With 26k up on the G31, the tyre wear has been more or less even shoulder to shoulder and front to rear (X drive remember) I have about 4k left I thought, for 30k which is not too bad. Pirellis.
However, I have noticed, that the car has started to kick the stability control in, in locations it never did previously, usually on long motorway interchanges (say M25n to M3e, M25w to M23s)
With fresher tyres they were taken at Motorway speed, 70mph with no drama but now at that velocity you can feel the power output being modulated. The runflats will be replaced with normal tyres, rain tyres probably, before the winter weather kicks in. Oh and a slime type pump repair kit.
Handling wise the g31 is a big heavy beast, its porkiness on full display in comfort mode, a bit wallowy and floaty, the self levelling rear however is fast enough to prevent squatting or nose-diving under fast speed changes, I have induced understeer a couple of times, but no oversteer.
Sport fixes the lardiness, with really not much reduction in ride comfort, you notice it but its not "ouch" by any means. Adaptive however is the way to go, flat and stable through bends at speed even humpy or off camber ones, with, as I discovered, even the gearbox dumping itself down a couple of gears prior to corner entry, all on its own. It is however never going to be a 10/10ths car, pushed it to 8/10s probably which is good for 1,800kg spread over 5 metres.
It is however an 11/10s car in snow. Spectacular forward traction, choose easy graceful 4 wheel drifts or lurid but controlled oversteer, which is all very useful and life saving given its frightening inability to stop on the white stuff.
Last edited by: Zero on Wed 14 Aug 19 at 11:00
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