Today we are going to check out a issue that may prove to be dangerous. If you notice any handling or grip problems on your Audi A5 , it is necessary that you drive cautiously and take care of it fairly quickly. Our team has posted this content page to help you resolve them. First, we’ll fairly quickly look at the essential parts that ensure effective road handling, then we’ll look at why your Audi A5 doesn’t hold the road any more, and finally we’ll look at 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 A5?

We commence this content by fairly quickly explaining the most important parts that will assure good road holding for your Audi A5. It’s necessary to know that a vehicle’s grip is a science in itself. It will as a result rely upon many points, we will show you down below the most important ones that can be affected:

  • Shock absorbers: The most important parts 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 A5 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 affects their wear. Their size will as well play on grip, the wider they are the more contact with the ground will be important.
  • The center of gravity: The higher your car is going to be, the more it will lean in the corners and consequently lose handling, that’s why low profile sports cars grip better than very high 4×4’s
  • Wheel Alignment: This adjustment allows you to manage the vertical angle of your car’s wheels, it is consequently necessary for the grip of your car and the wear of your tires. This adjustment is very particular and must be carried out by professionals.

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

Why is my Audi A5 having complications with my car’s handling or grip?

We will now proceed to the component that concerns you the most, why my Audi A5 has handling complications? As we explained above, there are quite a lot of components to take into account for your car to have a good grip, however there are few that can evolve with time, most of them are intrinsic to the construction of the automobile, we will discover right away those that can disturb your handling and road, and, why:

  • As we revealed above, the rubber of the tyres has a primordial purpose in the good road holding of your car, if your tyres are dead, you might 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 have the ability to absorb the irregularities of the road properly and it will tend to “float”, which will result in a bad distribution of the masses on the car and shift the centre of gravity of the car. You risk slipping in the bends.
  • The risk with a misalignment is that your ground contact area is reduced due to a too open or too closed wheel angle, you will have grip complications.
  • A steering issue: Last but not least, the last necessary part for good road handling is that all the components of your steering must be in good condition. The most traditional case is that your stabilizer bar or the silent blocks of your steering triangles are dead. The consequence will be a delay in your changes of way.

How do you resolve the handling complications?

We now proceed to the different solutions to resolve your road holding complications on your Audi A5 .

  • Tyres: Nothing could be less complicated, just change your tyres, remember to verify them cautiously and change 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 A5, please have a look at 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 fixed, it will cost you less than 100€?
  • Steering: If you have complications with the handling on Audi A5 due to your steering, there may be several components involved, in such a case you will have to make a whole check-up of these components, the best is to call a professional.

If you need more guides on the Audi A5, go to our Audi A5 category.