I bought a ex demo skoda octavia 1.6 2010 registation in December. Soon after driving I noticed a rumble from rear drivers side. It sounded like bearings but when i took it to my Skoda dealer they said it was tyre noise. e. Have other owners had this problem.

I'll move this to the right section

Do a search for 'sawtoothing' it's a very common issue with all the cars that use this chassis - MK5 Golf, MKII Octavia etc.

Basically it means the inside edge of the rear tyres goes into the shape of a 50 pence piece.

I had the same problem and it was my tires , fitted new ones and noise is gone,

I had the same problem and it was my tires , fitted new ones and noise is gone,

It would be helpful if you listed what tyres you had fitted with the noise present, and what you replaced them with to cure the issue...

I have Dunlop tyres, which were on the car when I bought it from a skoda dealer. The tyre m,ade the noise from 12k now both rear do so. My main question is it a sign of wear. Should I replace them. I have 16K on the clock so that will be age of tyres

I had the same on my vRS with Dunlops -company car. Being a company car the tyres were simply swapped with new, but the lad at the tyre factors said if it's your own car the cheap option is to swap them to the front and natural wear will smooth them over.

Can't warrant this as true or not, but sounds worth a go financially. Apparently they are not dangerous in this condition, so if my own I'd figure nothing to loose...

Richard

...the lad at the tyre factors said if it's your own car the cheap option is to swap them to the front and natural wear will smooth them over. Can't warrant this as true or not, but sounds worth a go financially. Apparently they are not dangerous in this condition, so if my own I'd figure nothing to loose...

Only problem with that solution is that if the alignment's not correct, the ones you swap to the back will simply then wear down irregularly, and you're left with the same issue - and four irregularly worn tyres to replace then.....

Don't just change your tyres, have a 4WA done too. Mine did this and I kind of knew it was coming, as did a mates. Both have had a 4WA, and I got 4 Michelin PS3's thrown on. Been quiet as a mouse since. I think VAG changed the alignment values at some point to correct this (I might be wrong though).

Also, the standard Dunlop Sport Max tyres are noisy anyway. Well worth getting shot of.

Pirelli Pzero Nero arent any better either i may add!

After its had a shed load of warranty work (assuming its all ok) i'm booking it into Pro Grip locally for a full alignment etc.

Does anyone have the current settings from Skoda?

Don't just change your tyres, have a 4WA done too. Mine did this and I kind of knew it was coming, as did a mates. Both have had a 4WA, and I got 4 Michelin PS3's thrown on. Been quiet as a mouse since. I think VAG changed the alignment values at some point to correct this (I might be wrong though).

Also, the standard Dunlop Sport Max tyres are noisy anyway. Well worth getting shot of.

Useful if you have a print-out from the 4WA to post it up, so we can see which values have been used on yours

I would post up the results if the dealer hadn't taken it to Gordons Tyres to do the alignment when they said on the phone they had the facilities to do it themselves. Lies.

Surprised the wheels were still on the car when I got it back after the experiences I've had with that lot in the past. :-(

But so far (about 10k later) still no noise from the rear. So they must have done something right.

Yep, by my experiences not a lot of them have proper decent alignment kit in-house...

Please can I have advice to this question. I have 16 K on the clock. The tyres are dunlop sports. I am going to dive 900 miles to the alps and back go up a mountain with snow chains and come down again should I be worried about my family in the car with me. The tyres do look still hardly worn. I can live with the noise but not if it is potentially dangerous.

nicj

Yeah I think you're right. Audi on the other hand (apparently).....

Please can I have advice to this question. I have 16 K on the clock. The tyres are dunlop sports. I am going to dive 900 miles to the alps and back go up a mountain with snow chains and come down again should I be worried about my family in the car with me. The tyres do look still hardly worn. I can live with the noise but not if it is potentially dangerous.

nicj

Is the question is it dangerous? Hmm, well personally I don't second guess with tyres or brakes. They keep you on the road and stop you. But, the noise comes from the fact the rears are mis shapen on the inside due to the alignment being out. If in doubt, 4wa and replace. I don't want to be the guy on the forum who said "it'll be fine". :-)

I've not seen or heard of a case of this where it's been a safety concern. If a current visual inspection deems you to say they look fine and you don't currently notice any unusual road noise, then I'd carry on

Would it fail an MOT do you reckon if the rears were badly sawtoothed?

Entirely possible, if the tyres didn't meet the minimum tread depth criteria at the time of test...

It would be helpful if you listed what tyres you had fitted with the noise present, and what you replaced them with to cure the issue...

It was dunlops I had on the back,they were still the originals with 50k on them and they were very noisy,I changed to new bridgestones and no more noise.the old ones were wore like described above uneven.

Trouble is without correcting the alignment they'll just saw tooth again. Having said that 50k is a lot to get out of them.

It may be 50000 kilometres-we are quite far ahead over here compared to third world 'miles'.... :p

Still over 30000 mile-thingies though

It's fine, you can keep your European metric measurements and currency

Still quote fuel consumption in MPG do you? Or have you converted that over as well - to the very easy Km per litre calc....