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Road Manners (Handling question)

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petergalileo:
As a comparison mine has a 2 inch lift but is still on its original rubber bushes and mine too is "wishy washy" specially when overtaking large lorries at speed.

Peter

Wanderer:
Polybushes and Decarbon Gas dampers seem to help with mine.

Range Rover Blues:
I'd go for Pro-Comp from explorer as they have a better warranty, on the road they don't seem any different from the DeCarbon, both are good.  I've just ordered 4 +1" for £132 delivered as they are having a bit of an offer up to christmas, free next day delivery!

Springs are a matter of choice, new ones would be a little stiffer but unless you uprate them the new ones will soon be as soft.  If you aren't off roading, don't lift it.

The Panhard rod and rear A frame are the worst culprits for bad handling/steering but I like the feel of a fully polubushed car, I'm confident in ours for handling even though it's heavily modified.  I havn't done the ARBs yet but I do have a twin rear ARB to cope with the LPG tanks/dogs/trailer.

Tyres, may sound daft buty I binned a set of Pirelli scorpions for a set of General Ameri, which I thought were budget tyres, and I can hardly believe how much better the car is for new boots.  This is on a stock 3.9 auto without ARB and standard dampers (until those ProComp arrive).  I also run the back ones a little hard to keep the handling 'dull' if you like, but the Generals don't like to be too hard, try altering the pressures a little, remember that the handbook pressure is for when the tyres are at 20 degrees celcius, a bit hard to achieve around christmas :wink:

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