Mickhill

I wonder if anyone can help identify a possible cause for tyre tread wear the likes of which I have never seen before? My car is a leased 2017 Fabia Monte Carlo estate with 17” wheels - done 48000 miles. The tyre pressure monitoring system picked up a reduction in pressure in the front right tyre so I checked it around the tyre - treads looked ok with no foreign objects so I equalised all pressures then re-set the monitor.Less than a week later I had the same thing happen - something obviously wasn’t right so I thought I’d better do a more thorough check. Crawling round under the front of the car I noticed the inner edge of the tyre on the affected wheel was badly worn so I took it off to put on the spare. Once off the car I could see that the inner edge of the tyre was very badly worn which had caused a hole which was slowly leaking. I have never seen wear like this before and neither has the guy at ATS. The tyre is worn on the very edge of the shoulder but is not even around the tyre. Wear is much more pronounced around about half of the circumference. It does not look inflation related as the outer shoulder is not badly worn. It could be pot hole related i.e. hitting a pot hole has knocked the wheel out of alignment (camber?) but as I said the wear is not even around the circumference. Is this a tyre manufacturing fault I wonder. It is a budget tyre (Zeta Alventi) which I had put on when VW Finance refused to renew a punctured tyre that was not repairable, despite having tyre cover. The tyre has done approx 35000 miles and performed fine when on the car such that I would have happily bought Zeta brand again. What I am trying to ascertain is whether this is a tyre fault or a car fault. If it’s due to a poorly manufactured tyre that will steer me away from budget tyres in future (excuse the pun). If it’s car or steering geometry related I could do with knowing what so I can get ATS or the dealer to make the relevant adjustments. The car is due to go back in less than six months and I don’t want the next owner to experience the same problem, which could in all seriousness cause a bad accident if the tyre were to blow at high speed. I am aware that some Skodas have suffered excessive inner tyre wear - is this an issue in the Fabia III? Thanks