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Tyre Pressures
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ORIGINAL: Spizz Oil
Melv, is your recommendation for road or track use - should have sead, I am on P Zero Corsas.
Spizz
Road -try it!
Melv
Many many moons ago, a friend rolled his Lotus Cortina, on which he had fitted wider tyres than the stock. He was playing with pressures and lost it. As he was well known to his insurance company they checked out the car and refused to meet his claim due to 'tyres size and pressures outside recommended specification'.
Kevin's use of factory settings for road use seems like a sensible approach.
Seems like you would need the endorsement of your insurers every time you went out for a blast when pressure playing!!!
Good point, I have to say I tend to keep my driving style fairly conservative on the road and I'm therefore very comfortable with the performance offfered by the standard factory tyre pressures.
In the 70's when used to play with Imps the insurance co's were always keen to measure the capacity of hot looking Imps after if they crashed, its amazing how many were insured as 875cc but turned out to be 998cc, an easy get out for the insurance companies.
Regards
ORIGINAL: Kevin Cooke
Tim,
Good point, I have to say I tend to keep my driving style fairly conservative on the road and I'm therefore very comfortable with the performance offfered by the standard factory tyre pressures.
In the 70's when used to play with Imps the insurance co's were always keen to measure the capacity of hot looking Imps after if they crashed, its amazing how many were insured as 875cc but turned out to be 998cc, an easy get out for the insurance companies.
Regards
Obviuosly for a track day you should reduce these by a few bar so the temp when hot is of that above.
I would imagine that different models and wheel/tyre combinations would have different pressure though.
ORIGINAL: THX911
...and in the future, no need to look in the book, just see at the back of the fuel flap []
My sticker is on the underside of the bonnet.......
I tried dropping mine by 4psi all round and it does ease the ride slightly but did not appear to adversely affect the handling.
Terry
Paul Fraser
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I have had 2 996C4s in the past both with sports suspension and spent most of my fun motoring in theYorkshire Dales, the Scottish Borders (where I live) and the Lake District, none of the roads can be described as smooth, (far from it) and yet the susspension was an excellent balance of refinement and handling. The motoring journo who said it was unyeilding is talking utter c..p, or he is Vectra man and not worthy of commenting on the best sports cars in the world.
I would hate to think what he would say about the sports suspension on my 996tt.
Iain
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