406 estate vibrating on gear change and rear wheel problem

[rswspeed1]

hi, new member ive just bought a 97 406 2.0 estate and thought i bought a bargain but the rear wheel is completeley out,
top of wheel is a lot further in than normal (is this negative camber?) you can tell its way out from the other side of the road just by walking past. its that bad.
any help or advice???
thanks

[poddack]

both or one rear wheel?

[rswspeed1]

just the driver side rear, ive just changed the tyre on that wheel and the tyre was like new except about 1cm on the inner which was down to the wire,

[steve_earwig]

Probably the lower link bush has had it. Have you had the car up in the air to see if it's anything obvious?

[rswspeed1]

i was at ATS today to get the new tyres fitted, and he and myself had a look and could not see anything obvious, before taking the wheel off he said it will be the bushes but when he took the wheel off he was suprised and said it cant be bushes as its different to other cars, i dont know what he mean by this and advised me to check it out at a specialist garage????????

[mjb]

"vibrating on gear change" - likely a duff top engine mount

[HimBigChief]

Get the alignment on the rear wheels checked out, the top link bar is eccentirc and is used to adjust toe-in and out which also adjusts the camber of the wheel at the same time. Mine was going through rear tyres at an alarming rate in a similar fashion to yours on the inner edge, but that seems to be more or less cured now after having all 4 wheels aligned.