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I feel bad for you but glad you got the coilovers back on. The AWD's have always sat too high for my taste but that's crazy. Rally GS. Curbs will FEAR you.
does it ride too stiff ?? maybe the shocks are fully extended and stuck S+ as well . therefore rears won't go down..
This is definitely not normal for me too. We're both sharing the same problem. Just put back my stock suspension last week and thought maybe there's a "settling period" as well. Doesn't look like it will settle an inch gap for sure
Compare what you can see of the picture I posted and the one just posted after mine. They look very similar and that is what mine looked like from the factory
I still would like the two folks who reported this problem to post pics. I honestly think they just got used to it being lowered and forgot how high the car sits from the factory.
I doubt they come like that from the factory
This is my car when I just bought it, huge difference,
i have a 3is just took my coils out and having the same problems rear sits higher , went to my mechanic and he said it's all installed properly but the rear clearly sits higher just wanted to see if you or anyone found a way to fix this yet
Nothing you can do about it, just wait 3+ months until it sets back, I think it will take even longer...
Mine never went back to normal, even after 5 months it was still off. I wanted to keep her stock, but could not stand the way it looked, so I bought another set of coilovers. I will probably sell the car with coilovers on.
Yeah I did not find a solution. I went to different shops, even to a Lexus dealer, but no one was able to help or figure this out. Your car will settle within a month or so, but not by much. Rear would always look a bit off. Do you have any pictures?
yours is perfectly normal, give it a month and it will settle back to its original height. Your front and rear both are at the same height right now. My problem was with the rear, it was way too high, the whole geometry was off.
yours is perfectly normal, give it a month and it will settle back to its original height. Your front and rear both are at the same height right now. My problem was with the rear, it was way too high, the whole geometry was off.
yeah its not near what you car was at , and it's going to be 2weeks now that the oem suspension has been put back in
but as you can see in the pic before it was like a 2-3 finger gap now I can put my whole arm in there
OP when you did the suspension swap back to stock did you torque down the control arm bolts at ride height and not while the arms are hanging? Meaning after spring and strut install, before torquing everything down, I normally jack up the arm to ride height and then torque down the bolts for the arms.
^^^ I think we tried that as well, but it's been awhile now, I can't be sure. But the very last thing I had them do, is to put the car on an alignment lift, losen up all the suspention bolts in the rear and have the weight of the car do its thing. That did nothing.
02-23-16, 01:42 PM
