tein flex camber issue

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madbouncy
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I just installed tein flex coilovers on my car. In the front I put them in so that they matched the way the stock ones were in so that the clips would match on the brake lines. For the mounts, I had it so the tein logo was facing away from the. Not exactly sure how I did the back. I took it to an alignment shop and they said they could probably align the front, but they pushed the back out as far as they could and it's still off by 2.5 degrees. Now, I know I lowered the car a good bit, but it seemed odd the front would be ok but the rear would be so messed up. Does anybody know if there's specifics on putting the rear coilovers in? I didn't see anything in the manual (the manual was useless for installation anyways.) I didn't see anything online either, all I saw was that people said to have the logo facing away from the engine, but I didn't think that could work for the rear.


Silvia007
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Up front, there are camber plates to adjust camber no matter how low you lowered it. For the rear, there is no such thing as camber plates and all you can use to adjust the rear camber is the factory eccentric bolts. What you need is RUCA's "Rear Upper Control Arms". Cheap from ebay or get some cuscos.

madbouncy
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Alright, thanks. I just thought that it changed the camber more than it should have. Since the guy said he could fix it from the factory stuff on the front but it was way way off on the back. So I figured I did something wrong installing them.

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There is no "factory stuff" on the front. Silvia is right. You need to get a set of rear upper control arms to fix this. I need the same thing but I'm poor.

madbouncy
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Alright, he had said he adjusted it as much as he could, so I figured there had to be something to change, because he didn't touch the coilovers and has no knowledge in them. I need to find a race shop that isn't a 4 hour drive from me. Though the guy called me and the first thing he said was, "I can't adjust your car, it's a nissan" Then he went on about it being lowered, but still, I hate the people around here. They're all pure domestic and if you take an import to a shop they just blame anything wrong with it on it being an import, they don't even want to fix it. I took it to a shop and the guy just repeatidly told me my problem was that I bought a nissan.

DriftFactory
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You should have told him that your problem was he is a redneck

Silvia007
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DriftFactory wrote:You should have told him that your problem was he is a redneck
HAHAHA, somehow, that's just funny.


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