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Old Nov 15, 2005 | 07:09 AM
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Default Problem after putting 17" alloys on the car

I just put some 17's on my mondeo, but now it seems to tramline alot, as soon as the 17's were put on the tracking was checked and adjusted by kwikfit, as it was out a bit, the car was just serviced on Wed, so i know there cant be any probs with anything else otherwise it would have been flagged up during the serivce, so is there a way to stop this at all? as its pissing me right off
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Old Nov 15, 2005 | 10:06 AM
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did they adjust the settings for the 17s or the standard size? they told me that they couldn't do mine as they only had the settings for the standard wheels.
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Old Nov 15, 2005 | 10:07 AM
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not much you can do mate other than nail the 15"s back on lol
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Old Nov 15, 2005 | 10:16 AM
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Default Re: Problem after putting 17" alloys on the car

Originally Posted by Gra
I just put some 17's on my mondeo, but now it seems to tramline alot, as soon as the 17's were put on the tracking was checked and adjusted by kwikfit
Your problems are in those couple of sentances

1) 17's on a mondy, and 2) getting it done by kwik fit

Do the wheel's sit flush on the hubs ? Need for spacers ? Are you sure the studs are long enough ? Same applies to the locking ones ?
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Old Nov 15, 2005 | 10:42 AM
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i looked at the wheels and they do look like they sit flush tbh, gonna pop down SCC and get them to check everything for me i think

cheers for the replys
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Old Nov 15, 2005 | 11:30 AM
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wat size are the tyres you got on them?
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Old Nov 15, 2005 | 12:22 PM
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205/40/17's on them all
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Old Nov 15, 2005 | 01:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Gra
205/40/17's on them all
that could possible be the problem also the tyres are too narrow and could do with being 215's @ least???????????
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Old Nov 15, 2005 | 03:22 PM
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dunno, I have just checked with the mondeo forum and there are peeps running 205/40's on there mondy's with no probs, me confused
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