Originally Posted by
Bailes1992
I had a rant at someone on the talk Ford forums the other day who was going down this route with his car.
I get different genres of modifying, I personally like the OEM+ approach. But this 'scene' bollucks is something I can't get my head around.
Ford did an awesome job at the handling of the MK6 Fiesta out of the factory. Improvements are to be made by moderate lowering, a tidy set of alloys and some good tyres.
So why do they insist on slamming it, fitting either massive alloys or the smallest alloys they can get their hands on (They can get more 'lows' with smaller wheels) and then to make it worse they fit tyres that are too small? I don't get it?
What they've done is completly ruin the handling and saftey of the car Ford spent millions trying to perfect. You wouldn't downgrade your brakes would you? So what makes it acceptable to downgrade the handling?
Back early in the year while outside laning it down the M4 one morning a MK4 Astra running camber and stretched tyres had a tyre pop off the bead and spin out infront of me. Scared the absolute crap out of me and was lucky that Ford equipped the Mondeo with such awesome brakes from the factory. otherwise I would have come a cropper! Actually I think I might downgrade them, will MK3 Mondeo front brakes fit?
that's pretty much the VAG scene all over, its probably same with other brand scenes but u see a lot of it with VAG cars, I was part of the scene but I had moderate lows and proper tyres on my car fitted the wheels like they should have, what makes laugh about silly stretch on tyres is they do it to stop the tyre from rubbing the arches but their wheels are refurbed every 5 mins as theres no protection to the lip of the wheel from the tyre