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badbearontour
Member Since: 09 Jul 2012
Location: Conwy
Posts: 7
  
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| New Owner.... A question about suspension |
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Hi All,
I got my Disco 2 weeks ago... had it 27 hours before the first thing broke  ... rear door release cable... anyway 30 quid and 2 hours later and a good trawl through this forum and all fixed... less skin, two nails and confidence in the car..
now, it seems to have decided to strip the tread from the inside of the tyres... It had some wear when I bought it, so I knew there was probably a tracking problem... but one of the front tyres has taken about 3mm off the shoulder in 1500 miles... how far out does it have to be to do that!!! 
Is it worth just setting up the tracking using my trusty dunlop gauges, or should i shell out for a full 4wheel jobbie? anyone else seen this amount of tyre destruction? :
btw its a Disco3 2.7 TDV6 HSE
Thanks
BBOT
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 24th Jul 2012 10:13 pm |
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disco_steve
Member Since: 25 Aug 2009
Location: Are you sure this is the M5 ?
Posts: 1498
 
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Hi and welcome to the forum 
Hmm . . . so did you buy it from a garage, can you go back with a list of "It needs this fixed ?"
It certainly sounds like the tracking/four wheel alignment is a tad adrift !!!
A proper four wheel re-alignment is the only real way to get it sorted, tyres 'should' last well in excess of 30k (depending on how you drive and your tyre choice obviously)
Let us know how you get on Never get mad - get even !!
06 D3 now gone to family member and still going strong at 265k
previous vehicles:
04 D2 TD5 - (clocked 189k from new)
52 X-Trail 2.2 SVE
various euro boxes !
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| 24th Jul 2012 10:19 pm |
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Biffysun
Member Since: 09 Jul 2011
Location: Central
Posts: 1788
  
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Also worth getting your suspension bushes/ball joints/track rods/ends checked as wear in these can cause problems with tyre wear, if they are ok then a 4wheel alignment
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| 24th Jul 2012 10:22 pm |
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Flack
Member Since: 06 Sep 2006
Location: Preston Lancashire
Posts: 6272
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Check your wheel bearings as well as they can wear the Tyre in that manner, and don't forget if you have a four wheel job done the car needs to be in tight tolerance mode to be setup the correct way.
Flack
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| 24th Jul 2012 10:23 pm |
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badbearontour
Member Since: 09 Jul 2012
Location: Conwy
Posts: 7
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Hi All,
thanks for the quick replies, I'll get it up and check the bearings and ball joints, first, although theres no clunks from the suspension (probably a good thing)...... then take it for a full 4 wheel this time..
I bought it from a car dealer over in Liverpool, but not the kind of place you get any sort of warranty. u pays your money and takes yer chances
I'll let you all know how I get on with it...
BBoT
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| 24th Jul 2012 10:28 pm |
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character
Member Since: 01 Jan 2008
Location: wiltshire
Posts: 5781
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personal opinion, worth paying for a LR dealer to do the tracking as its got to be put in to "tight tollerance" via the ecu so unless yer tyre shop has got LR diagnostics, aint going to be able to do that correctly.
BTW, worth getting a quote from a few specialist to be able to beat the dealership down Oh and get um to do a "free health check" saying yer new to the vehicle, they'll check the bushes/arb etc as part of the healthcheck (if there any good), of course yer dont have to take um on the repairs but at least you'll know.
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| 24th Jul 2012 10:46 pm |
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badbearontour
Member Since: 09 Jul 2012
Location: Conwy
Posts: 7
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Hello All
Right, this morning at 5:30, much to the neighbours disgust, I jacked up all four corners and tugged and pulled on the wheels, I could not make out any real play except for a little side to side on the fronts, which I guess is part of the course, with such a large vehicle, the play was in the steering rack end of the track arms, not a lot, but it was there....
next I went and had the 4 wheel track done and pointed it out, and they didn't seem to perturbed by it.. . I had the job done at a local independant in Llandudno Junction. had 3 wheels basically out of toe, by a long shot, and a thrustline pointing somewhere out of the drivers door window.. along with one wheel with dickie camber . they adjusted it all up and put it bang on the LR spec.
I took it for about a 30 mile drive and all I can say is its a different car... all the odd vibration has just gone and the rear seats have stopped the side to side samba dance they do at 70mph
I'm going to monitor the tyres over the next 2000 miles and if it holds its own and doesnt scrub the tyres to death, then Ill maybe recommend these local - north wales - guys to anyone who is interested. but so far so good 
Thanks for all your input..
BBOT
edit- ah should have said these guys put it in tight tolerance mode too - Thanks for pointing that out character
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| 25th Jul 2012 9:48 pm |
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