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Brake swerve?
« on: September 29, 2011, 01:46:47 pm »
Recently on DC and had to brake hard. The car started swerving side to side, very gently but noticeably. Traction control light wasn't flashing. Don't think the road was wet. Very strange as it's never happened before.

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Re: Brake swerve?
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2011, 04:09:03 pm »
Sounds normal to me, under heavy braking a lot of cars snake. All the weight transfers to the front making the rear very light thus twitching about. With mine being quite light it snakes all over the shop under hard braking something like this.  :driver:

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Re: Brake swerve?
« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2011, 04:19:14 pm »
Light rear end when braking makes going around corners more fun. :-)


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Re: Brake swerve?
« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2011, 04:26:31 pm »
Nothing wrong with Stock brakes  :popcornsoda:

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Re: Brake swerve?
« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2011, 04:31:58 pm »
Nothing wrong with Stock brakes  :popcornsoda:

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Re: Brake swerve?
« Reply #5 on: September 29, 2011, 05:08:56 pm »



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« Last Edit: September 29, 2011, 05:16:35 pm by Saint Steve »

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Re: Brake swerve?
« Reply #6 on: September 29, 2011, 08:40:44 pm »
Cool. First time I've experienced it like that. What was cool was the car stayed within the lane quite neatly.

Light rear end when braking makes going around corners more fun. :-)
Not disagreeing there! But I was going in a straight line!

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Re: Brake swerve?
« Reply #7 on: September 29, 2011, 09:39:35 pm »
Are your brakes standard Jas?  :popcornsoda:

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Re: Brake swerve?
« Reply #8 on: September 29, 2011, 09:42:26 pm »
Are your brakes standard Jas?  :popcornsoda:

You already know the answer to that!  :grin: 

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Re: Brake swerve?
« Reply #9 on: September 29, 2011, 09:47:04 pm »
R32 fronts will only exacerbate this.


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Re: Brake swerve?
« Reply #10 on: September 29, 2011, 09:48:43 pm »
If you haven't already you need to uprate the rears too, makes a world of difference!  :wink:

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Re: Brake swerve?
« Reply #11 on: September 29, 2011, 09:49:24 pm »
Front and back done.

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Re: Brake swerve?
« Reply #12 on: September 29, 2011, 09:51:36 pm »
That might be on my list then :-)


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Re: Brake swerve?
« Reply #13 on: September 29, 2011, 09:52:19 pm »
Front and back done.

It should feel fairly planted then :-S


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Re: Brake swerve?
« Reply #14 on: September 29, 2011, 09:54:09 pm »
It does, or at least it did until yesterday.

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