This is the problem, comparison.
TB has a well handling car... Well mostly.
By handling, I mean it feels connected to the road. NON OF THIS INVOLVES CORNERS. Planted. Stable. Directional. It goes straight. When it hits a bump, the suspension and tyres make the car ride over it correctly, rather than divert around it. The bump is handled by the car in an up and down fashion. This is how a car should behave IMO.
However, the average handling omega I see on my drive is far from that. Including mine to an extent. Yes the ones I see have faults, thats why they come to me. But the average omega does NOT handle like TB's does.
Generally, there's a lot of sideways movement. Boat like. Barge. Water baloons for tyres. Jelly like. Lots of correction at the steering wheel. Discoinserting feel. Feels like its got no grip, even though a car needs almost no grip rolling along on a neutral throttle in a straight line at 40mph, for instance, yet the car feels un safe. Unstable. Wandering. Like something broken.
This is tyres. It just is.( there are other cinditions that contribute, bushes, set up, etc, but the single most over riding factor is tyres)
Hence my attempt to discuss the issue in the tyre construction thread, in an attempt to find out why the car has been ruined by simply fitting the wrong tyre. I suppose the reason why doesn't matter, if you have tyres that your happy with. But that is NOT to say that a vast improvement can't be made, just because your happy.
All things are relative. There's the "I just took off these tyres, and put these other ones on ... and the car is transformed" A classic trap. As said so many times, the old tyres wear, handling tails off, the car becomes a hand full. New tyres are better, obviously. BUT are they better than the old ones when they where new. It's hard to tell.
Bah, I'm waffling. Suffice to say. Tyres are the single most important thing as far as handling goes. We need to nail this down IMO.
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