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well i got the ground control coilovers installed on my 04' civic from this site sportcompactonly and when it was finished installed the back was dropped nicely. but the front is still at stock height. i tried screwing the adjustables up and down but the only thing that happened was the front end got even higher... even when i put the adjustable on the lowest thread, it still doesnt look low at all. there is like a 5 finger gap or larger between the tire and the fender? what is happening here. i need help thanks!

 
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Hmm. Not sure. You took it all the way down as in towards the ground on the threading? Do you have some pics so we can see exactly what might be wrong? I don't have experience with GC yet. Still waiting on my friend's GC coilovers to show up for his Talon.

 
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in order to lower the car, you have to thread the adjusters UP compressing the spring. This will lower the car.
Another reason sleeved coilovers suck, because you loose shock travel when you lower the ride height.

 
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You do lose ride travel, but if you size the springs correctly, there's more than enough. And to lower the car you thread them down.

Post a picture of them installed. if you have as much room as you say, I'm guessing you didn't install them right.

 
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i have gc on my 05 you have to thread down to lower it

 
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yea, you thread them up, i don't know what i was thinking

 
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im guessing they are installed wrong...i think i know what he did wrong, i just dont know how to say it.

 
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umm. Ryan2005 do u happen to have a picture of your front gc's installed i could look at.. and this was a professional shop that installed it... i didnt even touch it.. i'll try to get some pics up

 
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alright i took this with my phone... this is the front right GC installed

when this is off the jack this is about a 7finger wheel gap..

 
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mine does not look like that. my sleeves are over the strut(my shocks are in my sleeves ). it should look like this

 
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thats wrong check mine...i drop it 4"....and 2" from the ground

 
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heres mine

 
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here u go......

 
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so my problem is that the sleeves arent not wide enough to fit around the btm portion of the strut? does that mean Ground Control did not send me the right sleeves or do i have to buy a smaller strut? are your struts stock or aftermarket?

bhoy what am i supposed to cut when i take that strut seat off?

 
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I would like to quote the GC advertisement...
A) some shocks / struts require grinding / machining to fit coil-over hardware

If I were you I would take the car back to the shop who installed it and tell them to do it right. Make a printout of this page along with the supplied pictures of the sleeve in the correct position.

 
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you dont have to cut the seats(though it would be easier to adjust by cutting part of the seat) i dunno why it does not fit. maybe they sent you the wrong sleeves?

 
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They put the fronts on the rear and the rears on the front. Get your money back, take it somewhere where the people working on it know what theyre doing

 
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you are right! can we see a pic of the back?

 
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Boilermaker is probably right. Ockham's razor strikes again.

 
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Boilermaker IS right. The short collars go in the rear. The other dead give away is the tapered coil. The front springs are straight. The rears taper in because of the smaller seat diameter in the rear. So like I said, idiots did the work for you, get your money back, take it to your own driveway and fix it. If not, make sure they fix their **** up for free (and a free alignment for the inconvience).

 
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^^lol! you beat me to it. i thought about that when i was in class this afternoon! hahahah! yup boilermaker is right.