I have uneven tyre wear on my front tyres only, they are both wearing badly on the outsides. I called Micheldever tyres and they said that they will charge £25 to do the trackng. This is to check all 4 wheels and track the front ones.

Then a bloke at work said that this is a con as they will track my wheels and then say that it is the calipers or something and this will cost around £100 and will have to book me in.

 

Is this true.....?

Matt,

 

The tracking does sound like it needs adjustment, there should be no need to touch the calipers. Make sure that there is even adjustment nearside and offside i.e even amounts of thread on the track rod ends and that they don't adjust purely from one side.

 

Do also check, before you go, that the tie rod bushes are alright, these are full of silicon, they wear, leak and seem to cause no end of problems with the front geometry, if in doubt search the forum for previous posts.

 

£25 sounds good, expect to pay a lot more if they're using a 4 wheel laser alignment set-up, which from the sounds of it they're not

 

Good luck

 

Tim

not a con where Micheldever are concerned, as i have heard nothing but good about them, but cant say from experience

 

to be honest though, you should get your wheels tracked every few months anyway, especially considering the state of the roads...

 

maybe the government should considering charging us for their upkeep....

 

if they do a wheel alignment for 25 quid, and they say there was nothing wrong and it is the calipers, then its not 25 quid wasted in my opinion, it's 25 quid and you now know what the problem is

 

better than some of the nissan dealers charging you to replace most of the electrical parts to cure a misfire....

 

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TTTim, you say that there can be silicon leaks, I had strange sticky stuff leaking from some rouded bits (sorry don't know much about cars) near the front wheels on either side, seems to have stopped now,this is not the silicon is it...?

BINGO!

 

Bet this is your problem, or at least a major part of it. Did the leak come from a big round bush that had a bar attached to it?

 

Tim

Try this for info:

http://www.300zx.co.uk/forums/ubbforum/Forum1/HTML/002782.html

 

Tim

Did it look like this?

 

That's the tension rods leaking.

Got me adjustable ball-joint ones now.

 

Maciej

 

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THANK YOU.

I was under my car today and I noticed at there was brownish goo coming out of one of the rubber bungs today. The one pictures above. I wondered what the hell it was. Heheheh and now I know. Thank you.

 

 

DOH My tension rod is leaking. What can I do. will this explain the strange steering I have been experiencing.

 

Stuart

 

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Matt Z:

Is your car running on Standard Wheels and on stock suspension?

If it is then get the tracking done and all the other stuff said above.

Mine runs on 18's and has some super-duper suspension mods and the inner part of the front tyres wears shockingly prematurely

Phuong does a kit to sort out the camber for such cases at around £80-odd.

HTH

Glen.

 

Tension rods:

 

See the post I put in the For Sale relating to an item on eBay. Not sure whether these are the kosher Stillen jobbies, but they'll do the same job.

 

SE also make their own, or at least mod the standard Nissan part and put a rose-jointed doodah on the end of it, in place of the silly-con standard bush.

Hehe - everyones tie bar bushes are going

 

The biggest indicators I have seen are:-

 

1) The steering wheel shakes violently when braking hard - enough to nearly shake out of your hands sometimes and deffinitely wrist shaking.

2) With larger wheels (and in some cases standard) they will move forwards and wear on the wheel arch liner at the front.

 

Of course if you can actually see the silicon coming out then you know its the bushes gone On mine there was nothing leaking from either - probably already gone when I got the car

 

CheerZ,

 

Andy

Andy p how come you are selling rose jointed tension rods???

Are you stiking with the factory silocone filled shite???

 

 

Oh and by the way - can't see how the calipers would cause this problem - I know this was said just as an example

 

Check the bushes before the tracking though - although Craig is right about getting it done regularly

 

CheerZ,

 

Andy

Thanks AndyD,

You have discribed everything that been going wrong with my car. Vibrations when light braking from over 50. My wheels have moved I think cos, the plasitc shield on the suspention looks like the wheel has been rubbing it.

Are these Polyurethane bushes any good. I hear they make the haddling better.

 

Stuart

 

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Mac,

I'm not selling them, I saw saw the ad on eBay. I just bought new bushes for mine from Courtesy, but haven't fitted them yet.

Im gonna get these. Better and cheaper than the ones here

http://www.courtesyparts.com/cgi-bin/miva?onlinestore/merchant.mv+Screen=PROD&Store_Code=CP&Product_Code=99995-77105G

 

 

Stuart

 

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Manual TT

They're what I bought - just have to get them fitted .....

How much was the postage?

 

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