Too capable for public roads

[JR]

With more performance oriented tires installed, I find myself speeding up when I see a corner instead of slowing down. Who else has changed tires and now feels the need to take corners at higher speeds?

Let me clarify lol. With stock tires, the rear end will lose grip sooner, so I would take corners at a slower pace in order to avoid drifting into a ditch or guard rail. Now that I have new tires installed, the limits are much higher, allowing me to take corners at higher speeds, but those speeds will now cause me to get a nice speeding ticket or be thrown in jail.

[Stang70Fastback]

Originally Posted by JR

Who else has changed tires and now feels the need to take corners at higher speeds?

Literally everyone who has ever upgraded their wheels/tires... going all the way back to horse-drawn carriages.

[imped4now]

This is standard behavior.

[8RZ]

Try autox now.

[Tokay444]

I've never NOT done this, on ANY tire. Including my winters...

[Sapphireho]

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[Leonardo]

If our car is too capable for public roads: why can't owners keep their car on them?

[krayzie]

Time to trade in for a Civic DX.

[spike021]

Guess you should only be driving it in parking garages from now on:

[JR]

Let me clarify lol. With stock tires, the rear end will lose grip sooner, so I would take corners at a slower pace in order to avoid drifting into a ditch or guard rail. Now that I have new tires installed, the limits are much higher, allowing me to take corners at higher speeds, but those speeds will now cause me to get a nice speeding ticket or be thrown in jail.

[Stang70Fastback]

Originally Posted by JR

Let me clarify lol. With stock tires, the rear end will lose grip sooner, so I would take corners at a slower pace in order to avoid drifting into a ditch or guard rail. Now that I have new tires installed, the limits are much higher, allowing me to take corners at higher speeds, but those speeds will now cause me to get a nice speeding ticket or be thrown in jail.

Welcome to the conundrum of owning a sports car, but having to drive on public roads. Now is when you need to start looking into autocross and track days as an outlet for your newfound need for speed. And I won't be a hypocrite and say I haven't had some fun on public roads; we all have. Entrance ramps are fun as hell with good tires. Just be mindful of your surroundings. It's one thing to risk only yourself and your car sliding off the road and into a field/tree. It's another thing to risk sliding into oncoming traffic, or a box full of cute, innocent kittens. Be smart, and you can have a little bit of fun without even the slightest risk of ruining someone else's day/life.

[Victorscp]

Originally Posted by spike021

Guess you should only be driving it in parking garages from now on:

was watching this movie last week and trying to explain to my wife why this one was the best one in terms of driving. she still didnt get...

oh and OP, that is the point of getting better tires to corner faster just dont be a jerk about it lol

happy driving!!!!

[extrashaky]

About a decade ago I worked with a WRX douche at a television network in DC who used to go on and on about drifting, especially "pendulum turns." He was always talking about taking pendulum turns while drifting his AWD WRX. "Man I had a guy right on my tail the other night, but I made a pendulum turn and that was the last I saw of him!"

Then one day he ran into a wall in the parking garage at 400 North Capitol. He wasn't hooning, it was just a low wall that was difficult to see, and he clipped it while pulling into work at 5AM. But we spun a sarcastic narrative around it that had him attempting to elude Asian gangsters in our parking garage by doing pendulum turns around the columns. Then he pushed it too far, clipped that wall and had to bail since there were too many of them to fight off on his own. Soon our story included Fox and CNN anchors in the elevator with their security teams alongside them, so that the gangsters were reluctant to follow, and he was safe to drift another day.

He never mentioned a pendulum turn again after that. His next line of bullshit was that bathing was a conspiracy put in place by deodorant companies (which seemed oddly reversed to me), and that it was bad for your health to bathe more than once every three days.

[JR]

Originally Posted by Victorscp

was watching this movie last week and trying to explain to my wife why this one was the best one in terms of driving. she still didnt get...

oh and OP, that is the point of getting better tires to corner faster just dont be a jerk about it lol

happy driving!!!!

With that being said, the twins are known for their playful nature at lower speeds due to the stock tires and suspension setup. For the people that upgraded to better tires, do you miss the tail happiness? I know Subaru and Toyota have revised the suspension throughout the years, so that may vary depending on the model year of your vehicle.