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Originally Posted by Finnegan
I'm going to be getting a set of summer tires soon, and then an alignment. The tires will be 205-50-17, 255-40-17s. The suspension is stock, 2004 base.
Without going too crazy and wearing these out too fast, can anyone offer some advice about the settings to ask for? I'd like to have a little less oversteer dialed in.
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If you really want less oversteer, you may have an alignment problem, like not enough toe-in at the rear, or goofy camber front to rear. If your alignment is within spec, and you still want less oversteer (hard to believe), then stay with something like that 40 - 50 mm stagger in front to rear tire width (255 - 205 = 50 mm).
If you really want
less understeer, without changing anything else, decrease your front to rear tire stagger to 20 mm or less. Looking back at my records, before I modified my suspension, I ran 255 fronts / 265 rears, and that took out a good bit of the understeer.
Oh, you may need some new wheel with that. I see now, you are probably using those narrow 17" OEM wheels. You really need wheels to match the tire that you want to run (not the other way around)