Coilover adjustment

Banny

Banny

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Put coilovers on my car, but on the rear one side sits way higher than the other, this being the passenger side, both are set the same height.
So question being do anyone of you know of a place I can get it set up I am live on the hampshire/surrey/Berkshire borders.
I do what do get it right really I could try lowering the offending one but surely would be better to have it set up properly.
Btw the coilovers are not expensive ones, but they seem to drive well enough.
 
How long have they been on the car? Its not worth setting the heights properly until they settle for a few weeks as they end up dropping slightly. It does seem odd that it sits way higher on one side though, it may be a dodgy spring / wrong spring rate on the coilover?
 
ci_newman said:
Depending on the car, these guys know their stuff - http://www.tgmsport.co.uk/

They work on all marquees, not just Honda. They run their own race team so are pretty good with most things car related.
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Bear said:
How long have they been on the car? Its not worth setting the heights properly until they settle for a few weeks as they end up dropping slightly. It does seem odd that it sits way higher on one side though, it may be a dodgy spring / wrong spring rate on the coilover?
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It does seem very odd - Banny - do you have any pics?

I don't think it should matter but do the coilovers have independent ride height adjustment that is seperate from preload?

Also i've never really noticed significant ride height changes from settling in the coilover sets that I have - is it really as prevalent as a lot of people say?
 
I've never noticed any settling really with coilovers, i have on shocks and springs though when i put my DC5 back to stock suspension it looked like a 4x4 untill i put a few miles on it.
 
What car is it? Some cars have different tolerances, I know when I had my Type R EP3 pretty much everyone who lowered them always had a bigger arch gap on the passengers rear, myself included. This was on fixed height shocks/springs though.

If it's cheap coilies and no super handling machine just nudge it down a bit till it sits level if that is all you want, you don't need to waste money getting 200 quid suspension set up at the cost of £200 as well, just get your tracking and alignment set as you would any motor :)
 
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