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Old 04-09-2009, 08:11 AM
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I've noticed my car sits funny in the driveway..I went and measured and the passenger front is 27 1/4 and the passenger rear is 28 3/4...Drivers side rear is 29 and drivers front is 28...

These are with my street tires...when my car was scaled and tuned, it had my slicks and skinnys and was on the individual stands....

I was just wondering if it's the tires, shocks, rear springs going weak(stock) any insight appreciated..
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Every GM vehicle I've owned sits higher on the drivers side. It's probably always been that way and you just haven't noticed.
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First thing:

You sure teh DRIVEWAY is straight? Could have dip or something in it that you are not seeing. Move teh car, and measure somewhere else, and if you get same, than we can eliminate that.

You have anything in teh car at the time that could have caused the car to lean?
How old are springs? Do you have an adjustable setup?


Oh, also:

Cars will typically be a LITTLE higher on DS, to compensate when a driver gets in.
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If the car has coilover's on the front and was scaled (preload on the springs and swaybar were set for proper corner weights for drag racing) I'm not surprised that it's not sitting level.

However the right rear shoudl be a little higher then the left rear... at least I would assume.
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Originally Posted by 5.3LJimmy
Every GM vehicle I've owned sits higher on the drivers side. It's probably always been that way and you just haven't noticed.
No, I had my suspension tuned last year...(first post) new afco da all around and new springs on the front...Ride height was set and corrected...

Now, it looks different, so I measured and found it off...My stock rear springs have 103k on them...

Looking for some insight on what might cause the set ride height to be off...Maybe it's the diff between the slicks and my street tires.
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Originally Posted by getusum
My stock rear springs have 103k on them...

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Rear spring sagging.....
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Driveway is level...I thought that too and measured in 3 different spots...all within a 1/8...

Car was scaled with me in it..(260lbs) yes weight mod for driver

10lbs preload on passenger rear...

55% front 45% rear

overall weight is 3786 lbs...

857 lbs rr
847 lbs lr
1113 lbs fl
969 lbs fr......I got this number because we didn't write down the front right. I just subtracted all the other numbers from the overall weight.

hope this helps..
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Rear springs might just be shot.
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Originally Posted by Gen414
Rear spring sagging.....

I am just gonna stick with my orginal thought, with 103K miles, as of which were under some pretty hefty weight (car, not you )

Originally Posted by JL ws-6
Rear springs might just be shot.

I concur
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People aren't asking the right question. Has you 60' time substantially changed? If the answer is no... then you don't have a problem. You spent wise money on having the car 4 corner scaled. Leave it where it is or you will be undoing that smart investment.
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Originally Posted by next
People aren't asking the right question. Has you 60' time substantially changed? If the answer is no... then you don't have a problem. You spent wise money on having the car 4 corner scaled. Leave it where it is or you will be undoing that smart investment.
Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The description sounds like there is nothing wrong.
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Originally Posted by MADMAN
The description sounds like there is nothing wrong.
Well hold on, I was under teh impression that he had measured it after he had it scaled, and he measured it again here recently and THAT is when he noticed teh problem.
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Originally Posted by Gen414
Well hold on, I was under teh impression that he had measured it after he had it scaled, and he measured it again here recently and THAT is when he noticed teh problem.
Look, it's no big deal that you were guessing and didn't know.
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And with different wheels and tires on the car, it does not matter what his measurements are, because you can't compare the two fairly.
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Originally Posted by MADMAN
Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The description sounds like there is nothing wrong.
Appreciate the insight.......And yes nothing is wrong with the car....It just looked funny sitting in the driveway,,,,

Money was definately well spent on the scale and tune....Some crazy guy that likes lite beer
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Originally Posted by next
Look, it's no big deal that you were guessing and didn't know.

Yeah, ok.




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