i have my car sittin on 18in rims and thought to lower it with the eibach pro kit they are springs that fit over the stock shock and are supose to lower hieght and not strain the suspension well 4 days later something seemed to either come loose or break on my driver side front suspension now i can hear a loud tapping and feel an even worse constant bump and as i speed up the bump increases i pulled my wheel off and everything seemed to look ok i know something isnt right tho just not sure what it is has anyone had this problem after lowering their car? also a unique feature is that when i hit my brakes it pretty much stops the clanking and bumping at slow speeds

once i fix this problem i will throw up some pix of the hieght im very pleased but pissed that i cant enjoy it due to my current problem

 

Maybe it is the sway bar endlink on that side. GL fixing your problem!

 

Make sure that the four nuts on the top of the strut tower are tightened to the proper torque.

 

i will tell all of you what it was if you promise not to laugh.......the lug nuts were loose guess when my buddy thought i tightend that wheel and i thought he tightend it haha

 

damn that could have been a disaster..good thing you figured it out

 

is this a common problem?

 

at least it was an easy fix.



before when i was up north, during the winter you'd swap out from your rims to your oem's or steelies (snow, ice, salt, etc). my aftermarket rims had spacers (which i didn't know) and i didn't take them off when i installed the stock rims. the balance went all to hell when i was driving on the interstate and i thought the wheels were falling off...

 

WOW....that could have been a accident waiting to happen...

 

do you have any pics? rubbin issues? what size are your rims? i only ask because i recently put on 18x8-f & 18x9-r and want to drop them but im pretty sure im going to have a rubbin issue

 

Whoa. That could have been catastrophic.