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Originally Posted by Car photographer
Cheers, maybe mine isn't that bad, but it feels a bit skittish and I think I'm just too scared to risk pushing it too much (I did write my Boxster off last year pushing it a bit too hard)  |
That skittish feeling is almost certainly down to the springs and/or shocks being too firm.
The revelation for me came in the 80's the first time I drove a humble Peugeot 205GT (five door, 85bhp 1.4, slightly lower ride height than base model) and found that the softer springs with good damping gave it vastly better handling on the Scottish mountain roads than the rock-hard ride of the XR3i I had been driving. The Escort had ploughed on towards the undergrowth a number of times and a friend had recommended that I fit harder springs and firmer shocks to 'kill the understeer'. That was just Pub talk though, and the opposite was in fact true, with the humble 1.4 Pug able to simply drive away from a lot of 'fast' cars of the day on those fabulous twisty driving roads. Ahh, nostalgia.