Hi All,

 

Please can you confirm or deny my thoughts:

 

Faithful wife's skoda at 181k has just been MOT'd. 

 

They noted in the OSF tyre is near the legal limit on the outside edge (shamefully I had not noticed).

 

They reckoned this was due to us running it under-inflated. I thought about this, and although we do not check often enough we are not that bad. Using my (likely inaccurate) foot pump both front tyres are at 30psi. Yes a bit under, but not dreadful. The NSF is perfect on the edge.

 

So, instead I asked the garage if the new track rod end and anti-roll bar they fitted to the OSF last MOT would have been an issue. Should we have done the tracking then? They claimed categorically not.

 

 

Is the garage right? I am inclined to replace the tyre and get my tracking checked. Having a quick look around the forum it could also be console bushes, these were last replaced at 90k.

 

 

As an aside I fitted a new pair of front discs very shortly after the MOT last year (cheap) which appear to have warped due to shuddering on light braking and are shortly to be replaced. My wife is the sole driver around town; I was a bit surprised that they may have warped as she is definitely not a heavy braker. 

 

Before I buy the discs, am I looking at a bigger suspension issue here?

 

The car presently has a retirement date of December 2021. Therefore in summary I am considering 3 things:

 

1. Replace the tyre, get the alignment checked and corrected. If alignment not out, consider investigating console bushes or other suspension components...

2. Replace the tyre, correct the alignment, replace the front discs and pads. Hope shudder and excessive wear go away.

3. Replace the tyre, ignore the alignment, ignore the discs. It has 18 months to live.

Edited 29 May, 20206 yr by Oli3000

1 minute ago, Oli3000 said:

Hi All,

 

Please can you confirm or deny my thoughts:

 

Faithful wife's skoda at 181k has just been MOT'd. 

 

They noted in the OSF tyre is near the legal limit on the outside edge (shamefully I had not noticed).

 

They reckoned this was due to us running it under-inflated. I thought about this, and although we do not check often enough we are not that bad. Using my (likely inaccurate) foot pump both front tyres are at 30psi. Yes a bit under, but not dreadful. The NSF is perfect on the edge.

 

So, instead I asked the garage if the new track rod end and anti-roll bar they fitted to the OSF last MOT would have been an issue. Should we have done the tracking then? They claimed categorically not.

 

 

Is the garage right? I am inclined to replace the tyre and get my tracking checked. Having a quick look around the forum it could also be console bushes, these were last replaced at 90k.

 

 

As an aside I fitted a new pair of front discs very shortly after the MOT last year (cheap) which appear to have warped due to shuddering on light braking and are shortly to be replaced. My wife is the sole driver around town; I was a bit surprised that they may have warped as she is definitely not a heavy braker. 

 

Before I buy the discs, am I looking at a bigger suspension issue here?

 

The car presently has a retirement date of December 2021. Therefore in summary I am considering 3 things:

 

1. Replace the tyre, get the alignment checked and corrected. If alignment not out, consider investigating console bushes or other suspension components...

2. Replace the tyre, correct the alignment, replace the front discs and pads. Hope shudder and excessive wear go away.

3. Replace the tyre, ignore the alignment, ignore the discs. It has 18 months to live.

Not sure what the correct tyre pressure is for your Fabia but I check and maintain our pressures on a regular basis as they vary with the change in ambient from colder winter to warmer summer weather and our tyres always wear evenly across the whole thread width. As a golden rule under-inflated tyres wear out the edges quicker and conversely over-inflating wears out the centre of the tyre more.

11 minutes ago, Oli3000 said:

Hi All,

 

Please can you confirm or deny my thoughts:

 

Faithful wife's skoda at 181k has just been MOT'd. 

 

They noted in the OSF tyre is near the legal limit on the outside edge (shamefully I had not noticed).

 

They reckoned this was due to us running it under-inflated. I thought about this, and although we do not check often enough we are not that bad. Using my (likely inaccurate) foot pump both front tyres are at 30psi. Yes a bit under, but not dreadful. The NSF is perfect on the edge.

 

So, instead I asked the garage if the new track rod end and anti-roll bar they fitted to the OSF last MOT would have been an issue. Should we have done the tracking then? They claimed categorically not.

 

 

Is the garage right? I am inclined to replace the tyre and get my tracking checked. Having a quick look around the forum it could also be console bushes, these were last replaced at 90k.

 

 

As an aside I fitted a new pair of front discs very shortly after the MOT last year (cheap) which appear to have warped due to shuddering on light braking and are shortly to be replaced. My wife is the sole driver around town; I was a bit surprised that they may have warped as she is definitely not a heavy braker. 

 

Before I buy the discs, am I looking at a bigger suspension issue here?

 

The car presently has a retirement date of December 2021. Therefore in summary I am considering 3 things:

 

1. Replace the tyre, get the alignment checked and corrected. If alignment not out, consider investigating console bushes or other suspension components...

2. Replace the tyre, correct the alignment, replace the front discs and pads. Hope shudder and excessive wear go away.

3. Replace the tyre, ignore the alignment, ignore the discs. It has 18 months to live.

 

Yeah, get the bushes checked and get the alignment done. OSF "only" is unusual. Might be worth checking NSF too. That might also be wearing oddly but not badly enough to get flagged.

 

Could try "Italian tune up" for the brakes. i.e. Find an empty road and slam on the brakes without stopping until they start fading, drive around to cool and repeat. Allow brakes to cool before stopping/parking up. Depends if disks are actually warped or if it is deposits from the pads. Would point out though that Fabia brakes have quite a lot of assist. So even if it feels like you're not braking heavily, 1.3 tonnes of car on 256mm disks might b*gger them up anyway.

 

Apologies - I just went back and double checked! It is definitely the INSIDE edge that is particularly worn on the OSF. 

 

OSF:

 

And the NSF looks fine: 

 

Both are Goodyear efficientGrip. 

Edited 29 May, 20206 yr by Oli3000

Option 2 is the correct course of action.

The same position tyre on my car wore like that; there was no indication of anything wrong with the steering but having the tracking checked and adjusted sorted the problem.