How To Lower Your Olds

[Wildman]

First you start with a car that sits like this...

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Step 1: Goto work in the morning as usual
Step 2: Hear klunking and popping and have trouble getting the car to move
Step 3: Stop the car in the middle of the street and check for flat tires / something dragging underneath
Step 4: Get back in the car and hope to limp it to work
Step 5: Smell burning
Step 6: Panic and turn back home right away
Step 7: Park in the driveway and exit the car, and note the smoke rolling off the drivers side tire
Step 8: Start freaking out because you just broke a coil spring !!!
Step 9: Thats it !! you have just lowered your car as seen below !! You can now revel in all the money that you will have to spend to get it repaired correctly !! You are so lucky !!

[Wildman]

Lowered

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[Wildman]

Second Image: The plastic stone guard under the front end is about 1" off the cement in that first pic

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[jackal2000]

that sucks dude, it looks sweet lowered though

[King Asoka]

ouch!

this seems to be happening to a few people recently.

[misslindseysue]

Bummer. I broke that same spring just a few weeks ago. Thanks to a generous Aleromod member I was able to replace all of my springs for free with his that he took off when he lowered it. I did struts at the same time, since mine were all dead anyway. Altogether it cost me $227, which was the cost of the struts.

[Wildman]

Yeah, I don't really have the cash right now for this "mod" but I'm also replacing the struts while its apart. KYB's are going on for a little over $100. plus $55 for Front springs. I'll get to the back later, which by the way, I had already had a broken rear coil spring a couple years ago that was replaced under warranty.

[cherrington17]

wow. nice easy mod, but the repair job sucks ass. *knocking on wood* i haven't had spring problems.

[gre0481]

Sucks dude.

I think it would be a good idea to have a forum for known common alero problems. Maybe a good preventive maintenance idea would be to replace my springs now, with eibachs :P

[majicmike954]

Had the same thing happen last year when i was caught in traffic from hurricane ivan!!!! :shout:

[ptrudel]

a crapalier just had that happen here today...DESTROYED his molded body kit...i was quit content on seein the dumbass ricer halfway in the ditch...it'll teach him to cut me off :angry:

[Redog]

That sucks dood, good luck in the repair

BTW in the 2nd pic, who's the upset looking guy in the backround?

[slowandlow]

if you want a whole ste of struts with lowered springs i will let you have mine for 140 that is manroe sensatrack struts

[Wildman]

Already got the springs and struts, just need to get out of work here and get home and put them on.
The guy in that pic is my dad, and he's looking like that cause the sun was shining him directly in the face.

[alerocar01]

look on the bright side the lowering job was free and you didn't have to do any work. what could be better.