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[tunnie]

Sound like those tyres will do fine for me 

Thanks 

[feeutfo]

Steering wheel splines aren't fine enough.

This has been my only issue with Wim. My cars have probably been to Wim more than any other members...? But it has never left them with the steering wheel straight! Ever!

Yes accumulative play accross the steering box and linkages can give false readings, as can uneven wear between front tyres. But I now ask them to re check the steering centre after they do the work. There is always a further adjustment made. They get it closer these days but it's never right.

Others seem happy, but it is annoying.

[TheBoy]

Steering wheel splines aren't fine enough.

This has been my only issue with Wim. My cars have probably been to Wim more than any other members...? But it has never left them with the steering wheel straight! Ever!

Yes accumulative play accross the steering box and linkages can give false readings, as can uneven wear between front tyres. But I now ask them to re check the steering centre after they do the work. There is always a further adjustment made. They get it closer these days but it's never right.

Others seem happy, but it is annoying.

Never had mine off centre TBH.  But I notice they now seem to ask the driver to check they are happy with the wheel when done . Your fault


The Elite is now off centre, so needs a trip down.  But would like to try to do other work beforehand, to make journey worthwhile

[Gaffers]

I think he was happy just to be rid of the miggy tbh as it was causing him issues.

Well I just tried the tyres in the wet and I was say they are not bad.  I certainly would have confidence in them, back end and front end seem to give way fairly predictably and I still have to work hard in order to do both 

[Lazydocker]

Steering wheel splines aren't fine enough.

This has been my only issue with Wim. My cars have probably been to Wim more than any other members...? But it has never left them with the steering wheel straight! Ever!

Yes accumulative play accross the steering box and linkages can give false readings, as can uneven wear between front tyres. But I now ask them to re check the steering centre after they do the work. There is always a further adjustment made. They get it closer these days but it's never right.

Others seem happy, but it is annoying.

Never had mine off centre TBH.  But I notice they now seem to ask the driver to check they are happy with the wheel when done . Your fault


The Elite is now off centre, so needs a trip down.  But would like to try to do other work beforehand, to make journey worthwhile

I'm in a similar situation... Really want to get mine WIMed but also have other plans for work first

[Sir Tigger KC]

Right I am back from WIM.  Tony wasn't there unfortunately but I asked that greetings from the forum be passed on.

Ok once up on the ramp almost everything was well out which I expected from the replacement of most parts and the smell of the tyres.  Interestingly the rns camber was well out, 2deg49' something which is unadjustable apparently.  He suggested changing springs?

The rear toe-in could not be done as the arms are jammed solid so I will be looking to change these at some point

The fronts worryingly took several attempts and was only possible after the sub frame had been adjusted.  To my knowledge the rear subframe has not been touched but you never know what the previous owner did to your car, so.

Amasingly the toe on both sides was 1deg50 ish before hand but are now sitting pretty at 0deg10

Before it was very wallowy lacking feedback and it would tramline like a bugger not to mention creaping to the nearside.  Now the steering is sharp and confident, I can take roundabouts at 40 not problem and there is no tramlining

The steering wheel was off before and I mentionned this before he started.  It is better but still a bit off which was disappointing.  On my old 405 you could take the steering wheel nut off and adjust it that way, can this be done with miggys?

The new tyres seem pretty good, Kumho KH31s at £84 a corner.  I had to drive sedately on the way back as I was towing a small trailer with the new wheels on but once back I parked that away and took it out for a spin.  The tyres held up to some pretty bad abuse, and they didnt make half as much noise as the CP461s I had on before and wow there is a lot of grip.  I havent pushed them hard enough to see when they let go yet but if they hold up to the way I just drove I can see them handling my normal driving style very well 

Blimey Guffer, let us know when you're out testing, so we can avoid Hants!! 

[Kevin Wood]

Steering wheel splines aren't fine enough.

Plus the steering box has damping around the straight ahead position so if you change the position relative to the steering wheel it'll be in permanent "Falken mode". If it's off centre the toe adjustment needs revisiting. When they did mine they took it round the block to check that it was true.