Front end lightness

qwerty911 said:

I too have just swapped from M5CP. So far the experience has been horrible, the car wanders all over the place. I've have the geo sheet from the OPC and confirmed in spec. Our weather is still sub 5deg, what pressures should I be looking for when tyres hot? I do also recognise that I'm getting more used to driving it, but surely it shouldn't require so much effort when not pushing on?

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qwerty911 said:

I too have just swapped from M5CP. So far the experience has been horrible, the car wanders all over the place. I've have the geo sheet from the OPC and confirmed in spec. Our weather is still sub 5deg, what pressures should I be looking for when tyres hot? I do also recognise that I'm getting more used to driving it, but surely it shouldn't require so much effort when not pushing on?

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Ishay said:

qwerty911 said:

I too have just swapped from M5CP. So far the experience has been horrible, the car wanders all over the place. I've have the geo sheet from the OPC and confirmed in spec. Our weather is still sub 5deg, what pressures should I be looking for when tyres hot? I do also recognise that I'm getting more used to driving it, but surely it shouldn't require so much effort when not pushing on?

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Wanders!? I've had two and never had one wander. In fact it was my e46s that I had wandering problems with. In my e46 it was solved with new dampers and new tyres. But whilst I recognise a 'feeling' of lightness in a RWD 911, it's just a feeling, not an actual physical loss of control/direction

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pcat said:

Ishay said:

qwerty911 said:

I too have just swapped from M5CP. So far the experience has been horrible, the car wanders all over the place. I've have the geo sheet from the OPC and confirmed in spec. Our weather is still sub 5deg, what pressures should I be looking for when tyres hot? I do also recognise that I'm getting more used to driving it, but surely it shouldn't require so much effort when not pushing on?

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Wanders!? I've had two and never had one wander. In fact it was my e46s that I had wandering problems with. In my e46 it was solved with new dampers and new tyres. But whilst I recognise a 'feeling' of lightness in a RWD 911, it's just a feeling, not an actual physical loss of control/direction

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Exactly - properly set up the steering feedback is a lot more subtle and sensitive than an M car (or anything with 200kg of metal over the front axle). A lot of new owners confuse this subtlety with vagueness or wandering because they arent getting the obvious blunt bite out of the front end when turning in and the weight shifts over the front. It takes a while to adjust to this but when you do the confidence comes back. I've had a bunch of M cars but when you learn the 911 language it talks to you a lot more than anything from Munich

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