Tire Problems of Subaru Impreza Wrx

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.

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Traveling on a damp, bumpy asphalt road in seattle (tempurature was in the mid-40's). Light ahead turns red - I apply the brakes as usual, but the peddle suddenly sinks about an inch and I feel abs come on. It feels as if the brakes have no stopping power and are only working at about 10%. I let up on the brakes and tried again, and was able to stop before hitting the car in front of me. This has also happened once before, on some metal drawbridge grating. It seems as if the abs comes on in times when it should not, which causes the brakes to practically not work. If a car had been closer in front of me, I would have hit it.

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