Tyre Wear; Tyre Wear Indicator And Wheels Exchange - Skoda Fabia Operating Instructions Manual

For the sake of the environment
Tyres which are insufficiently inflated increase your fuel consumption.
Note
The declaration of conformity (the so-called COC document), can be obtained
from a ŠKODA partner.

Tyre wear

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Read and observe on page 160 first.
Tyre wear depends on the pressure, driving style, and other circumstances.
Attention to the following notes may affect tyre wear.
Driving style
Fast cornering, sharp acceleration and braking increase the tyre wear.
Wheel balance
The wheels of a new vehicle are balanced. There are a wide range of influen-
ces when the car is being driven which may result in an imbalance. This may
become apparent by "vibration" in the steering. If this is the case, the wheels
have to be balanced at specialist garage.
Also have the wheels rebalanced after replacing or repairing the tyres.
Adjustment of the vehicle geometry
Incorrect wheel alignment at the front or rear leads to excess wear of the tyres
and negatively affects the driving safety. With a distinctive tyre wear, we rec-
ommend that you check the setting of the vehicle geometry in a specialist
workshop.
WARNING
An incorrect wheel alignment at the front or rear impairs handling.
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Unusual vibrations or pulling of the vehicle to one side could be a sign of
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tyre damage. If there is any doubt that a wheel is damaged, immediately re-
duce your speed and stop! If no external tyre damage is evident, drive slow-
ly and carefully to the nearest specialist garage to have the vehicle
checked.
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General Maintenance

Tyre wear indicator and wheels exchange

Fig. 165 Principle sketch: Replace tyre tread with wear indicators /
wheels
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Read and observe on page 160 first.
Wear indicators
The base of the tread of the tyres has 1.6 mm high wear indicators installed
» Fig. 165 - . In some countries, different tyre wear rates may apply.
Markings on the walls of the tyres through the letters "TWI", triangular sym-
bols or other symbols identify the position of the wear indicators.
Exchanging the wheels
For uniform wear on all tyres, we recommend that you change the wheels ev-
ery 10 000 km according to the scheme
proximately the same life for all the tyres.
After swapping the wheels, the tyre pressure should be adjusted.
In vehicles with tyre pressure monitoring, save tyre pressure
WARNING
You must have your tyres replaced with new ones at the latest when the
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wear indicators have been worn down.
Worn tyres do not provide the necessary grip particularly at high speeds
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on wet roads. "Aquaplaning" (uncontrolled movements of the vehicle –
"swimming" on a wet road surface) could be the result.
» Fig. 165- . You will then obtain ap-
values» page 125.