Change tyres in pairs or not?

Pulsedriver

Pulsedriver

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Hey folks, over the years I have always changed tyres in pairs, so often one tyre on the front may be worn, but I change both front tyres to keep the tyres 'new' together as such.

Anyhow, as time goes on I have questioned it a bit, in fact, recently my car had a service, its a 320D (e90) running Bridgestone RE050A Run Flats, now, in the past, and on previous BMW's I have replaced the RFT's for standard, but I don't fancy forking out £450 at this moment in time to do them all, and genuinely find the Bridgestones OK.

Anyhow, the OSF tyre is worn on both edges and needs replacing, but the NSF tyre has 4.6 4.4 and 4.6 tyre depth remaining, would it be ok to just stick a new tyre on the OSF (same brand/model of course) ? Or is it best to go ahead and do both fronts to keep them the same tread depths?
 
The rears are 4.2 3.8 3.6
&
3.6 3.6 3.4

According to BMW 'need changing soon' although not sure on that given the limit is 1.6 and at the moment I am not doing massive mileage, so am hoping to get another year or so out of them.

Maybe I could put the rears on the front?
 
Yeah, it's not been aligned in my ownership, so would suspect some tracking issues, although the front one that needs doing pretty much ASAP is due to under inflating (wear on inner & outer edge)

I will get 2 brand new ones for the rear, use the 2 out of the 3 remaining best for the front and get a full alignment done!

Yeah agree on brands, I've never skimped on tyres and never intend to, so will stick to the Bridgestone's, they seem decent enough.
 
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