Swapping wheels around on cupra 4 drive

Deadly Ferret

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Hi, i have done 5000 miles in my car and the fronts are starting to wear. I want to swap the fronts to the back so i get even tyre wear and can change all four at once.. I believe this is the best thing to rather than replacing the fronts due to the tread depth differences. I went to a tyre shop and they said to be carefull because the tyre pressure monitors might show a fault. Apparently some cars tpms are programmed to each corner. Has anyone done this and was there a fault?

Thanks
 

Titchy

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Jun 10, 2017
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Hi, i have done 5000 miles in my car and the fronts are starting to wear. I want to swap the fronts to the back so i get even tyre wear and can change all four at once.. I believe this is the best thing to rather than replacing the fronts due to the tread depth differences. I went to a tyre shop and they said to be carefull because the tyre pressure monitors might show a fault. Apparently some cars tpms are programmed to each corner. Has anyone done this and was there a fault?

Thanks

All good to swap, seat actually recommends putting the FR on the RL and vice versa. TPMS doesn’t exist on the cupra.

It’s a more simple system that reads the wheelspeed sensors to get rpm. Then uses this to calculate the wheel circumference. Smaller diameter wheel does more rotations to cover the same distance as a larger wheel.

This can all be reset in the menu system. Under car > settings > tyres > set tyre pressures.


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black_sheep

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Like the OP, I wanted to even out the tyre wear and replace all 4 tyres at the same time (end of summer). However, whilst completing the procedure, I identified significant wear to the inner front tyres at 9.5k miles.

Laser alignment has indicated that the toe on the front wheels of my Cupra was -0.60 (toe out) on both FR and FL wheels vs spec +0.65 (toe in) FR and FL. Rear wheels/all other settings were in spec.

After adjustment, there is a noticeable reduction in road noise (noting that the 2 rear tyres have been changed too, as the car was becoming unpredictable to drive in the wet (summer?) conditions).

For those experiencing high road noise on their Cupras, the allignment might be worth investigating.
 

Damo H

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Sure the item tyre are directional.. but frint to back will do just to even it out.. thanks
Didn’t think many manufacturers did directional tyres anymore. It’s all about asymmetric now.

Edit - new generation tyres, not talking about the good old super sexy Goodyear Eagle F1 GSD3s.
 

SwissCupra

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Barum and Semperit off top of my head, and even if they aren't rotational some manufacturers put outside/inside on them (or innen/aussen) so still have to check, we place them so the DOT is visible on the outer edge if there is nothing (police check how old the tyres are here)
 

Damo H

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Barum and Semperit off top of my head, and even if they aren't rotational some manufacturers put outside/inside on them (or innen/aussen) so still have to check, we place them so the DOT is visible on the outer edge if there is nothing (police check how old the tyres are here)
If an asymmetric tyre has been fitted to the wheel the right way round, then so long as the tyres don’t get removed from the rims, you can’t fit an asymmetric tyre on the car incorrectly. The only thing that would cause an issue is if the car had a staggered figment and wider rear tyres.
 
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