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Comfort Suspension Not Much of an Improvement
- Thread starter Engi_Nerd
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Interesting, I just tell them what psi without even opening my door. Granted, I’ve done a lot of business there so I’m pretty familiar to them but they are super easy to work with. Every store is a little different when it comes to employees.
Evpowerdan
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Why buy MYP, if you are going downsize to small rims with big sidewall. To me the benefit of the MYP is the performance wheels, lower ride height and firmer ride to match the additional performance.
MYLR with 19” tires are cushy (compared the the MYP 21” wheels and performance tires) and you can always get the performance boost if you want. MYP sits 1” lower than the MYLR, and has firmer suspension.
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I am not set on the MYP yet but I like the idea of better headlights and max power. One inch lower won’t make much difference where I live. We never see snow on the roads and if the weather is that bad, my 200 series will be ready to play.
I don’t look at the MY as a high performance vehicle the same way I looked at my sold but never forgotten F458. I literally just want it for getting around town and short road trips. I haven’t even driven it yet, so let me see how the 21”s are. I would prefer to have the Matrix headlights and might as well have max power instead of paying for an upgrade that still doesn’t give you the max power level of the MYP.
Big Moe
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I have a 2022 Model Y LR with 19” wheels bought in February 2022 and a 2023 Model Y LR with 19” wheels, delivered on December 15th, 2022. My 2023 definitely gives a better ride. My cars build is great and my only complaint is the lack of proximity sensors. I keep hearing that the cameras will be configured in an update to give us proximity warnings. It’s a waiting game.
Customer service isn't universal at any DT, America's Tire, Firestone. Perfect example above!
My Discount Tire does what I ask, every time. No disappointments.
Nope. Same ride height. The smaller rim ends with the same height, or certainly should, since the tire is taller. Hence the better ride.
Once i had taken my car to rotate the tires. I was then called by DT to the lift and told that they can only mount back 3 wheels as the 4th tire has a hair crack in the sidewall. Of course I had no spare. I told them to put the 4th back on and they refused to do so. I never went back to that DT after that.
The next DT refused to lower the tire pressure by couple of points. They just stuck to what is written on the sidewall.
I had enough of it. I got my own machine, battery operated and when needed tires, go to Costco.
Not 1 inch lower, more like 1cm lower.
19" or 18" wheels would be significantly lighter weight than the 21" wheels. The lighter wheels could be a hair faster on the track, ~0.1 second faster. Efficiency would be improved by as much as 10% over the stock wheels and tires.
I will bet you any amount of money that a MYP with 18s or 19s will beat the 21s at the track with the same tire model and width.
I understand your issue. I'm guessing that "policy", and liability issues, actually REQUIRE them to set the pressures according to what's on the door. My guy will do what I ask, simply because he knows if he doesn't, I'll stop on the way out of his parking lot and reset the pressures to my liking.
At the old $67K price the MYLR has a rough ride compared to the luxury gas SUVs in the same price range. At $50K these days… it’s fine lol.
Every BMW I test drove back in Dec 2022 at the UDE event had pretty stiff suspension except for the iX M60. The other EV with a buttery smooth ride is the F-150 Lightning. The Rivian R1T is a vastly harsher ride in comparison. I suspect I will not like the R1S very much.
I still think the Telluride and Palisade have vastly better rides and suspension than the Model Ys but they are a different type of SUVs.
Well, according to Chinese owner's manual of the MY, the ground clearance is 15 mm (almost 2/3") lower on the MYP. The "ride" or "coil" height are 17mm front and 16mm rear lower for MYP.
Kinda splitting hairs here I guess.
For the rear, the suspension parts themselves is actually even shorter, because the factory rear tires are bigger than the front, adding almost 7mm of sidewall. So, 16 + 7 is 23mm, or just about an inch. Can't say I know how it plays into all the dynamics of spirited driving, but I'd guess at the very least, the rear is gonna be stiffer.
That makes for odd changes to the "rake" of the car. From LR to P with factory wheels/tires, it gains slightly more positive rake. The front points down more, because the rear didn't drop as much (-17 front vs -16 mm rear height, so miniscule difference). But if you then put on a square wheel/tire setup it actually becomes less positively raked than the LR as the rear will drop an additional 7mm (-17 vs -23, does it become negatively raked?).
Wait, going square means the motors now spin 1:1 (front:rear) while it was different with the staggered wheels. Hum... what does that do to the computer?
On a side note, the China version of the manual is more informative than the US version. It has some motor specs (outdated?) and alignment values.
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I don't really have any harshness issue with my late 2022 china MYP. The ride seems pretty smooth in all conditions to me. What I do have is an annoying knocking noise when going over small imperfections in road surfaces at low speeds. I can not figure out what it is coming from. Has anyone else noticed this while driving a MYP?
