Today we are going to look at a issue that may prove to be unsafe. If you identify any handling or grip problems on your Toyota Prius , it is important that you drive cautiously and handle it quickly. Our team has created this article content to help you solve them. First, we’ll quickly check out the essential elements that ensure good road handling, then we’ll check out why your Toyota Prius doesn’t hold the road any more, and finally we’ll check out how to solve your grip complications.

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What are the main components that ensure great road holding and handling on a Toyota Prius?

We commence this content by quickly detailing the main elements that will assure good road holding for your Toyota Prius. It’s important to know that a vehicle’s grip is a science in itself. It will consequently be based upon many elements, we will describe below the main ones that can be affected:

  • Shock absorbers: The main 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 Toyota Prius 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 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 enables you to manage the vertical angle of your car’s wheels, it is therefore necessary for the grip of your motor vehicle and the wear of your tires. This adjustment is very particular and must be accomplished by professionals.

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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 Toyota Prius having complications with my car’s handling or grip?

We will now move on to the component that concerns you the most, why my Toyota Prius has handling complications? As we described above, there are quite a lot of components 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 car, we will discover right away those that can disturb your handling and road, and, why:

  • As we described above, the rubber of the tyres has a primordial 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 often “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 because of a too open or too closed wheel angle, you will have grip complications.
  • A steering issue: Last but not least, the last necessary element for good road handling is that all the components of your steering must be in good condition. The most traditional circumstance 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 way.

How do you solve the handling complications?

We now move on to the different solutions to solve your road holding complications on your Toyota Prius .

  • Tyres: Nothing could be less complicated, 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 Toyota Prius, please have a check out our content on this subject. 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 mechanic to have it fixed, it will cost you less than 100€?
  • Steering: If you have complications with the handling on Toyota Prius because of your steering, there may 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.

If perhaps you have any additional questions about the Toyota Prius, do not hesitate to consult our Toyota Prius category.