Over the weekend, I installed my lowering springs, and they seem to have settled correctly and i know installed them correctly because i am meticulous about those things (and there were no left over parts). The problem I am having now is that my tire pressure light keeps coming on after driving about 15 miles and between 20 and 25 mph there is this wierd lugging sound coming from the front end of the car (kinda sounds like when you hit the brakes when you have a warped rotor). Would an alignment correct this noise? I also rotated the tires when i did the springs, so that may also have something to do with it? Anyone ever experience this as well? I would appreciate any ideas and suggestions.


-Scooter

 

2 things come to mind.

1) Are you driving a 05,06, or new 07? Thee 07 has a new tire pressure sensor system. If you have the 07 it's possible you may have thrown something out of whack.

2) When you rotated your own tires did you torque the bolts the correct amount with a reliable torque wrench and did you tighten following the proper pattern? If not your wheels may not be seated correclty.

Just a couple of thoughts.

 

Its an 05, ill check out the torqing of the bolts.
If anyone else has any ideas, please post em.

 

first of all you def need to do the alignment.. that might correct the problem. A terrible alignment can cause some strange things. That combined with the rotation you just did could be the cause of the TPMS freaking out. But def get an alignment!

 

Getting the alignment done on Friday. Hopefully that will fix everything.

 

Hey Scooter, were you able to check the torque on your lug bolts?

 

I had some noise after my install too. Just go back and make sure everything is nice and tight because I just had one bolt that was loose and was making all that noise. Especially after driving a little things can start to shift around and if you go too long bad things could happen. Better to be safe than sorry.

 

Took it to get aligned on friday and told them about the noise i was hearing.....come to find out one of my rims is bent....badly.....shame i had to order a new set of rims.....LOL

 

That sucks but hey WOOHOO new rims!

 

http://www.kyowadesigns.com/KR210B.html

these are the rims i am getting now.

Whats funny is, that my fiance is always complaining when i want to buy something for my car, but when i said that i had a bent rim and i said that i know i didnt hit anything to bend it, she immediately said "Well you know "I" didnt hit anything either", but yet she put up no resistance to me buying the new rims LOL!!!

My spidey senses are tingling....

 

Sweet wheels. My question is what are the ones on that page on the car.....oh ma goooodnneessssss...

 

the KR232's

http://www.kyowadesigns.com/KR232HB.html

 

Hmmmm, sounds like the "unknown" impact that bent your rim may have also damaged the rear sway bar, and the exhaust manifold. Better get a better sway bar and "something" to replace that In other words, get it while the gettin's good!!

 

That's what I thought at first BUT the kr232 has more spokes. The one on the blus car has only 5 spokes.....hmmmmmm

 

hmmm, let me do a little more research and i will get back with you.

 

http://www.kyowadesigns.com/K2517HB.html

these are the rims that you were looking at, Andrew1782.

they are only available in 20" though....

 

Those are close but not quite. I actually just found them on the wheel max website....either exact wheels or a really damn good copy. They are the Nex-o
http://www.wheelmax.com/wheelcolors....=Hyper%20Light

How do you think those would look on a BBM tC?

 

ok got my new rims and got them mounted and all that, here's a pic

 

Lookin good! Now tint those windows!

 

yeah, thats going to be next i think.