In this article we are going to look at a problem that may prove to be unsafe. If you detect any handling or grip problems on your Nissan Cube , it is necessary that you drive carefully and manage it fairly quickly. Our team has posted this content to help you solve them. First, we’ll fairly quickly check out the main components that ensure effective road handling, then we’ll check out why your Nissan Cube doesn’t hold the road any more, and at last we’ll check out how to solve your grip problems.

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What are the main components that ensure great road holding and handling on a Nissan Cube?

We begin this article by fairly quickly describing the most important components that will assure good road holding for your Nissan Cube. It’s necessary to know that a vehicle’s grip is a science in itself. It will therefore depend on many factors, we will describe down below the most important ones that can be affected:

  • Shock absorbers: The most important components 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 Nissan Cube 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 enables 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 precise and must be accomplished by specialists.

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

Why is my Nissan Cube having problems with my car’s handling or grip?

We will now move on to the component that concerns you the most, why my Nissan Cube has handling problems? As we mentioned earlier, there are quite a lot of components 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 car, 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 primordial purpose in the good road holding of your motor vehicle, if your tyres are dead, you may 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 effectively and it will tend to “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 problem: Last but not least, the last important part 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 direction.

How do you solve the handling problems?

We now move on to the different solutions to correct your road holding problems on your Nissan Cube .

  • Tyres: Nothing could be simpler, just replace your tyres, make sure to check them carefully 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 Nissan Cube, please have a check out our article 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 to have it corrected, it will cost you less than 100€?
  • Steering: If you have problems with the handling on Nissan Cube due to your steering, there might be several components concerned, in such a case you will have to make a whole check-up of these components, the best is to call a professional.

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