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Eibach Springs Settle......WHEN????
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<blockquote data-quote="03'Darin" data-source="post: 903272" data-attributes="member: 6164"><p>Here's the shit on the Eibach's for the 03' Cobra.</p><p></p><p>I measured my ride height both before and after the spring installation. I didn't unbolt any of the suspension pivot points so I wouldn't have an issue with retightening them at the proper ride height. </p><p></p><p>I ended up with almost 1" of drop in the front and only 1/2" in the rear. When I saw the rear ride height barely changed I unbolted the rear IRS subframe and retightened it to make sure I had the suspension loaded properly. Same results 1/2" drop from stock. </p><p></p><p>As a couple of people have already stated.......a good coil spring WON'T settle. With all of my previous experience with Eibach's I considered them a good spring.</p><p></p><p>At this point I decided to call Eibach and find out what the problem is. Of course they said "our spring will not settle but you may get some settling as the isolators and springs seat together". The tech started by telling me the installer must have torqued the pivot points down while the car was jacked up......blah blah blah blah........untill I said "hold on....I did the installation exactly how the Ford shop manual tells you to do it and that's NOT the way. The tech said he has done several installation and never had this problem.</p><p></p><p>Now I proceded to tell him why I thought the springs didn't drop any more. Because the 03' car has different springs and a lower stock ride height than the 99-01 car does. So instead of Eibach taking the time and effort to engineer and build a correct spring for the 03' car they just kept the same old 99-01 springs but changed the application to read 99-03 cars. The tech then agreed an 03' owner wouldn't see the stated drop because of the alread lower ride height from the factory. THE F___CKING BASTARDS COULDN'T EVEN PUT A FOOT NOTE IN THE APPLICATION BOOK to save us the aggrivation.</p><p></p><p>Even after calling the tech on the carpet about this he still has the nerve to tell me I need to loosen all of the rear suspension pivot points, disconect the rear sway bar, pull the rear springs out and properly torque the pivot points and the new ride height. Do you know how much bullshit that is. I asked him if that was going to give me the additional inch of drop I was supposed to get.......and he says "he's not sure".</p><p></p><p>I say......."F" EIBACH. They basically are just blowing off the issue that the application book was just updated to include the 03' cars even though the results wouldn't be anywhere close to what they advertise AND won't do anything to help the consumer correct the problem once they bought and installed the springs.</p><p></p><p>Darin</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="03'Darin, post: 903272, member: 6164"] Here's the shit on the Eibach's for the 03' Cobra. I measured my ride height both before and after the spring installation. I didn't unbolt any of the suspension pivot points so I wouldn't have an issue with retightening them at the proper ride height. I ended up with almost 1" of drop in the front and only 1/2" in the rear. When I saw the rear ride height barely changed I unbolted the rear IRS subframe and retightened it to make sure I had the suspension loaded properly. Same results 1/2" drop from stock. As a couple of people have already stated.......a good coil spring WON'T settle. With all of my previous experience with Eibach's I considered them a good spring. At this point I decided to call Eibach and find out what the problem is. Of course they said "our spring will not settle but you may get some settling as the isolators and springs seat together". The tech started by telling me the installer must have torqued the pivot points down while the car was jacked up......blah blah blah blah........untill I said "hold on....I did the installation exactly how the Ford shop manual tells you to do it and that's NOT the way. The tech said he has done several installation and never had this problem. Now I proceded to tell him why I thought the springs didn't drop any more. Because the 03' car has different springs and a lower stock ride height than the 99-01 car does. So instead of Eibach taking the time and effort to engineer and build a correct spring for the 03' car they just kept the same old 99-01 springs but changed the application to read 99-03 cars. The tech then agreed an 03' owner wouldn't see the stated drop because of the alread lower ride height from the factory. THE F___CKING BASTARDS COULDN'T EVEN PUT A FOOT NOTE IN THE APPLICATION BOOK to save us the aggrivation. Even after calling the tech on the carpet about this he still has the nerve to tell me I need to loosen all of the rear suspension pivot points, disconect the rear sway bar, pull the rear springs out and properly torque the pivot points and the new ride height. Do you know how much bullshit that is. I asked him if that was going to give me the additional inch of drop I was supposed to get.......and he says "he's not sure". I say......."F" EIBACH. They basically are just blowing off the issue that the application book was just updated to include the 03' cars even though the results wouldn't be anywhere close to what they advertise AND won't do anything to help the consumer correct the problem once they bought and installed the springs. Darin [/QUOTE]
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