Today after tennis, my friend took his Volvo XC70 on some pretty twisty roads and eventually we were going 95 and his car did under-steer abit so we almost crashed and died. Later, I took my 96 A4 2.8Q and it performed so much better. I was totally impressed. No signs of under-steering even at high speeds. I did not accelerate hard though since I baby my car. Does such cornering put significant stress on the suspension or is it just the tires? My friend and I had an argument about that.

Thanks!

 

cornering hard puts significant stress on your suspension, yes...do you have the stock suspension? i would think a new xc70 would out-perform a 96 a4...especially since there was no sport suspension in 96...

 

the Volvo XC70 is like an SUV almost so that thing must have had alot of body roll

 

ooooh yea, that's the suv type thing. that makes more sense...

 

No, XC70 is the S60 wagon, basically a Volvo A6 Avant. XC90 is the SUV. Your car understeers, for definitely sure. You weren't going fast enough to reach the limit, but nose heavy Audi+stock suspension=understeer.

 

aaaaaaaaah! so i'm not crazy. thank you yuik, i thought i was losing it for a minute there....

 

I dont know...doesn't it look like that eyeball in your avatar is like, looking at you? Staring, even?
That would creep me out, if it were looking at me.

 

aaahahaha, i love that eye....that's my girl!

 

Gonna need pics immediately. In the interest of, uhm, science.
Tell her she has a pretty eye, from me. [sm=devilangel.gif]

 

https://www.audiforums.com/m_65876/m...s/tm.htm#66273

there's a pic towards the bottom of that thread