I've read how a few here find the Q7's tyre wear rate to be acceptable and frankly I am astonished. This is not a two wheel drive powerful car wearing its drive tyres out. This is a big Quattro and my diesel is not that powerful. Not significantly more powerful and certainly driven no differently from my previous Range Rover TD6 or Mercedes ML270 I had before that. My current daily drive is a Land Cruiser Amazon.
All these vehicles except the Audi have managed in excess of 30,000 miles on a set of tyres, the RR and Amazon averaged 35000 miles.
The Audi Q7 has now worn TWO sets of tyres out in 21,000 miles. Evenly. With mainly my wife driving rather sedately.
It costs me £750 per year plus VAT just in tyres to run this vehicle. That's 5p per mile in rubber and rising.
This is unacceptable and untenable. It is NOT normal wear. It IS a problem with the design.
FYI the first set were Conti's while the second are Michelin something-or-other Rosso.
I wish Audi would resolve this issue by changing some component or other because this thing will be down the road in another 5000 or so miles for another Range Rover or a Mercedes GL or Land Cruiser Amazon otherwise.
Forget the 'performance' and 'weight' excuse. I wasn't born yesterday and am not naive any more than the chap with the haulage business earlier in this thread. We both probably know more about heavy vehicles and tyre wear than most of the apologists for high running costs here.
Excuse the rant for a first post. It may be my first post 'here' but its certainly not my first post.
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