Perhaps it’s because ultra high performance and super low profile are fitted to family cars these days.
And driven by low performance drivers seeking a high profile.
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Perhaps it’s because ultra high performance and super low profile are fitted to family cars these days.
Did the tyres have a country of manufacture on them?
Perhaps it’s because ultra high performance and super low profile are fitted to family cars these days.
2014 Audi A7 Black Edition, sailed through it's MOT on 11th February with 30k miles.
Less than 2 months and 2k miles later two of the inside edges of the front tyres look like this.
Tyres are dated middle of 2018, plenty of tread on them but walls are separating.
Would appreciate any expert or other opinions on these and any possible cause
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I know it's highly unlikely, but they look like Retreads to me
Difficult to remember that 75 profile were seen as low profile tyres years ago. I really don't understand the UK's obsession with the very low profiles that manufacturers push when we have such terrible road surfaces.
Those tyres (OP's) are awful but whether caused by poor manufacturing or misuse will be difficult to prove; I gave up trying to explain to one person why straddling speedhumps was a bad idea, their view was that that's what they're designed for.
My first car was a Vauxhall Nova SR and it had “low profile” 70-profile tyres on the factory steel wheels.I was thinking just that.
In the seventies and eighties, passenger cars came as standard with 80 profile tyres, while the Italians always used the then-sporty low-profile 70 tyres.
The invention of the hot hatch in the seventies (Golf GTI, Opel/Vauxhall SR/GTE, Peugeot 206 GTI, Lancia Delta HF, etc etc) saw 'high-performance' 60 profile tyres becoming common on sporty cars, spearheaded by the Pirelli P Zero.... and the rest is history.
Classic obfuscation and denial routine.They rejected this and insisted they have to go through the above chain
Classic obfuscation and denial routine.
Pass all the info to the DVSA and ask them to take it up.
As useless as the DVSA can be, I’d still raise a case with them. Partly in the (perhaps vain) hope that they do actually follow it up properly, but also because it’s the right thing to do from a moral standpoint.I've dealt with the DVSA before on a known Citroen fault (all lights fail) and they just sided with the manufacturer "no known fault". Seems they don't know how to do a google search.
Seems we are wasting our time with Dunlop on this one.
They want the tyres returned to the dealer the car was bought from, they then have to return them to where they got the car and so the chain continues till they end up at the supplying tyre fitter who will then return them to Dunlop.
We explained that even without the current circumstances this does not seem practical and we offered to return the tyres direct to them.
This would allow them to check they are genuine, trace who they were sold to and look for any defects in them.
They rejected this and insisted they have to go through the above chain.
My first car was a Vauxhall Nova SR and it had “low profile” 70-profile tyres on the factory steel wheels.
I then bought some Cavalier LXi wheels off the milkman, who had them fitted to his Nova GT/E - which was the same colour grey as mine - and looked amazing. He used to drive it when collecting the money on a Friday evening.
The huuuuge 14-inch wheels looked great on the Nova, even on the SR, because it the boxes where arches. I think they were 185/60 and looked like road rollers at the time, compared to the 155 tyres fitted from the factory. I loved that car.
I now have a car in a very similar colour, with tyres twice as wide. How things have changed!
Which Dunlop do you mean though?On the matter of Dunlop tyres in general, they’ve been on my “avoid list” for decades.
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