bravo ride height!

[paul]

ill answer for him no it hasnt been in a accident it just sittign lower at one side.

the springs and shocks surly shouldnt of gone if they are sports ones and not been in for too long.

 

[Buzz]

apparently its been like that since he got it, ie before he lowered it and put new springs and shocks on it.
All i know is that something is very wrong there, and it should be fixed sooner rather than later.
parking on the kerb at a slant woulsn't make it do that, but i suppose if you park facing the right way, it'll look level?

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[Anonymous]

Is the slanting all down one side or is it more orientated to a corner? If it was dipping on one corner, you could assume spring/shocks/etc but if its all down one side... I'd be concerned.

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[ryan]

lol bout the kit not been moulded propely, well i think its mainly that back right hand corner thats doing it,im considering changing the springs to 40mm cos i desperately want 18's, but then it wud sit a fair bit higher cos it wud b raised 20mm, and am i rite in saying that 18's would also raise the car higher?
thanks for the input

 

[ryan]

o, btw, the car has always been slanted since i put springs on ( i think), so would changing the springs solve this problem?

 

[Anonymous]

i think something is very very wrong. if you have changed the springs already, i think you should take it to a trustworthy garage and get them to look at the suspension arms, trackrods etc because i dontthink its gona be an easy fix.!!!

 

[g5een]

i think if you get bigger wheels you need a smaller profile tyre to compensate

 

[Ryan]

taking the difference in size of the profile of the tyre, say i went from a 45 to a 35 profile, then that is a 1cm difference, but that still leaves an extra 1.5cm difference from the extra inch difference in the wheel?
cheers

 

[Lee]

The 45 bit doesnt mean that the sidewall is 45mm thick, it is 45% of the tyre width...eg. the 205 bit.



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[g5een]

lol

 

[mountainmachine]

If you want to know how the change in tyre size affects you try:

http://www.miata.net/garage/tirecalc.html

 

[steve]

are you sure you've got the same size wheels on both sides.

looks like 17's on one side 16's on the other

 

[ryan]

oh ****, i think that mite b it! , lol

 

[Buzz]

18's will make it sit ever so slightly higher, but not much. maybe 2 or 3 mm at the most.

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