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Originally Posted by MarkR171
Odd. I have 17x9 wheels and 245 PSS. No mushiness at all, in fact, the opposite due to the PSS' stiff sidewalls.
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Don't get me wrong. It corners like it's on rails. The stiff sidewalls and extra grip see to that.
I'm talking about the feel of the steering. With the stock tires, the steering was so responsive to input that I almost felt like I could think what I wanted to do, and the car did it. Now, with that extra area in the contact patch that also happens to be stickier, it's slightly less responsive and takes just a tiny bit more effort, and the feel of the road through the steering wheel is deadened a little. In normal turns in normal traffic, the tires are resisting the turn enough that the entire steering system starts to feel more elastic than stock. It probably wouldn't make a big difference at higher speeds on a track, but I don't track my car. I'm going by the way it feels driving around town.
The difference is very small, but because the front end seemed to be balanced on a knife's edge to begin with, that tiny difference is the same as falling over a cliff. I think I'm going to drop back to a staggered setup to see if I can get back some of that responsiveness that made the car so much fun to drive around town. I don't like the way the extra wide rims look on the front of the car anyway.