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Vanorak Joined: 05 Nov 05 Status: Offline Points: 3687 |
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My mistake, I thought Greg said 30k (km) for some reason. Australians should be surfacing about now so no doubt Greg will explain further. 80k km sounds a lot to me (for fronts at least) but I know him as sensible and accurate person so no doubt he will explain.
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gregozedobe
Vanorak Joined: 22 Dec 06 Location: Canberra, Oz Status: Offline Points: -998266 |
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Correct. I got a little more out of the original set of agilis tyres (I want to say 110,000km from the 5, but I'd have to check my records to confirm that)). I do rotate my tyres (all 5) every now and then. Using 5 instead of 4 does increase the distance you can get out of a set of tyres, with 80,000 x 4/5 is the equivalent of 64,000km (40,000 miles) if you only used 4, and the current set aren't on the wear marks yet. But my usage is an extreme outlier, as my van does nearly all it's time driving gently on motorways (no hard cornering, very few traffic light derbys). The brakes are the original pads & disks, done 188,000Km (and still going strong), driveshafts are both original (been re-greased a couple of times) As you can probably guess I almost always drive quite gently, and anticipate traffic movements assiduously, using gears and engine braking to slow down a lot of the time. I also try to time my journeys to avoid heavy traffic. So my tyres (and brakes) have a very easy time of it.
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Charlie Dog
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Ours came with Cross Climates. The fronts were more worn at the centre that the edges. I replaced them while they had enough tread to sell. I think the guy before would have used book / B-post pressure The rears were about 50% worn.
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T5 TDI
Vanorak Joined: 05 Nov 05 Status: Offline Points: 3687 |
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Tyre wear caused by worn shocks usually causes that 'chopped up' look (and feel if you spin the tyre). If ignored it will develop and make the tyres noisy and eventually they will flat so badly they start to form small bald patches and eventually fall apart. If I remember the OP did say the wear on his tyres was nice and even across the whole tyre.
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Charlie Dog
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The shocks on ours were pretty worn T5.
They were worn nice and evenly across and around the tyre.
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