Welton wrote:Eric, you're probably the only other person on here including myself about the 406 handling.
It handles resonably well with controlled body roll but if you push it too much it goes all out of shape and feels like your running on flexible bendy tyres and goes all wobbly. It hates changing direction quickly from point to point.
I have learnt to cut corners and roundabouts MASSIVELY to straighten them out so the car doesn't get upset.
You could of course try and improve the handling with some 17''s and a 40mm drop but then you shouldn't have a 406 Diesel then really should you.
Actually I think a set of the later 16''s with 205/55 tryes would help a whole lot.
I'm still on the original 15''s with the lorry side walls
Yes you've got it exactly!
The 406 hates to get all uncomposed.
Just go into a sharp roundbaout where you have to turn in fairly sharp with a fairly sharp exit and where the 306 would do 40-50mph through and feel not exactly planted but under control the 406 is a 30mph job at best on the same bends.
If it's wet knock another 5-10mph off the 406 speed where the 306 would be doing 40mph pretty happily.
Those big tyres sure help with potholes and bumps but let the side down badly when the weight of the car starts to bend the wall on bends ;)
Also I found the 406 gets quite floaty at 90mph and suffers from crosswinds, again due to the soft suspension and weight that once it starts to bounce it likes to keep doing it.
The strange thing is when you take the braking, massive slowing down for corners, slower acceleration through the gears the 406 has added 10 mins to my 25mile work trip each way.
That's a surprising amount.
and there was a D9 parked outside. I parked next to it naturally 
and when I looked back from inside the building (as you do) the front of the car said; no nonsense, business like, an honest car with a job to do.
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