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Old 04-25-13, 11:20 PM
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Originally Posted by chris81964
For those who have the UL, which fuses did you pull? How many fuse boxes does an LS have? I replace a rear air shock once before on my car. Once I got the seats out it was a piece of cake.
i only pulled one fuse from engine bay which are compressor fuse i believe.

no error codes at all!!
also i have the same set up! megan ez..love it!
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The Megans went on this evening. The car has a more aggressive look. The nose points down. It is noisier and much firmer. I have the fimness set to 9 out of 15. I will post pictures as soon as I can resize them.
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Old 04-27-13, 08:22 PM
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All I can say is WOW. I put 250 Miles on the car today. And I had the pleasure of driving on roads intended for great handling cars. I drove to Wilkes Barre on roads that look like European tarmac rally courses. The brakes are a weak point. As they got hot the steering wheel vibrated on pedal application.
The Megans transformed the car to something that I did not know I had. I am afraid that I will get a ticket soon.

The last two alignments I had done were not good. The tires chewed up on the inside to the point of making dents in the tire. Has anyone with coillovers had alignments done since the conversion? Did they use the UL specs or something else?

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Old 04-28-13, 01:15 PM
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I still haven't got an alignment on mine. I figured I would try to get it aligned near stock specs.
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How was the install? Did it take very long?
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Originally Posted by joerogan
How was the install? Did it take very long?
It was an easy job. My friend had a lift and air tools. The fronts took about 20 minutes each. The rears a little less .Less than 2 hours. The back seat took me about 15 minutes. I did the drivers side rear shock last year. Straight forward job. Easier than the struts on my Volvo S60
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Originally Posted by Kira X
I still haven't got an alignment on mine. I figured I would try to get it aligned near stock specs.
I have chewed through a new set of tires. Same on 3 of 4 wheels. I will take it to Lexus dealer to do an inspection to see what else is going on
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Originally Posted by chris81964
I have chewed through a new set of tires. Same on 3 of 4 wheels. I will take it to Lexus dealer to do an inspection to see what else is going on
That's a lot of tires. I'm getting my alignment done at the Lexus dealership since they can align a slammed without much trouble.

Was your car chewing up tires before the coilovers too?
Old 04-28-13, 03:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Kira X
That's a lot of tires. I'm getting my alignment done at the Lexus dealership since they can align a slammed without much trouble.

Was your car chewing up tires before the coilovers too?
The coilovers have been on for only 2 days. It was chewing it up with the stock air suspension
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pics plz... I wanna see the drop
Old 05-17-13, 07:30 PM
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ive had my coils on for about 3 months and havent gotten an alignment yet. i havent seen any excessive tire wear yet.
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Default Here it is finally a picture

Here is a picture I took before the alignment and corner balance was done. I had to resize it
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Old 05-20-13, 08:20 PM
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looks great............... whole shot please..
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The drop looks good man. It's about the same height as my LS.
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