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Old 01-09-2016, 03:16 PM   #7
tommyraym
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Re: Need help with oversteer in my FWD

"Adding weight in to the rear will only make the possibility to oversteer greater". How so? Everyone has been telling me the opposite. Wouldn't the added weight increase traction?

"If you are hitting curbs by pulling up too far the answer is to learn when to stop, not raise the car". I'm not actually hitting curbs, just saying my car would hit them if pulled up too far.

I wish my car did inheritantly understeer but, that doesn't seem to be the case. I'm not even sure if it was lift-off oversteer. I lifted off right before the turn, not in it. I know that in a FWD the front pulls the back and if I had given it gas during the turn, I probably wouldn't have spun.

There's more to the story. It was a wide left turn, it was wet and at the end it's straight then a slightly sharper right turn. Ok, so I got though the left turn and I'm on the straight part right before the right turn when, the car starts spinning clockwise. I just got out of the left turn and by looking at the gaurd rail I spun into, you can tell I hadn't entered the right turn yet. I'm confused as to why I spun clockwise. Maybe somebody can explain what happened their but, I am clueless.

I will definitely be driving slower in the rain because I know it was probably the biggest factor.
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