Tyre Fitter - what have they done?

paintguy said:
There's nothing a tyre fitter could have done to change the wear pattern of your tyres except put the wrong pressure in them.

Unless of course they deliberately maladjusted the tracking while they had it, but that's conspiracy theory stuff...
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A lot of effort to earn 25p bonus
 
Heisenberg said:
I'm 100% sure that tyre hasn't done 2000 miles of normal driving. No chance in hell. I've been a technician for 15 years and never saw anything like that in a practically new tyre. I've seen a certain model have an issue with Dunlop tyres where it split at inner edge due to set up of the car. Nothing like that level of wear pretty much across the whole tyre in such a short mileage. I wouldn't even say poor alignment would cause that in 2000 miles tbh.
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Agreed, this did not happen in 2000 miles unless something is very badly amiss. Get it seen to.
 
If it was at -11 i would have thought you could have seen that when the steering wheel was central one of the wheels would have looked really off.
 
If your previous tyres weren't unevenly knackered, how could the tracking be so terribly out all of a sudden? Strange!

Glad to hear it's all sorted now.
 
Huntyz said:
If it was at -11 i would have thought you could have seen that when the steering wheel was central one of the wheels would have looked really off.
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It looked and felt really normal, some very vague vibration but nothing worrying.
mjt said:
If your previous tyres weren't unevenly knackered, how could the tracking be so terribly out all of a sudden? Strange!
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That's why I felt the tyre fitter must have done something or missed something - how did I go from normal even wear to really severe? Plenty of pot holes though so probably coincidence.
 
Sounds like a pothole or something - I can't see any reason the tyre fitter would change your geometry unless they were going to tell you that your alignment was out there and then and try and fleece you to fix it.

Glanza said:
Did they not align it when you had the tyres replaced?
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Why would they? It's a completely separate job.
 
And you never noticed that before ??? - I have never seen tyres that bad in 50 years of motoring. - good job you wasn't stopped by the cops they would have had you off the road and you a nice fine. Jaysus :eek:
 
DXP55 said:
And you never noticed that before ??? - I have never seen tyres that bad in 50 years of motoring. - good job you wasn't stopped by the cops they would have had you off the road and you a nice fine. Jaysus :eek:
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And 6 points.
 
i have seen tyres wear out like the op's in under 300 miles. wishbone bushes were shot and the car chewed up the tyres. was a mk3 ford fiesta.
 
DXP55 said:
And you never noticed that before ??? - I have never seen tyres that bad in 50 years of motoring. - good job you wasn't stopped by the cops they would have had you off the road and you a nice fine. Jaysus :eek:
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Wasn't looking that closely - outside edges were fine and as I've said before I wasn't getting any significant vibration or pull. And I don't think you expect new tyres to wear away so quickly - it was only terrible grip on a wet day that drew me to look closer.

Also relieved I wasn't pulled - would never intentionally drive with a tyre like that - so much so that I didn't even drive it to a tyre fitter and called one out instead.
 
-11 degrees out?! Good god, no wonder.

I'm inclined to think that there's something bent if it's that far out.
 
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