In this article we are going to take a look at a problem that may prove to be dangerous. If you notice any handling or grip problems on your Ford Transit Connect , it is essential that you drive carefully and manage it fairly quickly. Our team has written this content page to help you fix them. First, we’ll fairly quickly check out the main components that ensure good road handling, then we’ll check out why your Ford Transit Connect doesn’t hold the road any more, and finally we’ll check out how to fix your grip complications.

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

We begin this article by fairly quickly telling you the most important components that will guarantee good road holding for your Ford Transit Connect. 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 most important ones that can be influenced:

  • Shock absorbers: The most important components of your road handling, they perpetually guarantee the contact between the wheels and the road. They absorb all shocks and holes on the road.
  • Tyres: They are the ones that will guarantee the grip of your Ford Transit Connect 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 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 fundamental for the grip of your motor vehicle and the wear of your tires. This adjustment is very precise and must be done by professionals.

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

Why is my Ford Transit Connect having complications with my car’s handling or grip?

We will now proceed to the component that interests you the most, why my Ford Transit Connect has handling complications? As we mentioned above, there are a lot of components to consider 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 vehicle, we will discover right away those that can bother your handling and road, and, why:

  • As we mentioned above, the rubber of the tyres has a primordial function in the good road holding of your motor vehicle, 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 motor vehicle will no longer have the ability to absorb the irregularities of the road properly and it will often “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 due to a too open or too closed wheel angle, you will have grip complications.
  • A steering problem: Last but not least, the last fundamental component for good road handling is that all the components of your steering must be in good state. The most classic circumstance 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 fix the handling complications?

We now proceed to the different solutions to solve your road holding complications on your Ford Transit Connect .

  • Tyres: Nothing could be less complicated, just change your tyres, make sure to verify them carefully 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 Ford Transit Connect, please have a check out our article on this topic. The price can vary a lot, but you will have to count at least 400€
  • Wheel alignment: You will have to go to your garage to have it corrected, it will cost you less than 100€?
  • Steering: If you have complications with the handling on Ford Transit Connect due to your steering, there may be several components concerned, in such a case you will have to produce a complete check-up of these components, the best is to call a professional.

If you wish more guides on the Ford Transit Connect, go to our Ford Transit Connect category.