Run-flat Tire Recommendations?

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My wife’s 2016 X1 lease was in for service yesterday and, at 17k miles, needed new front brakes. This was a car we picked up as a former loaner with 5700 miles. At the end of the inspection report, it said that the front Pirelli RFTs were down to 4 and the rears were at 5. Not impressive - I fully expected we’d make it to the end of the lease.

Does anyone have any RFT recommendations that BMW will accept and that preferably won’t wear below minimums in 12-18 months? If I had known this was going to happen, I would have just pulled off the RFTs and stored them to put back on at the end of the lease. Live and learn.

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Take them off now if they’re still above 4/32 which is the minimum allowed with BMW (check with them if it’s still the case) and buy a cheap new set of non RFT and put them back on at the end just for lease return.

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I have a call in to the dealer’s inspection person about that. I’m not optimistic about the fronts passing muster.

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my understanding is 4/32 passes. Call BMWFS they will tell you their benchmark.

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