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Remember there's a little more to installing adjustable ride-height coil-overs than simply bolting them in. No matter what starting height adjustments you do external to the car, be prepared for a long round of adjusting/readjusting of your ride heights on all 4 corners of the car. First thing you find is, adjusting the right front height also changes the left rear, and to a lesser degree, the left front. So you tweek these two a little and find that now ALL the other heights have changed,.... These units are real race-car parts. Ideally, this should be done with the car on a set of 4-point scales so the corner weights can also be adjusted for best handling. And when you're finished, you get to have all four wheels realigned. The wheel alignment will only change your hard-won ride-height adjustments a little. Figure on burning up a whole Saturday doing this. Send the kids to the park so your loud use of Magic Words under the car won't shock them. But once finally done, the car will handle perceptibly better and the final settings won't change much over time. Of course, then there's the bump-&-rebound damping adjustments to fiddle with....
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