Why NOT get staggered wheel sizes?
11-05-2002, 06:57 AM
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Why NOT get staggered wheel sizes?
Why is staggered not good for Quattro? I want 19x9 or 19x9.5 in the rear and 19.8x5's in the front...what would this do to Quattro? I know TCM GLX did it..and people add spacers to wheels all the time to give them a bit more width, so what would be the problems associated with this?
11-05-2002, 07:44 AM
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Staggered wheels don't help stability...
Those extra millimeters of footprint in the rear won't help too much ever...in RWD cars, they help some with traction, but in a AWD car like the A4, all they do is **** with ESP and quattro, either a)depriving you of ESP, which does help stability in real-world (ie non-track) driving or b) burning up your brakes (which is expensive and can be dangerous)
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11-05-2002, 10:03 AM
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Do a search on Audizine...someone was explaining it...but I can't remember what he said
and don't want to spread disinformation....
he was running 19x8.5 in front and 19x10 in the back I think...
he was running 19x8.5 in front and 19x10 in the back I think...
11-05-2002, 10:27 AM
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What are u talking about?
how would it mess with esp? As long as the rolling radius of f/r is similar enough, you should have no problems with staggered wheels and quattro. Porsche's system is kinda different b/c it is rwd-biased...but if I recall what I read in an article awhile back, that system has some constant slip in it due to a slightly larger front wheel rolling radius...so it will maintain rwd-bias in most conditions. hope that helps.