Today we are going to examine a issue that may prove to be unsafe. If you notice any handling or grip problems on your Subaru Legacy , it is important that you drive cautiously and take care of it fairly quickly. Our team has created this article to help you solve them. First, we’ll fairly quickly check out the essential parts that ensure good road handling, then we’ll check out why your Subaru Legacy 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 elements that ensure good road holding and handling on a Subaru Legacy?

We begin this article by fairly quickly explaining the most important parts that will ensure good road holding for your Subaru Legacy. It’s important to know that a vehicle’s grip is a science in itself. It will therefore rely upon many elements, we will show you below the most important ones that can be influenced:

  • 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 Subaru Legacy 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 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 control 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 precise and must be conducted 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 Subaru Legacy having problems with my car’s handling or grip?

We will now move on to the part that concerns you the most, why my Subaru Legacy has handling problems? As we described above, there are a lot of elements to take into account 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 discover right away those that can bother your handling and road, and, why:

  • As we explained above, the rubber of the tyres has a crucial 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 often “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 as a result of a too open or too closed wheel angle, you will have grip problems.
  • A steering issue: Last but not least, the last necessary part for good road handling is that all the elements of your steering must be in good condition. The most classic case 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 solve the handling problems?

We now move on to the different solutions to solve your road holding problems on your Subaru Legacy .

  • Tyres: Nothing could be simpler, just replace your tyres, remember to check them cautiously 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 Subaru Legacy, please have a check out our article on this theme. 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 Subaru Legacy as a result of your steering, there may be some elements involved, in this case you will have to produce a complete check-up of these elements, the best is to call a professional.

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