George Patches
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- 2013 Mazda2 Touring
Just had bilsteins installed on the car yesterday, quite a difference. I'm loving the performance, but ride will take adjusting too. Lowering the tire pressures back to near stock definitely helped a bit. However, I have a question about the ride height and what other people have experienced.
So I set the equipment to the max specified in the Bilstein papers. The shop that turned out the rears to the end of the threads, so it looked lowered in the front and near stock in the back. I lowered the rear to max height recommended by Bilstein and now it looks a lot better. Stock it seemed about 25 3/8 all around, but the front is now about 23 3/4 and the rear 24 3/4. So it seems like to get the car balanced like it was stock I'm gonna have to crank the rear all the way to the end of it's adjustment. Was this other people's experience? Is there something I'm overlooking to get the height more balanced? Right now I can only explain this by the fact that the kit was really designed for the Fiesta, which is heavier and 4 inches longer.
So I set the equipment to the max specified in the Bilstein papers. The shop that turned out the rears to the end of the threads, so it looked lowered in the front and near stock in the back. I lowered the rear to max height recommended by Bilstein and now it looks a lot better. Stock it seemed about 25 3/8 all around, but the front is now about 23 3/4 and the rear 24 3/4. So it seems like to get the car balanced like it was stock I'm gonna have to crank the rear all the way to the end of it's adjustment. Was this other people's experience? Is there something I'm overlooking to get the height more balanced? Right now I can only explain this by the fact that the kit was really designed for the Fiesta, which is heavier and 4 inches longer.
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