Rides rough, need help.
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Rides rough, need help.
I have a .93 Ranger 3.0 and this sucker has 143,000 miles on it and it is riding very rough here lately. I put new top of the line shocks on last yr. and my tires are not old so I just cant figure out what is up.I have done nothing to the suspension as of yet but I am open to suggestions.It mainly is really bad on some certain spots of the road where it used to ride alright. ANY help would be greatly obliged..................
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I know your not gonna like what i'm going to tell you but, me and my wife have a 2002 ford escape with the same trouble and it's the tires. The tires on our escape has plenty of tread but are junk!! I'm just too cheap to change them yet. I don't want to say thats what the problem is ,but some tires can give you that problem once they wear some. what brand are they?
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They are Dunlop GT qualifiers. I never thought about the tires but I did discover something this wknd. as I was rotating my tires that the rubber bushings that mount the body to the frame are pretty much gone and I am not sure if that would do it. I also am to cheap to buy new tires when these have good tread left on them.
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I've never used a dunlop tire myself, but never go buy the most expensive tires on the market. I done that on my '89 toyota and you couldn't hold it dtill on a wet road, but they went good in the snow and it's a 2wd.If you wan't a pretty decent tire go to wal-mart and try out the bf-goodrich excentia's i've had very good luck out of them. I would try the rubber bushings first though.
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I just changed out some really crappy Generals for some mid line Goodyears on my wifes Maxima and oh boy what a difference. I got these at Sams and they are not the best but not the worst they are a good riding tire good in wet weather, we dont get to much snow here in Tennessee.
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Really, I'm just north of knoxville. Did you ever find out what the problem was making your truck ride rough?
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