Bruinlax

Ok, so i had my first beautiful surprise of my new car, when painting the calipers, i happened to find oh, say a damn spring spacer on each wheel!!!!!! 7500 MILES LATER!!!! they were behind the spring, so i don't think they even noticed them. I wonder what the percentage is that has found these.



As Promised, here's a picture of on of them on my rear wheels
(Sorry it took so long, I accidently deleted it off my camera had to spend a day trying to recover it)

s2kbug

I have looked a few different times but never with the car on a lift. As far as I know the dealer got them all. I hope.

Spanky

What do the spacers look like? Does anyone have any pics on the spacers? I've noticed a lot of owners has ended up removing it themselves. What are the spacers there for? I still have to check mine to see if My s2000 still have them or not. Thanks!!!

Bruinlax

i felt around when i got the car, and noticed that they had gotten the obvious ones, but didn't get the ones on the back side of the spring. i figure that's probably worse than if they had taken none of them at all.


here's what they look like

mntony

I found mine because of this board. Otherwise, I would never have looked for them - or known they might be there for that matter.

Tony

cdelena

I knew about them and would not leave the dealership until they handed them to me.. but I failed to count them! The idiots left some in three of the four springs.. found over 2000 miles later and AHM swears no damage is done even though there is a warning tag on every car saying damage may occur if the car is driven over 12mph with them installed.

So count them! I believe there should be at least 12 of them from the factory.

See! that is part of my problem.. actually there are 14 from the factory (the dealer left 7 in my car).

bayarea408

can you feel the ride difference once you take the spacers off?

h2000

yup..when i first got the car, the ride was soooooo stiff..when i was swapping tires, i found them, took them off and the ride was much much better..

WhataRide

What's the best way to see if the spacers are there? Do the wheels have to come off in order to see them?

wanabe

after a year and a half, kuni found one in my car today!!!
we had the wheels off the car- the dealer had inspected twice before and i thought i had checked closely enough too-