Should be using the spring seat perch to adjust ride height, and adjusting the shock body to set the engagement of the bump stop to prevent any contact with bodywork/suspension
This work on 90% of coil overs:) straight to the point, nice! Only thing I would add is to lube the threads nice and thick so you can wipe away all dirt and it keep it from getting buried in the threads
Omg thank you so much! I just put on some struts just like these (but the orange ones) I laid them out and had them match the original ones I had just replaced. However after I got my wheels back on I noticed how kind of goofy they look because they are waaay higher than I expected 😂. The instructions weren't very clear so I was thinking i was going to have to undo them from the pins to adjust the hieght! You saved me extra and unnecessary trouble 😂❤❤❤
@@wilarsuki single top collar set up, she is 100% adjusting her preload, this is wrong if your going for a different ride height, it’s take 1 minute (literally) to take the single bolt in holding the bottom of the coil to correctly adjust ride height, the way she’s doing it is for the people who don’t care about the quality of their ride feel they just want stancey pants views
@@austinthreadgill8415 the whole shock body is moving with that collar man, no way it changes the preload. It's spinning internally that's the only difference between her and what's you're saying
@@kowalski2334 well I'm used to motorcycles motocross bikes if you tighten on spring and raise the bike you also can loosen it and lower it but that would not the way to set up the suspension correctly you have to measure the travel and free sag ect...
Just remember if you adjust ride height, next time you perform an alignment to you must input the new ride height in the hunter so it can be aligned properly.
Same but I'm getting ready to do my first coilovers installation on my NextCar I'm going to mess with the ride height so I can learn you never know unless you try when you fail it's a learning lesson
Really should be done with the car on four scales on a level surface to see how much each wheel is pushing down so that you can adjust the corner weight and drastically improve the handling....
This my first time seeing video on adjusting coilovers the correct way, every time I see a short on this topic people are always fuckin with the preload or the spring
the "preload" is a myth, adjusting the length of the shock is not how you adjust ride height. you are supposed to use the spring perch. you dont buy shortened shocks on its own to lower a car, you buy springs. its not any different
@@arcanevoid9199yaaaa just to let you know, most cheaper coilovers do not have separate ride hight and preload adjustments. When you lower the height it stiffens the spring, and vice versa. On more expensive coilovers you can adjust them independently of one another, which is what is happening in this video…
@@A4rings110 lowering the height does not stiffen the spring as almost all use linear rate springs. also what you are calling “preload” is the correct way to adjust ride height, body length (or the lower collar) changes travel. some expensive coilovers (especially from brands that dont use Taiwanese parts) only have an adjustable spring perch
For the dummies in the comment section. SHE DID NOT CHANGE THE PRELOAD! The top collar has Allen bolts that locks the preload in place! And it doubles as the ride height adjustment. 3 collar coilovers uses the top collar to adjust preload clockwise, and the second locks it counter-clockwise, the 3rd collar locks the thread body. IT'S NOT ROCKET SCIENCE.
Shouldn't you change length of coilover only to make sure bump stop works corectly and nothing hits at full bump and then use spring seat collar to set ride height by adjusting preload?
Question? If you want to raise the height, do you have to do the same thing to ALL 4 coil overs? 2) if you dont like the height, do you have to do it ALL OVER AGAIN? I dont have a lift so ill be doing it 1 by 1 with a jack. 3) is it necessary to get an alignment after ANY adjustment height?
Pipe type larger torsional spring link to axles. VW tiguan Bar type problems, underscaled:( spring brake then without, domino effect. Also 4WD could be back with electrics, no gravel rocket needed, small power in low speed is enough. P=Fv, P power F force v velocity.
This is the incorrect way of adjusting ride height. I too have been mis informed. The spring perch is actually the one used to adjust ride height. The shock body perch, the one you just adjusted, is used to adjust for shock travel, meaning you set up it up first with no spring making sure the bump stop hits first rather than the wheel hitting the frame. Also it will allow for the suspensions dampers to actually work the way it was meant to.
Every tutorial I see is basically doing the same thing as this person did in the video. What would be the correct way to go about adjusting ride height then? What/where is the spring perch and how to adjust that? New car guy tryna learn stuff
I was going to comment on how nice that MR2 looks also. I received my new coilovers for my STI recently but will have a mechanic who specializes in suspension install them because I want that piece of mind that everything is dialed in perfectly. The video was helpful about how to make minor ride height adjustments. She's Really Easy on the eyes too.
I need this cuz sounds better than bags, and more flexible in terms of track to daily driving need it to go over a bump without nose scraping raise it before ya leave the house, at a track or drag strip lower it before ya get out there
Not sure how much you turned the bottom collar? - after changing the height, tighten the bottom collar and measure between top and bottom collar and use that as a reference for how much the heights changed, measure it before changing obviously Great vid tho 🎉
So if you keep turning it to lift it how far will it go? Will it stop or come completely out of the bottom mount? If I lift it too high will it get bad comfort?
use a colour marker and put a dot on either the thread or the upper collar… if you turn 10 times on the left side is equal to you turn 10 times on the right side…
