car higher after lowering
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car higher after lowering
a professional shop installed tein H techs for me but after they jacked it down the car looked higher!! they decided to re order S techs for me, but now that I've driven it home i've noticed that it is actually lower than when just raised down from the jack and the H techs seem to be working with the drop that they were advertised for. though very disappointing (still a big gap)........ Is this common? There were 4-5 guys at the shop that didn't know why. I don't think its an illusion or anything like that, it was clearly higher when I briefly glimpsed at it.
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RE: car higher after lowering
They need a few days to settle, that should include some spirited driving, not just sitting in the driveway.
They won't settle much though, H-techs are hardly a drop at all
They won't settle much though, H-techs are hardly a drop at all
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RE: car higher after lowering
So this sounds normal to you? Those guysseem like they have a lot of experience butthey freaked out when unjacked it looked higher! They blamed it on Tein malfunction or factory screw up andnot installation. But when I drove it home it looked fine, a lot lower than when just unjacked.
Is that normal? Anything else they could have done wrong? And ya H techs suck big time. Going to redo it with S tecs
Is that normal? Anything else they could have done wrong? And ya H techs suck big time. Going to redo it with S tecs
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no i dont have any barely unjacked pictures as they took me to the area and i just glimpsed at it and it was super ugly and high, higher than factory. When I drove home they seemed to have settled. heres what it looks like now, obviously lower than factory stock. Im just worried they didnt install it right/something busted/broke causing the car to then lower. Also is it normal to hear the springs a bit during breaking after starting up? when i first drove out of my drive way today i hearda lot noises but then after about 10 minutes it was fine...
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no i dont have any barely unjacked pictures as they took me to the area and i just glimpsed at it and it was super ugly and high, higher than factory. When I drove home they seemed to have settled. heres what it looks like now, obviously lower than factory stock. Im just worried they didnt install it right/something busted/broke causing the car to then lower. Also is it normal to hear the springs a bit during breaking after starting up? when i first drove out of my drive way today i hearda lot noises but then after about 10 minutes it was fine...
no i dont have any barely unjacked pictures as they took me to the area and i just glimpsed at it and it was super ugly and high, higher than factory. When I drove home they seemed to have settled. heres what it looks like now, obviously lower than factory stock. Im just worried they didnt install it right/something busted/broke causing the car to then lower. Also is it normal to hear the springs a bit during breaking after starting up? when i first drove out of my drive way today i hearda lot noises but then after about 10 minutes it was fine...
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RE: car higher after lowering
so are you saying that its normal for new installed springs to look higher and then "settle" down to their desired height after some driving?
I trust this shop a lot! They are an branch extension of Autobacs and I wouldn't know what I'm looking at it if I poke my head under my car....
I trust this shop a lot! They are an branch extension of Autobacs and I wouldn't know what I'm looking at it if I poke my head under my car....
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so are you saying that its normal for new installed springs to look higher and then "settle" down to their desired height after some driving?
so are you saying that its normal for new installed springs to look higher and then "settle" down to their desired height after some driving?
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RE: car higher after lowering
well i was concerned because it looked twice as high as the factory istallation, it looked like it was jacked UP!! but anyways ive gotten the s techs installed and i'm quite happy. Though I'll need to get an alignment and probably a camber kit this saturaday (shopwanted me to drive around for a week first)
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