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Old 05-07-09, 12:37 PM
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I cant figure out why my car is uneven. I just got back from alignment yesterday day. Put on exhaust. Nothing to do with the stance of the car.Then i got spacers for the front, 25mm, and when i put them on, and dropped the car back onto the ground, the driver side is lower then the passenger side. The ground is even..the coilover adjustments are the same, about 2.5 threads from maxing out. I mean everything should be the same, but why is the driver side sooo much lower.

Passenger side i have about almost a 1/2" gap, and the driver side there is no gap! the fender tucks part of the wheel. It does look good though hehe, but I can't turn
Old 05-07-09, 12:47 PM
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raise up one side. was the problem their before u installed spacers? i think that just made you realize it more. plus the fact the car was in the air, it needs a few mins to settle back down
Old 05-07-09, 12:48 PM
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seriously sounds dumb but are tire sizes the same?
Old 05-07-09, 12:52 PM
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if thats th case
Originally Posted by sakataj
seriously sounds dumb but are tire sizes the same?
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YES THEY ARE THE SAME SIZE


If there was a problem, it wasn't noticeable before. Time isn't a factor, its been like that all night. If I raise up the di=river side a bit more to match the passenger side, is that bad for anything? I have to raise the driver side about 20mm more, to make the front end even.
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put some air in the tire haha
Old 05-07-09, 01:09 PM
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20mm... damn thats really weird, how bad was your alignment beforehand?
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didnnt think my alignment was off THAt bad? Well this is what I'm gonna do until further notice. raise the driver side by 15 and lower the passenger side by 5(pretty much amxing it out).

This is wierdd.
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yeah it is weird for really bc thats a big difference
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I'm going crazy. Spacers cant be the root of this problem ,no way. Nothing seemed wrong with the alignment. i cant thin of anything that would cause height difference.
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I just have ltuned shocks and springs, nothing to adjust, and mine isn't perfectly level either. One side always touches down before the other.

You can't tell when it's sitting on the ground, but the perfectionist within me is eternally bothered.

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hahaha are the tires the same size. obv they would be.
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Originally Posted by jonathancl
I just have ltuned shocks and springs, nothing to adjust, and mine isn't perfectly level either. One side always touches down before the other.

You can't tell when it's sitting on the ground, but the perfectionist within me is eternally bothered.
I gurantee its not 25mm of difference.

I am going to take out the spacers in the morning and return the coilovers back o the same height, see iff the spacers are causing stress on a balljoint causing it to lower unevenly or something.
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Sometimes when you jack it up and have the E-brake on, then lower it down the car is uneven until you take off the E-brake. did you try driving the car around the block then check it again?
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Yes, multiple times already. I drove it around with the passenger side coilver at 3 threads from maxing out and the driver side like 25mm up, so like 10 threads up? Driver side STILL is lower then the passenger side. Poop.

Rears are even though.


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