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Old 07-24-2009, 04:53 PM
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Default Height higher on jack lifted side now

I jacked the drivers side of the car up today and when I let the car back down the drivers side is now noticeably higher. It was not that way before I jacked up the car. I measured it and it is a inch higher than the passenger side in the front and a inch and half higher on the drivers side in the rear. I have been pushing and sitting on the higher side and it just goes right back to sitting to high.

Did I bend or stretch something in the struts or shocks? They are the original.
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my car does that sometime.. i just take a drive and corners and it adjusted itself.
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Drive it around the block.. let the suspension re-settle...
Old 07-24-2009, 04:55 PM
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It needs to settle... bounce the drivers side up and down from the strut and shock area...

If you're unclear of what I'm talking about, open the drivers door, stand in the doorway and bounce up and down...

Measure it again...
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If the struts are original then (1) you might have one jammed; and (2) jeebus it's time for new struts!
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Thanks guys, that is great news. I thought I was going to have to change the struts and shocks and the car has been driving so good for awhile now with no extreme expenses.
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yep just go drive it around and have a blast!
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Just jack up the other side, then they'll be even
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heh i just get on the rear bumper and jump up and down a couple of times. or just go outside and do some slaloms :P
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Originally Posted by Scootin159
Just jack up the other side, then they'll be even
There's one in every crowd. Dude, you coming to our Fall DE?
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Mine does it too. Sits right back down as soon as I release the parking brake.
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Originally Posted by shiners780
There's one in every crowd. Dude, you coming to our Fall DE?
Naw, It would unfortunately mean a day off of work for me, of which I more than used up my annual vacation allowance with our honeymoon in January.
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Originally Posted by Scootin159
Just jack up the other side, then they'll be even
Dang yer hide, now I gotta clean off my monitor (caught me funnybone unawares, sprayed soda all over it laughin')...



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