Today we are going to examine a problem that may prove to be threatening. If you notice any handling or grip problems on your Audi A3 , it is important that you drive cautiously and manage it fairly quickly. Our team has made this article content to help you resolve them. First, we’ll fairly quickly check out the main components that ensure good road handling, then we’ll check out why your Audi A3 doesn’t hold the road any more, and finally we’ll check out how to resolve your grip complications.

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What are the main components that ensure good road holding and handling on a Audi A3?

We commence this content by fairly quickly telling you the most important components that will assure good road holding for your Audi A3. It’s important to know that a vehicle’s grip is a science in itself. It will consequently be based upon many points, we will explain down below the most important ones that can be affected:

  • Shock absorbers: The most important components of your road handling, they perpetually assure the contact between the wheels and the road. They absorb all shocks and holes on the road.
  • Tyres: They are the ones that will assure the grip of your Audi A3 on the road, the softer they are, the more grip you have, but the faster they get damaged, the harder they are, the less grip you have, but the more resistant they are. Temperature influences their wear. Their size will as well play on grip, the wider they are the more contact with the ground will be significant.
  • The center of gravity: The higher your car is going to be, the more it will lean in the corners and therefore lose handling, that’s why low profile sports cars grip better than very high 4×4’s
  • Wheel Alignment: This adjustment enables you to control the vertical angle of your car’s wheels, it is therefore necessary for the grip of your car and the wear of your tires. This adjustment is very precise and must be done by specialists.

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There are many other components to take into consideration such as wheelbase, ground clearance, chassis rigidity, weight and aerodynamics…

Why is my Audi A3 having complications with my car’s handling or grip?

We will now proceed to the part that concerns you the most, why my Audi A3 has handling complications? As we outlined earlier, there are quite a lot of components to take into consideration for your car to have a good grip, however there are few that can evolve over time, most of them are intrinsic to the construction of the automobile, we will see right away those that can disturb your handling and road, and, why:

  • As we outlined earlier, the rubber of the tyres has a fundamental role in the good road holding of your car, if your tyres are dead, you may have complications of road holding on wet road at first and when you reach the “cord” even on dry road.
  • Dead shock absorbers: If your shock absorbers are dead, your car will no longer be able to absorb the irregularities of the road properly and it will tend to “float”, which will end result in a bad distribution of the masses on the vehicle and shift the centre of gravity of the vehicle. You risk slipping in the bends.
  • The risk with a misalignment is that your ground contact area is reduced as a result of a too open or too closed wheel angle, you will have grip complications.
  • A steering problem: Last but not least, the last necessary element for good road handling is that all the components of your steering must be in good state. The most traditional case is that your stabilizer bar or the silent blocks of your steering triangles are dead. The result will be a delay in your changes of direction.

How do you resolve the handling complications?

We now proceed to the different solutions to solve your road holding complications on your Audi A3 .

  • Tyres: Nothing could be less complicated, just replace your tyres, remember to check them cautiously and replace them when you get to the visual indicator in the grooves of your tyres. It is generally necessary to count between 100 and 200 euros for a pair of tires.
  • Shock absorbers: Ditto, dead shock absorbers have to be changed, if you want to know when to change the shock absorbers of a Audi A3, please have a check out our content on this topic. The price can vary quite a lot, but you will have to count at least 400€
  • Wheel alignment: You will have to go to your garage to have it solved, it will cost you less than 100€?
  • Steering: If you have complications with the handling on Audi A3 as a result of your steering, there may be some components involved, in this case you will have to make a whole check-up of these components, the best is to call a specialist.

Whenever you have any further questions about the Audi A3, do not hesitate to consult our Audi A3 category.