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Awesome free lowering mod, IF you have STAR

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Old 10-09-2015, 03:20 AM
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2010 E550 4Matic Sport P2
Awesome free lowering mod, IF you have STAR

My front right corner was sitting higher than the others to an extent that I had a huge and ugly fender gap. I could not lower the front right and left evenly without the "car too low, pull over" red light error on the dash. I'd decided it was a faulty sensor as I'd checked and the brackets all looked even.

As the car was pulling due to being uneven, I decided to break our the star computer and make another attempt at leveling her out.

I decided to take a shot in the dark and disconnected a front link. I articulated the sensor arm while watching the reading on the star computer. I ended up tapping the mount itself down which is just a flimsy bracket with 2 u bolts around a tie rod. It leveled things out nicely. I ended up tapping them both down a touch than adjusting/fine tuning the ride height with the star computer and a measuring tape. All 4 corners are within an eight of an inch and it looks great. I could easily go lower with this method and the rear has a bit more room as well without any modification or manipulation of the brackets. I wasn't going for a slammed look, but just a more aggressive gap for the time being.

While this isn't a great option to use if you can not adjust the sensors settings, it costs nothing and so far a 5 miles test drive yielded no fluctuations in height once I got home.

I will report back if this lasts, but with neatly no tension on the brackets, I'm pretty confident it will.






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