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Pajeropah · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:59 Post subject: Tyre Wear

Did the service last weekend and when rotating the tyres I noticed that the drivers side front tyre was worn on its inner edge. Only that tyre, all others are wearing evenly. Anyone else had the same?

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johnny diamond · Joined: 09 Oct 2005 Posts: 650 Location: Doncaster

its a common fault,the Deli requires total vehicle alignment to be at its best, especialy where road biased tyres are fitted, running mine at 35lb
slows the process and for me prevents the early retirement of them :D
my nearest all wheel alignment centre is 60 mls away in nottingham and i Can't be arsed to go and get it done, if its only the one side it will probably be the camber adjustment out on that side, if you have a local specialist its worth the cost ...appeox £75 squids :D
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strangerover · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:52 Post subject:

As above...

the entire geometry of the front is adjustable,

When I had mine done the vehicle was put on a ramp with fancy flashing red lights and sensors on the wheels,
screen showed a print out before and after...

it went so far as to require the drivers side to be lowered by about 2mm to get one of the measurements correct.

Vehicle needs to be empty and I had 1/2 tank of fuel in it....

well worth it, it drives so much better and felt different straight away..
cost nearly £90 but seeing as I had lifted it it needed doing as a lift upsets the toe even if nothing else....

here is what it looked like up in the air....

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Pajeropah · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 15:39 Post subject:

Thanks for the replies guys. Guess I'll be looking for an alignment centre!!

trevorsw · Joined: 12 Jun 2007 Posts: 13 Location: Southampton

I'm just about to replace all 4 of my tyres Sad

the rear tyres have worn down to there legal limit evenly but the 2 front tyres are worn on the outside edges Question

There is no wheel judder so i believe the tracking is fine but will i be needing to get my allignment done Question

rgds

Trev

strangerover · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 22:45 Post subject:

you can have tracking out by miles with no judder on these type of vehicles due to the amount of tyre wall...

get it checked
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dagutter · Joined: 06 Aug 2005 Posts: 429 Location: chesterfield

interesting site on tyres etc
http://www.carbibles.com/tyre_bible.html
hth
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