Airstreamin
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since there were a 1000 posts under the heading of front suspension, I thought I just post this rather than spend hours searching.
The dealer aligned my front tires at a bit less than 12,000 miles because of slight tire wear issue. At 30,000 miles, I noticed significant outer front tire wear on both front tire. Reading up on the subject told me that this is unusual and usually attributed to fast cornering.... sure, I’m going to race my truck on a track.....
The situation seemed to get worse after towing the Airstream over 700 miles one outing. The truck drove fine. The steering wheel was slightly off center but everything tracked well, even while towing. I brought it back to the dealer for another alignment. The tires were worn so bad they didn’t want to do the alignment, but they inspected and found “they had to tighten everything up”.
Of course, this isn’t written on the dealer work order. That seems to have fixed the wear issue. A couple of hundred towing miles later showed no unusual wear on the front tires (which were on the rear before the “tightening”).
The tires are shot. I’ll be lucky to get a few more thousand miles out of them because of the outer edge wear. I’ll be out about $1000 soon for new tires soon. They might have gone 50,000 miles or more.
Has anyone else had this problem? The truck has been down a few Forest Service roads in northern AZ, but At slow speeds. I’d hate to think what this would happen with any significant off roading.
the truck is a 2019 Big Horn 4x4, short box, crew cab built in June of 2018.
Steve
The dealer aligned my front tires at a bit less than 12,000 miles because of slight tire wear issue. At 30,000 miles, I noticed significant outer front tire wear on both front tire. Reading up on the subject told me that this is unusual and usually attributed to fast cornering.... sure, I’m going to race my truck on a track.....
The situation seemed to get worse after towing the Airstream over 700 miles one outing. The truck drove fine. The steering wheel was slightly off center but everything tracked well, even while towing. I brought it back to the dealer for another alignment. The tires were worn so bad they didn’t want to do the alignment, but they inspected and found “they had to tighten everything up”.
Of course, this isn’t written on the dealer work order. That seems to have fixed the wear issue. A couple of hundred towing miles later showed no unusual wear on the front tires (which were on the rear before the “tightening”).
The tires are shot. I’ll be lucky to get a few more thousand miles out of them because of the outer edge wear. I’ll be out about $1000 soon for new tires soon. They might have gone 50,000 miles or more.
Has anyone else had this problem? The truck has been down a few Forest Service roads in northern AZ, but At slow speeds. I’d hate to think what this would happen with any significant off roading.
the truck is a 2019 Big Horn 4x4, short box, crew cab built in June of 2018.
Steve
