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Originally Posted by Yak
I've searched the forum and looked at the W123 wheel pics and I can't decide if my car is abnormally high, or just looks that way to me. Some of the pics in the 123 wheels thread have a similarly large fender gap, but according to the specs, my car is more than 1.5 inches too high. My pics lack some perspective and appear even worse than it looks with the whole car in view.
I've got the stock "short" spring for the coupe with the red bottom coil. Everything else is as stock as can be. Goodyear 195/70-14's on Bundt's. 16.5 inches from wheel center to fender lip, 31.75 at hood and fender.
The FSM says to "Check level at front axle 40-300" Does anyone have the portion of the FSM that includes chapter 40 above job # 113? Mine stops at 113.
What am I missing to get the car back to it's stock height? My last best-guess effort will be to loosen the UCA, LCA and torsion bar bolts and see if it'll settle. I did that when I installed them thought, so I don't have much hope that will do much.
I still haven't got it aligned and I'd like to get the height sorted out before alignment. If I can't sort it myself, I plan on leaving it to the dealer.
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An alignment would probably fix the front camber, which might make it look too high. I've had that problem before and the tire shoulders were wearing out too soon. Had new tires installed, alignment done and all was well. This was how my car stood around that time with stock setup after getting new tires and the alignment (2 nub in front):
After getting the 15" Bundts and new Michelins (205/60/15), but still with 2 nub in front. Not much difference. Now that I travel light without much in the trunk, the rear end sits slightly higher than it is in the image below.
This is TheBenzBar's 300CD with new shocks all around installed and 1 nub in front I think (or 2)
I'm not sure if 4 nub is the standard setup, I think those are for the heavy duty suspension setup or lang (long) version. Mine is stock with 2 nub front pads. The 81 300TD we had before had 1 nub front pads on KYB shocks, but sat lower:
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/legomech/MercedesBenz300TD/June-3-2006/p1010027.jpg