Today we are going to look at a issue that may prove to be threatening. If you identify any handling or grip problems on your Infiniti QX80 , it is necessary that you drive attentively and take care of it quickly. Our team has posted this article content to help you solve them. First, we’ll quickly look at the essential elements that ensure good road handling, then we’ll look at why your Infiniti QX80 doesn’t hold the road any more, and at last we’ll look at how to solve your grip complications.

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What are the main components that ensure great road holding and handling on a Infiniti QX80?

We begin this article by quickly detailing the most important elements that will assure good road holding for your Infiniti QX80. It’s necessary to know that a vehicle’s grip is a science in itself. It will therefore depend on many points, we will explain down below the most important ones that can be affected:

  • Shock absorbers: The most important elements 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 Infiniti QX80 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 impacts 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 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 consequently important for the grip of your motor vehicle and the wear of your tires. This adjustment is very precise and must be carried out by specialists.

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

Why is my Infiniti QX80 having complications with my car’s handling or grip?

We will now move on to the part that concerns you the most, why my Infiniti QX80 has handling complications? As we explained above, there are a lot of components 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 disturb your handling and road, and, why:

  • As we explained above, the rubber of the tyres has a fundamental function 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 properly 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 complications.
  • A steering issue: Last but not least, the last important element for good road handling is that all the components of your steering must be in good condition. The most traditional case is that your stabilizer bar or the silent blocks of your steering triangles are dead. The outcome will be a delay in your changes of direction.

How do you solve the handling complications?

We now move on to the different solutions to correct your road holding complications on your Infiniti QX80 .

  • Tyres: Nothing could be less complicated, just change your tyres, make sure to check them attentively 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 Infiniti QX80, please have a look at our article on this subject. 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 area to have it fixed, it will cost you less than 100€?
  • Steering: If you have complications with the handling on Infiniti QX80 because of your steering, there might be several components involved, in this case you will have to produce a whole check-up of these components, the best is to call a professional.

If you need more guides on the Infiniti QX80, go to our Infiniti QX80 category.