Hi everyone,
I just wanted to ask about other FR owners' experiences.
This is a subject that bothers me a little since I bought the car in May 2021. It had around 23k kilometers on the odometer at the time and there were factory-mounted Bridgestone Turanzas on it. I kept them for 20k kms more but I found them noisy and a little weak in terms of roadholding and replaced with Continental Sport Contact 5s, which is a tire I used & liked a lot in the past.
The chassis is the factory-spec lowered FR, meaning stiffer & 15 mm shorter springs and thicker anti-roll bar at the front, along with the optional DCC shocks. Also 225/40/18 tires are factory-spec too.
What I find a little odd is that the car's front end gets disturbed when passing over road imperfections at moderate & high speeds, like over 50 or 60 km/h. It sways to one side and then to the other, then gathers itself without any problems. Tire replacement did not change anything. Not sure if this swaying is too much and enough to get worried or if it is normal, but I don't remember anything like this with my previous car, an '07 Opel Corsa Sport, that I owned for 14 years, with factory-spec lowered & stiffer chassis and the same CSC5 tires, only with the smaller size of 215/45/17s, so similar setup with my Leon in regard to the running gear (no active dampers of course). It always felt like a train going on its tracks and no swaying at all. This behaviour in Leon hampers my driving pleasure a little bit, something I don't expect in an upper segment car with some more modern hardware. On the other hand, I thought that if this could be an intentional setup, for some more playability and giving the driver more feel, which my previous car lacked a bit.
Any thoughts on this will be appreciated, thanks & regards.
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I just wanted to ask about other FR owners' experiences.
This is a subject that bothers me a little since I bought the car in May 2021. It had around 23k kilometers on the odometer at the time and there were factory-mounted Bridgestone Turanzas on it. I kept them for 20k kms more but I found them noisy and a little weak in terms of roadholding and replaced with Continental Sport Contact 5s, which is a tire I used & liked a lot in the past.
The chassis is the factory-spec lowered FR, meaning stiffer & 15 mm shorter springs and thicker anti-roll bar at the front, along with the optional DCC shocks. Also 225/40/18 tires are factory-spec too.
What I find a little odd is that the car's front end gets disturbed when passing over road imperfections at moderate & high speeds, like over 50 or 60 km/h. It sways to one side and then to the other, then gathers itself without any problems. Tire replacement did not change anything. Not sure if this swaying is too much and enough to get worried or if it is normal, but I don't remember anything like this with my previous car, an '07 Opel Corsa Sport, that I owned for 14 years, with factory-spec lowered & stiffer chassis and the same CSC5 tires, only with the smaller size of 215/45/17s, so similar setup with my Leon in regard to the running gear (no active dampers of course). It always felt like a train going on its tracks and no swaying at all. This behaviour in Leon hampers my driving pleasure a little bit, something I don't expect in an upper segment car with some more modern hardware. On the other hand, I thought that if this could be an intentional setup, for some more playability and giving the driver more feel, which my previous car lacked a bit.
Any thoughts on this will be appreciated, thanks & regards.
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