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Originally Posted by Quacker
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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May I suggest that not all owers are "thick users" of Q7's , I certainly run other expensive cars, like Ferraris, Astons and Jags and sadly they also wear out tyres in less than 10K miles. I agree it would be nice if they lasted longer, but and its only a "but" I have not seen any LR or Toyotas with such low profile tyres as the Q7, mine are at 8K now and I have just looked,they show every sign of lasting another 7-8K, so I am "okish with that". What no one here has stated yet is what they think is incorrect in the desigh of the Q7..... So if all you readers out there no about cars say what the issue is with the Tyre wear, it cant be so bad if the Q7 is one of the best selling large 4 x4's ever made (in such a short time).
I must also state that in my honest opinion my local Audi dealer has fallen over backwards to assist me, I looked at the LR and RR and for the same cost as I paid for a New Q7 which was £47K I could not buy the equvelent RR (which did not have 7 seats), and the LR top model would cost more as well.