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Update: fixed suspention problem Pics Pg.2
First off, i have groung control coilovers in my civic with stock shocks and today I smacked a pot hole hard in downtown L.A. My rear right coilover is so low in comparison with the rest. Did i blow my shock or are my GC's fuc*ed up. I checked the height on the coilover and its stocked height. 
What do you recommend me do ?
What do you recommend me do ?
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Originally Posted by 7thGenerasianCivic
If your coils look fine then you prob focked your shocks. hahahha
hmmm.... check your arm. is anything bent?
hmmm.... check your arm. is anything bent?
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Either the shock is blown or you might have bent your rear control arm. You would have had to hit the pothole really fjckin hard to bend the arm, so Im leaning towards the shock.
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Rep Power: 315 I don't know about the shocks being blown. You can drive on blown shocks for a while. I never seen a car drop so much as a result of that. How long were you driving it lowered on the gcs with stockies?
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Originally Posted by AlpineCivic
I don't know about the shocks being blown. You can drive on blown shocks for a while. I never seen a car drop so much as a result of that. How long were you driving it lowered on the gcs with stockies?
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Originally Posted by D17thgen
take out the rear-passenger wheel and examine it. you'll get a much better look than just guessing whats wrong with it.
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Originally Posted by dru106
ya!! I doubt its the shock....Remember, springs hold the car up not shocks......
exactly what i was saying, or when i posted as wes... haha, the shocks wouldnt cause that big of a slam on the car, chase may be right on this one.... have you even pulled off the wheel and looked at it closely?
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Rep Power: 324 pull off that wheel and take a pic. It has to be either the shock perch broke and slid down, the coilover sleeve split and slid down or you bent the control arm. A blown shock will not lower you car it will just bounce like a ****.
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Rep Power: 336 I don't think it's the shocks. Have you been on the freeway at all today? If your shocks are blown, you will feel like your car is floating while you're driving at a high speed on the freeway.
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Originally Posted by VTECHGRL
um... lol.... YOU told ME??? hahaha..... ok honey, well let everyone THINK that, thanks for dinner, btw.... muah
I did! You thought it was a bad Spark Plug!
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Originally Posted by VNlilMAN
damn you must have hit that sh*t pretty hard...
. i knew i had meesed up something but never thought it could of been the shock. Thank you all for your help 
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if you ever want to know if a shock is broken press down on the car near the suspected shock. if it hangs up that means the shock is gone.
just my .02 cents
just my .02 cents
