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LSD and ruff rutty roads?

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Old May 25, 2006 | 01:18 PM
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LSD and ruff rutty roads?

Anyone notice in ruffer or rut like roads that you MCS with LSD will pull all sorts of directions? or is this just something that is happening to me. i just checked and corrected my tire pressure to 36 PSI at all 4 corners.
I have a 05 MCS with LSD and i have had it in SLC utah up till a few weeks ago, i am now in Portland oregon for the summer, and the roads are ruffer around here, and my mini is all over the place!
Perhaps something is wrong???
 
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Old May 25, 2006 | 02:04 PM
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May not be the LSD, since my car used to "tramline" all the time but especially under brakes where the ruts were exaggerated near stop lights. I have 215/40/17 tires, and thought it might be the wide tires, but since I put some negative camber on my front wheels, the tramlining has gone (significantly and almost totally gone, I should say.)

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Old May 25, 2006 | 02:14 PM
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rough road

i found that it happens to me as well. my mini likes to ride in the ruts in the motorway from all of the truck traffic sometimes the mini thinks it can drive itself down the road . anyway the road is the probulm not the mini or the driver the springs are tight and unforgiving a friend that weighs @300lbs got in my mini and it barely squaded hope that this info helps by the way your roads cant be any worse than the British
 
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