New winter tyres- Feels like floating.. Normal?
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Recently swapped my tyres to 4x new Continental TS860 (supposedly the best of the best winter tyres there are from all the reviews...kinda have my doubts now..),
However the car now feels just damn weird to drive, feels like you are steering a boat,it has become less responsive, seems like there's now a small delay before you turn the steering wheel and the car doing something + taking turns with it feels just weird and a bit spongy..
The car before that (on some very old not so good summer tyres) drove perfectly fine, but now with these supposedely premium best of the best tyres it just feels like $hit.
Just wondering if this is normal with softer winter tyres or there's something wrong?
Certainly I haven't had this huuuge difference when swapping for winter tyres on other cars.
The tyres I bought were brand new and made before like 2weeks before they were delivered, kinda too fresh...
The car drives just fine in straight line, doesn't pulls to one side or other stuff you would expect from missaligned steering as well.
However the car now feels just damn weird to drive, feels like you are steering a boat,it has become less responsive, seems like there's now a small delay before you turn the steering wheel and the car doing something + taking turns with it feels just weird and a bit spongy..
The car before that (on some very old not so good summer tyres) drove perfectly fine, but now with these supposedely premium best of the best tyres it just feels like $hit.
Just wondering if this is normal with softer winter tyres or there's something wrong?
Certainly I haven't had this huuuge difference when swapping for winter tyres on other cars.
The tyres I bought were brand new and made before like 2weeks before they were delivered, kinda too fresh...
The car drives just fine in straight line, doesn't pulls to one side or other stuff you would expect from missaligned steering as well.
Alright well than I'm worrying for nothing, truth be told this if my first set of decent fresh winter tyres, in past I just got some part worn older stuff or some regular cheapo M+S which weren't so soft so probably these haven't worn down enough for them to feel just ''normal''
there's live ice almost all of the winter down where I live,specially the first few hundred meters where no salt-spreader comes so the only way to get out is to have a good tyres, when it's really bad 90% of my neighbourhood just doesn't drives anywhere as they simply can't get out so winter tyres are a must have for me...
there's live ice almost all of the winter down where I live,specially the first few hundred meters where no salt-spreader comes so the only way to get out is to have a good tyres, when it's really bad 90% of my neighbourhood just doesn't drives anywhere as they simply can't get out so winter tyres are a must have for me...
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