Couple Questions - Long

[pbureau@attbi.com (ATS - Patrick Bureau)]

hehe, this is how it feels to go from 175/70/13 to 195/60/14, and I have 15"
205/50's and its actually annoying at first but you get used to it.
yeah, you can feel all the grooves and tiny bumps in the road.... funny eh?
Ill wear theses down and probably go back to 195 next time on my 15".

what do you mean floaty ? perhaps you mean, smoother ride, (almost no
steering action needed in straight line) yeah I have this feeling too.
its nice to have a car that old tha handles that nice eh! (grin)

ATS - Patrick



=>-----Original Message-----
=>From: scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org
=>[mailto:scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of cwass99@rogers.com
=>Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 7:18 PM
=>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
=>Subject: Couple Questions - Long
=>
=>
=>Hi,
=>     About a month ago I picked up new rims and tires for my 87
=>8v.  Normal VW
=>14 inch rims with nice wide snow tires (essential for driving in
=>Ottawa).  I'm
=>wondering if the weight of the rims (they're a lot heavier than
=>the 13 inch
=>stock rims) and the bigger tires would cause the 2 problems I seem to have
=>acquired since then.  The first is more annoying, but less
=>frightening.  At
=>about 35 to 45 Kph ( 20 to 30 Mh) it's almost like the tires are
=>seriously out
=>of round or something, it almost hops down the road.  Sort of
=>like the feeling
=>of going over evenly spaced lumps in the road every few seconds, but not
=>forceful like bumps.  The scarier problem is that above about
=>120Kh (70 Mph)
=>the car feels very "floaty".  I don't seem to have any real
=>traction problem
=>(confirmed yesterday when I had to stop extremely fast because of traffic,
=>several people around me didn't stop until shortly after tapping
=>the cars in
=>front of them, I didn't even lock up the fronts).  The steering
=>seems about
=>200% more sensitive and I have to adjust very frequently to stay
=>in my lane.
=>It always wants to drift.  There's no real wobble or vibration,
=>though, other
=>than a teeny bit because of a passenger side motor mount that
=>needs replacing.
=>     I have no idea about the lumpy low speed.  My first thought about the
=>"floaty" feeling and extreme steering sensitivity was maybe the wider and
=>bigger tires were doing it and I needed to either get used to it
=>or adjust my
=>suspension to compensate.  Then I saw all the messages about losing a tire
=>because of rear wheel bearings and now I'm getting worried.  Am I
=>about to join
=>the society of high-speed sideways people?  There's no apparent
=>noise (tough to
=>tell with the Dynomax muffler...that puppy is loud ;)), but given
=>the weird low
=>speed up and down thing I wonder.  Also, it doesn't always do
=>that, I think I
=>have to actually maintain a speed in that range and it needs to
=>be warmed up
=>(again difficult to tell, I normally accelerate pretty quickly to
=>above 50/30).
=>     Thanks for any thoughts.  I might park the little beasty
=>until I'm sure I
=>won't end up hurting it badly.
=>
=>
=>Cheers,
=>Colin
=>
=>
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