[killakill]

I apologize if this topic has already been covered.

I went to a tire shop and ask for a price on tires. He told me NOT to run a staggered set up on a XI. He said its going to cause drive train problems in the future.

This is the same thing that antoher shop told me in the summer of June last year when i bought my M3 reps.

So is it preffered to run a square set up on XI?

Also, if you bought the sport package or different wheels from factory isnt it a option to get staggered set up on the XI or X drive?

thanks in advance.

[Patrick303]

Yes this has been covered. You'll find a few more threads in this section on this topic.

And yes, you can run staggered wheels on the xi model. A factory option was to have 18x8 front and 18x8.5 rear rims with 225 front and 255 rear tires.

[Nikolas]

I ran staggered wheels/tires for 3 years. No problems. Those two shops do not know what they are talking about. As stated above, BMW delivers these cars from the factory with that option.

[gos]

Originally Posted by Nikolas

I ran staggered wheels/tires for 3 years. No problems. Those two shops do not know what they are talking about. As stated above, BMW delivers these cars from the factory with that option.

Yea, that being said, I wouldn't do anything crazy. I'd stick to factory sizing if you want to be safe.

[scheherazade]

You can stagger your tire width as much as you like.

You can not stagger your tire diameter - essentially at all.

(super tiny differences in diameter are fine... nut nothing substantial)

-scheherazade

[fdriller9]

As long as the front and rear rolling diameters are within 1% of each other, you can run a staggered setup.

You can use the calculator in the wheel/tire section to calculate the rolling diameter.