Got an Altea 17" upgrade on Dunlops? URGENTLY read this.

J500AND

Altea DSG on 17s! Oh yes!
Apr 21, 2003
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My brother has recently purchased an Approved Used 2005/55 SEAT Altea 2.0 TDi Sport DSG. He's had a few issues with it and I volunteered to drop it to the dealers for them to work on it tomorrow. Anyway, I was looking at the brakes which appear to be shot to hell (pic below) and I noticed cracking in the tyres (its present on all of them). Went along to KwikFit and he told me the tyres were dated April 04 and are basically dangerous due to this cracking.:wtf: So if you've got Dunlop SP9090's 225/45ZR17s i'd have a good look at them..........

Anyone care to comment?

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Now to me that dont look too healthy :-o

Anyone also care to comment on the state of these brake discs?
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VVV Front VVV
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Any suggestions on how to deal with this gratefully received.
 
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GW

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If you have just bought this car take it back and ask for replacement tyres.
At least one of the disks looks like it could do with a skim (as long as they have enough life on them), they need stripping down as they look they are sticking. is the car very low mileage or has it stood for a while?
We often have problems with rear disks, if either of the above apply. I work for a main dealer (not Seat), so just go back and ask them to sort it.
 

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My rears looked worse than that when it developed brake judder and they changed them at my expense. They never did wear correctly from new although they did maintain there wasn't an issue. The replacement VW ones seem better.

Dunlop tyres... well I'm not planning to replace mine with Dunlop, just as well.
 

J500AND

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4 new Firestones have been fitted today by the supplying dealer, all's well that ends well (lets hope they're nice and quiet too)

If anything comes of Dunlop's inspection of the old ones i'll post here.
 
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