[Norretal]

Originally Posted by David's8

If you drive an A4 hard like you suggest your other half does then it can eat front tyres. I had an A4 2.0tdi for a while and it used to scrabble badly when pulling hard away from junctions - especially on loose surfaces. Lots of torque and little control. Quattro gives much better distribution of traction.

It doesn't scrabble much with it being a Quattro David, I think it's just a consequence of the heavy V6, hard acceleration and braking and the Continentals being quite a soft compound. From the responses I've accepted that 12k is by no means bad, they're replaced and run in now, I'll worry about them in another 10k miles