That'll be a RWD BMW, a RWD Oldsmobile and 2 RWD Fords. This smacks of "Unsafe at Any Speed".
On a front wheel drive car put them on the front, as the rears are only there to keep the arse off the floor.
Pretty much sums it up
Right I've raced both karts and cars, and believe me oversteer is easier to deal with than understeer. Therefore best tyres on the front (front or rear wheel drive).
If the car loses the front end, all you can do is slow down enough to a point where you hope that the tyres regain grip - and as you head staright for the farm gate on a 90 degree bend with your wheels locked your next point of retardation will be the gate.
Where as if you lose the back you have at least half a chance of catching and correcting it (opposite lock and back off the throttle on a RWD car, opposite lock and more throttle if a FWD car)
By the way it doesn't show you the white car trying to anchor up suddenly and fying straight off the road.
Karts are RWD, and I suspect most racing cars are also RWD. If someone's spent a lot of time on the track, they may be able to detect the onset of oversteer. In most cases they haven't - so they can't. Ever noticed on Police Camera Action how the number of thieves that crash cars after getting it going sideways outnumbers those who plough straight on?
If you go sideways into that 90 degree bend you'll just end up going sideways into a tractor instead of forwards into a gate. 100kg gate or 6,000kg tractor? Er, tricky one that.
:yeahthat: it makes all the diference, i used to place new tires in front, after a couple of undesired drifts, i decided to switch them to the back... like flexywozere said, it's easier to control understeer than oversteer.
Without an awful lot of practice, almost nobody can control oversteer at high speed as once corrected, the car almost always decides to have a bit of a laugh at the driver's expense and flip the other way. Understeer simply needs a gentle reduction in speed and a little more lock.
Well I have to agree sudden breakaway and oversteer on a front wheel drive vehicle is dangerous actually, Iswapping the tyres, doesn't really help, I had a mate who did this, and he almost thrashed a hedge, but if yo wanna risk it, then be my guest
Quite agree. A RWD car has driven rear wheels, the clue's in the name, therefore the driven rear is more likely to start overtaking the front. In a FWD car that starts to oversteer, very rare, only luck and the forces of nature decide if and when the back end goes back in. In a RWD car you, if you're good enough, decide by the amount of drive you put through the rear tyres. Incidentally, if a FWD car does oversteer, it's because the car has already started to understeer and you are failing to correct properly.
Yeah put the new ones on the back, after all they need the traction and take most of the braking effort and steer the car.....hang on.
Yeah, dead right, traction, steering and most of the braking effort go through the rear of a FIAT.....hang on.
