general problems of the 2003 Subaru Impreza Wrx

One problem related to tire has been reported for the 2003 Subaru Impreza Wrx. The most recently reported issues are listed below.

1 Tire problem

Failure Date: 02/15/2009

There has been no accident or crash. This is an ongoing safety problem with a model of tires. The tires are kumho spt 225/45r-17. These tires have serious directional stability issues. They make the car very scary to drive in cross winds. In corners, the car always feels like it is squirming around and you never really know what direction it is going to go. I've aligned the car twice, both times adding more rear toe in to increase stability. This has had almost no effect. I've tried a number of different tire pressures. Higher pressures (above 40psi) help, but do not fix the problem. I've used several other type and brand of tires on the car and never had any stability issues with any of them. There is no problem with any of the components in the suspension system. I've spent over one month with kumho trying to resolve this problem with the tires. In that time, I have received a single one sentence response to my e-mails. Kumho has repeatedly not returned the majority of my phone calls to resolve this problem. Apparently they do not think there is a problem with the tires, as they have absolutely no interest in helping to figure out the problem or even looking at the tires.


Other Tire related problems of the 2003 Subaru Impreza Wrx

Tire problems
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Tire Tread/belt problems
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