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[festajon]

My fiesta has developed a strange problem, it is lower on the front right than the front left, and it is lower on the back left than the back right!
My car's been lowered on new bilstein dampers and springs for about 6 months so i don't think it's that. What could it be?

[snake]

Snapped springs??, has it always had this problem?

[festajon]

it never had this problem before. only realsied the other day when i was photographin it. The lowering springs were on the standard shocks till it killed them about 2 months later The springs have done about 10,000 miles and the shocks have done about 7,000 miles. i know i need a front wishbone and the other one will be changed too. that's about it tho that i can think of

[zetec69]

My mate had this problem on his escort & we never did find out what it was! everything seemed ok but it just sat lower on one side for some reason!

[matthewhignett]

my fezzy has always done it, I reckon that either the shocks are on the way out,or the camber is out, if only ford had done adjustable camber!!!grrrrrrrrrrr

[snake]

On 2001-10-08 11:28, matthewhignett wrote:
my fezzy has always done it, I reckon that either the shocks are on the way out,or the camber is out, if only ford had done adjustable camber!!!grrrrrrrrrrr

Ford don`t but Ian Howells does

[TJ]

Surely if you car is lower on the front righ, and the rear left. (opposite sides, the car should move in a rocking motion??

How could diagonally opposite corners be lower? Unless your car is bent?

[phils_wicked]

Nice one TJ was about to say somthing similar sounds a bit odd to me! how long have u had the car and where did u get it?

[Ian C70T5]

Bet its that FAT BIFFER in the back

[festajon]

Right, i got the car from a dealership with full HPI blah blah so it has not been pranged cos i know it's history and if it had a bent chassis it wouldn't have got through the last 3 or 4 MOTs, and technically it's a write off by the insurance company and would have been in my cars history.
The only thing i can think of is that my sub and amp used to sit on the back left and as i sit on the front right on the way to uni and back everyday i reckon it may have caused the springs to sag a little. Its only a tiny bit lower like 7 or 8mm.
There is another post like this about a mk2 somewhere and people said it was the tie rod ends, i think. I know it wasn't the track rod ends. Does a mk3 have these too?
Maybe if that fat biffer hadn't got in the back of yours ian you'd be a happier man and not -1 16" tyre on your cossie-rims!