Front Tires Squeal Like I'm In A Chase Scene From Chips!

I miss all those 80's shows. Chips, Knight Rider, The A-Team, Hardcastle and McCormick, The Fall Guy, The Dukes of Hazzard. Today's TV sucks. All I really want is a good old fashion car chase!

 

I'm 29 and can relate thanks to my Dad. Grew up watching Mash and the A-Team haha.

 

I don't know what it is that causes it, exactly, but it's not uncommon. I had a 2002 S-10 X cab that did it despite being mechanically tip top and with quality tires. I hear other trucks do it often, too. My Tacoma does not do it, but it would be nothing more than a minor and infrequent irritation if it did.

Some formula having to do with tire size, pressure, road surface, camber, speed, weight, blah blah blah; solve for 'x' and you might stop it.

 

No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Those are Kawasaki KZ1000s (technically the KZ1000P, denoting the police package). Still in use in some areas - LAPD I think still has some. They only quit making that exact model a few years ago, carb'd and everything. Pretty great cop motor.

 

And helicopter chases! Air Wolf

 

HA! Yeah, I forgot about that one!

 

My '96 4Runner (326K miles) has done that since day one while turning at low speeds ... never had any issues with tires. I've gotten 150K miles out of two sets of Michelin LTX ATs - still with decent tread remaining. Mostly highway miles.

When turning into a parking space heads often turn because it screeches so loud...

 

airwolf had the killer theme song and the dudes name was Stringfellow Hawke!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBd6ighzqYA

 

This one isn't too shabby either. True 80's style! Sorry OP for the slight thread jack. It is in second gen you know.

http://youtu.be/GIMAfwJSfKw

 

Mine squeals when I turn over the painted lines or arrows in the road. But I know my alignment is off. It tracks straight as an arrow also. I would check the alignment, potholes can knock your alignment out even on a brand new truck.

 

I had 2 Toyota Tacoma's 2011 & 2002 both 4X4.
Both are doing the very same thing, Both I keep the factory rims on them. Even when I got my brand new 2002 truck, I was driving it home the 1st time, I even took it back to dealership over tires squealing. I thought it was not in alignment before I even got home with it & they put it on 4 wheel alignment rack and if that technician turned anything at all it was not over 1/8 of a inch turn I watched him. I don't think he turned anything he just acted like he did. I myself am a Diesel Technician.
They both trucks always has that squeal in the tires going into curves to point after rotation of tires regularly every tire on truck would have wear inside of the tires greatly more than on the outsides of the tire.
And no I am not overdriving speed wise pushing into curves in question to point, I even would double check posted curve speed limits and try drive that way. That don't help at all & I still have major inside of tire wear.
I even got to the point, I just have my tires un mounted - rebalanced and put my white letters on the inside about 1/2 life time of the tires to get more even wear out of set of tires. Useless any company would expect the owners to have realignment jobs every blame month or blame major tire wear on alignments.
This be a great question web site wide or poll?
Do everybody have tires that wear the inside of the tires more than outside of the tires?
I think its maybe a factory design error in the general design. Or Toyota Trucks just hate Appalachian Mt. roads.
I though maybe they have that tire wear problem fixed on my new 2011 truck. Nope same very thing.
Now I do live in mountains of Appalachian on east coast of US. I understand we have more and steeper curves than some other areas of US. but I get just terrible tire wear problems. I rotate my tires more than I even change my engine oil every 10,000 with good oil. trying improve my tire wear.
All tires if front end is designed correctly and with reasonable realignments jobs when the truck start darting while driving or will not steer straight on its own. There tires should wear reasonable evenly.
Don't get me wrong, I like my Toy or I never would bought a other one but I feel this problem is a huge weakness in them. They love to just eat up your tires uselessly.
Around $1000 + dollars a pop on 4 tires cost add up quickly after a while.
By the way I run Michelin's LTX tires but I don't think it is in the brand of the tires, I think its a design error from Toyota. I seen in parking lots other Toy's with different tires doing same very thing in my area.

 

I really investigated this a lot on my own here lately.

Sense last post I put 5100's Bistiens on front end & lift it up 2 1/2 inch to level the truck out going on 3 weeks back, Look 100% better alignment wise for tire wear. If anything setting still on the truck might have a little bit too much positive camber in it.

No not had it 4 wheel aligned yet. That will come with new tires in about a week but I can tell tires on front are not wearing the insides near as bad.

