I wandered around my local Skoda dealer this morning - a good day for it as its Sunday & I wasn't followed by hungry salesman. There is a large supply of new Skodas in the yard still to be detailed - mainly Yetis and Octavias and I noticed that all but one was fitted with those crap Dunlop Sports tyres. Obviously SKoda do not read contributions to this site as there are many complaints about Dunlop Sports tyres including from me. I've just switched to Continentals at 25 000 kms after dreadful sawtoothing problems. When I was dealing with my sawtoothing problem, my dealer as well as the Dunlop man, pushed away at a furious rate although after I had bought and paid for the Contis (elsewhere) the Skoda dealer was all buddy buddy again giving me free alignment and balancing.

It seem to me that the Skoda dealer was well aware of the sawtoothing issue with Dunlops but was unable to commit Skoda to liaibility. Amazing that the cars are still rolling in to the dealership with this latent problem firmly fitted to the wheels!!

You would have thought Skoda might have gone for the excellent tyres fromt the Czech company "Barum" which are cheap but good.

http://www.tyrereviews.co.uk/Tyre/Barum/Bravuris-2.htm

Just replaced my OE Dunlops, which admittedly did do 40K, with the Barum Bravuris tyres, buy one get one half price at National, but the noise has been annoying for the last 10K or so from the Dunlops.

The car manufacturers look to buy tyres from the tyre manufacturers and I bet they are happy to save a fiver, or five Euros, if Dunlop will sell them a tyre for 35 Euros instead of 40 Europes ie Skoda save 20 Euros.

Amazing you could get a spare wheel and tyre for £50 a year or so ago from Skoda as a factory option. More like £71 for a full sized 16 inch tyres with steel rim.

Still go for excellent Michelin PS3 for the front with their AA traction rating and long mileage even on the front of our TSI VRS and TSI 1.8 DSG.

Edited 11 December, 201114 yr by lol

You would have thought Skoda might have gone for the excellent tyres fromt the Czech company "Barum" which are cheap but good.

http://www.tyrerevie.../Bravuris-2.htm

Just replaced my OE Dunlops, which admittedly did do 40K, with the Barum Bravuris tyres, buy one get one half price at National, but the noise has been annoying for the last 10K or so from the Dunlops.

The car manufacturers look to buy tyres from the tyre manufacturers and I bet they are happy to save a fiver, or five Euros, if Dunlop will sell them a tyre for 35 Euros instead of 40 Europes ie Skoda save 20 Euros.

Amazing you could get a spare wheel and tyre for £50 a year or so ago from Skoda as a factory option. More like £71 for a full sized 16 inch tyres with steel rim.

Still go for excellent Michelin PS3 for the front with their AA traction rating and long mileage even on the front of our TSI VRS and TSI 1.8 DSG.

That's a great tyre site. Like something like that here!! Thanks.

what's sawtoothing ?

My Dunlops seem O.K.

what's sawtoothing ?

My Dunlops seem O.K.

The inner part of the type starts to chunk, the rubber blocks wear and mis-shape unevenly, creating noise and potential poor grip in certain circumstance and you may not notice as the outer edge and middle edge of the tyre looks good.

Best to replace tyres at 3mm of tread left ie the trade above the wear block is equal to what is above the wear block. If you replace with Barums then still cheap to do this although I have not tried them on the front as they are not Traction AA rating and stick with Mich PS3s.

Seems worse with the 17 and 18 inch rims and in the last half of their tread life. Conti/Barum or Mich reckon way to go.

Edited 11 December, 201114 yr by lol

My Superb is on Pirelli rubber which I've never had before so I will be interested to see how they perform.

Previously our company tyre policy has been Conti first then Mich.

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My Superb is on Pirelli rubber which I've never had before so I will be interested to see how they perform.

Previously our company tyre policy has been Continue first then Mich.

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For company vehicles we tended to go for those tyres with the longest tyre life as if you had to loose a half day fitting tyres then the lose of productive time easily out-weighed the saving of £10, £20, £30, or £40 on non-Continetal or Michelin tyres.