Hi all, 

 

We are in the process of buying an 8 month old Skoda Octavia from a Skoda dealer. The car has only done 5300 miles and the multipoint check report that we were given says that all tyres have 4.5 mm thread. Isnt that too much wearing for a car of that age and mileage? Shouldnt the back tyres have less wearing than the front ones? The tyre manufacture is Michelin. Thank you very much in advance for your information.

 

Best regards

Assuming it's not 4WD then yes that is excessive wear on such a low mileage vehicle and suggests it's been trashed and driven with lots of wheelspin. For example my wife's Karoq front wheel drive 1.5TS i 150PS SEL had the tyres (Michelin Primacy) rotated front to rear at 17,500 miles. At a recent health check the video that the dealer sent to my phone confirmed that both front tyres now have 5mm of thread (originally back tyres) and the rear tyres both have 4mm of thread (originally front tyres). This is after 2 years and 22,900 miles.

Maybe your car had really nice alloy wheels and tyres. So someone swapped them with their car.

Just now, Carlston said:

Maybe your car had really nice alloy wheels and tyres. So someone swapped them with their car.

With dealers anything is possible. Ex track day tyres anyone?

Measure the treads yourself. A week after fitting a new set of Michelin’s to my Octavia when in for a service I was advised I had 3 mm of tread left ! In fact it was well over 7 mm so even deducting the 1.6 mm legal requirement they were well off the mark.

Regards

Roger

Seems excessive wear to me, summer tyres normally start around 6.5 - 7mm

 

You could always ask the salesman if he has a tyre tread depth gauge, then measure brand new one in showroom, then walk to car looking at, get him to measure then ask why tyres 50% worn and might only get to 10k miles at that rate
 

Wish I was there to see his face and listen to his explanation 

 

Edited 23 January, 20206 yr by SurreyJohn
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Most likely just a combination of inaccurate measurement and the first 5k being a bit tyre wear heavy.  I mean, I've never got more than 12k out of a set of front tyres, so if they're half worn I'd say that's normal.

But I do mainly sub 10 mile journeys, not motorway cruising and buy softer tyres so hugely depends.

 

 

I was in a similar situation, SE L 4600 miles ex demo Bridgestone turensa, 6.5 rear, 5.5 front. As I am selling them (swapping 18" for 16") I measured them carefully. The dealer refused to swap them before sale claiming as a main dealer the car had to precisely match the recorded build spec.

  

@YOYOHEY I'd recommend you check the tyres yourself and while you are at it, just check the tyres are the same make all round and have a date code similar to the age of the car and have worn nice and evenly across the surface. That way you know they are the originals and not abused.

 

The week codes should also be the same all round if they are original fit.

 

I would doubt they have been abused, current tread depth also depends on how much was present when new as available depths vary between manufacturers on particular tyre ranges.

 

On a car that age and miles, I'd be more than happy with:-

Same tyres all round,

Same date codes all round,

Even wear across the tyres, matching wear front and back is a big bonus!

No splits, cuts or scuffs to the side walls

 

Are you sure it wasn't written up as 4 - 5mm and not 4.5mm?

Edited 23 January, 20206 yr by BigEjit