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changed the wheels (summer for winter) on the van the other day. just in from a quick blast down the Autobahn and notice that the van now pulls slightly to the left.
i jacked up each corner individually and swapped the wheels over. what has caused it to go out of alignment?
van is already parked up outside the garage ready for tomorrow. is it likely to be expenisve?
Have you checked the tyre pressures? Possible that the front left is low.
your van has been infiltrated by a leftist tendency. you need to get Neil Kinnock to expel Derek Hatton from the van.
You've got the wheels on the wrong side.
🙂
i did think the tyre pressure, but all tyrestopped up at the time of swapping.
Maybe the tracking is slightly out but it was masked by the winter tyre setup?
Only takes a tiny bit to really feel it (in my Vito anyway).
You dont rotate your tires regularly ?
If not its entirely possibly you have not returned the summer tires to theire previous place and the camber wear on the tires from the road curviture has meant that your trackings now out.
Rotating tires regulalrly allows tires to wear evenly....
^1 sounds like a case of tyres worn into a particular pattern.
I've got some Khumos that wore more on the inside due to a failing rear beam leaving little sharks fins due to the tread design. Now they have a rumble on the front or back (fixed beam) which is slowly getting better as the rest catches up.
Worth getting a proper alignment check and the ball joints and track rod ends checked just to be safe and stop any further odd wear but could just be due to natural wear patterns.
Your van's gone into coalition with the SNP.
I'd be fannying around with it first, swapping tyres around especially if they're not sided. Do bear in mind that it could be that it's had a problem for ages that the previous tyre combo was hiding.
nah, can't be the tyres. wear is even across both the summer and winter tyres. yes, i've rotated them and only put the winter wheels on back in October.
Hmm. What does that leave if you rule out tyres, some worn item that moved around while the suspension was relaxed?
^^ that is my hunch, but what?
Can't imagine anything has been knocked out unless you jacked it up in the wrong place. It normally takes a kerb strike or pothole to do any damage.
If it was Edinburgh it would definitely be a fragment of broken spring came out when you'd jacked the van up. What are the road conditions and more importantly traffic calming obstructions like where you drive most?
alpin - Member^^ that is my hunch, but what?
In my case, everything in the suspension was 120000 miles old and worn out to buggery, it only worked at all because it was all equally shagged and sympathetic... so it got new everything, but for that reason I couldn't say with certainty where the problem actually was. Maybe one component, maybe all of them.
Even that wasn't terribly expensive, I could have done it for a couple of hundred quid both sides but I figured while it was all in bits I'd go the whole hog and replaced the shocks too. I could have put it back on the road for less
local roads are Munich... silky smooth Autobahns, no potholes for miles around, just a few cobbled streets.
will ask the mechanics opposite tomorrow what they think.
My steering was a bit odd on one car, just had the power steering topped up but I had to get a new belt on the alternator.. while they were doing it they went ahead and replaced a dangerous spring sitting at an odd angle. It had a piece broken off at one end that I never knew about. Once a full length spring was fitted, it's now driving in a straight line. I just put it down to the tracking being out.
Check the basics first! Handbrake binding on that side would be my first check. Does the handbrake feel as though its 'clicking up' and releasing ok?
Jack it up, roadwheels off, get an assistant to engage and release the handbrake...can you see whatever kind of actuator is in use move the way it should?