Ford Transit Tyre Wear issue right front inside

Thanks Eric and Bob - interesting comments.

Alignment is a major part of this guys business and he was not trying to sell me something - in fact he was not trying to sell me anything - all he was going to get was a $55 alignment and then he was not pushing it - basically saying there may be nothing wrong with the alignment and he sees it all the time on the Transits.

I wonder if it could have anything to do with the fact that he probably sees mainly courier and delivery vehicles at low weights rather than something like a Motor Home which is permanently heavy??

The van I have just picked up was not used for anything but carrying dogs to shows in Perth (about a 500K round trip for the previous owner) so it has always run pretty much empty. It did also come from an area where they have bad gravel roads most of the time (potholes) hence it seemed reasonable it may have been knocked out of alignment by the roads.

I guess I will get a new tyre and the unused spare onto the van, align it, and see what happens.

Bob - I will take the advice on rotation

Question - he said just do back to front rotation - is that all you suggest??

Hi again Ken. The tyre co. next door to my business recommend the driving wheels go up the same side, the trailing wheels cross to the oposite side. Bob.

Thanks Bob - advice appreciated

Ken

Pete - thanks

That sort of fits with my random uneducated thoughts in my reply to Bob's comment - this van has basically done all it's life empty and will continue to do so for a while with me - as compared to a motor home. I respect that Bob obviously works at the pointy end of this sort of stuff though.

Also I think full Motor Homes are built on a cab chassis as compared to a Camper Van which uses the van - but no idea if they would set the front ends up differently between the various types. Given the variation in weights commercial vehicles carry I guess they have to set up based on a pre-determined average if it going to affect the front end - or maybe the Transit is just a bad design??


Ken

hi ken ,
its a pity that someone hasn,t gone to the effort to make a camber kit to fix the problem . unfornutately the manufactures don,t see it as we do .
our benz ambulances have virtually no adjustment on them .
near enough is what you get .
Pete

That is basically what the guy was telling me - they can fiddle with them a bit but not do much at all - something to do with the fact that instead of the shaft having a couple of bolts on them that allows adjustment, the unit is clamped together and so you get what you get.

Thanks for you information.

Ken

Pete.
Sprinters are easy to adjust, moving the cross member adjusts caster and slots in the holes in the struts does the camber, toein is done in the usual way. Eric