire protection. They said they will get back to me on Monday.
Wow I can’t believe this. I’ll be so mad about this scam. Yes it is my mistake and I signed it but I just don’t see why they can’t remove it since it’s been less than 24hrs from signing the lease! 
You expected this to go down without a fight? Keep pressing.