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Old Feb 12, 2005 | 10:13 AM
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Default Rear end steps out a bit.

I've owned now for 2.5 years. No spins :knock on wood:

I've fish-tailed once or twice in the rain. Basically going straing ahead but it got loose. But I figured hey it's raining what do you expect?

Also once or twice with cold tires (not fridgid out) maybe 38-40-C when going straight ahead on the 1-2 shift it stepped out a few inches. Nothing crazy, but if I was closer to a curb it could have been a problem.

Does this happen to anyone else? Why does it happen if straight ahead with equal traction L-R ?

Just curious.

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Old Feb 12, 2005 | 10:19 AM
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tire pressure?
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Old Feb 12, 2005 | 10:20 AM
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There's always some crown to the roads so its not totally flat.
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Old Feb 12, 2005 | 10:56 AM
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Happens to me, too.

Anything but dry and warm, I have to be careful with WOT at VTEC transition and with aggressive shifts.
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Old Feb 12, 2005 | 10:59 AM
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do you have stock tires?
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Old Feb 12, 2005 | 11:05 AM
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happens to me all the time..
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Old Feb 12, 2005 | 11:05 AM
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Happens to me when its cold out... pretty fun but also dangerous when your fishtailing going 40.
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Old Feb 12, 2005 | 11:13 AM
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It happened to me too. I had about 7k on the car, tire pressure was good, spring spacers were removed. All I can thing were the road surface having maybe too much loose gravel or the tires were not fully warmed up.
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Old Feb 12, 2005 | 11:31 AM
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Originally Posted by TwistedS2k' date='Feb 12 2005, 11:59 AM
do you have stock tires?
Yea stock. Around 6K miles on them.

Def not warmed up. But like I said it was dry and straight ahead, but it did step out away from the center of the road that is down the grade. Might have been rock-and crap from the salt/gravel they put on the roads around here.
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Old Feb 12, 2005 | 12:09 PM
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rear and end stepped out on me on a compleatly stright road.35 degrees and a 8500 rpm shift 1st to second. was a little freaky.
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