I turn down my out side rear mirrors and watch other Toy's take curves behind myself and in straight roads.

Yes every one you can see the inside's of there tires going way out of proper alignment. The tires even by eyesight will go into a major negative camber stage into steep curves or bumps in the road. Bottom tires will bow out to people don't know about camber.

Area I live in all we got is curves and very few straightaways.

I am about ready just get me a cheap but good caster & camber gauge's and adjust my own truck way I want it.

Cost of tires just too much to keep just chewing them up uselessly. Every set of tires get them throw in a 4-wheel alignment and then keep aligning my own truck until next set of tires.

Maybe Toyota got huge stakes in a bunch of tire companies too is reason for this screw up.

Just could be premature wear or too much flex of the bushing's in the camber alignment rods chambers. Way the adjustment gauge is made on these trucks it's very hard to see them bushing's to inspect them without loosening them alignment bolts up to start with & who want take chance doing that and mess up your $100+ dollar alignment job..

I still feel there a major design problem here on this subject.

 

Mine made the same noise with the same tires since new. At 40,000 miles...still doing it. Now= AT3's and new alignment today! I will report my findings. But I still had 10,000 miles left on stock tires, so I wouldnt worry over it...and they wore very even.

 

Thanks Crawdaddy for your input on this subject. Would you mind telling me what type roads you drive on daily such as curvy and or mountains or in like city type driving.

Took my truck across very curvy mountain yesterday low amount of traffic so I could push my truck little hard. All I did to it with no alignment yet. Not the 1st tire squeal

This a mystery driving me nuts what is the main cause of it.

Glad your tires are wearing evenly. Mine sure never did on both trucks & going on 15 years.

Might be curvy roads these trucks hate. In WV we sure got our share of them.

 

Still a new truck. Take it to the dealer and have them check it out

 

Might have something to do with the differential not letting the outside tire turn as fast as the inside?

I've noticed it as well but didn't think too much of it...got 35k on the stock bridgestones and easily have 5k to go so I'm not worried about it, alignment issue or not.

 

Took it in for its 5k service yesterday and mentioned it to them. Pick it up and they tell me the tires were all low on pressure. My sticker in the door jam says 30psi, I had them at 32psi and the dealer said they're supposed to be at 35psi. Why would my sticker tell me 30psi and the dealer say 35psi? Anyway, running at 35psi has done the trick so far.

 

Quote*/* Mystery SLOVED !!!!!

I had 2 Toyota Tacoma's 2011 & 2002 both 4X4.
Both was doing the very same thing, Both I keep the factory rims on them. Even when I got my brand new 2002 truck, I was driving it home the 1st time, I even took it back to dealership over tires squealing. I thought it was not in alignment before I even got home with it & they put it on 4 wheel alignment rack and if that technician turned anything at all it was not over 1/8 of a inch turn No help so ever..
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Solved Mystery
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What happened was a real good named brand store ( Tire/Service ? Household products all kind's of general services Company.) Don't want name the Well Known Store could be just #1 or a bad store. My Toy Dealership drop the ball on this big mess,
But they was not giving myself & rest local costumers good tire alignment's. Contracting the work to a not so good cheaper outside source, They was way off almost to 3-stooges stage of there 4-wheel alignment service jobs.
------- My Camber was a mile off. Toe-In a mile off, On brand new alignment jobs, Myself & Countless other people was having same problem. I aligned my truck & brand new tires @ a other well name garage. And It was doing great. So I took it to my old Toyota tire shop. They knocked the complete whole front end back out of alignment. New specialist tire shop told me just how far my front end was off.
MY local Toyota Dealership was sending all trucks to this store. I guess for cheaper service prices. Profit and more money personally to them self's I guess.
Nonsense this never should in million year's happened.
But that my true story. Shame can't trust your local Toyota new truck service workmanship. Thanks hope my bad experience will help someone else @ a later date.


But that true story what happened to service of my truck @ a want to be a cheaper money/ profit wise 1st Toyota Dealership.
I am shocked over this very bad service from your local dealership.

 

Thank you for the update. Truck is getting close to 10k service, I will ask them to take a look again.

 

I'm 31. My dad introduced me to all the classic TV shows.

I loved MASH, CHiPs, A team, Dukes of hazard.

I've always wanted to watch through Airwolf. Dad talked about that one.