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Yes they are worn evenly, and I drive quite sensibly, no chucking it round corners. It is a 1.8 Verona, the tyres seem excessively large considering the V6 model uses the same size. The only thing I can think of is that the dealer swopped them with less worn examples before putting it up for sale?
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I certainly wouldn't put that past some dealers. Seems a bit too much effort though. Was it a big dealer or an Arthur Daley? Mind you, from what I have read and experienced, they can be as bad as each other.
The even wear rules out a suspension geometry fault or over- or under-inflation. Bit of a mystery.
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Just thought of something. Could they have been swapped front to rear? I would expect some extra wear on the outer edges on a tyre that wide.
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Dealer was a mid sized outfit, not main dealer and seemed honest enough (but then they all do!) Seems I'll have to start saving my pennies!
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Look at the wear on the rears and the disc pad material deposits on the rim I would suspect that the new tyres may be on the back and the fronts are off the rear. May be because of a previous tracking problem or someone thought that the new tyres should go on the rear to stop end swopping, wrong but often thought.
regards
Peter
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I have professional and social contact with expert chassis engineers at 3 major OEMs in the Midlands. All recommend putting new tyres on the rear. So do the majority of tyre manufacturers.
I'd like to know what evidence you can show that these people and companies who have put much engineering expertise and many £millions into research are so wrong?
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The car could have been clocked since the new tyres were fitted. But you didn't want to know that...
Richard Hall
bangernomics.tripod.com
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The dealer may have swapped them if another customer had complained about the heavy wear on the tyres (that were originally on the car he was purchasing). I know of an example of this at one of the big car supermarkets. You should be able to check whether the original wheels are fitted to the car by the manufacturing date stamped on the wheels (or cast on if alloys), this should tie up with dates stamped on various body panels on the car. Also does the servicing invoice show the size of tyre fitted and is it the same.
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