03-23-2013, 06:58 PM | #1 |
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How Damaging is hard Cornering?
everyone likes to corner hard, it's fun and it's eaiser than slowign down for every turn.... but it is bad for your driveline or rear axle? Will it cause your wheel bearings to go out sooner? How about other parts of the car? I'm not worried about tires, they're meant to be replaced.
How do you all drive? Do you avoid hard cornering to protect your car? And what have been you experiences? I did quite a bit in my 2000 RS, never had a problem and I sold it with 103,000 miles. |
03-23-2013, 07:05 PM | #2 |
I am interested in what other say about this, I don't see how it could do damage to your driveline though.
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03-23-2013, 07:14 PM | #3 |
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With good tires I think you're just losing tread...
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Now if you don't make it through the corner and leave the road or track, then you may have some new problems.
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I do it a lot myself however there are a few things to worry about, not just your tires. The most important of these are your Constant-Velocity Joints. Repeated hard cornering over time could cause these to fail. If they do you could be watching your tire roll down the road past you...
Edit: Thus causing massive damage to rear suspension/axle Last edited by Scooter11; 03-23-2013 at 07:22 PM. Reason: Emphasis on the result of doing this too much |
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Well I have a 2011 1Ss/RS i've had it on Watkins Glen Road Course 6 times 65 to 75 in curves 123 on back stretch. Stock suspension stock brakes & and have never had a problem yet. Are club puts them on the track every year and we have had up to 40 of us on there at once.
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03-23-2013, 08:19 PM | #10 |
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Your kidding right?
These cars are made for cornering! Sure hard cornering over long periods of time will do some ware and tear to your car but you didn't buy this car to jut look at it did you? LOL
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Anything that handles deflection. Mainly your wallet over time.
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Hey kaBoom . . . I too had to laugh at this one.
You'll get more damage hitting your head on the drivers side glass ! You got a Camaro for Chris* sake . . . drive it ! |
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