Member Since: 22 Nov 2019
Location: Turriff
Posts: 30
Wheel alignment gone wrong, anyone had this experience
Hi guy, just as thought I’d got all my issues fixed, I took the car down to the garage to get the alignment done and the Garage are saying the can’t align it, when driving forward the front wheels are showing positive values and when reversing the the front are showing negative the switch between positive and negative is about 1.5inch at the top of the wheel, visually you can seen the wheel move, they have checked all wishbone bushes and are solid. This happens on both side at the same time.
The repairs I had carried out were, new wheel bearing, new inner and outer tie rods, new front air suspension/shocks and new Ride height sensors,(air suspension not recalibrated but measurements of heights were good).
I was driving the car down to the garage at about 50-60 and couldn’t feel anything unusual, unless I hit a pot hole the steering was a bit floaty.
Anyone heard or seen this issue before?
2nd Sep 2021 4:34 pm
nigethecat
Member Since: 11 Sep 2016
Location: Marnoch
Posts: 4145
Did they put the car in "tight tolerance mode"?I want to see the sweets before I get into your windowless van... I'm not stupid!
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2nd Sep 2021 5:53 pm
aja4x4
Member Since: 14 Apr 2019
Location: Westbury
Posts: 2459
Wheels cannot move that much without something being wrong.Andrew
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2nd Sep 2021 5:55 pm
Northerdiver1
Member Since: 22 Nov 2019
Location: Turriff
Posts: 30
Don’t know if they were in tight tolerance mode, they’ve done the car before with no issues and with this type variance I thought I’d have felt something, they said they’ve never seen anything like it before they’re going to have a look at it over the next few days, just wondering if there’s anything specific that may be causing it, the vehicle was fitted with Polyurethane bushes just last year. Would upper or lower ball joints allow for this much flex?
2nd Sep 2021 6:39 pm
ronald.soak
Member Since: 29 Apr 2008
Location: London
Posts: 516
Might be worth checking that the wheels are completely flat on the hubs. I have experience of torquing up wheel nuts only to find that the wheel was not flat on the hub. Ran fine at low speed but became apparent with wheel noise after a 50 mph run.
Fronts and both wheels? Very odd. Wrong parts fitted or some serious wear?.
Dean
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2nd Sep 2021 11:26 pm
M3DPO
Member Since: 22 Sep 2010
Location: Notts.
Posts: 8097
Wheel nuts not torqued up It can when others can't,
It will when others won't,
It goes where others don't.
you'd kind of hope the bods doing the alignment would have clocked that ?
3rd Sep 2021 9:30 am
Trailered Movements
Member Since: 16 Jan 2020
Location: East/West Sussex Coast Borders
Posts: 1198
It took 4 attempts to find out why my steering wheel kept going out of centre, turned out to be broken sub-frame adjusting bolts. They had snapped in the frame so was not immediately apparent, but a particular fitter had had the problem before.
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3rd Sep 2021 12:03 pm
greg00
Member Since: 08 Dec 2017
Location: Zurich
Posts: 162
Dave, could you share more information about this subframe bolts and where it is located?
My steering wheel still keeps going out of center after 3rd alignment._,,,_______///________
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8th Sep 2021 2:17 am
Trailered Movements
Member Since: 16 Jan 2020
Location: East/West Sussex Coast Borders
Posts: 1198
It was the lower suspension arm adjusting bolts, they have a fixed essentric washer at one end.
We agreed that having the thread end pointing forward, contributed to corrosion of the thread which resulted in them breaking when they were being adjusted.
We therefore put the new ones in 'the wrong way round' to hopefully reduce the possibility of the problem recurring.
Dave2011 Discovery 4 Commercial SDV6 (Gone)
2010 RRS TDV8 (Gone)
1980 OBLIC 4.0ltr Range Rover (went a long time ago)
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