one for the tech boffins rear suspention toe in/out setting
checked the tracking on my hse d3 with the companys 4 wheel aglining system and had an idea to check the tracking on the rear wheels as my rear tyres had run to the cords on the inner edge and found it to be set at toe in 7 degs ? so adjusted it to run at parralel is this about right or wrong or as any body got a clue what it should be set at ! many thanks to any one thats in the know also checked the suspention for wear and all seams fine and dandyalways up to somert usualy no good acording to swmbo
20th Apr 2011 9:54 pm
dwest
Member Since: 05 Apr 2011
Location: ashford, middlesex
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Rears set to parallel should be fine, did you check the suspension joints for play?
20th Apr 2011 11:18 pm
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Had the opposite effect, ie uneven wear on the outside edge, reported some weeks ago to normal main stealer who said it was a n/s/r anti roll bar which they duly changed but said it did not need tracking
Further wear then apparent despite over coming weeks, had it done twice again by two different centres once after both diff seals changed and then when rear diff was replaced... not one of these "experts" identified what was genuinely wrong until I took it to Berkshire LRC, Maidenhead.......full alignment on tollerance identied that the tie rod ends were goosed on both fronts as well as the o/s/r, makes yer wonder does'nt it - two previous attempts from alignment centres and one main dealer claiming to be part of the LR network still could not identify the course, then off to someone who'd I'd never used before and were more than happy to go that mile to a) identify the problem, cure it and b) make sure it was correctly prep'd before going on the alignment.
The moral is simple, these D3's have a habit of trying yer patience when it comes to tracking
thanks guys my mind is at rest now "can sleep tonight" with out any bad thoughts ...... about the car that is lol not a lot of fast fit centres know you can track up the rears of most cars they just put the gages on the fronts ! i always spin the gages round just to make sure all ok as rubber parts wear out all over the suspention components front and rear could have a bit to do with my choice of tyres to 275/45/20 big foot print on the road going to watch the tyres for wear now all the joints are ok at mo but as for tyre wear will watcth the joints aswell. thanks for the info steve. always up to somert usualy no good acording to swmbo
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all the joints are ok at mo but as for tyre wear will watcth the joints aswell. thanks for the info steve. 
