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Old 04-03-2004, 10:24 PM
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5 minutes to adjust PSS9s??

I have read numerous times that it only takes 5 minutes to adjust PSS9s. I always assumed that PSS9s would be like the GC coilovers I had on my BMW ... adjustment ***** up top ... which make it a piece of cake to adjust them. But now that I just received my PSS9s I see that the adjustment ***** are actually on the bottom, so my question is, how the heck do you easily adjust them in "5 minutes" like I see thrown around so much? I can't just slide under the car ... it takes more than 5 minutes just to get the car on jackstands! Anyway, does anyone have any tricks or whatever on the best/easiest way to adjust these things once they are on the car??
 
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Old 04-03-2004, 11:13 PM
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I think the adjustment ***** are at the top?
 
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Old 04-03-2004, 11:36 PM
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The rears are under the carpet close to where the ECU is and don't take long (unless you have a roll bar lol). The fronts, technically some people claim to be able to dial in their settings by "feel" but since the detense is so ****e, I can never hear anything and hence I do jack up the car to do it.
 
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Old 04-03-2004, 11:41 PM
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You adjust the rears from the top, inside the car??
 
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Old 04-03-2004, 11:43 PM
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that's correct... inside teh car. The shock towers are under the rear "top" carpet. Where the bose sub woofer is if you have one.
 
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Old 04-03-2004, 11:46 PM
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So you adjust the fronts from the bottom and the rears from the top? I thought you adjust all of them from the bottom?
 
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Old 04-04-2004, 12:15 AM
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Nopes. Fronts are from underneath. Rears are on top
 
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Old 04-05-2004, 05:53 PM
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Sharkster is correct. And it really does take less than 5 minutes to jack the car up high and place one jackstand underneath (opposite side) and adjust the settings in the front. One piece of advice is to place a tiny amount of car wax inside the light blue cover cap so that it slides on and off easy. Before I did this, those caps were a ***** to get off b/c the harder you squeeze the tighter they grip. Now the backs I wish were on the bottom b/c I have to remove the bose subw and peel up the carpet squares. That takes me ten minutes. Total time: < 15 minutes.
 

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