i would fit the rear whiteline arb, and get the geometry checked.

 

Which syrons your running?

If you have had lowering springs I'd get your geo done too

 

+1 get the geo checked adjusted....check for worn bushes/topmounts/subframe/shocks and such.

Wet weather likes lots of gentle suspension/steering movement and good tyres.
You can be rougher and the suspension/steering more jolty in the dry as you have more grip.
So it could be sudden jolts/movement from excessive play or driver input or dodgy shocks that could make the tyres brake away too..if its not a tyre grip issue.
IMHO

 

+2 for geo & tyres.. Goodyear F1 AS2

EDIT: What tyre pressures are you running?

 

Surely if it was the geometry it would be handling awful in all conditions, exasperated in the wet. Or am I talking cack?

I can only see the tyres as the cause.

 

Thanks all, FRS was definitely next on the list anyway. Will get back to people on which exact tire and pressures.

Relic I believe you went out in my 2.2 when it had the coilovers put on at TDI south

 

Thanks all, FRS was definitely next on the list anyway. Will get back to people on which exact tire and pressures.

Relic I believe you went out in my 2.2 when it had the coilovers put on at TDI south

I did indeed matey
It held the road far longer than mine would before letting go.
To be frank the only way to test the limit would be to risk death and a write off.
Would have been nice to see how they held up on track.
Most of the power understeer appeared eliminated on them from what I remember.
You could brake on ripples approaching a bend and still have control of the car too lol

 

I've got Syron race 1's on my derv & found them to be terrible in the wet, but then jacked my car up the other day & found really uneven tyre wear so I've booked in with abp for FRS on Tuesday, so I'm hoping this will offer some improvement.

 

Syrons are rubbish in the wet.

 

Have you driven on them Col?

 

Mark (Hagan) was saying the same. But seeing as he never drives anywhere he's godda put up with them for years yet :lol:

 

He's just sitting in his car, folding the mirrors up and down since I fixed them for him :lol:

 

Yeh it was frightening with contact 3's on all round in the dry, had a mate scoff at me for talking about how good it was, took him out, he ate his own hat.
The car is in the for sale section now!

 

I had syron race 1 plus delivered by mistake last week, they just looked to be all grooves to channel water away and not much actual rubber to touch the Tarmac.

Still need rubber to touch the black stuff even in the wet

 

MY street race syrons are admittedly skitty in the wet being a semi slick. But the race plus 1s are decent in the wet imo.

 

It might be worth me just putting up with the understeer in the wet and driving a little more calmly at least I get great grip in the dry once frs is done and tires aren't robbing me every time? Thoughts?

 

As I said on the other post, why not get the FRS as its by far the cheaper option. If that works then you know the tyres are fine and I was wrong. If you still get the understeer I was right and you will need to drive more carefully till the tyres are worn out and worth changing?

 

Never said you were wrong. That's probably what will happen, then it will just be a case of judging which tires will be best value for money, obviously don't want to be spending £140 a tire but don't want to compromise grip. Hopefully find some good tire choice threads on here as its obviously different for different cars.

 

Goodyear F1 asymmetric 2 in the wet are awesome.

 

100% tyre choice is critical I got left by a type s1.8 and I was in my fn2 at the time running 222.3 bhp and Iknew iI was a better driver so it wasn't that I had shanner tyres on the car at the time put some Dunlop sp sports on and made.the car a different animal altogether

 

What tires were you on before? You sure it wasn't a stealthy 200bhp 2.2? They are pretty damn quick

 

Triangles all round same as them sunny tyres terrifying to be quite honest in the wet
I was on a civinfo run years ago to Glencoe when it happened

 

I didn't buy them tyres BTW they were on a set of wheels I bought

 

8th gen seems very sensitive to wheel alignment and tyre choice. If the front is toeing in, it adversely effects the car's handing in a big way.

Get FRS (somewhere reputable) & decent tyres.

 

Well looks like that's the plan then, wear these tires out get good rubber and FRS, will be over to ABP as they are closest probably. Seen that a LSD isn't as expensive as I thought either

 

again worth chatting to stevie at grinspeed for frs mate, its head and shoulders above the others.