Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 04:41:13 GMT From: "Abdallah" <abdallahjamalnopsamo.ca> Subject: Re: front end mis-alignment or...?
"Robert Brown" <robxxxert.broxxxwnnopsamxxxnet.se> wrote in message news:3F395F48.5C79F441nopsamxxxnet.se... > Abdallah wrote: > > > back from the 4000km trip to northern BC and the Yukon. > > <<<snip>>> > Just a thought Abdallah - does the car sit unevenly - left or right > side lower due to possible spring/spring seat problem? i'll take a closer look when i have it on a level parking lot (i live in the hills). > Or how was the handling - stable or uncertain? Wondering if > you in fact were given a "toe-out" alignment by mistake. handling was fairly stable. i took a look at the toe-out and it seems like that may be it, though its really hard to say. i'll be having it looked at by a specialist on friday. > I am however doubtful of my ideas here, since I can > not imagine that any of these being true could result in the > extreme tyre wear you describe. that's what i thought. > If the camber's so far off that you see it, it's gotta be camber. it's still visible with the car unloaded. > In my experiences, alignment specialists give you a printout > of camber/caster/toe plus rear wheels' vector, both before and > after their adjustments are made. Did you get any paper? alignment was done as part of the accident repairs. i didn't get a printout. i'll be sure to ask for one on friday. > Could be worth going back to the alignment people and > demand that they measure all parameters (lasers and all that), > with another equipment operator, in case the previous one > got it all wrong. good thought > If the people who did the alignment are the very same who sold > the tyres, then you almost certainly have a case for them to fix > the alignment and mount new tyres, all for free. unfortunately they aren't. a bit silly of me, but they asked if they should check it and i said "no" because it had been done as part of the accident repairs. i should have had them double check. > Grunff in his reply states that camber is all but unadjustable > on these cars but *something* must have happened some > time around when your alignment got done. its possible that i didn't notice. the tyres i had on the car at the time was a set from my wife's 9000S, pretty worn (i was just waiting till the trip before i bought new ones). handling wasn't that stable before the accident repairs but was noticeably better after, though they slipped a bit when the turbo engaged (not V-rated). then when i got the new tyres on, i could really feel the turbo again, handling was great, so i assumed that all was just "tickety-boo". > Another thing - if the accident you had a few months back were > to be a factor in all of this, then your old tyres should have worn > in the same way. Did you notice their condition prior to their being > swapped out? as i said, they were so worn that i wouldn't have noticed any differential wear. they're probably at a tyre dump now > Keep us informed of your progress. > > /Robert (have relatives living in northern B.C. - nice area you > visited ;-) hey, whereabouts Robert? we went from prince george up to fort st john and then followed the alaska highway up to watson lake. then came back down on the fairly isolated cassiar-stewart highway, south to smithers and back to prince george. so we probably saw all the towns up there, except the really isolated ones that are only accessible by off-road vehicles. i liked the cassiar highway the best. truly stupendous scenery *all* along the route though!
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