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When you’re driving a vehicle as large as an Isuzu truck, reliable steering is crucial. A potential threat to your handling precision is misaligned tires. If you experience the symptoms below, come to our Isuzu dealership for tire alignment.
Squealing Tires
Truck tires become misaligned as a result of multiple impacts. Some maneuvers can bump the tires harshly over curbs. Potholes, parking stanchions, railway tracks, and speed bumps can all mildly strain the suspension holding a truck’s tires in place.
Over time, these impacts push your tires into slightly odd angles, which result in uneven contact of treads against tarmac. These tires may then begin to squeal noisily when you corner.
Uneven Tire Wear
Every safety-conscious truck driver inspects their tires regularly. As well as measuring the air pressure, always check how uniform the tread wear patterns are. If any treads are wearing unevenly or showing uneven balding patches, that tire could be misaligned. It’s best to have its alignment measured and corrected at once; you might also need to rotate or replace your tires.
Pulling to One Side
When misalignment is allowed to develop, a truck can potentially veer to one side because one or more tires are pointing in that direction. This would force the driver to constantly correct the steering merely to stay centered in their lane. Needless to say, this situation is hazardous and should be remedied at once.
Uncentered Steering Wheel
Your truck’s tires, wheels, axles, suspension, and steering column are also intimately connected. Severe misalignment can force the steering system into an improper position, which can sometimes push the steering wheel off-center.
Vibrating Steering Wheel
With misaligned wheels, your tires are no longer running as smoothly over the road below. Rolling friction has increased, which creates vibrations that you may feel throughout your truck and through the steering wheel in particular. This rising tire friction will also diminish the vehicle’s fuel efficiency.
Less Handling Confidence
As an experienced Isuzu driver, you’re no doubt accustomed to how your truck should respond and feel on the road. If you ever feel less confident in your truck’s handling, trust your gut. Your tires may have become misaligned, or you might be sensing a different issue. Either way, ask a trusted Isuzu technician to take a look.
Book Alignments at Your Isuzu Dealership
It’s advisable to have the alignment of your tires measured every six months. While you may not need a full realignment service this frequently, it’s important to measure the tires with specialist machinery to know for sure. You can book this service to coincide with your regular tire rotations.
Bring your truck to Conley Isuzu in Bradenton, FL, today for professional service from factory-trained Isuzu technicians.
