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typically reason to avoid stagger is that many car subsystems are designed with car specific grip bias in mind. Brakes, electronic nannies, suspension, etc. There is also slight savings advantage of getting more out of tire set by keeping ability to rotate them. Yes, you can "fix"/"workaround"/"compensate" grip bias change by staggered setup by different suspension upgrades/readjusting and such .. but why do mistake in first place and rise such need at all?
If you need wider tire for more grip within class spec or if you install forced induction .. why not go for square 245 or square 255? Can you name any practical reason you must run staggered?
To me it looks, that 90% reasoning for those that chose staggered setup, is 'because it is cool', because some more expensive cars <insert porsche/ferrari/lambo/F1 and alikes here> has such, so it must be better and they haven't seen or decidedly ignore advises to not do that, as car with all it's subsystems is designed around square setup.
Funny, that friend of mine, that has car with staggered setup by design/from factory (few MR2-s), described it as annoyance he would be glad to rid off, and liked that mine luckily has good/normal square setup. He keeps factory staggered setup for same reasons we should keep square though.
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