Want to Lower MY CLS Need Help (WASHER METHOD)
06-09-2006, 10:47 AM
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Want to Lower MY CLS Need Help (WASHER METHOD)
Willing to pay someone to perform washer method on my CLS
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Please If anyone in the New York Aear has done the washer method as it has been cliamed. you can make some extra buck$$$ and help me out just looking for inch 1-1.25 drop have bigger gap now that I put 20" wheels on the car just want a flush look not slamm to the ground still want to keep nice ride on the car Thank you in Advance for your help
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Please If anyone in the New York Aear has done the washer method as it has been cliamed. you can make some extra buck$$$ and help me out just looking for inch 1-1.25 drop have bigger gap now that I put 20" wheels on the car just want a flush look not slamm to the ground still want to keep nice ride on the car Thank you in Advance for your help
06-09-2006, 05:18 PM
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Without longer brackets, you will be able to lower the front no more than 0.75 - 0.8 inch. To go lower you would need more than four washers, leaving insufficient thread to tighten the nut.
To lower the front beyond that without resorting to a module, you could replace the factory sensor bracket with a longer one, or one with a lengthened bolt to accomodate more washers.
There probably isn't any real limit on how much the rear can be lowered by moving the sensor bracket. Of course in practice you'll be limited to 0.75 - 1 inch otherwise the back would be lower than the front.
Ultimately I wound up with 0.875 inch drop in the rear and 0.75 inch drop up front. Getting the 0.75 inches in the front required replacing the factory nut with a thinner tension nut that needed less thread to securely tighten. But the factory nut would probably have been okay with Loctite applied.
The CLS55 is pretty low already, certainly lower than the CLS500. At the levels I achieved it looks great and is almost always the lowest car in the parking lot, excepting the ghetto-mobiles that are totally bottomed out
I think scraping the front end would be a real problem if the car is lowered more than 1" or so in the Sports I or II mode, without use the raise feature.
To lower the front beyond that without resorting to a module, you could replace the factory sensor bracket with a longer one, or one with a lengthened bolt to accomodate more washers.
There probably isn't any real limit on how much the rear can be lowered by moving the sensor bracket. Of course in practice you'll be limited to 0.75 - 1 inch otherwise the back would be lower than the front.
Ultimately I wound up with 0.875 inch drop in the rear and 0.75 inch drop up front. Getting the 0.75 inches in the front required replacing the factory nut with a thinner tension nut that needed less thread to securely tighten. But the factory nut would probably have been okay with Loctite applied.
The CLS55 is pretty low already, certainly lower than the CLS500. At the levels I achieved it looks great and is almost always the lowest car in the parking lot, excepting the ghetto-mobiles that are totally bottomed out
I think scraping the front end would be a real problem if the car is lowered more than 1" or so in the Sports I or II mode, without use the raise feature.
