Plz Help me lift my whip
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2018 E400 Wagon
Plz Help me lift my whip
2018 e400 wagon non airmatic amg sport package. I absolutely love this car however as of late I’m frequenting some unpaved dirt roads semi maintained but lots of dips and bumps and I’m bottoming out too often and I just need to find a way to raise this car slightly. Strut shim ? Lift kit anyone ?? I would only need want like an extra inch or so and then get a bit more with a larger sidewall all terrain tire. Think bougie outback. I know the all terrain is here or will be shortly but I can’t justify swapping this car at a loss for that. Also it would seem as airmatic is standard for the 2021s that I wouldn’t be able to change my oem components for the new ones and solve the problem. I would truly appreciate any insight or thoughts on someone to help even fabricate a lift kit for me.
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Short of using a spacer above the strut and spring mountings, your best bet is a swap to a different car. This is not the type of modification you want to be doing on a car with suspension this complex. Even if you get it to work ok, you will badly shorten the working life of the rest of the multilink components running them above design angles for extended periods of time. That's why airmatic will lower back down automatically at speed.
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so would the same logic then be true with the added stress and life shortening in the reverse with say, after market coil overs or lowering modules that seem to be popular ?. I wasn’t aware that the system was so complex without the airmatic. I thank you for the reply and insight.
Short of using a spacer above the strut and spring mountings, your best bet is a swap to a different car. This is not the type of modification you want to be doing on a car with suspension this complex. Even if you get it to work ok, you will badly shorten the working life of the rest of the multilink components running them above design angles for extended periods of time. That's why airmatic will lower back down automatically at speed.
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2018 e400 wagon non airmatic amg sport package. I absolutely love this car however as of late I’m frequenting some unpaved dirt roads semi maintained but lots of dips and bumps and I’m bottoming out too often and I just need to find a way to raise this car slightly. Strut shim ? Lift kit anyone ?? I would only need want like an extra inch or so and then get a bit more with a larger sidewall all terrain tire. Think bougie outback. I know the all terrain is here or will be shortly but I can’t justify swapping this car at a loss for that. Also it would seem as airmatic is standard for the 2021s that I wouldn’t be able to change my oem components for the new ones and solve the problem. I would truly appreciate any insight or thoughts on someone to help even fabricate a lift kit for me.
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A whip has simply come to represent a car. It has been said that it was used a long time ago when a whip would be used to steer the horse-drawn carriages. It is used in hip-hop fashion, and it has come to represent any car not necessarily a really nice car.
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so would the same logic then be true with the added stress and life shortening in the reverse with say, after market coil overs or lowering modules that seem to be popular ?. I wasn’t aware that the system was so complex without the airmatic. I thank you for the reply and insight.
