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Postby Babalouie » Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:53 pm

Adam_NAclubman wrote:Oh, and yeah it does have quite an effect, steering gets quite a bit heavier and on my car there was a weird point at about 1/2 to 3/4 lock where it would scrub wide as if it had lost grip until you either backed the steering off or put more lock on, but you only ever use that much lock on really tight corners. My Volks and Watanabes sit slightly further inboard than the P1's and don't seem to have the same problem


Funny thing is, I've only ever had the opposite impression from the low offset wheels. It seems lighter (which made sense to me since the wheels were waggling in a sort of arc, instead of pivoting on one spot) and there is a slight wooliness on centre, so you need to turn the wheel a smidge more to get the car committed to a corner. But after that there is more grip, no question. Odd that we've always had opposite impressions on the results :D
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