I'm having 4 new Nokians fitted tomorrow and I noticed that my passenger side front tyre has worn more than the drivers side, around 3mm vs. 4mm after 35K.

It's a 2011 SD4 - anything to be concerned about or is this normal? It's not something I've encountered before but then I've never had as large/heavy a vehicle before so don't know if something as daft as the slight camber of our roads could do it.

If your running with Conti's then yes, they do tend to wear on the edge if on the front, especially the nearside. p****d off with a Digital Keyboard Warrior

ad210358 wrote:

If your running with Conti's then yes, they do tend to wear on the edge if on the front, especially the nearside.

A few of us have suffered with the Conti's wearing heavy on the nearside, soft walls perhaps, never had it with the Wranglers or Vredesteins just the Conti's  p****d off with a Digital Keyboard Warrior

Which Nokians are you having? Another member of the failed FL2 clutch/DMF club, twice.

I have 19" continentals and the near side is really worn in the edge too  Black FL2
L200 Warrior

Pegleg wrote:

Which Nokians are you having?

WR G2.

Had them fitted this morning.

The place managed to wreck one of my alloys whilst removing the existing tyre. Christ only knows how they managed it but they're going to get it refurbished and have used the alloy off the spare in its place so they can sort the refurb at their leisure.

I'm mildly at Land Rover as well for using clip on weights - I'm no mechanic but to accomplish the saving of possibly 10 pence on a £35k vehicle they seem to have decided its worth using weights which seem to leave a thick deposit of when removed.

As for the Nokian's it's really too early to tell much other than that the ride has noticeably changed though how much this splits between the combination of fresh rubber and different rubber and about 3 times the tread of the old Conti's is yet to be seen.

When I replaced my OEM Pirelli Scorpion Zeros they had

FL 2
FR 3
RL 4
RR 5

which lead me to conclude that a) fronts wear more than rears and b) nearside wears more than offside, which I assume was caused by roundabouts. I think I read/heard that somewhere, perhaps a tyre centre.

Fronts wearing twice as quickly as rears is a bit annoying since I could have just replaced the fronts, but wanted to move away from the Pirellis and didn't want to mix brands. Now have GG GTs which I'm pretty happy with.

My Contis did that. Tyre man said the front passenger is the 'Island tyre'. As it's the outside tyre on an island it does more mileage and is under more pressure when it goes around the island so wear a bit more. Sounds feasible if you do a lot of town driving I suppose.

I'm running 19" Contis and because I had a Hunter DSP 400 alignment, they have not worn irregularly as some people have experienced.

I went here:

http://www.dtstyres.co.uk/wheel_alignment.html Whereabouts unknown stop going to follow stream until reach civilisation stop message ends

When I had mine done, the feathering on the edge of my contis stopped too  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

andytj427 wrote:

My Contis did that. Tyre man said the front passenger is the 'Island tyre'. As it's the outside tyre on an island it does more mileage and is under more pressure when it goes around the island so wear a bit more. Sounds feasible if you do a lot of town driving I suppose.

Its not just a quick swap of the wheels, Contis are directional, so its take them off the rim, or only do half a swap. p****d off with a Digital Keyboard Warrior

andytj427 wrote:

My Contis did that. Tyre man said the front passenger is the 'Island tyre'. As it's the outside tyre on an island it does more mileage and is under more pressure when it goes around the island so wear a bit more. Sounds feasible if you do a lot of town driving I suppose.

Eh? Do you go round roundabouts anti clockwise when going home then? Even going straight on at a ROUNDabout involves extra loading/scrubbing/wear/travel to the nearside wheels. Just how do the offside tyres get equal wear? Your very first post on this forum in reply to a post I made gave me reason then to suspect you know very little about tyres.


ME: I have an HSE with 18" alloys but the spare is a brand new, unused (so I'm assuming this was supplied with the car) 17" steel wheel.

YOU: Sorry for not introducing myself first, but can this be correct? Surely you can't run on a 17" spare with 18" wheels on the car. Would it not put a huge strain on the rear diff if on the back or on the Haldex?

Your most recent post now confirms my suspicions. Guess you wouldn't even make the grade as a tyre monkey.  Past: FL2 TD4 HSE Auto
Evoque SD4 Dynamic Lux Auto
Present: Audi A3 S Line.