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maybe your back is fine and there's a problem with the front, maybe the front has to go down more.
maybe your back is fine and there's a problem with the front, maybe the front has to go down more.
A five-page long thread and you STILL haven't done what was suggested in the first reply? Wow.
It looks normal to me.
mmmmmm ksports :drool: has anyone had problems with them? my friend who owns a honda says the struts are notorious for blowing out and he'd never put them on his car
Our rear fenders are cut lower than our fronts. Consequently, the above way of measuring is more practical for a Contour to determine if the car IS sitting low in the rear. Even being able to compare your measurements to someone else's doing it the "right way", I would still be curious what measurements the above method would yield. But hey, that's just me.Try measuring the bottom of the side skirt in the front compared to the bottom of the side skirt in the rear.
after all my ranting... went through the box that this stupid Car Audio Store gave back to me with all my stock parts (yes, thats right, my in-a-hurry-dork self went to the nearest place to have them put it on- what?), and I noticed they left the rear strut mounts on the STOCK struts. Sped my car over to a random mechanic who is my best friend between me and my SVT up until this day and had him put it on instead. So, 200 dollars down the drain from the 1st shop, the car is riding nice, looking nice (as everyone's pictures they've posted for me, thank you guys) and up to what it should be. AND, i found a great mechanic... so all in all, glad it happened.
The first shop installed without the rear mounts? :shrug: How could that be? the rear mount is top hat for spring and strut assembly holding it all together?
This couldn't be what happened. Perhaps you are explaining it incorrectly, or mistaking the strut mount for something else. It is literally impossible to install a rear strut without the mount. The mount not only holds the strut assembly together, but it also attaches it to the body of the car. The shaft of the strut would not be captured by anything without the mount...it's just...not possible. Now, one of the top hat pieces I can see being technically possible (albeit mind-boggling stupid) to neglect installing, however the mount would have had to come off your original struts to get to those, and you said the mount was still on your old struts. Something does not add up here.
CORRECTION: Spring Seat
Item 7 on this link:
http://www.autozone.com/az/cds/en_us/0900823d/80/1b/d5/59/0900823d801bd559/repairInfoPages.htm