I have an Octavia 1.9 Tdi PD with 24,000 miles on the clock. The other day I noticed that the inside edges of both front tyres were chamfering quite badly. I had the tracking checked and was told that it was quite "at bit" out of alignment.

I had always found the steering rather 'insensitive' and somewhat unstable. I cannot remember "curbing" or duing anything to upset the tracking.

Has anyone expierienced similar problems?

Regards:confused:

No problems here, in fact I find mine quite precise. Mind you at 24k you would be expecting the front tyres to be getting down a bit, depending on how heavy your right foot is of course !!

The TC helps save my front tyres in this weather. Done 9k and not much sign of wear, whereas my previous Mondeo use to eat a set in 12k.

The front suspension's running too much 'toe out' isn't it, if the inside edges are wearing quicker than the rest of the tyre? Had a similar thing happen with my last car, a Focus. Did never get to the bottom of why it was happening, and it left me still doing it :(

In my case, I'd have the tracking checked, adjusted, but then it would fall out of alignment again. So if you've had yours checked and corrected, I'd have it looked at in a couple of months (maybe sooner, depending on mileage) and see if it's knocked itself out again.

Not heard of this happening on Octavias before though, mind you.

Steve

Agree with Wardy.... definately caused by excessive toe out

Going back a few years, a mate of mine bought a new 16v golf GTI, which he ran in and drove very carefully. When he took the car back to the dealers for its first service they found that both front tyres were worn down to the cords on the inside edges, caused by incorrect tracking (toe out).

The dealers said that at that time tracking is not physically checked at the factory or at the dealers during the PDI service. VW relied on precise manufacturing and build tolerences to set the tracking.

The dealers put it down to an assembly line Robot......"throwing a wobbler" and covered the cost of the tyres under warranty

vrs180

Have had exactly that with mine (2.0 TDi DSG Jabba'd): 14K miles and front offside was illegal, down past the twi's, 14.5K fopr the n/s/f. Only problem: four-wheel tracking on the MkII Octy, and not every Skoda or VW garage has one of the machines to do it....... Boy, am I glad it's a lease car!!!!