In this article we are going to examine a issue that may prove to be unsafe. If you identify any handling or grip problems on your Lincoln MKS , it is important that you drive attentively and manage it fairly quickly. Our team has created this content to help you fix them. First, we’ll fairly quickly check out the essential elements that ensure effective road handling, then we’ll check out why your Lincoln MKS doesn’t hold the road any more, and finally we’ll check out how to fix your grip problems.

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What are the main elements that ensure good road holding and handling on a Lincoln MKS?

We commence this content by fairly quickly describing the main elements that will assure good road holding for your Lincoln MKS. It’s important to know that a vehicle’s grip is a science in itself. It will therefore rely upon many points, we will describe down below the main ones that can be affected:

  • Shock absorbers: The main elements of your road handling, they permanently 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 Lincoln MKS 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 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 therefore lose handling, that’s why low profile sports vehicles grip better than very high 4×4’s
  • Wheel Alignment: This adjustment allows 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 done 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 Lincoln MKS having problems with my car’s handling or grip?

We will now move on to the part that concerns you the most, why my Lincoln MKS has handling problems? As we explained earlier, there are a lot of elements 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 vehicle, we will find out right away those that can bother your handling and road, and, why:

  • As we described earlier, the rubber of the tyres has a fundamental purpose 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 be able to absorb the irregularities of the road properly and it will often “float”, which will 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 problems.
  • A steering issue: Last but not least, the last important element for good road handling is that all the elements 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 direction.

How do you fix the handling problems?

We now move on to the different solutions to correct your road holding problems on your Lincoln MKS .

  • Tyres: Nothing could be less complicated, 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 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 Lincoln MKS, please have a check out our content 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 solved, it will cost you less than 100€?
  • Steering: If you have problems with the handling on Lincoln MKS due to your steering, there might be some elements concerned, in such a case you will have to make a complete check-up of these elements, the best is to call a specialist.

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