In this article we are going to look at a problem that may prove to be threatening. If you notice any handling or grip problems on your Mazda 6 , it is important that you drive attentively 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 essential elements that assure good road handling, then we’ll check out why your Mazda 6 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 elements that assure good road holding and handling on a Mazda 6?

We commence this content by fairly quickly explaining the most important elements that will assure good road holding for your Mazda 6. 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 below the most important ones that can be influenced:

  • 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 Mazda 6 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 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 allows you to manage 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 precise 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 Mazda 6 having problems with my car’s handling or grip?

We will now move on to the part that concerns you the most, why my Mazda 6 has handling problems? As we outlined above, there are a lot of elements to take into consideration for your car to have a good grip, nevertheless there are few that can evolve over time, most of them are intrinsic to the construction of the vehicle, we will see right away those that can bother your handling and road, and, why:

  • As we mentioned above, 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 have the ability to absorb the irregularities of the road properly and it will tend to “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 due to a too open or too closed wheel angle, you will have grip problems.
  • A steering problem: Last but not least, the last important component for good road handling is that all the elements of your steering must be in good condition. The most classic circumstance 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 resolve the handling problems?

We now move on to the different solutions to resolve your road holding problems on your Mazda 6 .

  • Tyres: Nothing could be easier, just change your tyres, make sure 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 Mazda 6, please have a check out our content 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 problems with the handling on Mazda 6 due to your steering, there may be several elements involved, in this case you will have to produce a whole check-up of these elements, the best is to call a professional.

If you want more tutorials on the Mazda 6, go to our Mazda 6 category.