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Originally Posted by mnk303
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).
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Firstly my diesel Q7 is an SUV not a sports car and it is not driven hard or like a sports car. Secondly it wears all four tyres out in not much more than 10,000 miles even though the alignment is correct and the power is split between all four wheels. Thirdly I have owned and run an XK8 so I know how long the Pirreli tyres last. Fourthly the 255/65r18 tyres fitted to my Q7 are about the same size and profile as fitted to Range Rover which had tyres last over three times as long and had a full time four wheel drive system and size, weight and performance comparable to the Q7.
As for the text highlighted in red, well don't you think that as people get to know that the tyres are such a high wear item they will shy away from the cars both new and used? It costs me £550 + VAT every 10,000 miles to shoe this thing. If it were not for the fact that I get the VAT back it would cost 15p in tyres alone to go to the village and back, a round trip of less than two miles. It costs 18p per mile in fuel and nearly 3p in road tax. But the other costs are comparable with other similar vehicles while the tyres cost over THREE TIMES what it cost to run the Range Rover or 200hp 2.8 ton Land Cruiser.
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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.
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Yes it is a slightly cheaper car than the latest Range Rover but it does not have the ultimate versatility, third row child seats excepted.
However the tyre wear is unacceptable to most first owners and will be sure to devalue the cars to a huge extent as they get older.
Its not a matter of being able to 'afford' this expenditure on rubber, it is the pure waste of money, rescources and, not least, time spent on rubber. It is just not acceptable and as owners we will soon see the evil of huge devaluation of the cars as a result unless Audi address this issue.
The dealers can fall over backwards and do triple somersaults but unless the issue is sorted they are wasting their energy.