can anyone shed some light to this please,

cant understand this, when i bought my fabia vrs i noticed the rear tyres were worn on the inner edge on both tyres, but thought they were swapped from the front and had worn due to tracking out or something. ive then had the car lowered on eibach springs and then bought new tyres and now roughly 4k miles and theres wear on the inner edges again:eek:

i didnt thik there were adjustment on the rear!! car is 06 and covered 13k now.

thanks

You are right, the rear doesn't adjust (originally). You probably have a bent rear axle. Look for rear adjustment shims on here, they will likely solve your problem. Good luck.

You are right, the rear doesn't adjust (originally). You probably have a bent rear axle. Look for rear adjustment shims on here, they will likely solve your problem. Good luck.

thanks,

i have had a look just incase it might be bent but theses not a sign or mark on it anywhere and the wear on both tyres is exactly the same on both sides!

the car is still under warranty but the dealer will probably fob me off because of the eibach lowering springs " which i know is nothing to do with it"

Culd it be the bushes worn?? The ones in front of the rear wheels if you know what i mean:thumbup:

Are you sure its not to do with the springs as the lowering springs on my car have given the rear wheels quite a lot of camber and this will cause them to wear on the inside edge

Culd it be the bushes worn?? The ones in front of the rear wheels if you know what i mean:thumbup:

yeah i know what you mean, ill have a look 2moz,

thanks

Are you sure its not to do with the springs as the lowering springs on my car have given the rear wheels quite a lot of camber and this will cause them to wear on the inside edge

its only recently that i have fitted the springs and im more than sure this was hapening before that, visually the camber looks pretty straight!

has anyone else has had the same problem with their fabia?

Is it worth an alignment check? Maybe you may want to PM wheels-inmotion on here.

Is it worth an alignment check? Maybe you may want to PM wheels-inmotion on here.

you might be right, i will try and find somewhere local that does a 4 wheel lazer alingment check, probably will be costly i should imagine:( but i have to sort it or im just spending money on tyres that only lasts a few k miles otherwise!

i'm running the Eibach springs on mine , and i have never had a problem with rear tyre wear , infact , i find it so hard to wear the rear tyres out that i have to put them on the front

so i would get the geometry checked as was suggested above , and then go from there , the beam itself could be bent , as a stub axle bent would only affect one side

as for the front bushes affecting the rear tyres, i would treat that comment with the contempt it deserves

i dont hink the beam is bent to be honest but obviously i cant say for sure but i doubt it, have tried to search for a local garage that does the 4 wheel geometry check but cant find nowt. does anyone know of a garage with these facilities in the gwynedd, north wales area?

thanks

as for the front bushes affecting the rear tyres, i would treat that comment with the contempt it deserves

Mate i think you should go back and re-read what i posted !!

I actually said the bushes in front of the rear wheels NOT the front suspension bushes:thumbup:

Now i know why i don't bother with going to meet's as you always get some smart **** who always knows better than you !

tried to get the car booked in a few of places local today for a 4 wheel alignment but most of them sounded as they werent sure what to look for! i explained that both rear tyres are wearing on the insides and that the rear axle is not adjustable but shims can be fitted to adjust if its out. the cheapest price i found so far was from pentraeth seat at 65 pounds plus vat to check it! vw wanted 95 plus vat but that covered two hours as they said it takes that long to get it all hooked up!!:confused:

My TDi estate has done it for the last 70k or so. Ive only had it for 15k, but looking back through the history and receipts, it has had a few sets of tear tyres and two alignment checks, with no faults found.

My fun used to do the same and a friends fabia 1.2 did the same until he wrapped it round a tree

Must be a Skoda thing

took the car to get checked today and both rear wheels are out of tollerance, the toe is out and camber, basically its all over the place:eek:

thing is the technician checked the bushes which were fine and had a look for any sign of damage but found nothing. what he told me is that its possible it came from the factory like this as they have had a couple of seat's come in with the same problem and one of them was practically brand new!!

come monday im going to call my skoda dealer to see if they might change the rear axle which i doubt they will, but i dont know for sure if it is the axle as the mountings on the chassis could be out of tol! :confused:

im not a happy chappy at all:mad:

the body mountings will make next to no difference , it must be the beam assembly and/or the stub axles

i'd go for a beam though

Mate i think you should go back and re-read what i posted !!

I actually said the bushes in front of the rear wheels NOT the front suspension bushes:thumbup:

Now i know why i don't bother with going to meet's as you always get some smart **** who always knows better than you !

well as you should know, the bushes in the rear beam never wear out on a VRS , so i just assumed you meant the front console bushes

i have the geometry test printout but it wont attach to this post! i dont really understand it so would like to show you all so maybe someone can tell me if i could rectify this with shims like bas did.

i have the geometry test printout but it wont attach to this post! i dont really understand it so would like to show you all so maybe someone can tell me if i could rectify this with shims like bas did.

Hello,

Copy print-out as a JPeg to desktop.

On "Briskoda" site

Post a thread, then, scroll down same page to "Attach Files"

Browse for your JPeg, select it.

Press "Upload"

Print-out should be now visible with your thread.

No doubt this note will encourage others to guide you.

Good-luck. Ian. 26/06/2009

Hello,

Copy print-out as a JPeg to desktop.

On "Briskoda" site

Post a thread, then, scroll down same page to "Attach Files"

Browse for your JPeg, select it.

Press "Upload"

Print-out should be now visible with your thread.

No doubt this note will encourage others to guide you.

Good-luck. Ian. 26/06/2009

thanks, this is really usefull:thumbup:

still no cigar! it wont upload for some reason, maybe its my computer:confused:

ill write down the results for the rear wheels untill i manage to get the photo on here.

LEFT REAR CAMBER= -1.41 tollerance= -1.20 to -1.40

RIGHT REAR CAMBER= -1.41 tollerance= -1.20 to -1.40

LEFT REAR TOE= -1.29 tollerance= -0.07 to -0.33

RIGHT REAR TOE= -0.22 tollerance= -0.33 to -0.07

TOTAL TOE= 10.07 tollerance= -0.16 to -0.33

THRUST ANGLE= -0.56 tollerance= -0.20 to -0.20

so it looks like the N/S is the major problem, with the excessive toe-in

i think Basil had a similar sort of reading on his VRS rear beam

the camber is only just out of tolerance and is equal on both sides, but it would be better if it were a little less negative , maybe 1 degree neg

so it looks like the N/S is the major problem, with the excessive toe-in

i think Basil had a similar sort of reading on his VRS rear beam

the camber is only just out of tolerance and is equal on both sides, but it would be better if it were a little less negative , maybe 1 degree neg

im now thinking of trying a new stub axle for the n/s side to see if that will work! the camber as you say is the same both sides so i might get away with that.

the car doesent pull to one side and handles brilliantly. only thing i can think of now is the prev owner could of hit a curb on the n/s side rear because when i purchased the car the steering wheel wasnt in the central position, there was a small dent in front n/s wheel with two new tyres on the front, which could of been the rear wheels swapped with the fronts!

Hope you get it sorted soon

I have a 06 reg vrs with coilovers all round and the back is wound right down with the adjusters out and no problems with tyre wear.

I think I might change the rear wheels with the fronts to wear the tyres out as there both different tyres lol