I've been having tramping problems with my WRX for a while now, trying to figure out why, after all these years I can't get my feet coordinated to shift smoothly, especially from a standstill in first. Try as I might to find the sweet spot of clutch slippage to gas, at least a third of the time my front tires would start hopping up and down, making that awful tramping sound reverberate through the car's body.
But I just got a set of new tires and the problem seems to have gone away completely! How could that happen?
The new tires are Yokohama Avid V4Ss, I've only got about 60 miles on them so far. Is it something different about these particular tires, or the ones I had before? Or could the tramping have been because I went through a tight period where I couldn't afford to buy more than two tires at a time? The tread on my rear tires was a lot thinner than the tread on the front, mainly because the last time I bought two tires, I put the new ones on the front because I like the oversteer.