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Setting up a remote control car is as much a science as it is an art, the physics behind BMW 6 Series Personal Contract Hire cars is exactly the same as the physics that governs real cars if you know how setup changes in a race car work, you already know how to set up a remote control car.

The problem that most people have with setting up RC cars is that when you make a change in one area it always has a knock-on effect on the rest of your settings, setups are very much a balancing act

To start with I’ll concentrate on the basics of handling, oversteer, and understeer. The physics behind this is pretty simple if you turn into a corner the center of gravity will move in whatever direction you were initially traveling. Your tires via friction push back with (hopefully) an equal amount of force. When your wheels lose traction and start to slide the energy that was being turned into heat in your tires gets released as inertial energy in the original direction of travel. With BMW 6 Series Used Cars, both back and front don’t break traction equally, this creates either understeer or oversteer, which is how we describe the experience the driver has under these conditions.

Understeer

Understeer is when the front of the car loses traction while the rear of the car still has grip on the tar, the effect is that the noise of the car drifts away from the direction you are turning, turning harder makes it worse, the only thing you can really do is back off the throttle and bleed off speed.

Over Steer

Oversteer is the opposite of understeer, and in most cases, it’s best to have a little of this. The front of the car keeps traction while the rear lets’s go. One of the key benefits is that you can typically corner much faster in a car that has some oversteer

Oversteer / Understeer Tuning tips

There are a lot of ways to tune the handling or your radio controlled car, the easiest is to adjust the front and rear shocks. While there are a lot of options with springs, different oils and all sorts we are just going to concentrate on the basics, most decent shocks have adjustments, either with spacers or bolts that let you adjust how hard or soft the shocks are.

As far as maximum and minimum stiffness goes, make sure that the bottom of your car doesn’t scrape the ground, and on the other end make sure it doesn’t bounce and leave the asphalt, apart from that you need to find the setup that matches your driving style, most people get winning setups off the internet and try to learn to drive them, mind you this is a great starting point, and most championship winners post their setup sheets

Shock Stiffness guide

Stiffen in front = increasing understeer or reducing oversteer
Stiffen in rear = increasing oversteer or reducing understeer

You may be wondering why one setting makes two changes, this is because it’s all about balance, you could for example set up your RC car by only every changing the rear stiffness, but you would find that when you got the perfect amount of oversteer under braking the car would then be uncontrollable during the exit of the corner. It’s all about balance,

Another thing to keep in mind is that when you change the shocks you also change the role of the car, this the chassis of the car moving with the inertia, in effect pushing the front tires into the road during braking and the rear during acceleration. If your shocks are too soft then the transfer might dig your front wheels in and lift the rear enough to make you car spin out, or lose steering under throttle, you have to find the right balance

More to come…