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Originally Posted by nick325xit 5spd
You are radically over-indexing for differences between cars. If you look at conepacking, in the street tire classes where cars have lots of choices, the competitive people all end up on a very small set of tires (or even the same tire) on very different vehicles.
Yeah, if you have a set of fairly similar tires, direct experience is going to help differentiate. But that's at a point when you're talking subtle differences.
The fact is that most people haven't even used enough different sets of tires to have a valid opinion on whether a tire is good or bad. At best, they can say that the tire meets their expectations. But what is their expectation reference? Do they even know what understeer is? If they know what understeer is, how much of that understeer is caused by their driving style?
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You didn't answer my question. What would you do if the tires you have chosen cause too much understeer?
I don't view this as splitting hairs, far from it. I see it as information to help make an informed decision rather than just do what others do not knowing if your results will be the same.
I don't think it matters if they know what understeer is or not. If their driving causes understeer and the tires magnify understeer they may not know why but they will know they didn't like going into the ditch. A stock X5 is designed to understeer. I would never want a tire that would add to understeer.
We aren't discussing racing. That is entirely a different breed of cat and we would be talking about summer or race tires only. This discussion is about winter tires. If you are a serious racer you are aware of the sensitivity of width, size of tire, tire pressure, track conditions, alignment, weight distribution etc. have on handling. And likely the first place you would go to get the best tire input, if needed, would be to someone that does very well and has the same or very similar car, setup and similar HP/TQ.