Tyre Wear
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 7:46 pm
I had Goodyear F1 Eagle tyres on the rear of my 2009 2.0 TDI Scirocco and was advised on a service that they were mis-shaped.
Up on looking at the tyres the inner bit of tread on the rear tyres had been worn away but not like I'd seen before.
The tyres had almost gone like the shape of a 50p coin on the inside of both rear tyres.
I had clipped the curb quite hard about 12 months ago so when new tyres were put on 400 miles ago I had kwick fit check the tracking and camber which needed doing so they adjusted it all and I thought that was it.
Well it's happening again but this time I've fitted budgets as I didn't want to take a chance on the car destroying a decent set of tyres on the rear.
I've taken the car to another garage called Pro Tyre Guppa P here in Plymouth, who checked the car over on their 4 wheel tracking machine to report back that no adjustment was needed as the camber & toe in/out is spot on.
VW can't find any suspension faults either and gave the car a clean bill of health last week.
My father reckons my Mag ride dampers may be shot and causing the problems but are the mag ride dampers known to go wrong often? the car has 93k on it but has been well looked after.
Any advice/suggestions would be much appreciated.
Up on looking at the tyres the inner bit of tread on the rear tyres had been worn away but not like I'd seen before.
The tyres had almost gone like the shape of a 50p coin on the inside of both rear tyres.
I had clipped the curb quite hard about 12 months ago so when new tyres were put on 400 miles ago I had kwick fit check the tracking and camber which needed doing so they adjusted it all and I thought that was it.
Well it's happening again but this time I've fitted budgets as I didn't want to take a chance on the car destroying a decent set of tyres on the rear.
I've taken the car to another garage called Pro Tyre Guppa P here in Plymouth, who checked the car over on their 4 wheel tracking machine to report back that no adjustment was needed as the camber & toe in/out is spot on.
VW can't find any suspension faults either and gave the car a clean bill of health last week.
My father reckons my Mag ride dampers may be shot and causing the problems but are the mag ride dampers known to go wrong often? the car has 93k on it but has been well looked after.
Any advice/suggestions would be much appreciated.