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Old Oct 2, 2004 | 01:28 PM
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MY RX-8 is slanted

Crap... I dun know what happened to my car. Yesterday I walked up to my car from behind and I found something werid. The car was SLANTED!!!

I have no idea why this is happeneing, I jacked to car up once and I lowered it to change my tire. Then few days later (today), the car is slanted.

The wheel gap on the left is one and a half finger, and the wheel gap on the right is two and a half to three fingers gap (sorry I didn;t go measure it).. I am chinese (small hands.... NO... it doesn;t mean something else is small too.. God is far )

Can anyone please give me some advice?
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Old Oct 2, 2004 | 01:30 PM
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fair I meant
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Old Oct 2, 2004 | 02:09 PM
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Have you driven the car after you had it jacked up?

Does the new tyre have significantly more tread than the old tyre?
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Old Oct 2, 2004 | 08:41 PM
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no, they are both the same.

I have the old tire back on now. So both tires are even.

there is nothign in the trunk either, so I really dun know why is the car slanted.
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Old Oct 2, 2004 | 10:24 PM
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Have you driven the car at all after you had it jacked up?

Upon lowering the car, your suspension may not settle completely until you drive it around because you had the transmission in gear or the parking brakes on.
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Old Oct 2, 2004 | 10:27 PM
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yea try going forward and then reverse. Throw in some sharp turns you should be good to go.
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Old Oct 3, 2004 | 01:41 AM
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maybe you have one of your shoes off so it appears slanted

ditto on the settling...you probably jacked it up real high...give it a little time to adjust
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Old Oct 3, 2004 | 03:42 AM
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I gave it a lot of time. It has been two weeks since I drop my car back down.

I went to autocrossing with the suspension limped (okay, that was not smart.. but it was the second to last in Boston).

My baby is still slanted.... could it have been the night I have been banging some gurl... nah... =P

SOMEONE HELP.... she drives perfectly fine...
haha I got a pretty good time in autocrossing... maybe it was suppose to be slanted?????
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Old Oct 3, 2004 | 10:16 AM
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blown shock/strut ??
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Old Oct 3, 2004 | 04:32 PM
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My car lists to one side (left) in my garage, which is dead level. To enter the garage, I turn right into the garage on a driveway that slopes to the left, loading the left side. It retains that loading in the garage. It appears level at other times, like in the parking garage at work. Something about the rear suspension geometry I would guess, but what do I know?
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Old Oct 5, 2004 | 01:30 PM
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same exact problem freaked me out i took it to the dealer and they said the suspension was within the specified limits and working perfectly...so as long as it aint broke, nothing to fix
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Old Oct 5, 2004 | 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted by abbid
[/racism] what do you expect, its asian.
No you didn't!!!
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Old Oct 5, 2004 | 03:25 PM
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what! i ended racism!

not racist at all, most of my friends are viet. just thought it was funny!
haha i found it hilarious and i'm asian. :D
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