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Originally Posted by frizz
Firstly Sportingmac, I think I would be better off taking my car to my local tyreweb who can do a full alignment check for 25 quid.
Travelling is mainly A roads and back lanes with plenty of corners and roundabouts. About 15% is motorway driving. I have Dunlop sportmax 295/35 R21's which I run at 44F 49R and generally leave the car in automatic.
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Thanks for the data Frizz - useful. I note that you have set your tyre pressure to max (ie 5+ pers) - is that your call or the required setting? I have experimented with the max setting for a few thousand miles - and it seems to have slowed the rate of wear. I have set it back to the petrol cap settings for normal (35/35) and we shall see. It goes back to Audi on Tues for a few small adjustments - we'll see.
I noticed in the handbook that it tells you to set the tyre pressures as for full load (5+ pers) and this would be 45/49 - which is at odds with the petrol cap recommendations - anyone seen the same?
I have a printout from my local tyre dealer who did a free check for me - my settings on his machine showed my car to be way out - but Audi said their machine was OK.
Is your car new? and if so did the Dunlops come as OEM? I ask because my local dealer is talking about a set of these as replacement for my tyres (Oct 2007)