Bridgestone tyres - PICS ADDED

[Ginge 35Edition]

So, went in to get the wheel swapped on the cab and while it was up on the ramp I had a look around it, all was ok until the tech spotted some suspect wear on the inner sidewall of both front tyres. To be blunt they were fooked, they had what I can only describe as slits all around the tyre wall.

The rears were fine with no wear at all, i suggest that you all check yours over. Bridgestone are having them back to inspect them so I will let you know how that goes. No pics I'm afraid.

Cheers

Neil

[Candy Man]

Not good m8 and unusual for a brand tyre.

[Ginge 35Edition]

Yeah exactly what I thought. The dealer were shocked too especially considering the tyres hadn't even done 12k!

[mkviken]

I would suggest a proper wheel alignment (hunters machine) not VW main dealer alignment. The factory tolerances are wide.

I have mine done regularly and swap my tyres from to rear every 3-4k miles and my bridgestones are wearing great.


I hink alot of these tyre wear issues are down to poor alignment not tyres.

[mark@vorny.co.uk]

I have run Bridgestones on an E46 BMW, an E93 BMW and a Fiat 500. All were either RE040 or RE050 ranges. Without fail every single one has run the edges, despite being fine on other brands and tracking true and correct.
I am running them on my 911 at the moment and guess what ? Edges worn.

Bridgestone run less tread on the edges, so they give the appearance of running the edges as they wear. Don't know why they would choose to do that, but they do....

[Keithuk]

My original tyres were Bridgestone Potenza RE 050 and they wore perfectly. I replace the fronts earlier this year at 20K with Bridgestone Potenza RE 050 A.

The rear tyres can suffer from the saw tooth wear pattern but mine don't.

[Ginge 35Edition]

It's not tread wear, it's as if the tread section is coming away from the side wall section? Only mentioned it so you could all check yours too. I have exactly the same tyres on the Edi with no issues, so perhaps a rogue batch?

[Ginge 35Edition]

Here's some pictures:-

[Ginge 35Edition]

It's interesting that they have changed the shoulder design on the 'same model' tyre too - the amount of rubber that sticks out?

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[Marshy]

About 4 years ago when I worked for Alfa Romeo it was very common for Bridgestone tyres to do exactly this.
On cars that were just over a year old and done 8-10k
We used to send them back to Bridgestone and always got compensation from them.
Pretty soon after Alfa started using continental and Michelin.
Lots if people used to rave about Bridgestone but from experience with them I'd never have them.