Sliding on wet roads? Options

[bufferdan]

Whats the deal with these cars steering? Its like when you go around a corner on a wet road and the wheel is turned to a certain point the car wants to slide. Its also very hard to feel the road with these things, the steering is pretty tight but its hard too and you cant feel when your tires are starting to break loose. When my g/f got her GT she almost crashed it getting off the highway when the roads were wet. She just turned the wheel alittle and the thing started sliding and the rear end broke loose also. You cant feel the road at all with this car, i even have 17's with low pro performance tires and you still cant feel crap. Anyone else find this out about yours? It does handle really well but the steering is alittle funky...what do you think?

[aaronc222]

I don't know what kind of Kumho's you have, but the Ecsta 711's I had sucked. They were about $100 a piece and had horrible traction.
My favorite tires are Bridgestone Potenza RE730($150 a piece for 205/50/15), though I have RE910 on now(all season Potenza, about $140 a piece).
Between the two, the Kumho slide like mad and were actually less predictable when they got warm. I get more traction out of the RE910 then I did out of the Kumho 711.
As far as the rear sliding, I don't have to use the ebrake on dirt(Rallycross) or when it rains. Every car has it's own charecteristics, and the Celica is easy to slide, you just have to become more sensitive to the input. It's there, you just have to be missing it.(Or your Kumhos are giving you problems like mine did).