Truck is "wandering"
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well, I agree to a point but a truck with less than 100 miles that does the same thing after putting brandnew tires on is the tires. just went through this a week ago. we even put the old wheels and tires back on to make sure.Yep, the wandering was gone after we went back to the stock setup. this topic has been covered quite a bit. some tires are worse than others.
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well, I agree to a point but a truck with less than 100 miles that does the same thing after putting brandnew tires on is the tires. just went through this a week ago. we even put the old wheels and tires back on to make sure.Yep, the wandering was gone after we went back to the stock setup. this topic has been covered quite a bit. some tires are worse than others.
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How much preasure (PSI) do you have in the front tires? If you have too much preasure, the tred will bulge and only the centre of the tread will be making good contact with the road thus wandering, once the centres start to wear the wander will disappear as more tire makes contact with the road but this adversely affects the tire life...just some food for thought...
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had the same with my toyo mt's. lowering the tire pressure (55 front, 45-50 rear) helped quite a bit as well.
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How much preasure (PSI) do you have in the front tires? If you have too much preasure, the tred will bulge and only the centre of the tread will be making good contact with the road thus wandering, once the centres start to wear the wander will disappear as more tire makes contact with the road but this adversely affects the tire life...just some food for thought...
i run 80psi all the way around. same as i did with the General Ameritracs. got 50,000 miles out of them and they still have a lot of tread left on them and have worn evenly all the way across the tread pattern.
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running pressure that high will definitely add to the wandering issue.
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my 06 4x4 dually has wandering probs since day 1 really bad when a big truck passes ya..i put mitchelins on and it helped some..i think its the 06 frontend
my 05 drives like a dream.
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my 05 drives like a dream.
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