In this article we are going to look at a problem that may prove to be dangerous. If you detect any handling or grip problems on your BMW X6 , it is necessary that you drive carefully and manage it fairly quickly. Our team has written and published this article content to help you solve them. First, we’ll fairly quickly look at the essential parts that ensure good road handling, then we’ll look at why your BMW X6 doesn’t hold the road any more, and finally we’ll look at how to solve your grip complications.

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What are the main elements that ensure great road holding and handling on a BMW X6?

We begin this content by fairly quickly telling you the most important parts that will assure good road holding for your BMW X6. It’s necessary to know that a vehicle’s grip is a science in itself. It will therefore depend on many factors, we will show you below the most important ones that can be affected:

  • Shock absorbers: The most important parts of your road handling, they permanently 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 BMW X6 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 important.
  • 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 manage the vertical angle of your car’s wheels, it is therefore necessary for the grip of your motor vehicle and the wear of your tires. This adjustment is very particular and must be done by professionals.

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

Why is my BMW X6 having complications with my car’s handling or grip?

We will now move on to the component that concerns you the most, why my BMW X6 has handling complications? As we described above, there are quite a lot of elements 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 find out right away those that can bother your handling and road, and, why:

  • As we outlined above, the rubber of the tyres has a fundamental purpose in the good road holding of your motor vehicle, 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 motor vehicle will no longer have the ability to absorb the irregularities of the road effectively and it will tend to “float”, which will end 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 problem: Last but not least, the last necessary element for good road handling is that all the elements of your steering must be in good condition. The most classic 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 way.

How do you solve the handling complications?

We now move on to the different solutions to solve your road holding complications on your BMW X6 .

  • Tyres: Nothing could be less complicated, just replace your tyres, make sure to verify them carefully and replace them when you get to the visual indicator in the grooves of your tyres. It is generally required 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 BMW X6, please have a look at our content on this theme. 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 mechanic to have it solved, it will cost you less than 100€?
  • Steering: If you have complications with the handling on BMW X6 due to your steering, there may be some elements concerned, in this case you will have to make a whole check-up of these elements, the best is to call a professional.

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