Hi

Right, I've been getting a droning noise lately and seems to be getting worse,

until I joined this site I'd never heard of it and never had it until now I think.

As I rub my hands over the rear tyres to the back off the car I can feel the tread is raised.

Could this be the cause of the droning sound as I would of normally thought I'd a worn wheel bearing

Also my front tyres have just about had it so thinking put the rears on front and put new on the backs and hope the high places wear off on the fronts 

As any one done this or can give advice as to stop it 

Cheers

 

Edited 19 April, 20179 yr by Snapper1725

looks like a full wheel alignment required, my rears where wearing on the inside edges, had the alignment done ,no more problems

its normally the rear wheels that need moving in a bit, an easy job for the tech

Edited 19 April, 20179 yr by skippy41

These cars are prone to it, there's a thread about it on here somewhere. you're tracking will probably be ok

Edited 20 April, 20179 yr by peterposh

Hi thanks for the replies 

yeah tracking on fronts seem ok and no wear to sides on rears apart from the saw affect 

swapped wheels around today, so see if I can scrub the highs off.

had a read about tyre saw wear on a continental site, explains how it happens

driving, tyre compound etc, tread pattern.

 caused by the way the tyre leaves the road when driving

As I said in previous post 

swapped wheels around and now the drone/noise etc coming from the front is unbelievable, i'll wait a while to see if I can scrub the high spots off but maybe looking at new tyres 

Any recommendations ??

Edited 21 April, 20179 yr by Snapper1725

Uniroyal RainSport 3

I have had this for 2 years, eating rear tyres on the inner shoulder; it began after an alignment! It turns out that this chassis requires a VAG tool to set the raised toe on the rear if the alignment values are way out. Very few alignment centres or VAG are even aware of this.

It isn't necessarily the alignment.

 

I had it real bad on my Superb when I bought it.

 

The factory fitted Pirelli P7 Cinturato's on the rear of my MkII Superb sawtoothed badly.

 

Replaced them and not had the issue since, alignment not touched and gone through a few other pairs of tyres (not Cinturato's) since.

I know it isn't a alignment problem just the saw toothing effect and now that I've them to the front it's unbelievable as said

I was going to ask what the original tyres fitted where thinking they would be ok but obviously not 

what do you fit ??? If it hasn't happened since as reading about it, it can be a number of factors that cause it 

Cheers

After the Pirelli's I've run down to the wear bars:

 

Goodyear Efficient Grips

Nokian D4

Avon Ice Touring

Thanks for that 

Its Goodyear that's fitted at the moment but Ultra Grip