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Can you lower a w211 1.5" without totally messing up alignment?

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Old 03-17-2017, 09:22 AM
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Can you lower a w211 1.5" without totally messing up alignment?

Hi everybody, I promised I searched on this.

I think I'd like to lower my E55. Obviously that's been done a million times and it's not rocket science. The question is, at what point do the toe/camber specs get so far out of whack that crash bolts and/or adjustable rear links are needed?

If I remember the crash bolts up front can give almost a half degree of camber correction in the front and I think I read camber changed by -.1 degrees for every 10mm of drop.

Mainly I am trying to stay away from rear adjustable links with rod-ends. I drive my car in the winter and brine water is hell on moving metal parts such as those. I know kmac bushings are an option as well, but I'm trying to keep things somewhat simple.

Any help is appreciated.

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just get a lowering module. it will make the car lowered when you are below a speed you preset (say 5 mph) and then it will go back to stock height above that speed.
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No you cant - short answer
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Originally Posted by shardul
No you cant - short answer
This is what I suspected, thanks.
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Any suspension modification will require an alignment afterward
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Originally Posted by Bison600
Any suspension modification will require an alignment afterward
Of course, but it seems you can't get back to near stock values without quite a few aftermarket parts. That's really the issue I intended to address.

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