RoShamBo

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Can someone please explain in easy to digest chunks what these 2 are, & how they apply to a road car.

Thanks

Ro.

Steve001

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you prob get some nice technical explanations, but (and i prob get shot down):-

Oversteer front wheels slide away on cornering (front wheel cars tend to do this ALOT)

Understeer is the oposite and is when back end slides away.

There, nice a simple (i think)

Steve

MattW

Very simply

Understeer - Usually applied to FWD cars where the front wheels slideskid away from the corner. Hence the car aims straight ahead.

Oversteer - Usually applies to RWD cars where the driven wheels break away, spinning the rear end round.

Oversteer is correctable by steering into the slide, understeer is more difficult to control and will usually necessitate releasing power. However a FWD is less likely to understeer than a RWD one oversteer, hence why many people believe FWD are a safer option.

Robyn

pretty much it

understeer the front wheels slide out so the nose goes wide.

Oversteer the back end goes wide pushing the nose towards the corner.

[This message has been edited by Robyn (edited 10 October 2001).]

Nexuas

The definitions are what has been said above! How to apply it to a road car?

DONT, unless you know you can control the slide.

Understeer - sticking into a hedge on the out side of a bend.

Oversteer - Looking the direction you have just come.

Hope that is it in a nut shell.

Having an Awd car you can achieve both vey easily.

over - too fast into a corner.
Under - too much Gas on the way out.


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DavidRB

No wonder no-one understands this when the first reply is back-to-front!

Simply:

<B>Understeer:</B>
The front tyres generate less sideways force than the rears. This is felt as less grip at the front of the car.

The result is the car doesn't want to turn into the corner as it would normally and appears to want to "go straight on".


<B>Oversteer:</B>
The rear tyres generate less sideways force than the fronts. This is felt as less grip at the rear of the car.

The result is the car turns into the corner more sharply than it would normally. Typically, this results in a spin.

More complicated:

Steve001

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Sorry

maybe i should be forgiven?

as i posted my reply on my laptop here at the bottom of a ditch, after reversing down a road at 50mph and losing it - due to understeer (or was it oversteer)!

DavidRB

Just this once!

Steve001

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Cheers m8

Now i can go home

(Just waiting for the tow truck )

Andy W