Hi NE bothers,

I am encoutering a situation after having the local Mazda dealer installed a set new shocks and springs on '05 8. I posted a thread here
https://www.rx8club.com/series-i-wheels-tires-brakes-suspension-55/please-help-new-suspension-installed-but-wrong-128421/

Don't want to take too much of your time to read that thread though. Bascially, what happened is the front got dropped but the rear didn't.
The cars looks really weird now. I believe Anderson Ford Mazda did something wrong.

If I can't make it right myself soon then I have to take her to another shop.
Since I haven't been NE for a long time, could anyone of you recommend a good suspension shop that can help me out of this?
Of course Lincoln will be really local for me, but I wouldn't mind too much to go to Omaha to solve this.

Thanks so much in advance!

 

I'll suggest Inline Suspension. They should be pretty good at this although I once had them mount some Tire Rack tires and the results were unsatisfactory. I got the impression the tech. guy didn't like to work on anything other than trucks!

 

1) Never go to any Anderson anything. The best Mazda dealer to go to is Woodhouse on 63rd and Lst.

2) they didn't preload your lower control arms. Which means those idiots don't really know the basics of working on cars in general. What happened is they tightened the bolts to your suspension while it was in the air instead of putting it on the ground and tightening them. I believe the bolt is 19mm, it would take about 5 minutes to fix it.

 

Hi my two neighbours, thanks for your replies!

The issue has been addressed today - Anderson put the front springs to the rear and rear ones to the front!! The ONLY Mazda guy there did it again today and fix it for me.

I didn't expect he could get confused otherwise I would check first and mark 'Front' and 'Rear' on the springs. I trusted him but I was so wrong.

Actually, I spoke to inline suspension yesterday but they had a busy day so I didn't drop off the car. The tech.guy (looks pretty young, right?) did a quick check said I could try. Don't know if he could figure the reason out if I didn't check the part #s myself and told him. But thanks for the info, midlife, I will put it on my to-do-business-with list.

I stopped by woodhouse once when I went to Omaha two month ago (ha, I was kind of thinking about to buy a mazdaspeed 6 to replace my '03 mazda6). I know it's a mazdaspeed dealer too (Anderson is not). Never done business with them though yet but i definitely will go there if I need a dealer later.

So nice to have some local 8 onwers here. Hope to meet you guys sometime.