prado tyres scrubbing
Submitted: Sunday, Jan 01, 2006 at 16:04
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djrziggy
have an '02 td prado that despite wheel allignments still continues to scrub front tyres and squeels around corners. Has anyone found a fix or certain tyrews that reduce this scrubbing and squeeling.I am still currently using the original grand
treks but am just about to buy new tyres.
Reply By: Member - Duncs - Sunday, Jan 01, 2006 at 16:08
Sunday, Jan 01, 2006 at 16:08
Couple of questions.
1 What pressures are you running?
2 Are there a lot of roundabouts in your area?
If the tyres are too soft they will squeel and the edges of the tread will scrub prematurely.
The local tyre guys out here noticed an increase in tyre ware when the council installed a heap of roundabouts. Is the front left worse?
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Reply By: Member - Pezza (QLD) - Sunday, Jan 01, 2006 at 17:11
Sunday, Jan 01, 2006 at 17:11
G'day djrziggy,
Not an uncommon problem with prado's by the sounds of it. Can't really help you with a solution other than that I don't think anyone has ever found a solution.
Mate is flat out getting 25 thousand k's out of his fronts on his prado, has done the wheel alignment specialist/factory thing till he was sick of it.
Check out post 19151, 17240, 16672, 1715.
Probably won't solve your problem, but might help you lose that 'lonely' feeling.
Avagoodn
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Reply By: desert - Monday, Jan 02, 2006 at 22:10
Monday, Jan 02, 2006 at 22:10
Sounds like a "normal" problem associated with a relatively heavy vehicle in combination with the independent front end, which is a design more suited to vehciles of less road height and mass. eg, smaller cars.
Neverthe less, you are stuck with it and will need to religiously roatate tyres to the rear every 5000k's to help even out the shoulder wear.
Once a bad wear pattern has been allowed to start, it is very hard to get the tyre back "square" again and this will coninue to give you the squeal noise and the only remedy is new boots, unfortunately.
The very nature of independent
suspension means that the tyre contact will be cambered to the road surface, in most situations, and therefore tyre contact and wear will be more pronounced on the shoulders of the tyres, unlike a "live", solid axle which tends to keep the tyre square to the road when in the straight-ahead position. Some, but generally less, shoulder camber is introduced during turns, but never to the same extent as the independent front
suspension.
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