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You under estimate the handling of the FG chassis with coilovers! actually handles pretty decent imo i'd be very surprised if you could loose me through the twisties :P NT05s are awesome tyres too!

Jamie any good pics from the weekend?

Yeah I did, got some of your car too.

Will also be editing them for ESTBLSHD.

Yeh, I'm yet to experience the boaty feeling, mine just oversteers a lot lol.

After doing a bit of research and found out what the Tarmac/gravel/rain actually do..

You can get rid of the boaty feeling by driving it on gravel.

Most of the driving I did was on tarmac so I noticed it quite a bit, although if I did take a spin down my road (gravel) I had noticed it felt less boaty
either way it's your money for the car, depends what you really want to do with it, just research into all the options and decide on what's best for you

Yeh.

Found that Tarmac has a higher clamp load but the least responsive to clamp when straightening the car.

Gravel, is a high clamp load and quick to respond.

Wet is a minimal clamp load, but the quickest to respond.

Eh.

Might just replace it. Was thinking of selling( shuttup) and saving for a house and just taking a company vehicle until then, then buy another emo after..

But I'm struggling to bring myself to sell it lol

yo aaron, always wondered with the less common mercs (G and GLs)... are they delivered per order, or do many (if any) dealerships actually keep stock? Cause theyre so uncommon I thought it might be especially imported by people other than merc

You under estimate the handling of the FG chassis with coilovers! actually handles pretty decent imo i'd be very surprised if you could loose me through the twisties :P NT05s are awesome tyres too!

Jamie any good pics from the weekend?

Here you go man!

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yo aaron, always wondered with the less common mercs (G and GLs)... are they delivered per order, or do many (if any) dealerships actually keep stock? Cause theyre so uncommon I thought it might be especially imported by people other than merc

Depends on the floor plan of the dealership. Some will stock them, but need to be sold within a certain time frame.. So not all dealerships will have them, but if they need them they will take it from another dealership and add to their floorplan, or if not the correct colour options etc, they will order one from germanyia and it is usually received within the month..

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