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i have set geoms on a few of the these now as they have been re-called to have new track rod ends fitted, basicly we are donig them for our local dealer because they dont have the equipment, anyway on the first 5 or 6 everything started off fine (albeit fiddly) rear camber, rear toe, thrust line, until i got to the front, there just wasnt enough adjustment to bing the caster in, always remained about 20' out of spec.

at the end of last month we got the latest update for our hunter machine and the specs on the font caster have changed :wub: and the tollerence increased, what im thinking is in a few thousand miles are these cars going to be killing tyres as landrover hasnt cured the problem just hidden it for now.

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i have set geoms on a few of the these now as they have been re-called to have new track rod ends fitted, basicly we are donig them for our local dealer because they dont have the equipment, anyway on the first 5 or 6 everything started off fine (albeit fiddly) rear camber, rear toe, thrust line, until i got to the front, there just wasnt enough adjustment to bing the caster in, always remained about 20' out of spec.

at the end of last month we got the latest update for our hunter machine and the specs on the font caster have changed :wub: and the tollerence increased, what im thinking is in a few thousand miles are these cars going to be killing tyres as landrover hasnt cured the problem just hidden it for now.

 

Interesting dan... First whats wrong with the track rod ends? Second the Castor position is it to positive?

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i havw no idea why they are changing the ends but i couldnt get the camber positive enough

Camber or Castor?

 

my bad.. i meant castor all along

Castor then.... 20' is not the end of the World, why does this represent a problem to them?

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the highest milage one we have done so far is about 5000 so kind of hard to tell yet, seem ok so far though, should hope so too for nearly £250 per front tyre

Can you keep us apprised of this situation since you are in the loop. It would be interesting for wim to be able to retain the initial mistake and use this information in the future should this require help for the owners.

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  • 5 weeks later...

i dug out an old print out, this came from a car with 1400 miles on the clock. the first is the before readings

 

http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=3513555

 

the second is the after

 

http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=3513554

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i dug out an old print out, this came from a car with 1400 miles on the clock. the first is the before readings

 

http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=3513555

 

the second is the after

 

http://www.putfile.com/pic.php?img=3513554

Albeit lower than spec the Castor positions are reasonable for a vehicle of this type... do you have any data for the KPI/SJI

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