Whats this called?

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Wet road move onto a roundabout and boot it and then you back end seems to want to go around faster than the front and the steering goes light.

Ive tried this on a few roundabouts and T-Junctions (so i know its not just a dodgy road) and it does it a lot. I dont remeber this happening in the last car so the questions are..

1) Whats it called?
2) Could tyres (improve/decrease) this?
3) Are some cars just prone to it via the design (say suspension?)
 
So better tyres on the back would reduce it, sweet. Just out of curiosity an omega (old one) would be FWD right?
 
Psycho Sonny said:
or you could try and drive safely round a roundabout, only idiots boot it round a roundabout
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To be fair I didn't explain it to begin with the first time it happened I was driving normally and then I tried it while booting it with a supermarket roundabout (does that make me a chav wannabe?)

spoonz said:
Yes it would.

dont fear it, embrace it

and maybe remove the lead boots :D
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Misses wouldnt see it that way!

Bear said:
..use decent tyres and you should be fine....
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Do alloy tyres cost more than normal tyres or are they normal tyres?
 
R124/LA420 said:
Yes, thats why they are connected to the, wait for it......


STEERING WHEEL

;)

Stop pulling our legs mate - you are, aren't you? :confused::eek:;)
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LOL

As for the edited "plant" details I honestly didnt realise. I thought it would just be like a vectra but bigger?

Actually it makes sense now, the second day i had it I thought it was broken because it was reeving (floored it to see what it could do) but not going but then the front wheels didn't feel like they were spinning! Thought the clutch was breaking!
 
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[TW]Fox;11376091 said:
Is this a windup? Are you sure you should be running a car like an old Omega if you dont know which end steers it or whether you need special tyres on alloys? :p
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Well the steering yes. And the tyres was just to make sure they dont try and fob me off with crap (like reinforced sides etc)!
 
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ZG002 said:
You dont take the kids out in the car do you?... Im not sure how you couldnt know what has been happening.. You dont even have to know cars to work it out... its pretty dam obvious.. If you are getting the backend out the rears are spinning and the noise will be coming from behind you.

got to be a windup lol
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I do take them out but I didnt go booting it around roundabouts with them in it (or others around at the time)

From the back there was a slight noise but was wondering if that was crap tyres?

Also I havent done a burn out etc so never had it (tyres) spinning before and in the rain/wet roads i guess it wasnt as obvious to me

More practice i guess
 
ZG002 said:
But you will be on a open diff so will never b-able mantain a good drift (unless really really slippy) :)
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Im not after anything like that. Just need to work out how to control it incase it somehow happens when theres traffic around etc and not just let the car do what it wants and panic/freeze
 
May have found out why it happened so much/easily. It seems the rears were sitting on 17psi. Not sure what it is meant to be but at 35 theres no sign of drifting/dying sideways so that's good.

Tyres are "wandi" though never heard of them :confused:
 
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