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Gman

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  1. Interesting.. though this one of the reasons I brought premium tyres to avoid situations like this... ... Also car seems slightly slower accelerating ..? ?
  2. Yes think I will do this , but why would new Michelin tyres behave like this .... ?
  3. Not as good as before ... seems to pull at times.. seems to tramline more as well . So I can rule out the tracking as this seems to be all ok..? One thing I have noticed is a slight floor vibration at 60-70mph... maybe wheels are slightly off balance? I think some of it may be due to the new tyres with higher tread blocks ... not sure, I've only covered 350 miles on them.
  4. Ok thanks will give this a go.. Camber - left- -0.29 Right -0.28 Castor - Left 4.21 Right 3.59
  5. Well had the alignment done ... and results not good !? They said it was within factory specs... .. they checked front and rear toe, caster, camber thrust angle and other secondary angles all which were ok. They did change the toe slightly... The front toe now is reading Left- 0.6mm Right- 0.6mm Total - 1.2mm This figures are in spec apparently with factory spec being 0.0mm - 2.5mm ... ? Adjusted tyre pressure's seem very slightly better but I'm still not happy with it. One thing I did notice that when I had the new tyres fitted they put the wheel which was on the nsf or the osf... not sure if this would make a difference. Any ideas ..?
  6. Yeah ok ,where I'm going Thursday they do all of that ,used them before so hopefully they will sort it.
  7. Thanks for the replys. I didn't actually get a print out just a figure of before and after. I do know that all they adjusted was the toe so the figure can only be that. Hopefully having toe adjustment carried out on Thursday will report back.
  8. New here and after some advice. Hit a pot hole over the week end near side and damaged the side wall of the tyre. So a new tyre was required the car was running budget tyres on the front like this when I got it so thought this would be a good time to get some decent rubber and replace both the front tyres. Got some Michelin poilt sport 4's fitted , they then told me my alignment was out... I was in two minds to let them do this as it was not my normal tyre garage.. Result car drives worse then before .. firstly the tyres were way over inflated... Having looked at the paper work it's says before alignment +0.5 and after +1.5 I take it this is the front toe? I don't know much but I thought FWD cars should have toe out (negative) ? The car now drives very skittish and nervous in a straight line just feels wrong! I'm booking it in at another garage to have a realignment. I trust this garage but what sort of toe/ out should I be looking at? How many miles do new tyres take to bed in ? Any advice appreciated thanks .
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