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Feeling floaty - new rear tires!

So I replaced my rear tires with the stock Bridgestone RE50’s, I know I should have changed them for something better but they have served me well. I managed to

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Old 08-31-2014, 03:13 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Feeling floaty - new rear tires!

So I replaced my rear tires with the stock Bridgestone RE50’s, I know I should have changed them for something better but they have served me well. I managed to get 19,000km (12k miles) out of them and I have not been easy on them. I honestly think the smooth tarmac here in Dubai helps a lot – I never used to get more than 9k miles out of my rears on my Beemer back in the UK.

Anyway coming back to the point, following changing the tires I knew they needed to be broken in, ran 300 km on them and then checked the tire pressures, the rears were fine at the 35 psi but the fronts were low at 30. I topped them up but the at say 140 kph taking a sweeping corner the car feels floaty at the rear and like its pivoting at the front. Also I noticed that the car has become more sensitive to steering inputs after fitting new rear tires. (before I topped up the air on the fronts).

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