Our Q7 is needing it's third set of new tyres and it's just about to hit 40k - it has 21x10J wheels and take 295/35's if I remember rightly. The tyres are about $600-700 a corner so they're not the cheapest tyres either.

I was just wondering if there was any tips to get longer life out of the tyres specific to the 2.5 tonne Q7 - I had it booked in to get alligned months ago but when I turned up the place could only do up to 20" wheels and I just put it off. Tyres were wearing about 20% quicker on the fronts so were rotated and are now evenly sitting around 2mm.

Google is saying the Q7 is renowned for poor tyre wear with most people needing new tyres at 20,000 miles - that's nearly double the life of ours. No other forums have got any decent answers regarding a solution or anything that might help.

Is there any Australian delivered tyres we can try next that might be harder and get a few more ks out of? Would moving down to a 20" and higher profile tyre make any difference or at least widen the market for tyres 295/35/21 is a pretty small market.

Any tips would be appreciated!!!

Edit: in comparison, my polo is completely out of allignment, driven quite aggresively and I haven't needed to replace tyres in nearly 4 years of ownership and 50k - it didn't come with new tyres either!