Tires are my main concern too. I travel a lot and dred having a flat and having to spend a night or 2 waiting for a ties. A flat on ther interstate probable means a new tire and rim. Guess I need to get a back up set of wheels & tires so If I get stranded I could have then Fed- Xed to me . I might just wait until the current tires need to be changed, say arround 10K then I won't fell so bad about getting new weels & tires. But thats probable not an option as I only have just over 2K on it now (had this one 6 months). Would feel better with run flats also, at least that would save the rims (maybe). I'll be keeping my eye out here and on e-bay for a deal. Any offers, e-mail me a PM