Tamora handling

[Pop Pop]

Just got my 52 Tamora, firstly a great car at a very reasonable price.
Getting to know the car and on country roads which are greasy now and the lovely back end is not as firmly planted as I expected, it is easy to control, and overcontrol for this average driver!
The suspension looks standard, tyres are 225/35ZR18 T1 Sport Proxes front, brand new. Rears are 235/40ZR18 T1R Proxes with 6mm but 5 years old. Pressures 24 all round.
The rears are too old and are the prooblem I guess. Any of you kmowledgeable guys like to suggest improvements I should make? Cheers.

[fredd1e]

Tyres are probably past thier best and not helping but this is a natural tendancy for a TVR T car. Suggest Goodyear F1 Asyms on the rear as my personal tyre preference . or consider a winter tyre now the temps are dropping, though it wont cure it just ease the symptoms and may make them occur more often on dry roads . Staying off the loud pedal may also help but even in a straight line in the current conditions could find the tail wagging if trying to press on .

[Mr M]

Kumho 235s on mine. Put on by previous owner or dealer. Handles extremely well on these.

http://www.kumhotyre.co.uk/motorsport.php

I'd probably wait for the spring\summer to test the handling too much. Slippery city out there at the moment.

[sidpinup]

Welcome to the fold.

Good tyres are obviously very important and I recently went for the F1 asymmetric as previously mentioned and I like them very much they grip in a very predictable way and suffer less in the wet than the Toyos.

It's also worth having a full geo setup as T cars are really fussy and even a slightly bad setup can feel awful.

I had a leaking shock so upgraded to Nitrons and ebach springs and I have to say its the best upgrade for your buck that I have had. Very direct handling without being harsh over our increasingly pot holed roads.

Cheers