SRV tyres - new supplier needed?

DeathFish

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I have grown to enjoy driving the SRV, especially with a HOTAS.

But...

For a vehicle with eight fat wheels it has way less grip than it should at times. One tiny little rock can throw you off course by 180 degrees, and its behaviour on slopes is unpredictable to say the least.

For a vehicle with such good ground clearance, it also hangs up on all kinds of small stuff—as anyone who has driven against the clock on the guardian site ramps will be well aware.

Am I alone in thinking that the SRV could do with more predictable grip being dialled in, and being less likely to get stuck on 10 cm high projections in one area, when it drives right over 100 cm high stuff in another?

Or does mine just need a new set of tyres?
 
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Bob Lighthouse

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Bob Lighthouse
DeathFish said:
I have grown to enjoy driving the SRV, especially with a HOTAS.

But...

For a vehicle with eight fat wheels it has way less grip than it should at times. One tiny little rock can throw you off course by 180 degrees, and its behaviour on slopes is unpredictable to say the least.

For a vehicle with such good ground clearance, it also hangs up on all kinds of small stuff—as anyone who has driven against the clock on the guardian site ramps will be well aware.

Am I alone in thinking that the SRV could do with more predictable grip being dialled in, and being less likely to get stuck on 10 cm high projections in one area, when it drives right over 100 cm high stuff in another?

Or does mine just need a new set of tyres?
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Don't drive so fast on low G or icy surfaces.
It actually handles remarkably well considering how fast it goes and where you're driving.

Also, fly that thing!
 

Riverside

Riverside
DeathFish said:
I have grown to enjoy driving the SRV, especially with a HOTAS.

But...

For a vehicle with eight fat wheels it has way less grip than it should at times. One tiny little rock can throw you off course by 180 degrees, and its behaviour on slopes is unpredictable to say the least.

For a vehicle with such good ground clearance, it also hangs up on all kinds of small stuff—as anyone who has driven against the clock on the guardian site ramps will be well aware.

Am I alone in thinking that the SRV could do with more predictable grip being dialled in, and being less likely to get stuck on 10 cm high projections in one area, when it drives right over 100 cm high stuff in another?

Or does mine just need a new set of tyres?
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I agree with the collision model being a bit rudimentary but the amount of grip is believably consistent.

It's worth bearing in mind that 10m/s is about 22mph or 36kph, so 38m/s will be 85mph. No tyres are going to offer much grip at 85mph on sand or snow :)
 

Stinja

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Wheels? Tyres? But you only use them when taking off or landing :S

[video=youtube;WHTzp3e4JBI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHTzp3e4JBI[/video]

Not my video, all props to turkwinif and the BuckyBallers :eek:
 

Guardian Kaiser

Guardian Kaiser
Nothing to contribute to the topic but just learned tyre is the spelling of tire outside north America. I lived in London for 6 months and have heard of most spelling/word differences except that one! The more you know.
 

ibmalone

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DeathFish said:
I guess we can forget slicks, since there is no rain in Elite.
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Slicks are for dry!

Riverside said:
I agree with the collision model being a bit rudimentary but the amount of grip is believably consistent.

It's worth bearing in mind that 10m/s is about 22mph or 36kph, so 38m/s will be 85mph. No tyres are going to offer much grip at 85mph on sand or snow :)
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And at 0.1g. Get ready for this if atmospheric landing ever happens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e21ZjwZGjiQ
 

Eros

Eros
Note the speed of 0-30 is in m/s... that translates to 0 - 67 mph or 108 km/h

Hit a rock, a good ratio of the size of your tire and it matters not what type it was... that shock is going to do... something to your vehicle... just as the above quote says.

Some of those rocks look small, but are actually fairly big
 

Dillon Fallon

Dillon Fallon
Full speed is more fun anyway. Repair costs are cheap, so why not go down the hill backwards at 20 m/s?

Being serious though, when you look at all those pictures of moon footprints, how much if the surface of rocky bodies is dust? It's probably similar to driving on sand.
 

DeathFish

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Riverside said:
I agree with the collision model being a bit rudimentary but the amount of grip is believably consistent.

It's worth bearing in mind that 10m/s is about 22mph or 36kph, so 38m/s will be 85mph. No tyres are going to offer much grip at 85mph on sand or snow :)
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Well, put it this way, not on road going cars, but there are tyres that will allow you to race on packed snow and ice, and much faster than 85 in the right vehicle. The grip isn’t what most folk are used to, but you can tell when it is going to give out and compensate. What I am getting at is the unpredictability of the grip in the SRV — I don’t go totally flat out, ever, but I do travel really fast and in a model that is generally pretty good, it is noticeable that sometimes a small obstruction will throw you off line and other times it won’t. When you do lose grip, it is very an often all or nothing phenomenon, too. It would add a good deal to the fun if you could make a better judgment about what is going to cause a problem and what isn’t and if the loss of grip was proportional...

...because then we could have PVP SRV racing.

FX: dons goggles.
 

DeathFish

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Eros said:
Note the speed of 0-30 is in m/s... that translates to 0 - 67 mph or 108 km/h

Hit a rock, a good ratio of the size of your tire and it matters not what type it was... that shock is going to do... something to your vehicle... just as the above quote says.

Some of those rocks look small, but are actually fairly big
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This is beginning to sound like something out of Father Ted.

...so that rock is small — and the other rock is far away? I still don’t understand it, Ted (-:
 

Bob Lighthouse

Banned
Bob Lighthouse
DeathFish said:
Well, put it this way, not on road going cars, but there are tyres that will allow you to race on packed snow and ice, and much faster than 85 in the right vehicle. The grip isn’t what most folk are used to, but you can tell when it is going to give out and compensate. What I am getting at is the unpredictability of the grip in the SRV — I don’t go totally flat out, ever, but I do travel really fast and in a model that is generally pretty good, it is noticeable that sometimes a small obstruction will throw you off line and other times it won’t. When you do lose grip, it is very an often all or nothing phenomenon, too. It would add a good deal to the fun if you could make a better judgment about what is going to cause a problem and what isn’t and if the loss of grip was proportional...

...because then we could have PVP SRV racing.

FX: dons goggles.
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Not on .1 G they don't.
 

Z0mbieBabyJesus

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DeathFish said:
Well, put it this way, not on road going cars, but there are tyres that will allow you to race on packed snow and ice, and much faster than 85 in the right vehicle. The grip isn’t what most folk are used to, but you can tell when it is going to give out and compensate. What I am getting at is the unpredictability of the grip in the SRV — I don’t go totally flat out, ever, but I do travel really fast and in a model that is generally pretty good, it is noticeable that sometimes a small obstruction will throw you off line and other times it won’t. When you do lose grip, it is very an often all or nothing phenomenon, too. It would add a good deal to the fun if you could make a better judgment about what is going to cause a problem and what isn’t and if the loss of grip was proportional...

...because then we could have PVP SRV racing.

FX: dons goggles.
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Gravity makes a big difference. The srv reacts and drives quite differently on a 1.0g world VS a 0.1g one.

*ninja'd*
 
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