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Old 7th June 2008, 10:04 AM   #1 (permalink)
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High speed ride now getting dangerous

OK, so you've heard me mention how great the power is but the high speed handling needs tweaking. Well, it's getting worse. The car behaves so erratically when on fast highways with any bends that it's almost dangerous. On the circuit there's none of this but on a public highway above 180kph beware, it pitches like a SOAB. I've tried comfort, normal and R modes but it's always the same which means the springs are just not up to the job. When I spoke to mine's they said they had lots of complaints about this. Apparently the springs they supply will not fix the problem. This means either waiting for springs or going with a full suspension upgrade and therefore deleting the Comfort/Normal/R mode altogether and being stuck on R.

If the shocks really cannot be made to handle the weight of this car with any types of springs on highways then I will have to trump up the Yen1m to replace them. Or, wait to see if the Euro version is any better based on feedback from the JDM owners.

I'm going to have one last crack by speaking to the HPC and see if they will have any advice but JDM buyers beware, this car is NOT good on highways at high speeds. It's just too "bouncy".
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