The flex I'm talking about would probably amount to 0.5 degrees at most. Yes, the stuts are strong, but in a corner, the inside wheel is experiencing massively different G forces than the outside wheel, especially on a front heavy car like the Maxima, and this little flex makes cornering a little bit less confident.
You know, perhpaps I was more sensitive to it because I had 17" rims, which are heavier, and the increased weight would cause the flex to be more pronounced, but I did noctice its effect. The only change was the FSTB before and after, the 17s were on my car for a while.
I can loosely compare this experience to walking on a bridge. I walked across the George Washington bridge. If all you do is drive over that bridge you'd think it's solid as a rock. It is solid, no doubt. But when I walked across it one day, you would not beleive all the flex that's going on. I could just about feel every moment an 18 wheeler got onto the bridge. Flex was everywhere.
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