Sway Bar Upgrade

[JWMich]

Originally Posted by SlickGT1

Yes compromises that balance the car for the average driver. Can the more advanced driver overcome those compromises before upgrading the sways? Yes you can, I for one know that I will never enlarge the sways on this car. There is too much negative, especially for me in NYC.

Once you upgrade the sways, I hope you also upgrade the tires. There is a reason track cars still stick to the road, with sways so thick and solid that you can't get any body roll.

Seems to me, then, that your last two posts contradict your original position - you're acknowledging that the engineers who designed my X5, with their millions in R&D, don't try to make their design decisions so the "ultimate driving machine" becomes more ultimate. Instead, they "balance" the car for the average driver and deliberately design in understeer, for example, to accommodate people who can't drive.

I think the actual info value in this thread is probably the idea to give thicker rears a try first and see whether that feels better than the designed-in understeer. Thanks for that. And FWIW, yeah, I've been around long enough to know better tires should come first - that OE design compromise sucked, too.