That's very curious. I had thought it was just the FL. I think you are the first PFL owner to have had a problem like this. Certainly my PFL tyres were ok, if looking a bit ragged after 14000 miles!
Facelift Pirelli Tyre Defects - Response
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Something I’ve also thought of, you’d just lose some of the stretched look... got to be worth a try if you are going back to Pirelli and need a full set!
You would need really low tyre pressure to cause this amount of damage
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The car also skips when pulling off the drive in the mornings ... best way to describe it is like driving a car with a welded diff or on snow. There is another thread on this and didn’t know if that has contributed to the wear ..? The tyres are now at the correct psi and it still skips.
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20psi low enough? I’d say so?
20psi is plenty once rolling, surely it wouldn't cause that kind of wear?
Conorhayrs3
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I have the same problem here with my tyer it’s only done 1000 miles and its ****** it’s no letting me upload a pic of it but just wounding where I stand
Same as the rest of us, I can only recommend you contact Pirelli, Audi Customer Services and ask your dealer to raise a complaint with Audi Technical.
Have you contacted What Car and the like yet mate?
Conorhayrs3
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I’ve sent my tyer of to Pirelli and see what they say I’ve not spoken to Audi yet about it I’ll phone them tomorrow it’s on a rs3
Fantastic. I would be surprised if both did nothing.
Blimey, I thought my tyres looked good after so many miles. Yours look like new.
Looks good, what pressures you running ??
40psi front, 36 rear.
That doesn’t look bad, have to see how they go.
Been following this topic for a while now and have some info to report.
I am always checking my front tyres looking for the signs of the uneven wear as per the posts on here, without actually taking the wheels off, and tbh I could never find any of the issues found on here.
So my FL RS3 has just hit the 10,000 miles, was registered in mid April 2018. Its driven daily by my wife, mainly short journeys in our city, a mixture of residential roads and dual carriageways. But at weekends it’s usually longer journey (300 mile round trip) at higher speeds, motorway, country roads, a mixture of good and poor surfaces etc, it’s never let us down once.
Having checked the tyres again decided it’s time to replace all four (am on the staggered set-up) mainly due to the feeling that the traction was just not good anymore, still a decent amount of tread on all four tyres but with the winter weather, snow, frost, ice now with us it was time to swap them out.
Changeover was done at local Audi main dealer, I specifically needed to see the front tyres off the car to get a good check on the wear patterns, and especially the inner edges.
The fronts were taken off and the wear has been amazing in a good way.
There was NOT a single sign of any wear on the inner edges, absolutely nothing.
Also the tread wear across ALL FOUR tyres was amazing, literally even wear across all four tyres, absolutely no signs for concern.
The car is the same set-up since factory, have never had alignment checked, never really needed to, never had any handling issues either.
My RS has been sitting on the Pirelli P Zero R02 tyres.
Maybe I have just got lucky, why have so many in here been hit with terrible wear, but mine has none? Strange.
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Tristan2
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Have you got mag ride?
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Tristan2
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Saloon or hatchback?
Yes, be worth getting the owners with this issue to post on here when their RS was built/delivered.
Might narrow it down a bit.
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Mine is a saloon and delivered in Nov 2017. Was suffering from inner tyre wear but increased pressures to max sticker and wear is now normal. Swapped front to rear to even out wear.
My car was built in the same week as the OP - @AudiNutta and the tyres are fine so far. The car is exactly as it left the factory - no mods, no alignment checks, etc. Just fueled, washed and driven.
My tyre pressures are at the high end of the sticker as well, mainly due to usually three adults in car, not all the time but around 70% of the time.
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I'm only kidding. But I never check my tyre pressures. Had the car over a year now. Obviously if they look flat or TPMS warns me I would do something. But people debating between 36 or 38 psi are probably over thinking it.
Nope because I’ve got my second set on, 5000 miles in and there is a nasty ridge and the inner edge is falling away rapidly!!
Not good must be your cars camber alignment then mate as other cars don’t seem to be suffering
