Question about Tires getting red.

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Sorry for the poor title it was all i could think of.

My question is this.When my front tires are in the red on one side and not the other,dose this mean...A:My front springs are set too soft or B: my front Camber angle is set too low/high.

I've been working on a few cars and i seem to be getting this on them.The thing is i can't figure out how to make it go away.Just a heads up,i'm taking the proper line.Also i would like to be able to create some great tunes for this game,not that i want to compete with other garages,i just want to create some great tunes to make this game a little bit more fun for me.

Thanks in advance for your answers to this.
 
Aggressive braking, hard cornering, torque from accelerating wheels all causing head buildup. If you like the handling of the car as it is setup without rebalancing the tune then try switching up a tire grade, a race medium or race hard will have harder compound and thus less grip and therefore does heat as quickly. On some hard some hard torque driven setups I find race medium or race hard tires to be preferable to race soft on some cars for these reasons.
 
This is more likely to happen with FWD and 4WD cars I think and I havent tuned any of these yet. It's also far more likely to happen using dual shock controller because your likely to be using far too much steering angle through all the turns.

Front camber is typically between -2.0 and -2.8 and I dont think it's likely to be a problem spring rate. Try tune it away with rear toe maybe. If you run rear toe at 0.00 try -0.10 then -0.20 etc to see if it helps.
 
Could be both ways, either its too soft resulting in too much slide, or its too stiff so the tires can't slip. I doubt camber settings can have this much an impact unless its infinitely high or something, so try the following;

Reduce front anti-roll bar stiffness, use around -2.4 front camber with around -0.14 toe out.

Cheers.
 
Is it when accelerating? Are you getting the "one wheel peel" from not having lsd? Or is it one wheel turning red when entering a turn and braking hard?

Different kinds of one wheel being red.....imo.
 
Thanks for the tips guys.

When i do get the red tire on one side,this happens when i brake before the turn an accelerate through it.It's like you know in your mind the car should go that speed when you get into the corner,but when you do the right/left front goes red and the car understeers.

Sometimes this happens when i'm doing the slow in fast out approach,upon accelerating at the end of the corner the car will gradually give the red tire in the front and car continues to push instead of gripping through the corner.

I haven't had this problem with MR or RWD cars, it seems i find it in MAWD,FWD, and AWD cars.
 
So, what you're saying is, if you're accelerating out of a left hand corner in a FWD car, the front right goes red?

Well, it will. That's the tyre that's doing all the work, therefore it will heat up.
 
Like daan said, kinda sounds like you are just pushing the car and tires to the limit? If it's not understeer or oversteer and not ending up in the grass/sand, I'd say you are doing it right?
If wearing out the tires quicker I suppose feather the accelerator a tad more.
 
saidaouita
Like daan said, kinda sounds like you are just pushing the car and tires to the limit? If it's not understeer or oversteer and not ending up in the grass/sand, I'd say you are doing it right?
If wearing out the tires quicker I suppose feather the accelerator a tad more.
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Agreed. You have to kinda feather the throttle instead of power out immediately. Keeps the tires in better shape but a bit slower.
 
How do you know when your tyres have warmed up in this game? Before it used to go from blue (cold) to green (optimum) then yellow (just starting to lose a tiny bit of grip) then orange (noticable lack of grip and seconds lost per lap) and finally red where the car was undriveable.
 
Thanks again for the replies.

Sounds like i'm just pushing the car too much.I do tend to push the car to it's limits to get faster laptimes so maybe it's not my suspension settings after all.I try to set-up my cars to be similar to what the weight distribution is.With all the problems i was having i was about ready to throw weight distribution out the window.There for a bit i thought maybe using the weight distribution was a "bad idea",but now i'll keep tuning how i've been tuning.

@Daan.That does make sense about that one tire doing all the work being the reason as that one side is red.I thought it could have been my suspension settings.Maybe i should ease up on driving FWD and AWD so hard.
 
crooky369
How do you know when your tyres have warmed up in this game? Before it used to go from blue (cold) to green (optimum) then yellow (just starting to lose a tiny bit of grip) then orange (noticable lack of grip and seconds lost per lap) and finally red where the car was undriveable.
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Well when they are warm the tires turn to light blue.Then each tire starts to decrease like a fuel tank does so you'll know when it's time to go into the pits
 

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