Prado Steering with Cooper AT
Submitted: Friday, Jun 03, 2005 at 09:00
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I had a set of Cooper AT fitted to my 95 series Prado last year. Ever since it has problems steering straight always wanting to pull left. When on a straight stretch the steering wheel is off centre to the right.
Had the ball joint replacement as a result of the Toyota re-call, but no difference.
No amount of wheel alignmments has made any difference. One dealer suggested it could be the tyres.
Has anyone else experienced the same problemswith the Coopers. If so I'll probably replace them, when they are due, to avoid the problem in the future.
Wizard
Prado TD
Gold Coast
Reply By: old-plodder - Friday, Jun 03, 2005 at 16:00
Friday, Jun 03, 2005 at 16:00
I just put some older tyres back on the front.
Pulled to the left.
Swapped side to side, solved the problem.
But these tyres had done a few hard
miles and may not be true.
On the back now.
Also,
I am told it is not recommended to reverse the direction of tyres by swapping them side to side. The carcass seems to get a lay in one direction. I have seen carcass failures where some one swapped tyres side to side and then did a 100km/h on the highway.
But it would be a way to
check.
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