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Hello,

My legacy turbo wagon, when you are taking a soft curve over 40 mph
(the kind of highway exits), the car tends to oversteer hard, is just
like if myself turn the steering abruptly more, I have heared that
the legacyes tends to oversteer but this is exagerated, my tires are
the stock 205/60-15 and the alignment looks good, the tire pressure
at all is 31 psi, please some one has the same problem? or know where
could be?

regards,
Christian


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The only time i've ever had problems with oversteer is after i put
my Whiteline 18-22mm bar in, and pushing HARD on the autocross
course.

Are you still running on the original struts? I'd start with
replacing those, perhaps they're just terribly worn.

--- In BC-BFLegacyWorks@y..., firetire@h... wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My legacy turbo wagon, when you are taking a soft curve over 40 mph
> (the kind of highway exits), the car tends to oversteer hard, is
just
> like if myself turn the steering abruptly more, I have heared that
> the legacyes tends to oversteer but this is exagerated, my tires
are
> the stock 205/60-15 and the alignment looks good, the tire
pressure
> at all is 31 psi, please some one has the same problem? or know
where
> could be?
>
> regards,
> Christian


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First thing,

Not to say you don't know the difference, but to clarify. Oversteer is when the back end feels loose or will come around. Understeer is when you loose steering, and the car continues to go straight, common term for this is the car is pushing.

like Dave said, oversteer is very uncommon with AWD and FWD cars. However slight understeer is common. The only way you will get oversteer is if you have changed your suspension setup, struts, sway bars and such. My legacy was tail happy for a while when I had mixed-matched struts on the car. Once I put a complete set all the way around it was fine. Adding a stiffer/larger rear anti-sway bar helps combat understeer....ie puts more oversteer into it. And vice-versa, putting larger front bar in combats oversteer. There are other ways to get under/over steer into the vehicle then anti-sway bars, but they are the most common.

As for your problem. I would run tire pressure at least 32 psi. What I would run is about 35 front, 32 rear. Also physically look at all your suspension and struts and such, see if you have any leaking struts. You may just have worn struts. How many miles are on the car?

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From: firetire@hotmail.com
Sent: Wed 11/14/2001 5:54 AM
To: BC-BFLegacyWorks@yahoogroups.com
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Subject: [BC-BFLegacyWorks] bad handling?



Hello,

My legacy turbo wagon, when you are taking a soft curve over 40 mph
(the kind of highway exits), the car tends to oversteer hard, is just
like if myself turn the steering abruptly more, I have heared that
the legacyes tends to oversteer but this is exagerated, my tires are
the stock 205/60-15 and the alignment looks good, the tire pressure
at all is 31 psi, please some one has the same problem? or know where
could be?

regards,
Christian


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