the famous snap oversteer story's! Mr2 mk2!

[Draven]

Nope, it had the castle nut and split pin when I'd checked about a week prior to the 'mishap'. Took it to a tyre place to get alignment done, they said I needed a NS track rod end and replaced it the same afternoon.

Couple of days later the ball joint popped out of the LCA

Thing is, there's no reason they would have to touch the ball joint just to change a track rod end. Maybe the split pin was rusty and disintegrated over a bump. I thought for a few days it may have been a result of somebody tampering with the car, but upon reflection the front is way too low to get a hand underneath - let alone a socket or pliers!

Thats pretty shitty, well least you didn't crash or anything.

[DAN_REV1_TURBO]

That is a positive way of looking at it..

Haha, well, there will though won`t there! Without fail every year somebody wraps one round a lamp post or finds a ditch or spins out and has a snap over steer story - `the back end just over took me`!

[pbmr2]

I went out for a passenger ride in a mate's golf mk5 r32 last weekend. Quite a quick car, but much, much more forgiving as it's 4wd.
He was stamping on the throttle as soon as he'd put lock on and the 4wd was just sorting it out for him - i was surprised it's safe/reasonable to stamp on the throttle like that. In an mr2 you do things smoothly or they will spit you out.

Not sure how different the two cars (my v6 versus his r32) would be on a track (I secretly think mine is a bit faster), but the way they can be driven is MILES apart.

MY car gets chucked around really hard quite often, never does anything weird handling wise. Even force it at the wrong times to spice things up a little. Great fun in the wet.
It's a great handling car that hasn't even tried to kill me once in 10k this year. Including winter in the alps!

Staggered wheels and tyres is going to help a lot. Cheap tyres will not help, less so in the wet. All that is useless if the wheels are pointing in the wrong dircetion, so alignment is a must. Not tracking, proper 4 wheel alignment.

Good luck and drive safe

[gavsdavs]

I went out for a passenger ride in a mate's golf mk5 r32 last weekend. Quite a quick car, but much, much more forgiving as it's 4wd.
He was stamping on the throttle as soon as he'd put lock on and the 4wd was just sorting it out for him - i was surprised it's safe/reasonable to stamp on the throttle like that. In an mr2 you do things smoothly or they will spit you out.

Not sure how different the two cars (my v6 versus his r32) would be on a track (I secretly think mine is a bit faster), but the way they can be driven is MILES apart.

MY car gets chucked around really hard quite often, never does anything weird handling wise. Even force it at the wrong times to spice things up a little. Great fun in the wet.
It's a great handling car that hasn't even tried to kill me once in 10k this year. Including winter in the alps!

Staggered wheels and tyres is going to help a lot. Cheap tyres will not help, less so in the wet. All that is useless if the wheels are pointing in the wrong dircetion, so alignment is a must. Not tracking, proper 4 wheel alignment.

Good luck and drive safe

I don't drive mine like a chauffeur, trust me, but there's enough torque there to overwhelm the rears in lower gears. If you've any lock on, you've got to be ready for that. It's the joy of driving a relatively powerful MR car without any driver aids. You can't rest in the cold or wet

[SonicSW20]

Gav is a specialist at ending up in the kitty litter facing the wrong way on track days!

[pbmr2]

I went out for a passenger ride in a mate's golf mk5 r32 last weekend. Quite a quick car, but much, much more forgiving as it's 4wd.
He was stamping on the throttle as soon as he'd put lock on and the 4wd was just sorting it out for him - i was surprised it's safe/reasonable to stamp on the throttle like that. In an mr2 you do things smoothly or they will spit you out.

Not sure how different the two cars (my v6 versus his r32) would be on a track (I secretly think mine is a bit faster), but the way they can be driven is MILES apart.

MY car gets chucked around really hard quite often, never does anything weird handling wise. Even force it at the wrong times to spice things up a little. Great fun in the wet.
It's a great handling car that hasn't even tried to kill me once in 10k this year. Including winter in the alps!

Staggered wheels and tyres is going to help a lot. Cheap tyres will not help, less so in the wet. All that is useless if the wheels are pointing in the wrong dircetion, so alignment is a must. Not tracking, proper 4 wheel alignment.

Good luck and drive safe

I don't drive mine like a chauffeur, trust me, but there's enough torque there to overwhelm the rears in lower gears. If you've any lock on, you've got to be ready for that. It's the joy of driving a relatively powerful MR car without any driver aids. You can't rest in the cold or wet

Yeah I make time to go for a drive when it's raining. Loads of fun. Mind you my current tyres are very good in the wet so they need a fair bit of weight shift or a lot of right foot to get them sliding.

The rear dancing around isn't an issue, in fact it's fun. The front sliding is just plain scary.