Understood ^^

BMW eases our pain as owners by providing 'free' maintenance (aka, time for them to perform non-stop updates/repairs).

Not sure if there is more reliability to be found at Mercedes or Porsche (or if you do, you'll pay through the nose re increased buy-price, reduced residuals and/or higher money factors).

Re swapping runflats - not an option for me as this is my family hauler (daily).

What's next?

what did you do until few years ago before runflats became the norm? You know the car comes with a spare if you want. My car rides smooth as caddy with regular tires

The last SUV I owned that didn't have runflats (8 years ago) was a Jeep Grand Cherokee.

It had a spare.

Have to agree with HIRISC on this one.
Although I never drove one without run flats, the ride was the biggest weakness of the vehicle.

I changed out the OEM Brisdgestones to Michelin Diamaris at 20K miles on my 2010 X5M. Ride was much improved but I felt handling in the bends was diminished slightly, not to mention it was a hassle when trading it in that the run flats had been removed. Dealer couldn't certify even though I had the spare.

Not sure i'd do it again just from a resale point.

Diamaris are also not very good. Very noisy tires. I went from Diamaris to Bridgestone Dueler non-RFT and it was a relief.

I am currently running Continental DWS, when time comes to sell I put back the Bridgestones, a brand new set will cost a bit over 1K

Rides like a dump truck? Never heard of the X5M ride's being described as such.

Interesting...

I've test-driven both the 2012 and 2013 X5M, and I guess, I've never test-driven a dump truck before, so I can't honestly make a comment regarding the ride quality, but it felt pretty darn good.

Guess, I am about to put an order on the dump-truck riding SUV.

What other 7 cars do you own, by the way?

You're entitled to your opinion.

One of us has owned an X5///M.. I gather you have not. Report back in 38K miles and let us know what you think. :stickpoke

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Thank you for a pleasant reply.

Good riddance!