my freelander is crabbing

Help or feed back required.
I have recently bought a TD4 commercial 3 door.
It drove well but we found it had been converted to F/W/D only.
We have since had prop reconnected and vehicle clunked on steering and the rear end seemed to go tight after about 4 miles.
The garage have had vehicle back and are working hard to rectify.
They now say it appears to crab when being driven and their local Land rover dealer has suggested the tyres fitted do not match and could be the problem.
Has any one out there had this problem or is there any thing else to look at:frown:

bigger tread on rear and vcu's go ****y as well- do a search

if it is vcu stop driving it or it'll feck your ird £££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££

'crabbing' ?

wheel alignment be adjustable on both front and rear :
Freelander - ROAD WHEEL ALIGNMENT - SPECIFICATION - Land Rover

.. if it's not an adjustment way out of whack .. then it's probably something damaged ..
Wheel Alignment A Short Course

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ideally freelanders should have same make / type tyre all around ..

Symptoms - Bell Engineering

" IRD and/or VCU failure is also caused by miss matched tyre sizes between the front and rear axles. The difference in tyre diameter, and thus the rolling radius of the wheel causes a constant difference in the rotational speed of the front and rear prop shafts, this difference has to be compensated for by the VCU slipping at a higher rate than which it was designed for. etc .. etc .. "

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'n as freelaner said:

if it is vcu stop driving it or it'll feck your ird £££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££

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do a search for 'vcu' and 'ird' on this site ..
be a ton of info ...

e.g.
http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f38/definitive-freelander-vcu-testing-thread-99163.html

Thanks for feed back, lots to check out and cover

My last car had a mud/snow tyre on one side at the rear and it caused a really bad steering pull when you put the boot down. moving the tyres around will eliminate this, if it's not that, check the VCU on the propshaft isn't locked up.