Well, sorry to dash anyone's hopes, but I contacted Bridgestone Corporate and talked to someone in their tecnology/new product department. The Re960AS run-flat is still not available in a 245-40-19. He said they will be rolling out additional sizes maybe this fall, but couldn't say whether it would include a 19" version or stop at 18". Told him a little of our problems and all he could say was "wow". Also told him there would be a market if Bridgestone could rollout a 19" version.
BMW dealers seem to be giving wrong information to their customers on replacement tires or worse replacing all-season run-flats with either non-runflat all season or summer/performance run-flats without fully explaining the additional problems.
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Originally Posted by radarguy
toneil44 in post #14 made a comment that he was getting his 19 LS2s replaced with the same size Bridgestone RE960AS Pole RFTs at his BMW dealer on August 2. My question to him was (and still is) did they really replace them with the tires he was expecting.
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