A while ago I posted about the battle I fought with VW Australia over the excessive and intolerable noise that the standard Dulop SportMax tyres made, and how they treated us like morons and told us to go away talk to Dunlop about it. They were also secretive about the wheel alignment settings, as if it were some trade secret. The apathetic dismissive responses we got from them were enough to make us both vow to never touch another VW product, despite the fact we really love our VRS Diesel wagon, it's a great car. VW Aust. are one of the worst companies we have ever dealt with and have no interest in listening to valid concerns once they have your money.

Well here's my revenge and some feedback First off we swapped to the V550dB tyres at our own expense as the car was undriveable with the row from the Dunlops. The tyre shop we went to did a very careful alignment and then checked it at 5000K again for free for us. The tyres grip great and were a revelation noise wise and are still quite after 10,000K so we recommend them highly for this model Skoda. it is now a joy to drive again.

Well I have it on good authority that the dealers have been advised by VW Aust. that there is indeed a noise issue with the Dunlops fitted as standard, not a recall or any public acceptance of a fault, or offer to recompense anyone you understand, that would be to admit those they sold the cars to know more than they do, which in my experience with them, you do.

If you have a Skoda Octavia RS with noisy tyres go and talk to VW Aust. maybe you will get the result these no hopers were unwilling to give us, all we asked for was a pro rata rebate on the cost of a new set of tyres, they stopped talking to us after I made that, what I consider reasonable offer.

Good luck all - we still love the car - even more now you can drive it without earplugs