D4 Servicing and Wheel Alignment

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Originally Posted by The Fridster

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Thank you. He got recommended to me yesterday too by Jason at Rova Range when I picked up my APT gear. If I was closer to Bentleigh East I’d go there. He’s a great guy.
Ill call in to Eastern Ranges soon and introduce myself.
Thanks again
Cheers,
David

I get my wheel alignment done at Doncaster Land Rover. Their price is actually reasonable. Also be certain wherever you take it to use the correct engine oil and change it every 10,000km or so. Don't leave it for the specified 23,000km interval.

Interesting those posts on wheel alignments,mine is on its second set of tyres,never had an alignment,and all the tyres wore evenly.

I therefore couldn't see any reason to have an alignment when the new ones went on,particularly as most tyre shops have no idea how to do it properly.

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Originally Posted by garrycol

They do wear in the inside of tyres even when aligned. My old tyres had gone on the inside and I had a wheel alignment before getting new tyres and it was still technically in spec though at the extreme.

Good luck

Garry

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Was just reading something that if the rears are wearing unevenly then it can be the rear upper arm bushes or the rear spindle connecting rod.

Yes I had heard the same as well - but mine had worn the same on the front and the rears. Wheel alignment was in spec but I drive generally at 20mm below onroad so may have been the cause - I had the new wheel alignment done in TTM but at onroad - 20mm height and it was still within specs but only just, but set back to the mid point of the range.

Only covered 20,000km on the new tyres and no wear patterns are obvious at this stage.

Garry

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Originally Posted by garrycol

Yes I had heard the same as well - but mine had worn the same on the front and the rears. Wheel alignment was in spec but I drive generally at 20mm below onroad so may have been the cause - I had the new wheel alignment done in TTM but at onroad - 20mm height and it was still within specs but only just, but set back to the mid point of the range.

Only covered 20,000km on the new tyres and no wear patterns are obvious at this stage.

Garry

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Ah ok. That’s definitely going to do it. Solved!

The interesting thing is that while wheel alignment changes with height changes (in theory the wheels just go up and down and alignment does not change - but it does slightly) at all heights the alignment is still specifications - just moves around within the acceptable range. the process what I went through was very informative.

However given my past experience, when the tyres get to about 30,000km I will get the tyres changed on the rims so the inside then becomes the outside.

garry

Unfortunately it’s not that simple. Arm design dictates how much camber changes as arms go up and down, toe changes etc. In most arm designs, compression leads to an increase in negative camber and toe in, both which cause inside wear. Did you imply you had them check the alignment settings at -20mm to see the impact? It may be that the Disco design is such that it holds quite static around centre so the -20mm doesn’t impact much.

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Originally Posted by DiscoJeffster

Unfortunately it’s not that simple.

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I did say in theory [bigsmile1]. Yes we checked the difference quickly between offroad and -20mm before it went into TTM at -20mm. Was rough and ready but the difference was measurable but was still within allowable tolerences.

But it also showed the tyres can wear even within tolerences so it is important to go for the correct specs and not just near enough even if it is within the allowable range.

Garry