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Rolling Backwards
Purchased my '14 RTS late in the game (Apr 2015). Seems that it too was fitted with tires from the batch of bad ones BRP was replacing in '14. Symptoms are the same. In my case, when I let go of the bars, the Spyder tends to drift right until I swap the wheels to the opposite sides. Then it tends to drift left.
(Jacob at Lamonster Garage did the alignment in June. Left was off just over 1/2 inch. Right was off 3/8. Both left and right were pointing left.)
My Spyder has passed the magic date so BRP refuses to replace 'em even "in good faith" although they know there was a problem.
Or maybe the tires aren't from the bad batch. Could it be with nearly 800 +/- miles of uneven wear, ie: scrubbing the right edge of both of 'em thanks to the misalignment, that that is what I'm experiencing?
Question now is what to do. Short of replacing them I've considered mounting the tires to the opposite wheels so they still rotate in the correct direction just to see what effect, if any, that would have. In spite of not being able to channel water away correctly, should I find myself in that situation, I've also considered running them backwards at least for the time being.
I'd like to hear what the Spyder community has to say!
Brian
Baja Ron - Dimple - Ultimate - Lamonster Garage - K&N - Smoothspyder - Amsoil - Hiflo - FOBO - Spyderpops
Sena - Dynaplug - Shoei - Tourmaster - Garmin
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If you swapped the tires and the pull switched sides then it is either the tires or wheels. If you have someone close by with an RT (with no handling problems) you could try putting their tires/wheels on your Spyder and see if that corrects your problem.
2017 F3T-SM6 Squared Away Mirror Wedgies & Alignment
2014 RTS-SM6 123,600 miles Sold 11/2017
2014 RTL-SE6 8,600 miles
2011 RTS-SM5 5,000 miles
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Originally Posted by SpyderAnn01
...If you have someone close by with an RT (with no handling problems) you could try putting their tires/wheels on your Spyder and see if that corrects your problem.
Now there's a heck of an idea! I've started the ball rolling with the closest RT owner I know. Results to follow.
Baja Ron - Dimple - Ultimate - Lamonster Garage - K&N - Smoothspyder - Amsoil - Hiflo - FOBO - Spyderpops
Sena - Dynaplug - Shoei - Tourmaster - Garmin
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Agree..!!
Ann
have seen dealers do this to find the wheel/tire problem. There were some 14's with front tire issues...
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Originally Posted by Chupaca
Ann
have seen dealers do this to find the wheel/tire problem. There were some 14's with front tire issues...
My dealer did this along with several other things. They decided the tires were from a bad batch and installed ones under warranty. I had 400 miles on my Spyder at that time. This took care of the major portion of my pulling problem. I did go ahead and get a laser alignment that helped even more. The subject of mileage did up on the tire replacement. My dealer said if I had many more miles on the tires, they could not have replaced them under warranty. My original pair also had an excessive number of weights on each wheel.
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