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Old 04-05-08 | 07:58 AM
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Doesn't look like it.
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IMO looking at our car from the rear is awesome. I love when i see one on the road. It looks so aggressive from the rear and hides our DUMBO mirrors I would love to take IN-Motion pics of my car from the rear!
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Originally Posted by passnu2
IMO looking at our car from the rear is awesome. I love when i see one on the road. It looks so aggressive from the rear and hides our DUMBO mirrors I would love to take IN-Motion pics of my car from the rear!


I just posted this in the wrong forum and edited.


Did the lights in the mirror help at all?
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I've been told that any drop will change the drive angle and cause the car to shudder/shake. For some reason this is a big problem with the AWD in particular, but I don't know the tech behind it. Just what I've been told...
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^^^ what??? what about all the people with springs on their 250 AWD?
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^^^ what??? what about all the people with springs on their 250 AWD?
Well, when I was told that, I took it with a grain of salt.....

If it's true, I would think we'd be hearing more about lowered 250's shaking at idle.....
Old 04-05-08 | 11:17 AM
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Originally Posted by FiveOhNine
I've been told that any drop will change the drive angle and cause the car to shudder/shake. For some reason this is a big problem with the AWD in particular, but I don't know the tech behind it. Just what I've been told...
A complete moron told you that
Old 04-05-08 | 11:26 AM
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Originally Posted by FiveOhNine
I've been told that any drop will change the drive angle and cause the car to shudder/shake. For some reason this is a big problem with the AWD in particular, but I don't know the tech behind it. Just what I've been told...
when u travel down the road and u hit a bump the suspension travels right? the suspension is always moving so...the axle is obviously moving up and down.....dropping the car is just moving the pitch by a little bit, nothing more then the change it would experience going down the road. the springs are the same design on all models it's how the shock mounts to the lower control arm. with the awd the shock is shortener bc a bracket that connects the lower control arm goes around the axle and connects to the shock, so the shock is shorter then what you normally find on a rwd model.
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Originally Posted by Electric
A complete moron told you that
Extremely unlikely, given the source.
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