In this article we are going to examine a problem that may prove to be dangerous. If you detect any handling or grip problems on your Honda Element , it is important that you drive cautiously and take care of it fairly quickly. Our team has created this content page to help you resolve them. First, we’ll fairly quickly check out the main elements that ensure effective road handling, then we’ll check out why your Honda Element doesn’t hold the road any more, and at last we’ll check out how to resolve your grip problems.

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What are the main components that ensure great road holding and handling on a Honda Element?

We begin this content by fairly quickly telling you the main elements that will guarantee good road holding for your Honda Element. It’s important to know that a vehicle’s grip is a science in itself. It will therefore depend on many elements, we will explain down below the main ones that can be influenced:

  • Shock absorbers: The main elements of your road handling, they permanently 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 Honda Element 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 impacts their wear. Their size will as well play on grip, the wider they are the more contact with the ground will be significant.
  • 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 essential 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 elements to consider such as wheelbase, ground clearance, chassis rigidity, weight and aerodynamics…

Why is my Honda Element having problems with my car’s handling or grip?

We will now move on to the part that interests you the most, why my Honda Element has handling problems? As we outlined earlier, there are quite a lot of components to consider for your car to have a good grip, nevertheless there are few that can evolve with time, most of them are intrinsic to the construction of the vehicle, we will see right away those that can disturb your handling and road, and, why:

  • As we mentioned earlier, the rubber of the tyres has a primordial function in the good road holding of your motor vehicle, if your tyres are dead, you may possibly 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 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 problems.
  • A steering problem: Last but not least, the last essential component 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 resolve the handling problems?

We now move on to the different solutions to solve your road holding problems on your Honda Element .

  • Tyres: Nothing could be simpler, just replace your tyres, make sure to check them cautiously and replace 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 Honda Element, please have a check out 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 area to have it fixed, it will cost you less than 100€?
  • Steering: If you have problems with the handling on Honda Element due to your steering, there may be some components concerned, in this case you will have to make a whole check-up of these components, the best is to call a specialist.

If you want more guides on the Honda Element, go to our Honda Element category.