Check this out. This is a picture of my beautiful xA from the bottom rear end.



Everything look in its place right? Koni shocks, hotchkis springs, progress sway bar. Now here is the trick, in this picture you cant really see the problem, but now look at the springs individually.






See the difference. OOPS! I dont know how i made such a mistake... I noticed the car was handling weird but never understood why, until i decided to go to the muffler shop and finish my exhaust. As the mechanic was doing the final touches i notcied this...

Which way is the correct way?

If you still dont notice my mistake, look at this springs one is upside down and the prolem now is i dont know which one is the correct one, please someone help me out with this stupid problem.

 

^^^this is the correct way^^^

 

what springs are those? 6 dead coils..........WoW

 

thats a lot of dead coils....

 

Those would be the Hotchkis springs, I'm not sure what the reasoning behind all the dead coils are.

 

mine was like that for about 6 months 'til i changed my rear shocks. it's okay dude, we're all human and we're entitled to our mistakes.

 

now ned is that why trophywhore doesn't want you around when he installs hehehehe jk, u know a lot more than my newbie ___

 

those are hotchkis springs... DONT LIKE THEM! There ok because they ride nice and stuff, but overall they are pretty crappy. Soom im chaging to either tanabe or tein, dont know yet.

 

he just doesn't want me giving him moral support....if there's one from me.

JSosa, how's the ride of the box the whole time the spring was upside down???

 

Funky, it felt really squierly in the back and i could never understand why. Sometime when i went over highway bumps the rear end kind of felt like a see-saw, going from one side to another, i thought it was not enough rear tensioning, i was wrong. Just imagine the car bouncing from one side to another, very odd.

 

like everyones been saying...damn...thats alotta dead coils!