Sport Mode Steering, feel EVERYTHING....

[steveo1960]

I realize that the sport and track steering are supposed to give more accurate road feel and feedback but I was wondering if anyone else notices that driving over those "divots" in the road on the middle lines and shoulder lines produces a "weird" feeling in the steering wheel and is it normal? I'm not talking of the aggressive ones designed to wake up an asleep driver but just those minor angular divots. It does not happen with normal steering selected... Just wondering...

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[smurfslayer]

I believe what you’re observing is referred to here as ‘tram lining’, a phenomenon in which the wide, low profile tires deflect off the ridges of road path divots on each side. It can feel like the car is fighting you - and it is. You’ll likely get this on more local roads with heavy traffic or traffic that is heavy - or both. Sometimes you can visibly discern the divots in the dry and in the wet they will puddle, like small streams.

I took the Dark Horse through a construction zone where they moved lanes recently, leaving a single strip of grooved pavement that is very loud in any vehicle, but next level annoying with the Flintstone-esque P-zeroes.