new tyres strange handling

In message , Paul writes

Are your wheel nuts tight ?

I put 4 new tyres on my Disco, Goodyear Wranglers, drove away from the garage in my usual way only to feel myself drifting all over the road. Quickly slowed down and pottered home after checking that the tyre pressures were OK. It went away after a couple of hundred miles. I put it down to the tyres runnuing in and wearing off the little spikes.

Peter.

hopefully that's what my problem is, think I'll leave it a couple of weeks and see how it goes

if they are not balanced properly, the tyres can set up vibrations at particular speeds which can cause all manner of wierd handling. the place near me charges $5 per tyre (aussie dollars) to balance if you bring the tyre in already off the car, so i can't imagine it being much more wherever you are. Worth a try.

Sam.

On or around Tue, 8 Nov 2005 19:19:28 -0000, "Paul" enlightened us thusly:

I've an idea that brand-new tyres still have slippery stuff on 'em sometimes from the moulding process, take a few miles to wear off.

Definitely. When you get new tyres on a motorbike they are very slippery for the first few (tens of) miles. Have to go very carefully round corners, and 'scrub them in' by weaving bizarrely at low speed to get the slippery stuff off of the edges of the tyres. It is the same with car tyres, but you don't have to do the weaving thing because the profile is flat to the road, rather than curved.

If that made sense.

I thought that might be the case when I put some new rear tyres on my jaguar, however after a couple of thourand miles it still wants to put the back-end out far more readily than I'd like, fitted dunlops in replacement of near-bald pirellis (on it when i got it). It has kumho's on the front and the front end grips like its velcro.

-- Mark.

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Austin Shackles came up with the following;:

My new BFG AT's certainly felt 'iffy' for the first hundred miles, maybe more.