Tyre wear

[BigBash]

Well, SEAT dealers are more than happy to rotate tyres for you for £19.99 and the Fifth Gear slot was done in conjunction with a tyre manufacturer - Goodyear IIRC.

And as for driving like a tw@t you have more control over how fast you corner in the wet than you do over someone in front of you deciding to stand on their brakes on a wet motorway at 80mph.

As I have already said, what incident happens more often on the roads every day?

Ok, as I said each to their own, but I would disagree with your last point, I drive around 1000's of bends in the wet every year, but have an emergency stop less times than I can count on 1 hand.

As I said you are driving like a t**t if you drive in the back of someone full stop, something you have control over (by not tailgating), whereas your backend can go when driving sensibly without driving like a t**t.

 

[RUM4MO]

To be honest I'd rather trust the manufacturers, not some television program, who say that it is MUCH safer to put the best tyres on the rear, try taking your car to Costco (who only supply Michelin's) they will refuse to swap them as Michelin have told them not to do it.

Ford are totally correct, but that is not an endorsement to put the best tyres on the front, but warning people to get their worn tyres changed.

Have a look at this video of someone as you said driving like a t**t

http://www.michelinman.com/tire-care/tire-basics/reartire-change/

Each to their own, but I know I'd rather drive sensibly in the wet, don't tail gate people and know that my rear is not going go on me without some prior warning!

Yup, its the Costco thing that brought it to my attention and I thought what a lot of crap - but over the intervening 8 or so years there does seem to be a movement to accept this is best practise, so I grudgingly believe it! Costco for all your Michelin needs - great prices and sometimes even better deals - I just do a "walk in" and buy the tyres when good deals are on (if I need tyres in the near future) and get them fitted in pairs some time later - no problem!

 

[RUM4MO]

All FWD cars should toe-in slightly at rest as the wheels are forced back to straight under drive (IIRC).

Chances are that the bushes on the rear of the front wishbone have worn allowing the wheel to move too much. I would have them replaced for cupra ones and have the alignment done correctly by a specialist.

Have you got that right? I thought RWD cars get a small bit of toe-in to improve wheel centering while FWD cars get a small bit of toe-out as the drive fights the suspension "play" and pulls the wheel straight as the driven wheels try to move off and leave the car behind (sort of!).

 

[RUM4MO]

The inner-edge wear is extremely common, mine did it from new. Was on holiday in south of France when I spotted the inner edges had worn down to the fabric

But it can be sorted. When I got my geometry sorted by someone who knew what they were doing, the problem went away, and the car did another 80k+ miles with even wear.

I think if you take it to any general alignment place, then half of time they look up the wrong alignment values, or their equipment is out of calibration, or they're just plain dumb and don't know/care what they're doing.

You need a specialist who understands suspension geometry, who can find the optimum setup for the car (not necessarily the values supplied by Seat) and knows how to use their equipment...sadly not many places around like that !

I'd hope you are spot on there - but if you read one of my earlier replys to this thread you will see that that logic did not work in my case I'm afraid - maybe just bad luck as I always thoughtthat my tyres were wearing evenly until the MOT man said "tut tut"!