Project: 2003 BMW M3

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Mileage: 129k

Finally got around to getting the coilovers (mostly) finished up last night. I ran into a few issues setting the height properly since I had never worked with an adjustable height coilover setup. I took the rear drivers side suspension apart 3 times trying to figure out what was causing it to be an inch higher than the other side before someone told me to hop up and down in the trunk to make sure the shock wasn't sticking. Turns out that's exactly what the problem was. Wasted a couple hours trying to figure that out, but oh well, lesson learned. I still need to fix the drivers side rear corner because it's now too low since I was compensating for that one being higher before, but otherwise it's done.

I took it for a short cruise up mt clinton pike last night to get some initial impressions and let the other shocks settle out where they should be. As is expected the car now feels much more planted around corners. What wasn't expected was how much nicer the ride is on this suspension even with the car being lowered a good bit (roughly 13.0" f / 12.5"r). I'm sure the stock suspension was quite old, but even so I wasn't expecting a huge improvement in ride quality. Overall, very happy with the coilovers so far.

My wheels are supposed to ship on the 31st of this month by the latest, so it's questionable if I'll have them in time for the car show/autocross. If so I plan on making it out to that for my first autocross. If not, I'll just wait for a later one in the season since my rear all seasons are pretty much bald at this point.