MK5 Golf GTI

All Things Mk5 => How to Guides / Troubleshooting => Topic started by: oldmanspeed on July 14, 2013, 03:28:38 pm

Title: rear tyre wear
Post by: oldmanspeed on July 14, 2013, 03:28:38 pm

hi

Is it normal for an ed 30 to wear the inside edge of the rear tyres way before the rest of the tyre is worn or has my car got an aggressive setting or just out of alignment.

thanks

Title: Re: rear tyre wear
Post by: magicgilbert on July 14, 2013, 07:19:09 pm

I know my uncle has got a golf tdi 140 and had the same problem, aparantly some came out the production line with the wrong alignment, he took it to vw to get it sorted, wasn't for free thew and had to pay

Title: Re: rear tyre wear
Post by: parrish on July 18, 2013, 06:08:16 pm

Further to this, I fitted new alloys to my car, and the garage told me that I needed four whell alignment, as one of the rear wheels was slightly out of line
I tried all the local tyre places, and most of them were £160-£200.
I tried my local main stealers (VW Aberdeen) and they did it for £84!
Shock!
a knock on a kerb can upset the mk 5 suspicion-it has an eccentric bolt on the top susension arm which adjust the camber, but you need the right kit to do it

Title: Re: rear tyre wear
Post by: Joemk5 on July 21, 2013, 06:24:37 am

Check pressures if you get uneven wear aswell

Title: Re: rear tyre wear
Post by: jonnym on July 21, 2013, 05:48:25 pm

Got any camber?

Otherwise, I suspect an allignment will fix it! A friend has had exactly the same, within 3 months the inside was 1mm and the outside still pretty much new. An allignment sorted him out.

Title: Re: rear tyre wear
Post by: MPS on July 21, 2013, 05:59:23 pm

When I had my 4 wheel alignment done on a hunter they found the camber was out on the rear but couldn't adjust it as the bolts on the lower bushes had seized. So I need new bushes!

Title: Re: rear tyre wear
Post by: Human Joist on July 29, 2013, 12:06:58 am

In short there appears to be two thoughts behind this issue. Having just bought a mk5 gti dsg I found that both rear inner tyres were sawtoothed away and very badly worn. I have been reliably informed that there are two tie rod arms, one either side that fail and cause the alignment to move thus scrubbing the tyre and you need to replace them and get a 4 wheel alignment completed. I did this yesterday. Parts were £96 for both from main dealer and took 1.5 hours to fit. Tracked and all good. The other idea is that VW set the camber so it would hold the road the best but the side effect was increased tyre wear. I lent more to a part failing than a deliberate act by VW as it did not ring true.