? about Front Tires

[BLUEKNIGHT911]

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RUTHIE....YOU GO GIRL......:clap: :clap:.....:agree:.....MIKE....:thumbup:

 

[effgjamis]

that is my question too! Can someone tell me how BRP can Franchise a Dealership that does not have the equipment necessary to service their products.??????

Why is these bulletins not done pull up when you take it in for service?

Did this bulletin address rotating the wheels every other oil chg or the alignment?

Would love to hear from Lamonster about this since he has put many and many miles on the :spyder2:. Wish he would speak for us to BRP about dealerships and their service departments. BRP needs to know for the sells to continue, you need dealerships that can and will provide the service on them.

AMEN

 

[pauly1]

SpyderDeb's first RS went over 35K on the original front tires and could have easily gone another 5K. The second RS has about 7K with extreme wear on the insides of both tires. Same BS from the dealer about not having done any wheel alignments and BRP's recommendation to rotate the tires. The :spyder2: has 2011 RT shocks/springs set on the #2 position; her body weight does not need any more. I set up per the manual and measured a little over 1/2" toe-out in 72"; the book states +/- 0.5 mm/0.02". At 13 mm/0.5", the angle is 0.4 deg total, assuming equally balanced between both wheels, is 0.2 deg per side toe-out. Per Professor's siting of a new spec of 3/32" toe-in, assumed per side, the angular difference from spec is a little over 1/2 deg total, or 0.27 deg/side.

Since day 1, I've noticed how much more rolling resistance this one rolls has vs the one with a lot of miles. Apparently when replacing the DPS on all of the early bikes, the pitman arm was removed from the DPS and reinstalled onto the replacement unit. Otherwise it would have required a procedure, wheel alignment, that few of the dealers can do.

So the question is: is 0.54 deg a significant amount of toe-out and could it cause the inside tire wear?

Wayne

p.s. The stuff to measure wheel alignment is less than $100 of new purchase. Go figure that a dealer would be so tight-ass so as to not have the right tools to work on a bike. I'll post pictures of the measurement set up in a couple of days.

 

[NancysToy]

Any toe-out is too much. You need to be at zero (loaded) or slightly toed-in.

 

[Firefly]

I have one of the front tires that has worn just on the inside which I think is alignment problem. I keep the tires at between 17 -18. Called the dealer about new tires, gave me price of tires, mounting and balance only. I asked about alignment and was told they did not do alignment on the Spyder. Then I was told that you need to rotate the tires every other oil change. Well I checked the owner manual it doesn't say any thing about rotating tires but it does say wheel alignment very 6,000 miles.

Who has had new front tires installed? Did they do an alignment? Have you done alignment at every 6,000 like the owner manual say?

I have 17000 miles on my 2010 RTS, I buy a bike to ride not to sit in the garage.

I know this dealer is selling many of the Spyders so why doesn't they provide a full maintenance on them.

17,000 on fronts is way more than I've ever got from a set of them... even with rotating them. Considering their only $65 a tire..... I'd just replace them...

 

[NancysToy]

17,000 on fronts is way more than I've ever got from a set of them... even with rotating them. Considering their only $65 a tire..... I'd just replace them...

I have 21K on the fronts of my RT, and they are only half worn. You must have left too much of yours on those corners. :roflblack:

 

[sinkhole]

:agree:

Any toe-out is too much. You need to be at zero (loaded) or slightly toed-in.