Lift off oversteer

[Ryan197cup]

Does anyone else suffer from this, it's happend a few times now is this a characteristic of these cars or am I just driving it abit hard into corners, it's pretty cool but never seems to happen when I'm expecting it, iv checked my rear brakes hot and cold and there not sticking at all

 

[ryan197]

Pretty normal, done it once or twice in my old one, i lowered and fiitted wider wheel on mine which then went into understeer. Plenty of tread on the back tyres? Mine used to do it on greasy roads

 

[Ryan197cup]

Yeah plenty of tread, sounds like something ill have to get used to or slow down abit lol

 

[deadmau5]

So you're driving hard into a bend then lifting off mid corner and NOT expecting it to oversteer? Simple physics I'm afraid! I wouldn't drive a 205 Gti if I were you

 

[nutnutwelshman]

What rubber you running never had probs on my 197/200 even on the welsh runs and track days

 

[Foxspeed]

Does anyone else suffer from this, it's happend a few times now is this a characteristic of these cars or am I just driving it abit hard into corners, it's pretty cool but never seems to happen when I'm expecting it, iv checked my rear brakes hot and cold and there not sticking at all

yes sounds all normal - the rear can be very "alive" and does come in to play if you lift off...

 

[Ryan197cup]

There bct s800 on the back, ill put it down to greasy roads n maybe cold tyres

 

[Fernandez]

£35 Chinese tyres says it all tbh.. Plus you shouldn't really be lifting off mid corner

 

[Ryan197cup]

It happend once I'm my mk3 golf gti, it ended the cars life and the lamp posts that kindly stoped it too, then again I was 18 driving like a c**t in the wet lol

 

[Ryan197cup]

Nope your right but if i run wide due to too much speed the kerbs will punish me, bad times

 

[Foxspeed]

.. Plus you shouldn't really be lifting off mid corner

helps tuck the front in to the corner :clap:

 

[The Wizard]

All valid points mentioned here. Lowering the rear tyre pressures will help a little too as I found out down through Craner Curves at Donington Park on Friday.

 

[nicknameless]

Road or track?

No offence but on road IMO any oversteer is a signal to slow down. Perhaps get it on track before you or someone else become a statistic.

You simply can't explore the handling of these cars on road safely.

 

[deadmau5]

£35 Chinese tyres says it all tbh.. Plus you shouldn't really be lifting off mid corner

/thread

 

[Warren]

There bct s800 on the back, ill put it down to greasy roads n maybe cold tyres

£150 a set? Jesusssss

 

[Tree200]

Brake before the corner and accelerate out of it.

 

[Matt W]

£35 Chinese tyres says it all tbh.. Plus you shouldn't really be lifting off mid corner

Wonder if they actually have any rubber content?

 

[Scotty H]

Have to say there's no point in having a hot hatch if you put budget tyres on. Your massively decreasing the performance and good chance of killing yourself if you push it.

 

[Advikaz]

Lift off oversteer is mainly caused by the driver, if you don't want it either don't lift off or if you're needing to lift off it's telling you that you're going in to hot