Front Tyre Outside Edge Wear

[samjmann]

I had Michelins fitted to the front and then the car aligned with a 4 wheel alignment specialist. It certainly drove 'dead straight' no pulling to either side. The outside wear started after around 1000miles. I have increased the fronts to 2.5bar as per the previous post. This helped a little. The fuel consumption reduced 3mpg! These cars to seem to be very tyre sensitive. The front pressure can be out just a few psi and you can feel it through the steering.

 

SJM.

[paul.h]

Read this for the possible pump problem http://www.citroen-owners-club.co.uk/citroen/topic/23976-c5-suspension-fault-pump-maxi-fuse-blowing-fault-code-p1351/

[samjmann]

Thanks for the link, paul.h.

 

That's a good picture of the motor inards! Four brushes, at say 20amps running at 12V that's 240watts Quite a powerful motor.

 

I'll post over the next few days to say what's happening.

[samjmann]

The car is in the garage at the moment. The suspension pump started to work on the way to the garage! The fuse must be ok. They reported that the pump was noisy and they thought it was running slow. The car is at the correct height at the moment. I've purchased a motor/pump/control unit from a scrap yard from a 2.0HDI 02' plate.

(The pump looks the same as the one in the link). The garage was happy to remove the old unit if I could find a used unit. Just hope it works....

 

SJM.

[taximan61]

I had a similar issue. Before I had 4 wheel alignment carried out I had the suspension checked thoroughly. Rear of front wishbone bushes were worn, replaced these, tracking done, no more bad and uneven tyre wear.

[Routemaster1]

Hi Michael

If noise is an issue then have you considered Nitrogen instead of Air in the tyres ?

Don't waste you money on this. Nitrogen used to be a cure all, but it really makes no difference.