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improvedae86 Forums Junkie Location: Melbourne Registered: January 2003	Re: sprinter traction problems Wed, 02 February 2005 07:02 Get someone to sit in the rear and use advanced weight shifting technique No really , just add a under tyred car standard with poor dated live axle design on Melbourne's rubbish roads plus no rain for a month and its really no surprise that the sprinter wheel-spins easy . I have three set of road tyres and the difference between say the lm901's and a kurmo 711 . In the wet its about the ability to use another 1/4 throttle on take off in first gear , that might not sound like much but its maybe 40hp more at the wheels being applied under 2500rpm . Tyres can change the traction of the car by a large amount . I found that the standard tyre pressures listed for such a light car unloaded to be joke for the size , the contact patch of the small 165 or 175 would be tiny with those huge pressures . Also most modern tyre's are designed for much higher performance , therefore the sidewall strengths are much higher than the tyres which those pressures where set for . The stock pressure where for sure set with economy in mind . As well as the tyre ratio and wheel size , lets face it most people here are maybe running 15" rims with 50 series tyres . And the side walls are say twice as stiff as the stock balloon tyres , add tyre temperature to raise the pressure and thats one hell of stiff tyre . It isn't going to be deforming over every millimeter of wet slippery ground is it . The 539's have just been replaced c drive , i have always used 539's on everything from alfas to bm's and have never driven with such a good value for money tyre . Also did one season on set in a road tyre class and they where still going good at the end . Or move to a state with better roads and weather [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	sprinter traction problems	rthy	Wed, 02 February 2005 03:23
	Re: sprinter traction problems	rthy	Wed, 02 February 2005 03:25
	Re: sprinter traction problems	shcao	Wed, 02 February 2005 03:31
	Re: sprinter traction problems	rthy	Wed, 02 February 2005 03:37
	Re: sprinter traction problems	shcao	Wed, 02 February 2005 05:10
	Re: sprinter traction problems	rthy	Wed, 02 February 2005 05:18
	Re: sprinter traction problems	ke382TG	Wed, 02 February 2005 04:01
	Re: sprinter traction problems	HyDrA	Wed, 02 February 2005 04:37
	Re: sprinter traction problems	alex_ta22	Wed, 02 February 2005 04:41
	Re: sprinter traction problems	stradlater	Wed, 02 February 2005 04:42
	Re: sprinter traction problems	ke382TG	Wed, 02 February 2005 04:55
	Re: sprinter traction problems	stradlater	Wed, 02 February 2005 05:05
	Re: sprinter traction problems	ke382TG	Wed, 02 February 2005 05:10
	Re: sprinter traction problems	stradlater	Wed, 02 February 2005 05:18
	Re: sprinter traction problems	jesseT18	Wed, 02 February 2005 05:28
	Re: sprinter traction problems	ke382TG	Wed, 02 February 2005 05:39
	Re: sprinter traction problems	rthy	Wed, 02 February 2005 05:46
	Re: sprinter traction problems	AE86slut	Wed, 02 February 2005 06:42
	Re: sprinter traction problems	tofu garage	Wed, 02 February 2005 06:58
	Re: sprinter traction problems	AE86slut	Wed, 02 February 2005 07:00
	Re: sprinter traction problems	greenta22	Wed, 02 February 2005 05:48
	Re: sprinter traction problems	ke382TG	Wed, 02 February 2005 05:55
	Re: sprinter traction problems	shinybluesteel	Wed, 02 February 2005 06:11
	Re: sprinter traction problems	oldcorollas	Wed, 02 February 2005 06:37
	Re: sprinter traction problems	greenta22	Wed, 02 February 2005 06:09
	Re: sprinter traction problems	Fr3aK	Wed, 02 February 2005 06:55
	Re: sprinter traction problems	improvedae86	Wed, 02 February 2005 07:02
	Re: sprinter traction problems	Bobski	Wed, 02 February 2005 07:31
	Re: sprinter traction problems	rb26_n1	Wed, 02 February 2005 10:04
	Re: sprinter traction problems	EVOSTi	Wed, 02 February 2005 10:18
	Re: sprinter traction problems	EVOSTi	Wed, 02 February 2005 10:58
	Re: sprinter traction problems	improvedae86	Wed, 02 February 2005 11:08
	Re: sprinter traction problems	EVOSTi	Thu, 03 February 2005 10:04
	Re: sprinter traction problems	rthy	Thu, 03 February 2005 10:22
	Re: sprinter traction problems	Bill Sherwood	Wed, 02 February 2005 10:45
	Re: sprinter traction problems	oldcorollas	Wed, 02 February 2005 10:48
	Re: sprinter traction problems	improvedae86	Wed, 02 February 2005 10:54
	Re: sprinter traction problems	greenta22	Wed, 02 February 2005 11:20
	Re: sprinter traction problems	rthy	Wed, 02 February 2005 11:44
	Re: sprinter traction problems	oldcorollas	Wed, 02 February 2005 11:51
	Re: sprinter traction problems	rthy	Wed, 02 February 2005 12:14
	Re: sprinter traction problems	oldcorollas	Wed, 02 February 2005 12:22
	Re: sprinter traction problems	hokey	Wed, 02 February 2005 22:29
	Re: sprinter traction problems	draven	Wed, 02 February 2005 23:03
	Re: sprinter traction problems	ShiRi	Wed, 02 February 2005 12:04
	Re: sprinter traction problems	juzzo84	Wed, 02 February 2005 12:12
	Re: sprinter traction problems	draven	Wed, 02 February 2005 12:24
	Re: sprinter traction problems	Matt-AE86	Wed, 02 February 2005 12:30
	Re: sprinter traction problems	rthy	Wed, 02 February 2005 12:32
	Re: sprinter traction problems	stradlater	Wed, 02 February 2005 23:01
	Re: sprinter traction problems	hokey	Thu, 03 February 2005 02:36
	Re: sprinter traction problems	rthy	Thu, 03 February 2005 04:44
	Re: sprinter traction problems	stradlater	Thu, 03 February 2005 00:55
	Re: sprinter traction problems	cooter	Thu, 03 February 2005 09:29
	Re: sprinter traction problems	rthy	Thu, 03 February 2005 09:39
	Re: sprinter traction problems	no_tofu_speed	Thu, 03 February 2005 13:19

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