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Old Oct 4, 2002 | 03:05 PM
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car smarties?

can somebody explain toqure steer, understeer, oversteer?
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Old Oct 4, 2002 | 03:10 PM
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Torque steer. When you punch your car (say FWD) and the steering wheel jerks to the left of right.

Understeer, you lose control of the front end.
Oversteer, your back end swings out. Oversteer is harder to control than understeer, problem with RWD cars.
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Old Oct 4, 2002 | 03:17 PM
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i thought it was like this:

Understeer - its when going through a sharp turn, u need to turn the steering wheel in MORE towards the direction of the turn in order to not run out

Oversteer - when taking the same turn, the steering wheel automatically turns in more causing the back end to slip out

i mightve said the same thing SICK said but in a dopier way
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Old Oct 4, 2002 | 03:46 PM
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Originally posted by 1SICKLEX
Torque steer. When you punch your car (say FWD) and the steering wheel jerks to the left of right.

Understeer, you lose control of the front end.
Oversteer, your back end swings out. Oversteer is harder to control than understeer, problem with RWD cars.
doont you mean understeer is harder to control than oversteer? I know alot of people with fast rwd cars that have a blast kicking out tail ends on back roads. The porsche 911 is great at that.
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Old Oct 4, 2002 | 05:01 PM
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I'll take rwd anyday over fwd. rwd is so much more fun.
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