Today we are going to examine a issue that may prove to be unsafe. If you detect any handling or grip problems on your Porsche Macan , it is essential that you drive cautiously and handle it fairly quickly. Our team has made this content to help you fix them. First, we’ll fairly quickly look at the main parts that assure good road handling, then we’ll look at why your Porsche Macan doesn’t hold the road any more, and finally we’ll look at how to fix your grip complications.

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What are the main elements that assure good road holding and handling on a Porsche Macan?

We begin this content by fairly quickly telling you the most important parts that will ensure good road holding for your Porsche Macan. It’s essential to know that a vehicle’s grip is a science in itself. It will therefore depend on many elements, we will describe below the most important ones that can be affected:

  • Shock absorbers: The most important parts of your road handling, they perpetually ensure the contact between the wheels and the road. They absorb all shocks and holes on the road.
  • Tyres: They are the ones that will ensure the grip of your Porsche Macan 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 affects their wear. Their size will also 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 carried out by professionals.

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

Why is my Porsche Macan having complications with my car’s handling or grip?

We will now proceed to the part that interests you the most, why my Porsche Macan has handling complications? As we mentioned above, there are quite a lot of elements to take into account 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 automobile, we will see right away those that can affect your handling and road, and, why:

  • As we mentioned above, the rubber of the tyres has a crucial function in the good road holding of your motor vehicle, if your tyres are dead, you may possibly 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 effectively 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 as a result of a too open or too closed wheel angle, you will have grip complications.
  • A steering issue: Last but not least, the last important component 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 consequence will be a delay in your changes of direction.

How do you fix the handling complications?

We now proceed to the different solutions to resolve your road holding complications on your Porsche Macan .

  • Tyres: Nothing could be easier, just change your tyres, make sure to check them cautiously and change 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 Porsche Macan, please have a look at our content 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 solved, it will cost you less than 100€?
  • Steering: If you have complications with the handling on Porsche Macan as a result 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.

To find more tips on the Porsche Macan, take a look at the Porsche Macan category.