Thread: Wheel Alignment for D3/D4/RRS is not that simple!

Welcome to the forum, its an interesting topic for people getting wheel alignments for me my nearest LR centre is 6 hours away. I have heard on here that you put it on the machine and remove the fuse for the suspension and it will lock it in with no moments and go from there thats the best you can do when you can't get to a service centre for an alignment.

very timely. i had some new tyres fitted the tyre dealer said i should also do a wheel alignment.I mentioned that it needed to be put into a special mode to do that. No problem they said we do land rovers all the time. Long story short it was not done properly and i had to go the a Land Rover Specialist to get it sorted.
So I agree.
Cheers
Tony

Welcome to the Forum guys, thank you for helping support the forum, if I was in the area, I would certainly give you guys a try, our local tyre guy is a great guy, I asked him about doing our car and flat out refused, stating he does not have the gear, let alone how to do it, there are a couple in the southern Sydney area that do know how to do it, which is good for us, hard to find someone good these days.

Also look at upcoming trips, there is a D3/D4/RRS weekend that is being held at Lake Lyell in Lithgow, maybe someone from your shop with a D3/D4/RRS could come, give a talk, sponsor the gathering in some way or just come and join in on the fun, terrible aren't I

Baz.

some diagnostic units that are available can set tight tolerance mode for you. No reason why you couldn't set it in the carpark or at home before taking in for an alignment

When I was getting my current tyres fitted at a well known tyre seller here in Canberra there was a D3 on the hoist.

When I asked about it they said it was going in for a wheel alignment - about 15km from the dealer. I asked if it had been put in to TTM and driven the 15km and they said no as was not necessary as they could lock the suspension. Assuming they met via a Nanocom or Faulmate I asked a bit more - well know.

There idea of locking the suspension was to lower it to access height and then use the height switch to lock it there and do the alignment at that height .

I attempted to explain that maybe that was not the right way to do it but their attitude was "we know boats" so were not interested in my thoughts.

But this does highlight some of the stupid things that LR do - in the UK you may be able to get these things done at the local LR dealer just around the corner but here and other markets where they are light on the ground it is not practicable. There should be an option in either the message centre or even on the height controller switch (like is available at access height) to lock the suspension in TTM with an override where it auto disengages over 20kph.

Though my RRS has now covered 90,000km and never had a wheel alignment and there is no indication it is needed. My experience with other vehicles has shown that where an alignment is done when not really needed it causes more issues afterwards.

Garry

The latest RRV & RRS with their new suspension ecu have a driver-selectable option to enter TTM, so LR have finally seen the light in this respect.

Originally Posted by garrycol

but their attitude was "we know boats" so were not interested in my thoughts.

no wonder they where doing it wrong

Local Beaurepairs in Footscray is one place where they have a flat alignment machine with the front wheels going on a turntable that is level with the floor. They tell me not many places have them but as it is level no adjustment to suspension is needed.

Not sure if alignment was any good as they said the way the tyres are worn it will take a while to even out and drive straight.