• The pre-purchase inspection (2014 XC70) revealed wear on the inside of the front right tyre, and slight vibration through the steering wheel at 60mph.

    The garage has replaced a track rod end and performed full wheel alignment as per below:

    Apparently the vibration was due to wheel balance.. Does this sound right/plausible? A quick Google suggests yes.

    Re: the full wheel alignment, should the ‘Final’ results not all be green/within the specified parameters?


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  • Yes, that does sound plausible.

  • Not all your adjustments will be “green” because the red factors on your car are simply not adjustable.

    Worth noting that the castor and camber on the front being red, they are only out to the other side by a tiny amount (a number of minutes is a fraction of a degree) so it’s probably within the acceptable range

  • Is the wear on one inside tyre, both tyres same make model age and wear? Seems odd to have one tyre worn on the inside Is it that worn wheels track rod end?

    All that looks to me as they did the tracking.

    The camber angle (piccy of a strut) is interesting as all 4 are out, which seems a bit odd so have the right figured been put in or something else, but the caster (top picture with a tyre and strut being out on one side would interest me to looking to see if something is obvious such as if one strut mount or bottom ball joint has been replaced one side and not the other. But would have thought an inspection would look.

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