Hi Folks,
It looks like there’s less than an inch of travel before the upper A arm mount hits the inside of the wide tire, chewing into it. Thinking some coil spacers, either this type or the 4 smaller piece type would limit the spring travel. OR installing skinnier tires like the Model-3 has. Has anyone installed a skinnier tire on the Tesla-Y? https://www.amazon.com/Rubber-Coil-Spring-Spacer-Inch/dp/B07Y5LLV2N Have a renewable energy day, Mark Mark E. Hanson 184 Vista Lane Fincastle, VA 24090 540-473-1248 phone & FAX, 540-816-0812 cell REEVA: community service RE & EV project club Website: www.REEVAdiy.org (See Project Gallery) UL Certified PV Installer My RE&EV Circuits: www.EVDL.org/lib/mh REEVA Demo: <http://youtu.be/4kqWn2H-rA0> http://youtu.be/4kqWn2H-rA0 <https://www.weatherlink.com/embeddablePage/show/a88920376f864ecabaed843dd8975b8d/signature> Fincastle Solar Weather Station From: Mark Hanson [mailto:markehans...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 14, 2025 9:22 AM To: mark hanson Subject: Fwd: Tesla Y upper control arms chewing up inside tire corner Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From: Mark Hanson <markehans...@gmail.com> Date: March 14, 2025 at 8:10:33 AM EDT To: Electric List <ev@lists.evdl.org> Subject: Tesla Y upper control arms chewing up inside tire corner Hi Folks When my Tesla Y suspension travels, the upper A arm is so close to the tire that it chews rubber out of the inside of the tire. It’s occurring on both front tires, more prevalent in the right side for some reason, chewed down to the cords, wires sticking out, almost caused a blow out. It’s in the shop now but they’re checking camber alignment, toe in. It looks like the wide tires are too close to the upper control arm and any suspension travel more than an inch will chew into the tire. The car has 113K miles currently. Best regards, Mark Sent from my iPhone -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20250314/bb7c63bb/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
