6k miles + tyres r shot

[tuffer]

Bought my Scooby new in Oct and thought the handling was a bit iffy, took it back to the garage and asked them to take it for a spin and see what they thought. Engineer took it out and proclamed all was well, I was still not happy with the handling as it seemed to tramline all over the place. Whilst parking the car today my mate pointed out that the front tyres looked a bit dodgy......put it on full lock and was pleased to find that the inside 1/4 of both front tyres is down to the canvas Not bad for 6k miles!!
Rang the garage concerned and explained the situation and its booked in for next week......he also asked if I would like to pay for them a few choice words later and I'm getting them for free plus the tracking /geometry check that they tried to charge me £60 for when I asked them to check the car over in the first place.

Just glad my mate noticed before they let go during a (70mph honest guv) run on my test track!!! (A34 - 6am)

[stc_bennett]

how old is the scooby, i know there have been some geometry faults with the suspension on some of the cars...

Has the car been in a accident??

Steve

Its one of the reasons i steered clear of the scooby when i had a cossie a few years ago

[Supercharged]

Wow and I thought my car suffered from excessive negative camber on the front wheels!

There must be something seriously wrong with the geometry if its going through tyres like that, although it depends on how you've been driving it

[tuffer]

Car is a new 2002 WRX, picked it up at the end of Oct last year. Even posted a couple of threads on here and scoobynet querying the tramlining as I thought it was wierd (had a classic shape scooby a couple of years back).

[clubsport]

check in Evo mag,,,they were running a wrx as a long term test car about a year ago pre their sti...they had the same lark with the tyres...take athe mag along to the dealers when you go to show that it id not just your car.

[anonymous-user]

I had the same thing with the Supra.
Toyota replaced the lower wishbones and did an MOT and the car passed.

3000 miles later and one of the front tyres deflates.

Look a bit closer and had the same problem, inner edges through to the canvas, on both fronts.

Got it retracked as it was out, by Elite in Rainham.
Couldn't be bothered to argue it out with the dealer, there not a Toyota dealer now anyway.

Lee.

[stc_bennett]

there have been several 2001 2002 cars suffering from excesive tyreware i thiught this was delt with under a factory recall i maybe wrong but i have heard of some cars going back and having new front Diffs and transfer diffs. as well as a complete new fron suspension..

[TSS]

Sounds like geometry. I had the same problem on my 2000 Impreza Turbo. Be VERY, VERY CAREFUL who you get to fix it.

My local Subaru dealer doesn’t do geometry so I took mine to an independent “specialist” they recommended. It was positively dangerous after he’d adjusted it, with mega over-steer tendencies. Within 2 days my girlfriend (a very competent driver) almost span it at about 40-50 mph in the dry, and I managed to land in a ditch a few hours later when it started raining.

After this experience I called Prodrive and spoke to one of their engineers. He said that Imprezas a very sensitive to geometry changes and if you get it even slightly wrong you can get some really dodgy handling characteristics.

Once mine was put back together again I took it to The Welch Group Subaru near Cambridge who have an expert geometry guy (Maybe called Darren or Darrell I think) who sorted Evo’s WRX (mentioned above). He spent a few hours adjusting it and road testing it. I could really tell the difference when I drove it home – and they only charged me £50!

[MoJocvh]

stc_bennett said: there have been several 2001 2002 cars suffering from excesive tyreware i thiught this was delt with under a factory recall i maybe wrong but i have heard of some cars going back and having new front Diffs and transfer diffs. as well as a complete new fron suspension..

so just a little problem then.

[tuffer]

Oh my god, this does not bode well. I have been unimpressed with the handling since day 1, my last scooby felt like it was glued to thr road and I never had a scary moment. This one is very twitchy and it feels more like my old golf into bends (like its lifting the inside rear), then starts to wallow and twitch its way round, just does not feel right at all.

[tuffer]

well the dealer has replaced the tyres and adjusted the geometry, feels like a different car. No tramlining or wierd twitches......only problem is they took a huge gouge out of one of the rims and the wheel is badly scratched