In this article we are going to look at a problem that may prove to be unsafe. If you detect any handling or grip problems on your Cadillac CTS , it is essential that you drive attentively and take care of it fairly quickly. Our team has written this guideline to help you fix them. First, we’ll fairly quickly look at the main components that ensure effective road handling, then we’ll look at why your Cadillac CTS doesn’t hold the road any more, and at last we’ll look at how to fix your grip problems.

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What are the main elements that ensure good road holding and handling on a Cadillac CTS?

We begin this article by fairly quickly explaining the main components that will assure good road holding for your Cadillac CTS. It’s essential to know that a vehicle’s grip is a science in itself. It will therefore depend on many factors, we will explain below the main ones that can be affected:

  • Shock absorbers: The main 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 Cadillac CTS on the road, the softer they are, the more grip you have, but the faster they get broken, 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 consequently lose handling, that’s why low profile sports vehicles 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 motor vehicle and the wear of your tires. This adjustment is very particular and must be conducted by professionals.

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

Why is my Cadillac CTS having problems with my car’s handling or grip?

We will now proceed to the part that concerns you the most, why my Cadillac CTS has handling problems? As we explained above, there are quite a lot of elements 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 vehicle, we will discover right away those that can affect your handling and road, and, why:

  • As we mentioned above, the rubber of the tyres has a crucial purpose in the good road holding of your motor vehicle, if your tyres are dead, you may have problems 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 often “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 as a result of a too open or too closed wheel angle, you will have grip problems.
  • 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 state. The most traditional circumstance 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 direction.

How do you fix the handling problems?

We now proceed to the different solutions to resolve your road holding problems on your Cadillac CTS .

  • Tyres: Nothing could be simpler, just change your tyres, remember to verify them attentively 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 Cadillac CTS, please have a look at our article 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 area to have it fixed, it will cost you less than 100€?
  • Steering: If you have problems with the handling on Cadillac CTS as a result of your steering, there might be several elements concerned, in this case you will have to make a complete check-up of these elements, the best is to call a specialist.

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