Just had my car serviced at the local Subaru dealer. The car has been tramlining ever since I have had it, but my wife was told it wasnt at the last service and believed the service guy, who said it was just a characteristic of the car.

Anyway, having read many threads about other peoples cars tramlining I got them to set the Geometry to Prodrive settings as they reckoned it would cure it. Then just got a call and they were charging me £60 +vat for the pleasure.

After a big argument the garage spoke to Subaru UK and they want to inspect the car - to give them their due, the garage has now waived the charge though.

Thing is, isnt this a problem that Subaru should sort out and not pass on to the owner - with the excuse that 'it's a result of having 16 inch wheels as standard now, instead of 15 inch wheels', because that's not our fault.

 

Same problem with my MY'00 UK Turbo.. I had 17" P7 alloys on it which made it worse...

P1 seems trouble free on that front, probably the prodrive geometry me thinks (yes, having one of my more intelligent days and have a habit of stating the obvious ).

rgds, Alex

 

From past experience it seemed to me that tramlining can be greatly reduced by using tyres with a more rounded profile at the shoulder rather than the more angular type. Pity they look crap.

 

Anyone here tried driving along the 'old' A34 through Newbury??? talk about tramlining - never known anything like it - is it just the scooby?? I didnt notice it in my other cars!!

pete

 

It's got worse on mine since I put 18" wheels on. My mate went out in it the other day and returned with exagerated tales of an incident that nearly turned him into a hedge. Made me laugh...until I remembered he was in my car.....wonker!

 

You get this a lot with 4 wheel drive cars don't you?

it even happens in the carrera 4...

 

I used to get mega tramlining in my old 3-door Cosworth (nice to see Tiffany playing with one last night). Not noticed any particular problem with my STi IV, though.

 

This is a good point - my Sti on the same tyres doesnt tramline !

 

Goodyear Eagle F1 = Bye bye tramlining.

 

Tramlining will be more noticeable with wider tyres. Geometry isn't always the "only" cause as tyre pressure and, IMHO far more importantly, make sure the tyres have a decent amount of tread on them as the more they wear the worse the tramlining will get.

Julian.

 

happens to me on the road from salford through to eccles -

must be the tramlines ;-)

Paul W

 

Yes Huxley exactly there!! you know it well??its bloody spooky if youre going fast - it can be very embarassing - also its bad at the roundabout by halfords at the bottom of the hill

Pete

 

I suffered from tramlining too. I even had it in my MR2.

Since I fitted S0-2s ( 16 inch ) and had the bump steer mod, tramlining has been a thing of the past.

So far!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jon

 

pslewis do you mean going up the hill towards Tesco's roundabout and have you been down the A4 just past Sony roundabout just as bad ! and the Ba****** charge how much for road tax etc !!!
Just come back from mickey mouse land in the states and there roads are far better than ours no problem with tramlining with our 4x4 suv out there !!

Huxley

 

i have found tramlining, in the main, is down to the tyres.

The OEM RE010 are atrocious, havent seen any tramlining on SO2's or Toyo's.

 

John
The OEM RE010 (speaking as custodian of such) are atrocious, full stop!!

 

do what i did dave, melt them at MIRA, that way you have no choice but to bin them!

SCHMOKIN

 

John
Doin my best M8, doin my best....rolled the shoulders off the fronts in 3000 miles, working on the bit inbetween.....

 

pslewis it makes you look like your pi****
when your going warp factor 10 then slowing to go left at the roundabout but who cares it gives the people behind somthing to look at !!

Huxley

 

My standard tyres had taken up tramlining big time (were fine when new), replaced them yesterday with a set of 17s and Toyos, and as if by magic I can drive in a straight line again. So I can only agree that it is down to the lack of tread. Hopefully will see more than 4.5k from these tyres though