Help with steering feel
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Also 235/45 is part of the issue. These tires overall diameter is significantly more, almost as tall as a 275/40. You really should have gone with a shorter 235/40 or stuck with a 225/45. 235/45 on a 8" wide rim isn't a great pairing and the overall diameter is just an odd pairing with any rear tire option. Best you can do is air it up to try and firm up the added sidewall deflection and get an alignment with more caster to return some of that liveliness on center and camber will help turn in response. But its just not a good handling size tire no way you cut it. Probably an RS3? which is known to be structurally numb in the sidewall already.
It doesn't matter so much how wide a tire you go up front to maintain feel, its the overall diameter and the rim width pairing you go with, and along with the tire construction and alignment some too of course. I run a 255 up front paired with a 10" and I have no less feedback then the factory tire size, probably have more feel just because I have more tire on the ground giving feedback and a sidewall profile that doesn't deform much under inputs because its on the right mated rim width for its tire width.
It doesn't matter so much how wide a tire you go up front to maintain feel, its the overall diameter and the rim width pairing you go with, and along with the tire construction and alignment some too of course. I run a 255 up front paired with a 10" and I have no less feedback then the factory tire size, probably have more feel just because I have more tire on the ground giving feedback and a sidewall profile that doesn't deform much under inputs because its on the right mated rim width for its tire width.
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