bigboy

hello

after my brake job, when i lowered my right front side the car dropped on top of my jack. Did anyone else experience this after lowering the car.
When i started the car it start raising up to the proper height and i got my jack out. Is this normal?

Thanks

BIGBOY

pwrofjoe

This is normal. Your car is trying to maintain an even ride height. Same thing happened to me when I parked my car on a very uneven part of the road. My front right was slanting downward, so the car slammed the back right side to try and even the ride height. Go airmatic! It's not a problem... although it freaked me out when I saw it.

my06clk

No its not. These cars do not try to maintain even height while turned off and jacked.
This is actually the best way to find out if your struts are leaking is to jack the car and see if lowers either high or low. it should lower even to high.

If it lowers and collapses on the jack for instance, then there may be an issue with the strut pending because its not supposed to loose air while expanded.If anything, the slight vacuum created by expanding the strut will add a small amount of air and deplete it once the car is lowered and the key is turned on.

This of course assumes you didn't have the key on while the car was jacked. If it was, then you are correct.. this would be completely normal for the reason you stated because the transducer position would be sending a value to lower although the strut is held high by a jack. With the valve open, as you lower all of the air would deplete until the transducer say's raise again.

bigboy

Thanks for all the help. I had to start the car to turn the wheels to get access

to the rotors.

BIGBOY

Arlen777

I had this problem 3 month ago, and later on my strut messed up, so i can tell that this is begining of leak in a strut. Be prepare to replace it