In this article we are going to check out a problem that may prove to be threatening. If you identify any handling or grip problems on your Mercedes Benz Sprinter , it is necessary that you drive carefully and take care of it fairly quickly. Our team has posted this content to help you resolve them. First, we’ll fairly quickly check out the principal components that assure effective road handling, then we’ll check out why your Mercedes Benz Sprinter 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 Mercedes Benz Sprinter?

We commence this content by fairly quickly describing the main components that will assure good road holding for your Mercedes Benz Sprinter. It’s necessary to know that a vehicle’s grip is a science in itself. It will as a result be based upon many elements, we will show you below the main ones that can be affected:

  • Shock absorbers: The main components 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 Mercedes Benz Sprinter 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 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 enables you to manage the vertical angle of your car’s wheels, it is therefore necessary for the grip of your car and the wear of your tires. This adjustment is very particular and must be conducted 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 Mercedes Benz Sprinter having problems with my car’s handling or grip?

We will now move on to the part that concerns you the most, why my Mercedes Benz Sprinter has handling problems? As we described earlier, there are a lot of elements to consider 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 discover right away those that can bother your handling and road, and, why:

  • As we revealed earlier, the rubber of the tyres has a primordial function in the good road holding of your car, 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 car will no longer be able 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 because of a too open or too closed wheel angle, you will have grip problems.
  • A steering problem: Last but not least, the last necessary part for good road handling is that all the elements of your steering must be in good state. The most classic case 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 resolve the handling problems?

We now move on to the different solutions to resolve your road holding problems on your Mercedes Benz Sprinter .

  • Tyres: Nothing could be simpler, just replace your tyres, make sure to verify them carefully and replace 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 Mercedes Benz Sprinter, 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 fixed, it will cost you less than 100€?
  • Steering: If you have problems with the handling on Mercedes Benz Sprinter because of your steering, there may be several elements involved, in such a case you will have to make a whole check-up of these elements, the best is to call a professional.

If you want more guides on the Mercedes Benz Sprinter, go to our Mercedes Benz Sprinter category.