Have just had my 20,000 mile service on my FL VRS TDi estate and they told me i have wear on the inner edges of both rear tyres.

 

When pressed for a reason for this was told its common for VAG group cars to do this.

 

The tyres are the original ones from new and still have 5mm on them, was wondering if anyone else had experienced this?

Common Fault, 

 

You need 4 wheel Alignment  costs about £75/£90

 

Worth every penny.

Yup. Mine always wore them on the innner edge evenly so it wasn't really all that big a deal.

Then they started to wear unevenly and I got the dreaded sawtoothin.

Wrecked a set of rears in 3000 miles.

 

Got 4 wheel alignment on a Hunter rig and 10k further on I've had no repeat.

 

I was only £50 and the changes they made appeared trivial.

As above, mines done it on two sets of tyres now. Annoying the last time the Alignment garage would check the alignment until I bought new tyres.

 

Search "Sawtoothing" 

thanks for the replies

 

sawtoothing was mentioned as well so will check this out

 

I have a new one on order so im hoping it will arrive before they tyres need changing

My tyres have tended to wear out evenly on all four wheels at ~ 17000 miles at best. This time I note slightly increased wear on the inner edges.

hi i drive an octy 2.0tdi with dsg since purchase in september last year and am getting sawtoothing on the rears.what adjustment is done to the rears?

hi i drive an octy 2.0tdi with dsg since purchase in september last year and am getting sawtoothing on the rears.what adjustment is done to the rears?

 

Usually the sawtoothing is because of too much camber. On vRS it should be less than -1°20'. Don't know about standard Octavia's correct values though...

Just had my 4x4 in for it's first 2 year / 20,000 mile service (18,500 on the clock). All 4 tyres have 4mm of tread left and even wear all round.

Just had my 4x4 in for it's first 2 year / 20,000 mile service (18,500 on the clock). All 4 tyres have 4mm of tread left and even wear all round.

As the rear suspension is completely different to the fwd cars there is very little chance of sawtoothing.

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just had my rears done. 

 

Fronts had perfectly even wear and the rears lasted 12k before awful wear on the inside edge and pretty much nothing everyware else

I never had this on ours, but I put that down to 2 things.

Using a good pressure against what the filler flap said, and using Michelin instead of Dunlop which seemed to attract the most issues with inner wear from what I saw.

I also put new tyres on the rear and the old rears on the front which may have masked any alignment issues.

Done similar on the works car and unlike others in the fleet, haven't had wear issues or needed alignment - we're all using continental.