I have 2 damaged front wheels which occurred on fast bends. I picked the car up 2 days ago with 4 new 18” prodrive rims (unmarked), p-zero tyres with 32 psi all round. Suspension seems good and handling seem great.
When cornering fast with throttle down all was ok. But when I come off with the throttle mid-bend the car over steered (like 4wd does) and I heared the rims make contact with the road.

Any idea’s please peeps or are the rims / tyre / car combo just not suited?

Car 01 uk 300
Tyres p-zero 225/40*18
Rims 7.0j 18 oz prodrive

Thanx in advanced ..Lee

 

**** Happens Lee , Must have been going some to get lift off oversteer fair play to you! I too have same wheel tyre combo as you have not experienced this problem yet obviously not trying hard enough.

Rrgards

John

 

Lee, sorry to here about that. I managed to curb 2 of my rims on my uk300, one bad and the other very lightly. Got straight on the phone an ordered a new rim. But be warned at £275 a peace not cheep. I'm sure you could get them re-furbished. By the way what numbers yours?.

 

I have phoned a place today who repairs wheels. i have sent them a pic so they can advise me first(rather than waste the costly pick up fee) so fingers crossed).

My car is numbered 183.

This is my first Scooby and apart from the wheel upset, i have found it to be most fun)

 

Made 2 calls today.

1. Mr wheel repair man says “Send em up. I can make em into new wheels.” …Yipee.

2. Mr nice car salesman from Subaru says “Slow down Lee.. your not on a racetrack” as I returned the chuckle and hung up the phone, I remembered his selling sales pitch.. ”These machines are built for the race track.”

Ok. So I wasn’t on a race track, but the road was clear and imho I was not cornering any faster than anybody else (in a Scooby) would do. So that still leaves me wondering how to prevent the same from happening again? Or is there something wrong with my car?

 

Are you saying you hit the curb-stone during the oversteer or that while oversteering the wheel rim made contact with the road surface???????

 

The wheels made contact with the road. The damage done was lots of tiny little chunks taken out over most of the way round the rims.

 

That is REALLY VERY BAD.

You are VERY lucky you did not roll the car (the edge of the rim digs into the tarmac and flips the car).

It suggests tyre pressure way to low (like 5PSI) or you have a mismatch between wheel width and tyre width, maybe have a dodgey batch of tyres with very soft sidewalls........

I would not drive the car till it is sorted (IMHO)