just picked up my accord today. i wanted to get gc coilovers within the next 2 weeks. my dad is giving me grief about it. he thinks it will mess up the unibody andthe alignment of the doors from the bumps and jolts after lowering. my last car was alright after lowering, except for needing to replace the struts. he thinks lowering will put more stress on all other parts on car and have to align all the time (which i don't car about, alighning, that is). give me some reason why i cantell my dad that lowering isn't that big of a deal.

 

my car has been lowered for close to two years, camber kits installed and have only aligned once, that was after i put the camber kits on. tire wear is normal and i have noticed no difference in ANYTHING body wise. do it right with good struts and good springs (or sleeves if you prefer), and there is no reason why it will not retain its good quality and operate like stock.

 

Who paid for it?? And f22a is right, if you do the setup right it WON'T cause extra stress on the car. If you concerned about dropping it and it being noticable you could always go with a pro kit or something of a decent drop and it won't be noticable to the "average eye". Oh ya if your dad allows you to drop it don't forget the alignment

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Bucktown &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">just picked up my accord today. i wanted to get gc coilovers within the next 2 weeks. my dad is giving me grief about it. he thinks it will mess up the unibody andthe alignment of the doors from the bumps and jolts after lowering. my last car was alright after lowering, except for needing to replace the struts. he thinks lowering will put more stress on all other parts on car and have to align all the time (which i don't car about, alighning, that is). give me some reason why i cantell my dad that lowering isn't that big of a deal.</TD></TR></TABLE>

if you get coilovers, keep the height up when hes around and lower when your cruising... or if you ever ruin your stock springs tell em factory asks for like 500$ to replace meanwhile coilovers will run you like 300-350 :].

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by VRDrvr &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Who paid for it?? </TD></TR></TABLE>

exactly what i was thinking...educate then negotiate

 

i got a loan and he co-signed.
i was thinking about raising it when he's around and lowering when he's not. i only see him about twice a month. would this mess up the alignment lowering and raising it that often?
thanks for the input guys!

 

dood if you are making the payments, then you should do what you want to your car. sounds like you need to get with your dad and let him know you are interested in this particular hobby/lifestyle and go from there......dont f*ck around with lowering and raising your car (coilovers are obviously needed) just to fool him yo

 

just wondering how old are you???

 

ok if you got the loan and your the one making the payments then do what you please. Granted I know all about the "parent" issues....if your that worried about the lowering then keep it stock and boost the fawk out of it and you can do the whole i/h/e and he shouldnt notice.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Bucktown &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i got a loan and he co-signed.
i was thinking about raising it when he's around and lowering when he's not. i only see him about twice a month. would this mess up the alignment lowering and raising it that often?
thanks for the input guys!</TD></TR></TABLE>

that's a pain in the *** to keep doing that. honestly, i would pay the loan for year and then refinance and get your dad off of it and then hook up your car.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by KGAccord &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">that's a pain in the *** to keep doing that. honestly, i would pay the loan for year and then refinance and get your dad off of it and then hook up your car. </TD></TR></TABLE>

...another good idea, dont dupe the man who spawn you into this world

 

My best advise would be to be upfront with your father because honesty is always the best way to deal with things. As for the convincing him about lowering you car i would say tell him the benefits of better control due to less body roll and that this is something you want to do and you would rather have his consent to do it. I went through the same thing when i got my car so i had a long talk with him about modifying my car and he has really gotten in to it i mean he even had me make him a custom intake for his jeep cause he liked how mine sounded. You never know, this may be a way for you and your father to become closer. My dad is always asking me if he can help when i am working on my car and others car because he never got to do these things with his dad. Just my thoughts sorry i wrote so much.

 

dude juss lower da car.......its a lot of fun......

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by longjon85 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">dude juss lower da car.......its a lot of fun......</TD></TR></TABLE>
how does that help his request?

 

[QUOTE=01accordv6]My best advise would be to be upfront with your father because honesty is always the best way to deal with things. As for the convincing him about lowering you car i would say tell him the benefits of better control due to less body roll and that this is something you want to do and you would rather have his consent to do it. QUOTE]


haha that depends how nieve he is. my dad used to be a mechanic so he knows that modify the car lowers it's value. where his dad is a consigner he would be responsible if the pmts are not made. if his son is wasting money on mods and not paying the pmt and then he is stuck with a modded car that he can't sell then he's screwed. also...a honda accord handles well enough for normal driving, all that other stuff doesn't becomea factor till you start driving hard/fast and should she through that argument.

i actually think waiting a year he can learn some valuable life lessons/things about modding his car and it will be good for him/his car.

from my own experience i bought my car off parents and they made me pay them monthly for it. i could not mod my car aside from a stereo system, til i paid them back. my dads reasoning...if you have money for mods, then you have money to pay me back. i paid the car back in a yr working my *** off thanks to my co-op job i had and my other job at the grocery store. during the year of paying it off i was on the original honda boards learning about what to do.

 

dude family is family. just tell your dad that the car will handle better and that u don't want to lower the car a lot just enough to make the accord handle better. being safe is more important. just tell ur dad that it got nothing to do with racing(he knows why u wanna lower the car, is wasn't born yesterday)
dude if u take my advice--- take the loan back then f**king work and make the money then fix the car. debt is not the way to go to fix the car man. debt is something u do only to help ur family. so have a talk with ur dad and always respect his wishes man. after all that is the only guy who cares and not us here man.
accords do look good when u lower them and they HANDLE a lot better when u lower them. just tell that to ur dad. and respect respect respect.

 

c'mpn the idea of lowering the car for safety is BS, seriuosly. accords are one of the most popular cars out there on the road and many people safely drive them at stock height.

the reason why you want to lower the car is so you can take corners faster and look cool plain simple.....

 

Sleep with his wife.

You heard what I said.

 

Do you have the money to lower it the RIGHT way the first time? (springs, struts, camber kit, alignment). My dad was against me doing that stuff but I mean, it's your money. So if you have the money just talk it over with him and say it's being done the right way.