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Since I bought my Boxster S a couple of months ago I had been driving around without checking the tyre pressure and was loving the fact that nothing I could do would even make a screech from the tyres let alone a skid.
The reason I enjoyed this so much is because although I am not a terrible driver I do enjoy the feel of acceleration and tight corners every now and again just to get the blood pumping.
However, to get to my question, I recently pumped up the rear tyres having noted they were incorrectly set at about 32psi instead of 36psi and I have noticed quite different driving characteristics.
If I accelerate a bit harder than normal (but nothing extreme) around a small bend doing about 15 mph the back end slides out a bit. I initially thought it was just a greasy road but it happened again somewhere different on a shallower bend but with more acceleration. Again I thought it was me just being a bit over zealous until later I was on a road joining the M40-M42 with a very shallow bend on a rise (speed signs say rated at 50mph). I was doing 70mph, the same speed I had done this road previously in a BMW 3series and my Boxster before the tyre pressure change but this time I became wary of doing anything because the back end felt very light.
On an 18" Boxster S the pressures are 36psi rear and 29psi front aren' t they?
The reason I enjoyed this so much is because although I am not a terrible driver I do enjoy the feel of acceleration and tight corners every now and again just to get the blood pumping.
However, to get to my question, I recently pumped up the rear tyres having noted they were incorrectly set at about 32psi instead of 36psi and I have noticed quite different driving characteristics.
If I accelerate a bit harder than normal (but nothing extreme) around a small bend doing about 15 mph the back end slides out a bit. I initially thought it was just a greasy road but it happened again somewhere different on a shallower bend but with more acceleration. Again I thought it was me just being a bit over zealous until later I was on a road joining the M40-M42 with a very shallow bend on a rise (speed signs say rated at 50mph). I was doing 70mph, the same speed I had done this road previously in a BMW 3series and my Boxster before the tyre pressure change but this time I became wary of doing anything because the back end felt very light.
On an 18" Boxster S the pressures are 36psi rear and 29psi front aren' t they?