RWD tyre question

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One wheel peel, lol open diff. The snapback when he straightened up must have been a tank slapper and a half :cry:
 
Car naturally have an understeer gradient to bias towards that character, particularly high CoG SUVs, its preferable to oversteer for most and the car is tuned for it. Car generally dont sit in a nominal neutral zone that you tweak by just changing tyres!
 
Car naturally have an understeer gradient to bias towards that character, particularly high CoG SUVs, its preferable to oversteer for most and the car is tuned for it. Car generally dont sit in a nominal neutral zone that you tweak by just changing tyres!
yep.
Older BMW's had an ever so slight bit that you could promote when going tightly through roundabouts/coming off them onto a sharp bend/corner exit - easily removed from adding half a degree of negative toe when re-aligning them.

Mercs tend to be aligned to have a more prominent understeer despite being RWD, based on the type of people that drive them versus say an ///M car. Strange for a RWD, but it is a known thing on Mercs and AMG's.
They used to say "BMW is a drivers car, a Mercedes is a car to be driven in!" so that definitely sums up the difference of owner.

In general manufacturers deem it safer to have understeer.
 
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One wheel peel, lol open diff. The snapback when he straightened up must have been a tank slapper and a half :cry:
Do EVs get tank slappers? :p
Honestly though, you can't fully deactivate the ESP unless you mess around in the hidden service menu
 
Most fun I ever had in a car was in an Opel Meriva. Did an ice-driving course at Zandvoort in Holland. They replaced the rears with slicks, hosed down a white patch of asphalt the size of a football field and made us carry out all manner of evasive maneuvers. Hilarious fun. Would recommend.
 
Do EVs get tank slappers? :p
Honestly though, you can't fully deactivate the ESP unless you mess around in the hidden service menu
Haha, you knew what I meant though :P The twist and slap of the chassis caressing the road :cry:

Can you not just do the old school method of pulling the fuses for ABS, ASC, and any relating relays? That usually works ;)
 
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Most fun I ever had in a car was in an Opel Meriva. Did an ice-driving course at Zandvoort in Holland. They replaced the rears with slicks, hosed down a white patch of asphalt the size of a football field and made us carry out all manner of evasive maneuvers. Hilarious fun. Would recommend.
Nice!
One of my Irish mates took his caged full drift spec RB25DET manual Nissan Laurel to Sweden and drifted it on the frozen lakes and filmed it.
 
Haha, you knew what I meant though :P The twist and slap of the chassis caressing the road :cry:

Can you not just do the old school method of pulling the fuses for ABS, ASC, and any relating relays? That usually works ;)

Many of them might just refuse to turn on if you do that :P
 
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Haha, you knew what I meant though :P The twist and slap of the chassis caressing the road :cry:

Can you not just do the old school method of pulling the fuses for ABS, ASC, and any relating relays? That usually works ;)

A lot of newer vehicles will just go into limp mode, etc. if you do that, maybe even not let you drive.
 
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