Sliding on wet roads? Options

[bufferdan]

Whats the deal with these cars steering? Its like when you go around a corner on a wet road and the wheel is turned to a certain point the car wants to slide. Its also very hard to feel the road with these things, the steering is pretty tight but its hard too and you cant feel when your tires are starting to break loose. When my g/f got her GT she almost crashed it getting off the highway when the roads were wet. She just turned the wheel alittle and the thing started sliding and the rear end broke loose also. You cant feel the road at all with this car, i even have 17's with low pro performance tires and you still cant feel crap. Anyone else find this out about yours? It does handle really well but the steering is alittle funky...what do you think?

[turboinduction]

well i've driven REAL sports cars many times. and i'll say this... its the tires. I've driven AWD (like my talon and STi's) on low pros and they will slip on wet surfaces. yes they have water channels, but they're meant for dry pavement. The celica is a great car for steering compared to others in its class. Yes, i'm probably sure a corvette handles a little better than a Celi.. but for the car we have its great. I dont know about the "not feeling the road" part. I feel my car 100% of the time and force it to understeer and slide. I'm the only one in my city to pull off the 5 sec FWD drift, and it was in the Celi on my stock 15's. (FYI- i had to start the drift around 60-65 and i'm not saying it didn't take many many many tries).

Maybe since you're used to driving real sports cars, you're not used to a FWD setup. Figuring REAL sports cars are normally RWD, your probably breaking the front tires loose too early in the corner and causing understeer. In your g/f's case - tell her to not accelerate until the corner is done thus keeping some traction on those expensive tires.

This post has been edited by turboinduction: Apr 24, 2004 - 2:04 PM