In this article we are going to examine a issue that may prove to be unsafe. If you detect any handling or grip problems on your Ford Mustang , it is important that you drive carefully and manage it fairly quickly. Our team has created this article content to help you solve them. First, we’ll fairly quickly check out the principal parts that ensure good road handling, then we’ll check out why your Ford Mustang doesn’t hold the road any more, and at last we’ll check out how to solve your grip problems.

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What are the main components that ensure great road holding and handling on a Ford Mustang?

We begin this content page by fairly quickly explaining the most important parts that will assure good road holding for your Ford Mustang. It’s important to know that a vehicle’s grip is a science in itself. It will as a result be based upon many factors, we will show you down below the most important ones that can be influenced:

  • 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 Ford Mustang 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 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 therefore lose handling, that’s why low profile sports vehicles 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 important for the grip of your motor vehicle and the wear of your tires. This adjustment is very particular and must be carried out by specialists.

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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 Ford Mustang having problems with my car’s handling or grip?

We will now move on to the part that interests you the most, why my Ford Mustang has handling problems? As we outlined above, 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 with time, most of them are intrinsic to the construction of the car, we will find out right away those that can bother your handling and road, and, why:

  • As we mentioned above, the rubber of the tyres has a primordial purpose in the good road holding of your motor vehicle, if your tyres are dead, you might 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 be able 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 because of a too open or too closed wheel angle, you will have grip problems.
  • A steering issue: Last but not least, the last important part 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 consequence will be a delay in your changes of way.

How do you solve the handling problems?

We now move on to the different solutions to resolve your road holding problems on your Ford Mustang .

  • Tyres: Nothing could be easier, just change your tyres, make sure to check them carefully and change 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 Ford Mustang, please have a check out our content page on this subject. 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 corrected, it will cost you less than 100€?
  • Steering: If you have problems with the handling on Ford Mustang because of your steering, there might be some components concerned, in such a case you will have to make a whole check-up of these components, the best is to call a specialist.

If perhaps you have any additional questions about the Ford Mustang, do not hesitate to consult our Ford Mustang category.