At around 16k miles my Octavia started to develop a shudder from the back wheels. I took it into Skoda and they could find nothing wrong and to be honest weren't completely interested in looking. After further investigation we found it to be the rear tyres not wearing evenly and putting it down to bad luck I shelled out

Octavia-vRS.com - Octavia A5 Common or Known Problems and Issues

There is a known issue with rear camber, described up there on Stu's page.

Many thanks. I will take this back to skoda and see what they say + go back to the garage that aligned it to compare with their specs..

cheers

PS

An update which may help others. I got the car 4 wheel aligned and they showed it to be correct, however on comparing it with the notes above from Stu, they had the old figures! Anyhow, took it back to my local Skoda garage (Bedford garage) and although I will slate poor service, I will also praise good service. I spoke with James, one of their technicians and he was fantastically helpful and explained that Skoda isn't obliged to pass alignment settings to third party garages, however he would take the new figures to the garage himself to update them and that the work I have had to had done on the car, I should be able to claim under a warranty. He was happy to compare figures for the car's current setup and how it should be according to the latest Skoda figures and it is booked in to get it all sorted and back to how it should be. Couldn't have been more helpful! Top marks.

Next thing is to try to get Skoda to replace the tyres under the warranty asthis is the second time this has happened and the second time I have gone in to complain about it. The new camber figures have been out since Nov 05, so this should have been picked up first time round.

cheers for your help

PS