Suspension Service
Hyundai Suspension Service at Mack Grubbs Hyundai
Your suspension is important to your vehicle, ensuring a smooth ride and stability. When your suspension is doing its job properly, it helps keep your wheels in contact with the road or surface that you're driving on. Your suspension works in concert with your wheels and with your steering. If you have suspension problems, it can cause issues with your wheels and steering. It is important to keep your suspension serviced properly so that you are safer on the road. If you live in Laurel, Columbia, or Ellisville, you can get quality suspension service at Mack Grubs Hyundai. Bring your vehicle in and let our expert technicians inspect your suspension and advise you on how to proceed to keep you safe on the road.
What is Suspension Service?
For most drivers, they pay little attention to the health of their suspension unless it begins to affect how their vehicle drives. If your car, truck, SUV, or minivan squeaks, bounces, sways, or if your steering gets more difficult, it may mean you need to have your suspension repaired at Mack Grubs Hyundai.
If your vehicle is turning too forcefully, the rear end drags when you accelerate, or if your front-end nosedives when you brake, these could all be symptoms of suspension troubles. If your suspension is damaged, it may feel like you have lost some control, and the truth is you have. The leaning, the dragging, the nosediving are warnings of increased rollover risks and increased stopping times. Servicing the suspension can take care of those issues and keep you safe on the road.
Signs of Suspension Damage
If your suspension is damaged, there are several signs that can alert you to the problems:
- A corner of your vehicle sits lower than the others. This can mean you have a broken spring.
- If you inspect your tire tread and you spot a specific uneven pattern of wear called “cupping”.
- “Bounce Test” failure: Lean your body weight on the front of your parked vehicle and step away quickly. Watch your vehicle's response, if it bounces more than twice, you may have a problem with your shocks or struts.
- If you see obvious damage to the shocks or struts, or you notice oil or grease to parts of your suspension like the shocks or struts.
- If you notice squeaking noises when you turn or press on the brakes.
Other symptoms are noticeable when you drive, for example:
- Braking responses facilitate leaning forward, backward, or to the side on your vehicle.
- If you notice drifting or pulling around turns, it can mean bad shocks.
- If your vehicle pulls or drifts one way or the other on a straight stretch of road, it can mean a suspension problem, steering issues, problems with your tires, or problems with your brakes.
- Rougher than usual ride.