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Ah....woops... I totally misparsed that statement to mean something else. Figured if I posted here in the 2019 sub forum it was understood, but I see some other random stuff has popped up, so it would have been good to mention year.
Now to get the dealer to look at it as a potential defect, instead of just saying "the guarantee does not cover tires". When the old S10 suddenly started getting 8 miles per gallon, despite changing gas source, Chevy dealer told me that they would not look at it under warranty, that Chevy did not guarantee mileage.... totally blowing off the idea that it might be indicating a fault (it was,. I forget exactly what, to do with the ECU).
Tires would be a long shot. When I stand in front and look, there is a hint of a reverse camber, so that's a possible. It drives fine.
So, now two shops have confirmed the alignment is fine, per Ford specs (or their version of Ford specs, anyhow). The printout is a Hunter alignment, but black did not print..... in order camber, caster, and toe. Tracking is the other one (they call it thrust angle).
Left front right front front alignment results (black ink seems to have not worked) rear (tracking, only)
I did a "chalk test". Went to a flat asphalt parking lot, chalked the front tire treads, then drove straight, checked the resulting pattern (took photos). Repeated same for locked steering full left and right.
Did not see anything that jumped out. No indication of extra pressure on inside edge vs outside.
Tires have been changed to put the rear in front, and new tires on the rear.
Results of the chalk test. done on a parking lot nearby which is as flat as it can be.
I chalked them, drove to a parking lot, photoed the chalk. Rechalked, drove straight for 50 or 100 feet, photoed. Rechalked, cut wheel full lock to right, photo. I did a full lock to left as well, the results were similar to the right, but for some reason the pics for the right do not appear. left tire chalked right tire chalked right tire after driving to parking lot to make the test left tire after driving there.
Last edited by J Stanley; Jun 30, 2021 at 07:42 PM.
So, the drive 100 feet in a straight line test right tire chalked left tire chalked right tire after 100 feet straight line travel left tire after 100 feet straight line travel.
So, the dealer found a significant alignment issue, which has been corrected. Time will tell if that fixes the problem.
Thing that bothers me is that the TBA shops came up with the alignment being good..... there seems to be a definite difference of information.
There is a lot of that wrong information.... the manual for the vehicle is wrong in so many places that it isn't funny. And those are things that have nothing to do with which version, or what features the vehicle happens to have.
My 2020 ranger is doing the same exact thing. Along with the entire dash lighting up like a Christmas tree and losing all power steering. Dealer says I need a whole new steering gear for $3100 with 49.7k miles on the truck. Warranty was out at 48k miles. Ford wants to pay half. I think it’s completely wrong as well as all the service staff for that to happen on a 2020 with that part that should last well over 100k miles
How did you get a 48k warranty? Mine has a 36k warranty, and it is nearly up.
Your tire wear is camber, if it is what I had. No possible way that was due to road damage, it was that way from the factory. But they only warranty "alignment" for 16k miles.
In my case, Ford refused to deal with the hot air problem with the ventilation, which the dealer verified as putting out air 10 degrees hotter than outside air.
Personally, if Ford wants to pay half, they are being more reasonable that I;d expect. Push them about it, but if you have to, then take the deal. "Rules is rules", and while I agree, technically it is out of warranty, and you should have been able to notice the wear etc 2k miles ago.
it's "ONLY" the terrible quality control at FORD. My front end was, from the factory, "out" about 7 degrees in negative camber, according to the dealer, once I got them to look at it (on MY dime). I have to admit, for a while I owned a pickup that would corner lie a sports car, but it wasn't right.
So, that amount of error can only be someone's deliberate misadjustment, because they are having a bad day, don't like their boss, their brother just got fired, or whatever. Kind of lie the Cadillacs with ball bearings sealed into the roof so that they would roll back and forth as you drive. You could not do that by mistake. The system at FORD did not find that gross an error. They probably have no check whatsoever for that adjustment.
To literally add insult to injury, the dealer told me several times that the problem was ME, not FORD, that it was either my wild driving habits (Huh?) or me not rotating the tires "every 5000 miles". I nearly punched out the guy that told me that pile of lies. Even if I had rotated the tires that often, it would only have "covered up" the problem that was made by FORD. As for the wild driving..... WTF? I don't think you can even make wear like that by wild driving... Wear on the OUTSIDE edge of the tire, ok, but not on the inside.
This seems to be a pattern.... Apparently that guy is still working the line at FORD, and still deliberately misadjusting alignment. Nice...............
