Urgent tyre question/problem

[installer69]

I don't much clean the '6 let alone check the tyre wear but I've just had a shock.

Since I got the Porsche the wife has been using the RS to go to work.

I drove it yesterday and noticed it pulled to the left quite badly.

I parked up at the supermarket today and the wheels happen to have been full lock to the right (over the second of the two spaces that I like to take up)

To my shock the inside edge was completely scrubbed down with the canvas showing.

I turned full lock t'other way and saw the metal belt.

Now I may not be much of a maintenance type of chap but I do check the outside edge tread depth with my fingers every week or two.

Had I not parked at full lock I may not have found out 'till it was too late.

Anyway, at 15k can one of the more car minded of you tell me what would cause both front tyres inner edges to wear so disproportionately?

I drive hard (front pads at 10k) but no track days. Is 15K on the original hard as nails tyres about right?

Cheers

[wboard]

My rosso's have done 5K and have about 3.5mm left. I reckon a hard driver will get about 8/9k from a set.

[gord]

My first 6 was on Rossos and all 4 were shot by the time I sold it at 10k miles. Mostly motorway miles, about 50% carefully chauffeur-driven, the rest me, and I cane it everywhere, so on average I'd have thought it about the normal you'd expect.
GM

[installer69]

You are lucky. Ive got pzeros on the Porsche but the Audi came with rock hard continentals.

Does anyone know who I can use to replace them as I took out tyres and maintenance from Audi.

[simple1]

They are a heavy car, and compared to the RS4, which usually manages about 12k miles on a set and the E55 which gets about 8k out of the rears if you are lucky, you seem to have had an easy life. The steering gymoetry causes the inside to wear while the outside looks quite healthy.
I have Michelin Pilots on my Porsche, and find them very good, life expectancy isnt quite so good, with @ 500 plus bhp and four wheel drive it seems to kill the fronts first within 7k miles and therears aren't far behind.

[gord]

The continentals on my 6+ don't look to be wearing anything like as well as the Rossos (3k miles up). Maybe because I've been driving it myself more than I did the previous car, or maybe it's because the car lends itself to being driven harder than the previous car.
I agree that Pilots on a Porsche are far and away the best (after PZero 'C's of course), but it's a different sort of beast and what's good for the goose ain't always what's good for the gander....
Next time I need new tyres (if I keep it that long) I'd like to find a set with more pronounced lips on the outside edge to protect more from kerbing. Refurbing wheel costs probably negates the difference between wear rates!

[installer69]

You would have thought that they might have mentioned that the tyres were getting low at the 10k service then.

Surely if they weren't going to last to the next service they should have told me to keep an eye on them.

Because I have a service plan I don't think I got a copy of the service sheet which is crap 'cos I'm the poor git that paid £60k for the car, not Audi Financial Services. They just look after the servicing.

[peterb]

I opted for the 18" wheels on my car, and it came fitted with Dunlop SP9000. Currently got 15k on the car (mostly motorway) and the tyres look to be about half worn. The wear seems to be very even across the full width of the tread.

[haroonok]

I GOT 29K FROM CONTINENTALS ON MY RS6 SALOON-MOSTLY MOTORWAY DRIVING THOUGH.