Rear tire lift......

[cocoabrova]

Just wondering if anyone else's suspension is set up like this....It only started happening after I installed lowering springs, and the rear tires get off the ground when I go up/down my driveway on an angle, or any driveway for that matter. I finally got some pics:nut:

[cocoabrova]

pic....

[hjr]

I guess the suspension travel must have been reduced alot with your new springs and shocks.

[legendboy]

whoa dude, that doesn't look right!

[Altezza]

Stiff sway bars can cause that as well...

[hinggu]

My rear lifts up when I jack my front up..
my bro's civic does that too, i think it started after it was lowered.

[pulse_crx]

happened to me a couple times on coilovers, never seen it tho. Just been told it lifts

[4wheeldrift]

Is it only doing that during jacking, or hard corners as well? If its doing it during hard corners, you have too much rear roll stiffness. If its doing it in a jacking situation, its a combination of a tight chassis and not enough suspension travel. My subie lifted the inside rear on tight/hard corners, but that was due to too much rear roll stiffness compared to the front.

[cocoabrova]

Yeah it's due to chassis/rear sway bar stiffness....I can lift it during hard corners too. Plus it does it when I jack up the car too:D

[4wheeldrift]

Bigger front bar will help get rid of the tendency to lift it in sharp corners. Normally, that would produce understeer, but with well matched front and rear bars the car will corner harder than one with just a big rear one.

[cocoabrova]

I've got a beefy front sway bar too.... Even with the lift, the car doesn't understeer. I've ried to make it but no go:thumbsup:I'll have to see how it/I do on a Solo2 course:)

[Rsxstacy]

I have that one my rsx...I have ground Controls, Neuspeed rear lower tie, upper rear strut bar, upper front strut bar and the front lower x brace. Would adding better sways relieve this problem ???

[Ben]

heh, I get rear tire lift all the time in my GTI and I had it even more in my GLI.

[4wheeldrift]

Originally posted by Ben
heh, I get rear tire lift all the time in my GTI and I had it even more in my GLI.
Lemme find that photo...

[4wheeldrift]

You want lift?

[4wheeldrift]

Originally posted by Rsxstacy
I have that one my rsx...I have ground Controls, Neuspeed rear lower tie, upper rear strut bar, upper front strut bar and the front lower x brace. Would adding better sways relieve this problem ??? The car is lifting a rear tire in the corners? If so, you need to increase the roll stiffness at the front end of the car or decrease it at the rear. A bigger sway bar at the front can do this, so can changing shock settings or changing spring rates.

[finboy]

Originally posted by 4wheeldrift
You want lift?

i love seeing vw's doing that :D