[DML] Re: tire wear / front end vibration
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[DML] Re: tire wear / front end vibration



Looks like you have not changed the rubber donut bushings at the end 
of the sway bars. These have a huge impact on suspension geometry. 
check the bushings that hold the bar under the radiator too. This 
sway bar is not just a sway bar, it locates the lower control arms!

The steering bushing is a normal failure (oem) item. It will not mess 
up your tires, it just drives you nuts. 

Dvae

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jason Ferrara <jason@xxxx> wrote:
> Ever since I've owed my car (been 12 years or so, 100K miles), 
I've  
> never been able to get more than 25k miles out of a set of tires.  
> When I first put new tires on everything is fine, but after about 
10k  
> miles or so the front tires wear funny so that I start to get a  
> slight vibration in the front end. By 25k miles the vibration is 
bad  
> enough that I need to replace the tires. The tires still look 
fine.  
> Plenty of tread left. But they're just out of round enough to 
cause  
> the vibration.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this?
> 
> Over the years I have the alignment done several times, and had 
the  
> following parts replaced (because they clearly needed to be, not  
> because I was just blindly swapping things to try to get rid of 
the  
> vibration):
> 
> steering rack
> lower ball joints
> lower control arm bushings
> rotors (and brake pads of course)
> tie rod ends
> steering column
> upper and lower steering u-joints
> shocks
> springs (had the car lowered)







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