Other wheel or tire problem on the 2006 BMW 3 Series
1 crash 1 of the 12 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
When other wheel or tire problem gets reported
Owners of the 2006 BMW 3 Series report other wheel or tire problem at a median of 5,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 800 miles and a quarter after 10,000 miles, from 8 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 60,000 miles. It is the 5th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 100 miles at the tenth percentile to 15,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 15,656 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
A window that narrow is the signature of a part that fails on its own schedule rather than on how the car is driven — which is usually a design or supplier problem rather than wear and tear.
100% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 75 miles | 769 miles | 5,250 miles | 11,447 miles | 15,731 miles |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Of these reports, 1 a crash is mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $200–$1,500 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 4 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2006, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 2001 at 120,000 miles.
By volume the 2006 is the worst of them, which makes this a problem of this specific year rather than of the model as a whole.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
Tires are extremely noisy at low vehicle speeds-2006 bmw 330i turanza el42 run flat tire (rft), p225/45r17: I was told today by firestone that the cupping of the edges of all four tires will cause lack of traction in the winter months. Therefore, he suggested that all four tires should be replaced. *nm
Tl* - the contact owns a 2006 325xi bmw. The tires on the bmw were bridgestone, turanza el42, size 205/55/r16 DOT# is # ej8kcnk4005. While driving the contact heard a loud noise coming from all four tires. When the vehicle's odometer reached 7,000 and again at 10,000 miles the tires began to vibrate. Both bmw and bridgestone were aware of this failure, and bridgestone offered a 25% discount toward the purchase of a new set of tires. The vehicle's current mileage was 10,200. *ak tire size rft el42 205/55/16 updated 01/19/07. *jb
Excessive tire wear on 2006 bmw 330i. Firestone says that the cupping of the tires (starting at about 8k miles) causes less traction on the road and will get worse. The tires started to make load noise at about 8k miles and they now have 13k miles on them and the noise level is very bad. I have contacted bmw several times and they say that they will consider replacing the tires only if I will agree to pay half of the cost(about $600 my cost for 4 tires). I feel that this is a safety issue only with this brand and type of tire and firestone needs to replace the tires. The tires in question are bridgestone turanza el42, size 205/55/r16 run flats. This cupping on these tires causes the tire to loose contact with the road and may cause an accident on wet roads. *nm
Also reported on the 2006 BMW 3 Series
Other body or interior problem
Airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault
Seat belt or retractor failure
Other electrical problem
Airbag inflator rupture
No-start or intermittent start failure
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 12 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other wheel or tire problem happen on the 2006 BMW 3 Series?
Across 8 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 5,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 800 miles and a quarter after 10,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other wheel or tire problem on the 2006 BMW 3 Series?
12 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.4 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed