[98b18black]

Alright well, today I took my car to get my new struts and springs put on. KYB GR-2s and Tein S Techs...The DC needed it due to the horrible bouncing ride it had from some horribly cheap coilovers, but it was dropped a good 2.5 -3 inches on them...haha. Well, I leave and come back to find my car looking like an old hot rod with like hoosiers on the back. I mean the front is now lower even a good inch lower than with the coilovers on it (Now 3-4 inches) and the rear raised up about 2-3 inches...Well I thought they may have accidentally mixed up the front and rear and so did they...well they switched them...It looked the exact same....Here are some pics, any ideas on what they could have done? Please...my car looks ridiculous...

Before

Now...what the rear looks like...

The Front Now...

Front bumper from ground...

one more of the rear...

 

[integraracer05]

When I was installing my original springs I put the springs on backwards and my car looked the same exact way on stock springs. I can almost bet that they have them mixed up.

 

[codenamezero]

edit: haha u beat me to it ^^, i did the same mistake too LOL, freakin wasted me so many hours haha...

take it back
they put the rear spring at the front, and front at the back...

 

[98b18black]

But thats the thing they swapped them...and it still looked like that...

 

[integraracer05]

Also another thing that could have went wrong is there is a stop washer that the shock is suppose to stop at maybe they didn't put that back on. Its like a washer at the very top and then the shock turns to thicker metal and it just rests at the top causing the strut to stop when it reaches it.

 

[integraracer05]

I do know this for a fact, it is not the parts you used it is definatelly something they did.

 

[QBmurderer13]

he already said that thats what they thought and they switched it and it still looked the same

 

[98b18black]

I would be willing they didn't cut the bump stop...I'm not sure if that has anything to do with it but I dunno...Something is way outta wack

 

[98b18black]

Another thing that seems odd is that the Tein S Techs that I got were almost the exact same height...Well the coilovers they took off were about an inch different front and back...

 

[integraracer05]

thats wierd, keep us updated when you figure out the problem. I don't think the bumpstop would cause that because the bumpstop would only affect it if you was really slamming your car low.

 

[IntegraCF21]

That's almost higher than stock. haha

 

[98b18black]

I know ! It looks ridiculous...

 

[codenamezero]

1) either they were stupid enough to put the bumpstop ABOVE the bumpstop washer...
2) they swap it again, but they somehow still messed up in the middle of swapping, probably took the springs out and then end up putting it the exact wrong way back in...

when they do the swap, were u there? you should look at what they do make sure they put everyhting correctly... Tein S is no where near that low at the front. i think the drop is 1.8? which leaves about 1 figer gap front and back...

 

[98b18black]

See I've heard anything from a 3.6" drop in the front to a 1.5" drop in the front....The site I purchased them from Swerve Motorsports has 2.5 in the front and 1.7 on the rear...I'm going to see what I can find out today...damn this snow though...

 

[shopmyteg]

Shoot man. I've had those springs on both of my cars and neither of them have looked like that at all, front or rear. I'm on kyb agx's though and I put them on myself...Pretty sure I did it correctly, too. haha. Not sure what the problem is. Hope you get it worked out.

 

[98b18black]

Yeah...it looks nothing like Scott's car...and we have the exact same setup...I just wanna take it somewhere that know's what they are doing...

 

[shopmyteg]

Where did you take them to get them put on? Are they going to reimburse you for doing it incorrectly? If not it's ashame that you'd have to pay to get it done again, as result of someone else's mistake. Good luck.

 

[jh4dc2_gsr]

me and him have the same exact setup.. kyb gr-2 struts and tein s.tech springs.. this is how his is sposed to sit.. idk whats wrong..

 

[98b18black]

Well, I just went and took a look at the #s on the springs...the ones on the front 010650s and the ones on the rear are 010950s...I'm thinking this is for the spring it's self b/c it's nothing like the part # for the whole set whick is SKA18 AUB00...I can't find the number I found anywhere....

Also...When I got my springs all 4 of mine looked similar to the outside 2 in this pic I found of them...

 

[jh4dc2_gsr]

and to my knowledge. when i got mine i think all 4 of mine looked like the 2 inner ones on that pic..i cant remmeber tho..