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Lew White Member Since: 08 Dec 2009 Location: Adelaide Posts: 40 |
Interestingly enough, for what it's worth, with my first RRS (2008 / 2.7 TDV6 ) I asked the dealer here (in Adelaide, SA) when in for a srevice to do a 5 way rotation of my wheels, as the spare had never been used and the other 4 had been on the car since new. I cannot remember the kilometres travelled, but there was still ample tread left on the road tyres. All wheels were matching.
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Wed Jun 04 2014 1:43am |
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stevepen Member Since: 07 Jun 2014 Location: Cheshire Posts: 4 |
One of them is an Acellera. I'd quickly get rid of that one! |
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Fri Jun 13 2014 6:12pm |
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normark Member Since: 17 Sep 2013 Location: hampshire Posts: 35 |
Hi Do you think this could be the problem I am having at the moment with my RRS Ive just had 4 new tyres on at main dealers now a week later Im getting a transmision fault flash up saying Ive lost some gears,
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Sun Jul 20 2014 9:05pm |
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shadrack Member Since: 12 Sep 2013 Location: north east Posts: 220 |
are they the oem size tyres |
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Sun Jul 27 2014 9:54pm |
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normark Member Since: 17 Sep 2013 Location: hampshire Posts: 35 |
The tyres were replaced with exactly the same make tyres that come off. I checked they were all the same and they were. the night we were travelling home when the transmission warning flashed up we managed to get back to our place, in the morning I was worried how I would get through town to the garage but started up and it must have righted itself because its been perfect since.
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Mon Jul 28 2014 5:49pm |
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Bill Portland Member Since: 01 Feb 2017 Location: Dorsetshire Posts: 387 |
Very useful post and thread |
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Tue Mar 14 2017 9:28am |
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Paulsinhis30s Member Since: 12 Jan 2018 Location: Wiltshire Posts: 20 |
Hopefully another useful addition to this post.
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Thu Mar 22 2018 10:18pm |
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kernowkid66 Member Since: 04 Apr 2018 Location: Kernow Posts: 6 |
Wow. I had exactly this when I had to drive home using the emergency replacement wheel. It was driving me bonkers. It would go up the box until around 4th then would red-line the revs until I shifted the gear lever over to the left and back again, it then changed up.
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Fri Apr 06 2018 7:16pm |
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Bladerunner Member Since: 30 Apr 2018 Location: Kirkcaldy Posts: 17 |
I had a very similar problem with my last X5, I changed the wheels from the standard 19's to a set of 20's, All was fine until the traction control was kicking in on perfectly dry roads and only when leaving a roundabout and peeling off to the left, I could not fathom out the reason for this happening but on doing a bit of research on BMW forum i found out that the rolling diameter of the wheels/tyres had a significant effect on the transfer box, On Measuring all four wheel/tyre diameters i found a big difference in one of the front wheels. This difference was enough to wind up the transfer case to the point that had i not changed back to my standard 19" wheels and tyres then i would have been looking for a new transfer case and front differential. All was peachy when back on the standard wheels, This was also an eye opener for my BMW trained indie mechanic who had never come across this before. |
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Sat May 12 2018 2:03pm |
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dwayner Member Since: 03 Sep 2019 Location: durham Posts: 1 |
3.6 tdv8. blew a trye on a 22" 22/285/30 ... put a standard 20" stockwheel on to get me around, by the time i got home i thought transmision problem |
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Wed Sep 04 2019 12:12am |
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HughN Member Since: 10 Sep 2017 Location: Near Llanybydder Posts: 651 |
Ff'nar! An excellent piece of detective work. With cars that have a flat-tyre warning, even a small difference in diameter can trigger it. My mother's BMW 1 series being an example. |
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Fri Oct 04 2019 6:17am |
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Michael997 Member Since: 31 Jan 2006 Location: Worcestershire Posts: 227 |
Yet again a fault created by incompetence of the person putting the wrong tyres on a RRS and creating a fault that isn’t the cars fault
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Sun Feb 23 2020 8:31am |
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lkdgndg1 Member Since: 15 Jan 2021 Posts: 32 |
I had this exact same problem on my 2009 Tdv8 , the car had Nexians all round and having seen the issue on the American site I changed my front tyres to Pirelli scorpions and the gearbox late change up fault disappeared completely , and now the car has done another 10k on the new tyres the fault is slowly starting to reappear, and that’s even after me doing a semi flush and filter change on the gearbox, so at least it worked for a while . |
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Fri Feb 11 2022 7:34pm |
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skullbyka Member Since: 10 Mar 2023 Location: London Posts: 14 |
Always good to hear things like this that people experience so we can bear it in mind as a possible cause when the stealerships just immediately jump to costly solutions. I am the darkness before the storm |
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Wed Nov 15 2023 6:30pm |
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