All four tyres on my Rapedo are showing signs of more wear to the outer edges, around 2mm more than the rest of the tyre tread.

It's only become more noticeable now they have worn down a bit (obviously) I do check them regularly. Anyone else have this on all 4 outside edges?

My OEM Conti's wore very evenly across the tread on all 4, until I traded the car at 36000 ish

Edited 31 May, 20188 yr by camelspyyder

These are Bridgestone on mine.

Lots of speedbump action round your way?

Mine did the something similar... inside edge... I get the tracking checked on a 3 monthly basis.

 

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3 hours ago, MickA said:

All four tyres on my Rapedo are showing signs of more wear to the outer edges, around 2mm more than the rest of the tyre tread.

It's only become more noticeable now they have worn down a bit (obviously) I do check them regularly. Anyone else have this on all 4 outside edges?

 

If it's all 4 tyres then this could be the tyre type as some tyres get a lot less initial tread on the edges. The rear suspension is only "twist-beam" camber etc is "fixed" so you shouldn't get variations in camber etc. 

 

The rear suspension is very similar to what used to be fitted to the MK I Octavia - the problem with a car with such suspension and a large boot overhanging the rear axle it can "swing/pendulum" if the boot was full of stuff. I used to find when driving through France with my MKI fully laden it wore the rear outside edge on the drivers side and in the UK it wore the outside edge on the other side. Presume this was due to roundabouts! This was less pronounced with different makes of tyres (Continental and Michelin seemed much better). I didn't experience this with the front wheels but it only had (er still has) a very small/light engine.

 

 

 

Edited 31 May, 20188 yr by bigjohn

2 hours ago, camelspyyder said:

Lots of speedbump action round your way?

 

No not really, pretty free of them.

 

I made a point of removing my wheels this week on both cars, move front to back etc to even the wear. It's noticeable on the Toledo when you roll the wheel along off the car the wear pattern is most definately as I say worn more to the outside edges. I'm beginning to think along the lines as Bigjohn says. less initial tread on the outside edges from new?

They are 4 years old this year but only covered 17k milesand seem hard and getting noisy, I've read that's how some go anyway. Still got loads of meat on them but at this rate the edges (outside) will be shot within another year, guessing.

 

We had a big diesel that always wore the inside shoulders on the front, but the suspension was kept perfectly aligned. It was just a "feature" of the car that it ate fronts, whatever brand. The Toledo petrol,by contrast, had a front to back swap at 16000, and 20000 later it still had 3mm across the tread on all 4. They were fully legal at that point, if not terribly grippy.

On 31/05/2018 at 23:19, MickA said:

I'm beginning to think along the lines as Bigjohn says. less initial tread on the outside edges from new?

They are 4 years old this year but only covered 17k milesand seem hard and getting noisy, I've read that's how some go anyway. Still got loads of meat on them but at this rate the edges (outside) will be shot within another year, guessing.

 

 

Also forgot to comment re Bridgestones - I had a set of them on my 2003 Superb I (and this car was heavy!) early in it's life - they only lasted 18k miles. Got over 30k+ a set out the Michelins that replaced them. Before I sold the car I fitted a set of Vredestein Quatrac 5's at about 163k miles to try out some all season tyres - the current owner still has them fitted and the car has done 205k - saying that they are due for replacement now.