People with Lux and the standard 17" wheels, please call up Honda Australia.
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People with Lux and the standard 17" wheels, please call up Honda Australia.
"Page 8" My freind that i spoke to works for a Honda dealer (service) in NSW She told me that they have had 4 cases of the tyre issue and they changed them and the problem went away. I think this was before i even got to look at this thread that she told me this. I was asking about warranty and wheels, coz i wanted 20's on mine. They are taking it up witht he tyre manufacturer. So they might start changing the brand of tyre. The only thing that she did say was that the dealer (buss manager) did every thing in his power not to change the tyres. The customer or customers had to really push the dealers buttons to get them to change it. They did the same thing wheel align and every thing. As a truck mech we have seen issues on front tryes but most of the time its and alignment issue. It just seen odd that the tyres can cause this, but it looks like it might be the case.
Sounds like the potenza's have too much directional grip, which causes the car to drift right due to the raised left suspension.
would be interesting if someone changed just the Fronts or Rears of the car and see if it still happens. Or simply lowered the left sussy to match the right sussy and see if that helps.
check woogler's post @ pg 14...Quote:
Originally Posted by EuroDude
I'd also take cgspot's post @ pg 14 into consideration aswell jamchen. I have my rear tyres on the front now after my wheel alignment they are like brand new mate and I still have this problem, after all we all started with brand new bridgestones from day 1 and for most of us didn't experience this problem till later say before the 10,000 klm's service and yet some have had this problem from day 1. Let's just be patiant and see what evolves with Honda Aust.Quote:
Originally Posted by jamchen
If anyone has logged a case with HA, let us know what the case number is and those with 17" RE040 can add their experience to the same case too in order to convince them that there IS an issue.
At this point in time, I'm still not sure why the RE040 promotes this behaviour. Is it really a suspension / subframe issue that is made more obvious with the RE040 tyre? Or is the RE040 just not suited to the geometric dynamics of the Euro frame?
EDIT: How does one adjust the suspension height to match height??
Hmm, a worrying situation is that if the dealer adjusts your subframe to get it to track straight, what happens when you change to a different brand of tyre? Does your car pull to the left then?
That's exactly my concern. We need to fix the root of the problem rather introducing another wrong to cancel out the original wrong.
They dealers could have whacked out the alignment to stop the right-drift issue but may be causing uneven tire wear from un-natural force direction.
If we can put 5 other brands of tyres in the front of the euro and it tracks neutral.. then I would say just change the tyres to something else.
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Originally Posted by aaronng
Sh1t I didn't ask or they didn't give me a case number...I still emailed them so I have some hard evidence at least that I did contact them...mmmm damn it...I will call again and ask for my case number tomm.Quote:
Originally Posted by V205
I suggest an email too everyone..
Customer Relations Email......hondacr@honda.com.au
lol good point. I doubt that would happen though. The euro should perform like any other equal-sussy car, at least after a decent wheel alignment and tyre rotationQuote:
Originally Posted by aaronng
I thought I'd point out that when I was driving an '05 red euro lux demo at a dealer prior to buying mine, it had about 40,000km on the clock and it's pull to the right was VERY strong. I thought it was just an abused demo which may have gone over some kerbs and knocked out the alignment.
After reading some comments here, it would seemed that it just got worse over time and more wear with the RE040.
When I picked up my new new 05 Lux manual with 6km on it, I already noticed the pull to the right.
Sent:
Hi Honda Australia,
I would like to refer you to an issue that has been noticed by many Euro Luxury owners (with 17" Bridgestone RE040 tyres) in that the car has a pull-to-the-right bias. Please refer to this forum which has been discussing the issue.
http://www.ozhonda.com/forum/showthr...=22067&page=17
It would appear that changing to a different brand or model of tyre fixes this issue.
Please advise.
Thank you.