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?

[Kwanza26]

Heh... honestly now guys... you need to re-think your driving habits. If you're going wayy wayy too fast into and coming out of a turn... then it's understeer. You're looking to get yourselves killed in you're understeering in the rain. It's not a matter of judgment or ability or tires... it's a matter of stupidity. The only time you understeer... too much speed into a corner and not slowing down trying to accelerate through it. Tires have little/nothing to do with it in the rain. If you're just sliding and losing traction in regular stop and go driving, (dry road, wet road) then it's bad tires. Speaking as a person who has autocrossed and rallycrossed a 6th gen celica... they're fairly neutral stock with proper braking. They're predictable, slow, they stop/slow down well, and they're well balanced with good spring rates in stock trim. There shouldn't be any traction issues because of the stock suspension. If you're having traction problems, let alone 'breaking loose' the rear-end not because of bald tires... then I'd say you better re-think those driving habits. FF cars don't loose rear-end traction unless you have TERRIBLE rear tires... or you're actually trying to do it... even in the rain. That's the nature of a FF set-up. Predictability. Have fun with your cars... and do it safely.