sedan and wind.....

[Yaris Hilton]

Wider tires are more prone to wander.

[chew246214]

stock 15's no wander just pushing around from wind especially sidewinds.... actually not completly stock I have scion hubcaps for my snowtires that are stock size) I know how a wider tire will wander especially when braking hard I am more used to driving lifted trucks, this is only my 3 rd import car the others was a 4 door civic sport and I has a subaru legacy.... they both had rims/tires/ but no real bad effects from the combos except on the subaru I went too big of a rim and too low of a tire and kept destroying them on rough roads... which is why I do not want to go bigger then 16's on this car but trying to stay on 15's if I can..... this car is a commuter that is now getting driven daily in the last few weeks except the few days of snow....

[supmet]

Originally Posted by Yaris Hilton

Wider tires are more prone to wander.

I agree in wet or bumpy roads, but just talking wind on the freeway, is wider really worse? I could kind of see spreading the weight out leaving you less planted, but it still doesn't make sense to me

@rockland

We've had pretty heavy winds out of the cajon pass the past few weeks with steady winds at 30-40 and gusts at 60-70. My sedan doesn't handle that bad, its a little scary sometimes, but I can definitely hold it steady. Maybe its time for an alignment

[ROCKLAND TOYOTA]

Originally Posted by chew246214

today I can understand, there is at least50-60 mph winds going and boy are they cold.... It's the everyday normal wind that concerns me... I deal with it, but my wife bitches about it so bad she dosen't want to drive it and wants to take the suburban which defeats the purpose of buying a car that gets 40 plus miles per gallon on a 75 mile commute to work....Just trying not to spend money on useless parts thats all..... Also found this ad...
*****For SALE w/ InstaLL Tanabe DF210 Lowering springs for 07-08 Toyota Yaris...used for the summer and now clean and in the box
---INSTALLED $250 within 2hrs

***Springs alone for $150 obo***
I need to double check it was for a sedan if not are they interchangable? and it seems like a decent price to me considering he is willing to install them.(I don't ave time) any thoughts?

NORMAL everyday driving will benefit from the swaybar right away and with the springs its makes things even better........

Originally Posted by supmet

@rockland
We've had pretty heavy winds out of the cajon pass the past few weeks with steady winds at 30-40 and gusts at 60-70. My sedan doesn't handle that bad, its a little scary sometimes, but I can definitely hold it steady. Maybe its time for an alignment

not a bad suggestion seeing as its been almost 3 years now and it couldn't hurt. also the liftback isn't as wind friendly as the sedan so my normal commute yesterday was greeted by 2 hands on the wheel and the hopes there was no ice patches around when i got jolted.

[chew246214]

BTW meant to tell you rockland toyota.... I used to live up by you and worked for the dodge dealer on 17 in Ramsey that closed... Used to drive by you all the time dealing with accounts and one of your techs or service guys used to buy parts from us all the time.... Find that kinda funny....

[chew246214]

Oh and I shouldn't need an alignment yet.. no real bumps hit yet.. only been driving it the last 2 weeks... we bought it a few months ago but had a lease that was very low on miles that went back 2 weeks ago so we racked the miles on that before we got rid of it.... Actually bought it with the cash for clunkers deal and then parked it in the garage until two weeks ago.... so we only started to put miles on it.. it sat in the garage with 4 miles for a few months....