'ello, greetings from the colonies
I have a delightfully rusty and thirsty CLK 430 coupé with about 170 000 miles. I enjoy greatly the seats and engine.
I had an issue with unacceptable inner tyre wear on the rear to the point of shredded tyres on the inside The camber was obviously wrong by eye. I noticed unacceptable handling with mismatched tyres (a 225 and a 245), the rear end would dance like crazy around 75 mph. Strangely identical tyres (245/245 or 225/225) were fine.
I noticed the left side front rear subframe bushing was knackered in that it had significant play.
I replaced with new, and is now tight. But the camber is even worse, the tyre (even a front tyre (225/45-17)) is rubbing aggressively against the plastic cover, the car is essentially undrivable.
I think there is maybe an extra 1 or 2 mm of length the bushing could be pushed, so will try.
But the camber, it's quite obviously screwed, and we are told, no adjustment !
Right hand side tyre camber is wrong too. But it hasn't shredded a tyre on me yet ! 245/40-17 tyres are annoyingly expensive.
I note the rear of the car is sagging, perhaps old springs. Front springs were replaced maybe 5 years ago.
Any thoughts? I feel visiting a specialist would cost more than it is viable, though I would greatly enjoy to use the car for the balance of the year and this winter (a 35 mile one-way commute in tragic congestion daily an automatic becomes rather necessary...)
I have a delightfully rusty and thirsty CLK 430 coupé with about 170 000 miles. I enjoy greatly the seats and engine.
I had an issue with unacceptable inner tyre wear on the rear to the point of shredded tyres on the inside The camber was obviously wrong by eye. I noticed unacceptable handling with mismatched tyres (a 225 and a 245), the rear end would dance like crazy around 75 mph. Strangely identical tyres (245/245 or 225/225) were fine.
I noticed the left side front rear subframe bushing was knackered in that it had significant play.
I replaced with new, and is now tight. But the camber is even worse, the tyre (even a front tyre (225/45-17)) is rubbing aggressively against the plastic cover, the car is essentially undrivable.
I think there is maybe an extra 1 or 2 mm of length the bushing could be pushed, so will try.
But the camber, it's quite obviously screwed, and we are told, no adjustment !
Right hand side tyre camber is wrong too. But it hasn't shredded a tyre on me yet ! 245/40-17 tyres are annoyingly expensive.
I note the rear of the car is sagging, perhaps old springs. Front springs were replaced maybe 5 years ago.
Any thoughts? I feel visiting a specialist would cost more than it is viable, though I would greatly enjoy to use the car for the balance of the year and this winter (a 35 mile one-way commute in tragic congestion daily an automatic becomes rather necessary...)
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