Recent content by salcrich

Ref my post of a couple of days ago - took car into dealers for run out check today armed with print outs from various forums and BBC Watchdog programme specifically about cracking alloys. (Incidentally it was a quote from BMW in the write up of the programme that incorrectly referred to 3mm run...

Maniac you are right my dealer quoted 2mm but I read 3mm on other investigations and assumed i had miss-heard. Thanks to you and others for encouragement ...have to keep telling myself they haven't said no yet. Since the car will soon be three years old there is a big temptation to change all...

I have a 2010 3.5 is with 19 inch wheels and run flats and have done 16000 miles, have just been told both back wheels are cracked and have been for some time as they show signs of corrosion. One wheel has apparently got 8 cracks. Car is booked into Dealers for an alignment check (ie 3 mm run...