With the weather getting colder and possibly my tyres being probably to the end of there life, Ive noticed for the first time when my cupra spins, rather than the horrible thuding sound of the wheels hitting the road, there actually spinning with out that horrible feeling, Im thinking cold tyres wet road, or possibly there pretty much dead on the front.
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Any one noticing more wheel spin than normal
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My Mich PSS's are functioning just as well now as in the summer, no spinning/tramping at all, time for new tyres I think.
Getting colder and on wet roads I experience the same, but my pss on the front need replacement in next spring some time after switching from winter tyres to the pss again
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I'm running Pirelli Pzs my only worry is I'm having a live revo remap done on Saturday, so I won't as much traction as possible for the most gains. From looking at them they look like they've got 300 miles left on them, the backs are brand new still, but I've only had bane (the cupras name) for 5 months and covered 7k miles but done 2 track days so seems about right, just the first time I've felt the car spin as it did( with out the horrible banging noise usually felt) and just span smoothly. Thanks guys will let you know how much it spins on these tyres when it's 380bhp
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My new pzs are going on this week, if it spins and sounds like my dashboard is being hammer drilled then it's tyre wear for sure. Will post a video with 380bhp and new tyres spinning
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My conti sp 5's are giving me terrible wheel hop in this cold wet weather. It's a challenge keeping the power down. Getting down to a couple of mm on the fronts so ordered a set of pss's for the front.
When you have a REVO map over OBD maybe you can ask them to throttle the power in 1st and 2nd gear thát much so wheelspin is limited.
With a stage 1 or even more on a stage 2 wheelspin will only increase and get harder to control by your right foot.
Here in The Netherlands 2 welknown tuners offer that and it improves the drivability a lot and has only positive influence at the acceleration.
But it is only possible when they tune over OBD and if tested on a rolling road to fine tune it.
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My oe bridgestones with the dtuk box on are well out of their depth in the damp... Tbh they were well out of their depth before that ill be ordering some pss after christmas, my previous cupra with pscup 2 on had so much more grip in all conditions, its unreal how little the bridgestones have!
Yeah I know what you mean, I think there gonna take that into account because they live map them, they company and myself prefer what the car feels and drives like on the road, I really don't see the point in a dyno and mapping it to that unless your just after figures... a car is never gonna get the grip of being strapped down like it does on a dyno. I take it you've had your done then, if so what figures dude
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Yep, same here. Not sure what tyres mine has but will check tomorrow and report back (April 2016 184 FR ST with 18" wheels). At the moment - this is the worst car I've ever had for grip/wheelspin. I've only done 4k miles so tyres should be nowhere near needing replacement, but am seriously thinking about replacing the fronts to improve the grip.
Revo 375bhp on my cupra 290..... brand new PZs dry and 5c temperatures only see traction control kicking in at 5700rpm in 1st 2nd and third. Change your tyres folks and don't over inflate.... I stuck to what it said on the petrol cap for psi and I was told on my old tyres (5months old Pirelli Pzeros) I've over inflated them and made the tyre loose traction might be the same for you folks 
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even on my 184 the Pirelli P7 Cints had started to spin in the wet (down to 2.5mm) so I stuck the winter set on and all is peaceful.
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