JP-"S"

Here is the story, I installed a set of Eibach Pro-Kit springs 6 months ago on my 2000 Porsche Boxster S. I had an alignment done right after by Sparks tire (good shop), two months later tires were eaten up so I got new tires and a new alignment by Alignment Specialist (Best in St. Louis). Then, last week. I noticed my rear tires were gone again. I called Eibach and told them the story. Their tech dept. said it was all the alignment shops that I used, so I went to Park town Motors(local Porsche dealer), and they still could not get it in spec. Again, I called Eibach their tech dept. said “oh it is the bushings or something is bent”. So Friday, 2/18 I drove to Kansas City Missouri to go to Imagine Auto a very well known Porsche race tuning shop recently with their 996 TT on the cover of Excellence magazine advertising a car with 683 WHP and 744 PD TQ. I had them take a look, unfortunately, I had installed everything correctly. I wish they had a better answer for me like I screwed it up. Then they had the car aligned again by their specialist that gets every car in spec., but of course mine still did not. It will not come to anything less then -2.0 camber. The car is also sitting at 3/4" lower than it supposed to. I have spoken with Blaine at Eibach's tech department many times with no avail except to take off the springs, send them in "we" will then inspect them and pretty much tell me how I am screwed. What should I do I have spent $500 in alignments in the last week and over two grand on this project. What are my choices and if I do not have any please be advised of Eibach's lack of customer care that they have and will continue to provide.

Pyroproblem

When lowering your car it will always increase negative camber. If the ride height is not where it is supposed to be then the provisions for camber adjustment may not be enough like it is currently...

Only thing I can suggest is seeing if anyone makes different lower control arms for additional camber adjustment and sending the springs back to Eibach to find out why your car sits 3/4" lower than its supposed to...If all that checks out then you may be forced to take a set of lower control arms to a machine shop and have them "move the eccentric bolt hole" to give you more range in adjustment...
Good luck!

ar38070

If you are saying that is like more than 2" lower than stock then something is wrong. The springs should not lower the car by more than 1-1.5". Send them back and if Eibach is not helpful get a set of H&R's.

Just checking - installation should have been straight forward. On a spring swap the only parts changed are the springs. There should not be any other parts left over.

My car (H&R Coilovers) height measured from the ground to the top of the wheel well arch is 24 3/4". It is very low. You car measured in the same way shoud be at least 25 1/4". It should be somewhere around 25 1/2".