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post Apr 20, 2012 - 11:04 AM
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So if any of you read my post in the "Today I..." topic you know that I had a mishap on the highway the other day. Well I drove past the skid marks and its quite clear I locked up the back wheels for about 10 feet and then the car went into a spin. Then, yesterday, I took the car along some super twisty country roads and was experiencing oversteer. When I went around a corner at a fair speed, the rear end was swinging out slightly, even with me gassing it out of the turns. Its actually very pleasant getting the rearend out maybe 5°-10°, as our cars are extremely stable and oversteer is WAY better than understeer. It just comes as a suprise to me. Im used to this car understeering as any FWD car is prone to do. My tires are crap but they all have decent tread on them and are properly inflated, and my alignment is slightly off but Ive gotten cars back from the alignment shop worse than it.

So any ideas? Do yall experience oversteer or understeer? I guess I need to start doing some autocross and really get the feel for this vehicle.
 
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post Apr 20, 2012 - 11:32 AM
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the only thing I can think of are.

Rear sway bar upgraded ?
or brake system issue where one or both of your rear calipers is seize and thus applying brakes at all time ? GT ? ebrake shoes ? maybe. the only way to force a FWD to oversteer is by playing with the ebrake, so any type of rear wheel braking would make the car do that. I would start there.

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