5 hours ago, Zarniwoop said:

 

How on earth do you check a wheel for balance without taking it off the car?

 

LOL, I meant the rear tyres were not taken off the wheels to inspect the rims or general shape of the alloy.

 

 

It's all sorted now. Two new back tyres this morning and it now runs smoothly once more.

 

I think we were very unfortunate to have front and back issues at the same time. On reflection, if the car is shaking and shuddering but the steering wheel is not that would be a rear wheel/tyre problem, but I have never heard of this before? Always associate such issues with the front. That said, the front left wheel was knackered anyway.

 

One new wheel and five new tyres later (one of them a duff Avon to go back to the vendor shortly) the Yeti runs smoothly once more. I'm off for a lie down.

The wheel that was replaced. How many weights to balance a wheel before you conclude it's knackered? Two tyre dealers thought this was acceptable! 

zarniwoop..........havnt seen one for a long time but I always had my wheels balanced on my old cars with the car jacked up and a mobile balancer pushed up to the wheel and rotated it,check the balance and weighted.was always a better job.......proberly stopped due to H AND S

Edited 4 August, 20178 yr by Sad555

woody37 so in the balance of things all sorted (sorry) but who damaged the wheels, must have been one hell of a bang at the time ,no claims to the council then

The Mrs recalls no particular event but the roads are wrecked around here so it's hard to tell. It's worst when the holes are full of rainwater.

 

I'm going to open a can of worms now: these are 17" wheels running 225/50 R17. That's quite low profile for a heavy SUV is it not?

 

Give me tall tyres on steel wheels every time.

Your say in post 1 you have a 2.5 year old Yeti 1.2TSI DSG so you do not have a particularly heavy car / suv, and 225/50R 17 is certainly not a quite low profile tyre, 

anything but.

36 minutes ago, Woody37 said:

The Mrs recalls no particular event but the roads are wrecked around here so it's hard to tell. It's worst when the holes are full of rainwater.

They never do,do they!

43 minutes ago, Awayoffski said:

Your say in post 1 you have a 2.5 year old Yeti 1.2TSI DSG so you do not have a particularly heavy car / suv, and 225/50R 17 is certainly not a quite low profile tyre, 

anything but.

 

Oh, OK then. The ride is quite harsh IMHO. Acceptable, but on the hard and bouncy side. What is the advantage of the famed 16" wheels then?

2 hours ago, Sad555 said:

woody37 so in the balance of things all sorted (sorry) but who damaged the wheels, must have been one hell of a bang at the time ,no claims to the council then

 

Croydon or Tandridge Councils? The words "manure" and "rocking horse" spring to mind. It's done, it's paid for, we'll move on.

2 hours ago, Sad555 said:

zarniwoop..........havnt seen one for a long time but I always had my wheels balanced on my old cars with the car jacked up and a mobile balancer pushed up to the wheel and rotated it,check the balance and weighted.was always a better job.......proberly stopped due to H AND S

 

Agree 100%. It was a side on view, with the guard up (no doubt breaking H&S rules in several places) that revealed just how deformed the new Avon was.

 

33 minutes ago, Woody37 said:

Croydon or Tandridge Councils? The words "manure" and "rocking horse" spring to mind. It's done, it's paid for, we'll move on.

this is why councils get away with not repairing the roads,if a few more people claimed they start to react to road repairs quicker,this has cost you a fair bit,your much more forgiving than me.

First Yeti was 17", second was a Greenline on 16", now back onto 17".

I think the difference is marginal, probably best reason to swap is the 16" are cheaper and last longer. About 28k on 17" from previous experience, Greenline went back to lease company on original tyres at 43k with at least 5k still to go on fronts.

I too would say the difference between my original 17" Dunlop "summer" wheels and the 16" Dunlop "winter" wheels is marginal... both in ride and grip. But, having said that, I haven't come anywhere near testing the grip of either at the extreme - I'm just saying that in normal day to day driving both sets of wheels/tyres feel very similar.

I just checked all four tyre pressures, cold, before a long journey tomorrow and they were all over inflated, notably the back ones at 36 psi. I have dropped all four to 31 psi in the interests of comfort.

 

Also needed a drop of oil. It does tend to burn a little, but the small 1.2 turbo does have to work hard at times. It's a cracker though, fully laden or not.

1 hour ago, kenfowler3966 said:

First Yeti was 17", second was a Greenline on 16", now back onto 17".

I think the difference is marginal, probably best reason to swap is the 16" are cheaper and last longer. About 28k on 17" from previous experience, Greenline went back to lease company on original tyres at 43k with at least 5k still to go on fronts.

Maybe I have a sensitive backside but I can certainly tell the difference between 16" and 17" wheels; that's the reason why Skoda have supplied my Yeti's with 16" wheels in 2012 and 2017. The ride on 16" wheels is more relaxed and less 'knobbly', the extra side wall depth is simply more absorbent of road imperfections. This is an old chestnut and don't want to open the subject up again! Let's say it's a matter of different opinions.

It is also true that different tyres affect the ride as well, currently running Goodyear EfficientGrips in the summer which are smooth, quiet and efficient. Winters are Nokian D3's, excellent winter tyre but definitely noisier than the Goodyears and not quite as absorbent. Word has it that Michelin CrossClimates are a quiet and comfortable tyre so might change to them when my Goodyears need replacing and sell on the Winter wheels and tyres.

Talking tyres, we now have a Brabus front left and an Avon front right. Quite similar tread patterns so does it really matter?

 

When cars were proper I'd have put a replacement Avon (first one was duff) on the left and the Brabus on the spare.

 

I've got a can of squirty stuff instead and a refund on the Avon to come.

Proberly best to have same tyres per axel would be my choice,other may say different.