i'm playing with my new coilovers and am getting curious about a small issue i have with them and my old ones - even when the threads are adjusted absolutely symmetrically (verniers used), the passenger side rear tucks approx. 9mm more tyre than the driver's side rear. what gives! i don't mind winding down the driver's side more to match but it does mean the suspension geometry is slightly different. probably not enough to notice but it still bugs me a bit. -A
Why is it heavier on the passenger side? Battery is only ~10 kg I'm using verniers from lip -> fender
I also have this problem. Coilover set to exact same hieghts between the top of the strut and spring perch and then the same specs between the spring perch and the locking colar. Yet my rear left sits 5mm or so lower. That is measuring from the ground to the top/centre of the wheel arch.
Could also be springs are slightly different lengths/compress different amounts, due to weight on corner or not...
Is your car bent? Is it more noticeable than the way the driver's side hugs the road when you sit in the car without a passenger hehehe
yeah I thought this 'til I fitted my Powertrix a few days ago and had the exact same problem. car is dead straight.
This is what happened to me. I thought it was normal, though... I had my passenger front KW set higher up than the driver side front, only thing to make the car sit straight... And I don't have any bent arms at all... STRANGE INIT!
I would say most cars are different from factory. The lower you go, the more obvious it becomes. I reckon it's normal.
it's normal. i tried to get the rear of the car exactly the same on both sides and it simply refused to do it. would always tilt to 1 side slightly so... i gave up and ended up making the driver's side slightly higher since that's the side your weight is on.
No, I haven't driven it to let it settle but that would be a good idea. Dropped the driver's side coilover another 9mm or so down and it's still 5-6mm higher on the passenger side -_-
I wouldn't be suprised if the cars weren't dead straight out of the factory, take a look at the targas, they're fitted with spacers so they can line up with the body upon assembly. Mine was missing a spacer so the targa didn't line up properly. Will be interesting to see if I have the same problem when I fit my powertrix coils.
Dunno if I'm starting the obvious here, but did you wind the threaded section all the way down? Not the adjusting coupler thing, the actual coilover...
A mix between corner weights, sway bars and linkages, suspension and subframe bushings, likely chassis irregularities on a 20yr old chassis and the possibility that your measuring surface isn't entirely flat (got your level out?). The reason that the ride height drop isn't the same as your coilover adjustment is your sway bar countering the drop. Your best bet is to leave your ride height and pre-load adjustments equal on the front and equal on the back, or equal all round depending on what your doing. It's your suspension preload and travel that matters, so for ride height you will want to keep hub to strut tower distance the same on the corners for ride height, pre-load should be adjusted with cnr weight scales.
