Audi RS3 - wider tyres at the front compared to the rear....

[vrooom]

that because audi dont know anything about handling.

[kambites]

I don't understand why people think it's perfectly acceptable to have wider tyres on the rear but not the front?

On a 4WD car, you ideally want equal pressure on the contact patches so you want the tyre width to scale with the weight over the axles - a nose-heavy car should have wider front tyres, a rear-heavy car should have wider rear tyres. Presumably the Audi is slightly nose-heavy.


So I'd say it's because Audi, or at least Audi's RS division, do know about handling.

[ShampooEfficient]

Munich said:

FamilyDub said:

Supposedly to dial out the understeer, I would think.

Although the user on here 'NBirkett' is a
VAG magazine editor and said that, despite what the press was saying, at the RS3 test front and rear tyres were the same width.

goes off to find thread...

I see a RS3 parked around the corner from my apartment every so often. I'll pop out in a bit and see if the car is there and check the tyres sizes....... As if I don't have anything better to do on a Sunday afternoon

Check them left to right as well as front to back, hehe.

[Leptons]

If it uses the normal Vag 4wd system then it's FWD most of the time anyway. Couple that with a heavy engine over the front wheels then it makes perfect sense to me. It's obviously functional, I like that.

[FamilyDub]

FamilyDub said:

...the user on here 'NBirkett' is a VAG magazine editor and said that, despite what the press was saying, at the RS3 test front and rear tyres were the same width.

goes off to find thread...

^^ bah, I seemed to have made that up. He *actually* said this:-

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[Munich]

FamilyDub said:

^^ bah, I seemed to have made that up. He *actually* said this:-

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

so still no idea ( ) but thanks for checking. I think I will need to ask a friend of a friend of a friend who is an engineer and works at either Audi or BMW as a contractor. May take some time though.