Re: Shogun chewing tyres

Jul 11, 2003 1 Replies

Assuming you're not kamikazing around corners, the reason is most probably wear in your steering or stabilizing joints. From what I see in my Haynes manual, it takes special equipment to replace these balljoints. Then it is not difficult.



Groeten, Frank



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I have a UK 1990 V6 LWB. Tyre size 235X75X15 to 27lb psi
>
> It's just started chewing up another set of front tyres in exactly the
> same manner as the last lot. It starts with the front nearside wearing
> rapidly on it's outer edge. The car has been checked for alignment
> twice. The last alignment was performed on the latest light beam
> equipment that has the large reflector pans fitted to each wheel.
> After a while of this the tyres go out of shape causing a bad driving > experience.
>
> Does anybody have any ideas on this? Is this the first sign of
> balljoint problems? If so, how easy are they to replace?
>
> Thanks

Thanks Frank,

I think you may have a point here. I have noticed the steering behaving strangely recently. Will check it out.

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