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It took me a few hours to install the BC coilovers set over the weekend the job was not that bad. Impact wrench definitely helped a lot. I love the way the car drives now. still have to dial it and lower the car. I will post pics soon. I think its well worth the $995 for the coilovers and the $350 for the rear control arms. The hardest part was the rear control bolt it does not have to be pulled out all the way when it hits the rear caliper line. you have room to pry out the old control arm.
How much work is involved in adjusting the rear height? I'm getting sick of the airmatic errors & sloppy handling but will go nuts if the coilovers squeak...
Did you keep all the old airmatic stuff installed? (compressor etc)
How much work is involved in adjusting the rear height? I'm getting sick of the airmatic errors & sloppy handling but will go nuts if the coilovers squeak...
Did you keep all the old airmatic stuff installed? (compressor etc)
in previous thread i read about the rear spring rate. i dialed them to middle of sleeve to keep it nice and firm. i have 90k miles on my car and when i took off the rear lower control arm to install the new e350 control arm. bushing on the old e55 control arm was toast too. glad i did it. the car now feels like a real sports car. it handles like its on rail. yes rear it complicated to adjust but you have to use a flat head screw driver to brake loose the locks to adjust the rears. but in every german car i ever owned with coilovers i had to do samething. night and day from crapmatic.
that was old style poke i was going for not fun when you want to hit the gas peddle and the back is rubbing like crazy. went with more smooth classy look
nice quality set up. i have had H&R, ksport to KW on all my german cars not bad for the price
blown out crapmatic
the rear set up, so the skinny control arm take the bolt of from the spindle and push up on it. take the sway bar link off completely off to work better. make sure to have rear end both off ground to get the sway links off easy. the lower control arm long *** bolt spray some DW40 to break loose all the rust and corrosion of that big bolt imo. cut the air bag lines to take them off easily. pry the lower control arm from spindle.
this is on the driver side crapmatic pump. i took it off.
two screws and some clips take off both sides
i took tank off for the rear air bags.
what a ***** you have to hold the tip and use an open end wrench to take off both.<br/>
It took me a few hours to install the BC coilovers set over the weekend the job was not that bad. Impact wrench definitely helped a lot. I love the way the car drives now. still have to dial it and lower the car. I will post pics soon. I think its well worth the $995 for the coilovers and the $350 for the rear control arms. The hardest part was the rear control bolt it does not have to be pulled out all the way when it hits the rear caliper line. you have room to pry out the old control arm.
Once you get it dialed, let us know the best differences you noticed.. please
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front is 20 clicks and loving the set up.
not the length of the springs. They are seperatly
