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Can anybody help?

Have noticed that my caravans wheels are rubbing & have made holes on the wheel arches inside the caravan. Am very worried about this!

The tyre walls are actually rubbing. Have checked tyres & pressure & they are correct as per handbook.

Caravan is a Lunar Clubman 530-4 2004 

Is it the inner face, outer face or top of the arch?  In other words, is the tyre leaning or just going up too far.  First step is to jack the caravan up and try to waggle the wheel.

Jim

Hi All,

It is rubbing on the inner side wall of the tyres on both sides. The vertical part. the holes that have been made I would say are about 7cm x 5cm.

The tyres are exactly what is said in the handbook & I think the wheels are original. We have only owned this van for 18 mths & we have never removed the wheels. I will get my hisband to check the wheel nuts.

What does concern me however is that it was serviced by a mobile engineer about 2mths ago & he did not pick this up. I did use a MCEA engineer that somebody recommended from this forum. This fault was there when he serviced it as we have not used it since then.

MCEA enginer , need we say more , cheap and chearfull and sometimes clueless

even some main dealers can do shoddy work and not cheap,i know they did mine.that is why i now use a mobile service engineer.with my engineering background i could very easily do it myself but am not allowed as the insurance needs proof of service for the 10 year policy.

Quote: Originally posted by sandyman1 on 12/5/2009

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Hi
A friend of mine had this problem on his Lunar Quasar. It turned out that Lunar had fitted inside wheel liners for a 13" wheel on the van. His van was fitted with 14" wheels. The repair in this case was done under warranty.
Sandy

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Hi All,

Thought I would let you know the outcome of the fault on my caravan.

Would you believe that the manufacturers made the caravan with the incorrect axle on which has now failed!

So am having a new axle, wheel boxes & tyres including fitting at the cost of manufacturer. I must say that the dealer in this case has been extremely helpful.

Am quite satisfied at this result however it does somewhat worry me that this could of ever happened! I will be completly happy when the work is carried out & I can once again enjoy my caravan. When that will be........I do not know!!! 

check also that the rubbers have not failed in the axle.this possible if left on a site for a long time without moving,see

http://www.al-kousa.com/pdf/500_22F.pdf