Hi,
Yeah I just got into auto crossing this year on the tires that came with my car some Goodyear all seasons, which I wore to the cords.

I just purchased 4 Enchei rpf1 18x9.5 +45 with 275/35 hancooks and tien S tech springs.

I just had everything installed at once went to pick up my car, and the gaps in the wheel arches look about .25-.5" taller than they did before. I did not measure before or after but it just is not what I was expecting at all. The gap in the front is still much taller than the gap in the rear and the gap in the rear seems larger as well.

Do the springs take time to settle? I have a 05 rx8, with 50k miles did the springs settle a lot on there and I just need to wait for the tein's to do the same?
I am going to wash my car right now and I will post pictures in a day or so.
Has anyone else had this problem? I feel like the shop might have done something wrong, besides trying to charge me 500 bucks to mount the springs.

Please advise

 

shop did it?
if so, the springs aren't pre-loaded.

search for that term and you'll find an easy way to help the springs settle at the appropriate height.

 

Make sure they were installed correctly too (F/R) and they were genuine Tein, yes?

 

They were tein S tech springs i ordered them myself and they came in but they were not sure which went on front or back they just assumed the smaller springs whent on the front which i am lookin into right now

 

Genuine Teins have 'F' and 'R' printed on the springs...

 

I gave the shop a sealed box. Do you know if i can see the F/R once they are mounted? so I can see if they are on correct or to point them out to the stupid shop that installed them.

 

take off a wheel, you should be able to tell. Here is the Rear coil. It is longer, than the front and there is the letter R at the beginning of the part number on it.

 

So from what I have read to preload the springs all the control arm bolts need to be loosened then re tightened with the weight of the car supported by the tires? Does that pretty much sum it up?

 

Yeah just loosen bolts. And go down the street and tighten them back up

 

How necisary is it to drive around the block or what not? does that actually do anything or is primarily just tightening up the bolrts with the weight of the car on the tires?

I ask because i am going back to the shop that installed them and trying to describe it as easily as possible.

They are willing to work with me but I don't know how excited they will be with me suggesting to have them drive my car with the control arms loose. also if you jack it back up after driving it down and then compress the wheels again doesn't that just cancel out the driving anyway?

I have 918x9.5 with a +45 offset with 275 rubber up front. when my wheels is cranked i still can not fit in behind my tires. so they are going to have to come in from underneath. And what i read for going from underneath it is just to put the car up on jack stands, jack up a tire until the car comes just off the jack stand and then tighten the bolts. So if thats the case if you are taking the weight of the car off the tires to jack it up what does the driving around the block do for you? if you are just taking the weight off the control arms again to put in on jack stands then putting the weight back on the wheel by jacking up the wheel with a jack?

 

Before I would crawl under my car with only jackstands and a jack preventing me from getting squished, I think I would raise the front with a jack, remove the wheel, and lower one wheel hub at a time onto a jackstand positioned to support the weight of the hub. The only difference is being able to work on it with the wheel off, right? Then repeat the process on all 4 corners. It requires one jack and one stand... Easy enough, right?

 

Jacking up the wheel hub sounds like a much better idea but with this technique I shouldn't need to worry about driving around the block right?

 

No you won't have to. Driving will settle them out more over time. I preloaded via a jack to raise the hub till the car lifted a bit and everything turned out pretty good. I for one didn't want to drive around with loose control arms cause well, it just sounds like a bad idea even just around the block lol

 

when i re-preloaded mine after a while, i pulled the wheel and set the knuckle down on a jack stand. I loosened the bolts and then had a buddy sit in that side of the car to fully compress the suspension. Did the same on both sides. Simple.

 

lol, do what ya gotta do! they wernt crazy loose, lol and its not like your whipping in and out of traffic. but there are several ideas above.

 

Yeah pre loading jack to hub sounds like the best idea. Driving around on loose controle arms didn't sound too fun to me either

 

You don't need to go around the block, just over a bump to settle the suspension. So drive off the ramp, then back up. Done.