Devon:

Mine have never squealed. If I try and push it, the only effect tends to be a kind of scittering effect as it begins to oversteer a little.

You're getting your Fabia TDi into oversteer situations? On public roads?? With those wheels???

Shurely shome mishtake?

What are you doing?

Regards,

Mark

lift off mid corner... works every time?

But your car is set up for that, innit, you performance tuning nut, you

Woulda thought that with a (heavy fronted deisel) car designed more for safe, comfortable driving (i.e. understeery) it would be quite difficult to get the tail out?

Going by the Vario TDi that was my last car (same platform as the Fab) it would understeer as soon as it saw a corner. You couldn't build up enough lateral G for a lift off to take the back out. It would just give you a little less understeer

Regards,

Mark

To get oversteer normally involves doing about 60 around a corner you'd only want to take at 30 in something like a fiesta. It also takes a serious amount of courage on my part as I don't fancy crshing my car.

Edited to say that the back end doesn't actually step out as such. Its more of a slide where all 4 wheels start to lose traction and I drift closer to the outside of the bend. The only time I get the back end out is with hand-brake assistance, something I've stopped since the rear discs started getting a bit, er.. f***ed!

Remind me not to let you give me a lift...

Have you done any mods other than the wheels? Like I said, if you even thought about "pressing on" in the Vario, it would punish you for it. Was a great way of encouraging one to stay sensible...

Regards,

Mark

Edit - I posted before your edit

My tyres suffer from chronic sqealing when cornering in the local Waitrose car park and in multi-story car parks. Do I need to slow down a bit?

Apart from a CD player, nothing at all - does a metallic stumpy whip aerial count?

I should have the car lowered by 30mm by the September run

Originally posted by DGW in this post

cornering in the local Waitrose car park...do I need to slow down a bit?

No, this is a known problem with the superior grade of tarmac

used in Waitrose car parks...

Rob.

Its just a better/higher class of tarmac isn't it? I can't talk though. We have a Waitrose and a Lidl right next to one another in Okehampton, and I use both at the same time... Great fun to compare!

Hang on, you use two car parks at the same time???? :confused:

How does that work? Or do you have a car like the AA car insurance ads where a second one follows the first around?

or it means he parks like a girl

Nope - I use both supermarkets, but Waitrose is a pay&display, so I park in Lidl and shop there, then walk ove to waitrose, shop, and load up in Lidl car-park... Cheeky? noooo!

if it makes you happy! cheapskate... wouldnt admit to going in lidl...