So I put the car down off the jacks yesterday and today notice that my passenger side ride height in the front is quite a bit lower than the driver side front. I have not changed the ride height in years. I am assuming something has changed, but I guess it is possible that I just never noticed before today. The car was cornerweighted a couple years back.

Any idea what would cause this change?

 

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Dating fat chicks.

 

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Dating fat chicks.
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The wife and kids would not approve, LOL. On a side note, a defect in the coilover?

 

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LOL...

I've checked everything and nothing has slipped and the coilover is fine. It is probably nothing and I'm just being too **** about it. It is about a 1/2" difference.

I'm planning on getting it cornerweighted this winter anyway - so I'll not worry about it I guess.

 

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LOL I laughed so hard my girl gave me funny looks.

 

Did you drive the car around for a bit and then check it again? If a car has been jacked up on one side then the shocks/springs on that side usually sit a little higher for a while until the settle down again.

 

1) Make sure it's REALLY flat surface?
2) Equal air pressure in all the tires?
3) Measured from the jacking points?

If they are coilovers, maybe they slipped a bit. A half-inch difference is a big problem.

-Chris


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Yeah, that too. Just noticed you mentioned you JUST got it off jackstands?

 

yeah - I drove it a bit. I'm going to drive it around more this evening and then go to a gas station for a nice level surface to check it...

 

Jonathan, if/when you figure it out, let me know. My Tein Flex are 3 years old but have only under 6000 miles on them. Some corners sit lower than others. I dont get it? There are also no fat chicks involved for they would get stuck in my bucket seats.

I used to have Ground Controls/Konis on an EG years and it did the same thing. I am thinking that when suspension gets old, it does this.

 

Not to thread jack, but what is the stock ride height on an ITR measured from all four jack points?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by migs &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Jonathan, if/when you figure it out, let me know. My Tein Flex are 3 years old but have only under 6000 miles on them. Some corners sit lower than others. I dont get it? There are also no fat chicks involved for they would get stuck in my bucket seats.

I used to have Ground Controls/Konis on an EG years and it did the same thing. I am thinking that when suspension gets old, it does this.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Luckily, this was a false alarm. I posted on here too quickly mostly because I was so frustrated with all the crap I have been having go wrong lately that I figured this was jsut one more damn thing...

I took the car out again, drove it a bit and went to a nice level gas station pad - and the car is perfect. It looks like either something settled ot, more likely, the ground the car was sitting on when was not as level as I thought.

Now I can go to the track tomorrow morning with confidence...