SEAT Arona - Tyre wear

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Mon 10 Feb 2020 19:51
SEAT Arona - Tyre wear - The Lord of Misrule

I'm shortlisting at the moment - my current car is a Fiat Pand 4x4 fitted with all Continental season tyres - I went to have a look at used SEAT Arona (19 plate) with 14k on the clock, I tested the tyre depth and these were showing just under 5mm left on the (summer) Hankooks. I have around 35k on the Panda with the original tyres on the front and approx 4mm left. In particular, do any other Arona owners find this the 'norm' ? Thanks

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Tue 11 Feb 2020 12:45
SEAT Arona - Tyre wear - daveyjp

You are comparing apples and pears - all weather v summer tyres. My all weather tyres last 40,000, summer tyres not much more than 20,000.

You also don't know how it was driven or those 14,000 miles and if they are even the original tyres - they may have done 8,000 and the new tyres are a second set. They may have been rotated etc etc

However mid 20k miles from summer on the Seat probably isn't unusual.

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