SpyderSenseOC

I searched and found nothing. My car's front tires hop/scrub during low speed tight turns. Standard operating procedure, I presume, due to a tight turning radius?

extanker

and cold tires.....it should lessen in the summer time

conceptDawg

Normal. Nothing to worry about and it's due to the steering setup/characteristics.
It gets worse as the tires age and when it's cold but you can safely ignore it.

SpyderSenseOC

Figured. Thanks. Alarming the first time you hear it. You think you ran over something or your wheel is falling off!

Dalema

Search "acorns" on here. Not kidding

frankle951

OOOK

GregWormald

I did find some information under it's proper name on Wikipedia. Sorry can't remember the name. A Google search will turn up hits.

FlamsteadHill

Happens even in my 987.1 S in reverse. Fact of nature.

CaymanSinAR

Ha! Glad I read this thread. My BMW does this when I back out of my parking space at work. Was driving me crazy. I got out several times looking for a rock (acorn!) or something I'd run over. Now I know.

conceptDawg

Google Ackermann steering geometry.

Specifically, from the wikipedia entry:

cobalt

Pirelli P zeros? I had them on my Cayenne GTS and my Boxster GTS and had this problem with both. swapped them out to Michelin MPS2's and the problem is gone. I hate P zeros. The Pirelli's also heat cycled out after only 4k miles combined street with around 1000 of that as track miles.

terbiumactivated

P Zero's are awesome, now the potenza's it came with are a different story.

cobalt

Interesting both mine came with P zeros. Will never buy them. Sidewall is way to stiff and they don't last. I am not a fan of the potenza's either.

mrd_spy

P zero are the ****test tyre ever.

Dalema