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emmet
03-13-2014, 09:35 AM
Hi Guys!

Just got the keys to our new apt, yay! However, upon driving down under to the garage, not so much yay... It was scraping the middle under the car and I had to reverse back... tried to reverse down, same problem.
I am riding a 2007 Z4 Coupe with Eibach springs.

Panicked yesterday and threw in the BMW original springs in the rear (car is non-m-sport so +25-isch mm up it went) and voila! No problem. As you understand, the car looks a bit wild with different springs rear and front and I am now trying to figure out how to even out the lowering. Going to buy CSL 19s and it needs to be lowered, but can't be on full Eibachs, it needs up about 12-15mm all around.

For the rear I found thicker spring plates (the rubbers) that should raise the ass 10-15mm, gonna pick them up tomorrow. But the front suspension is worse.. How should I solve this? Doing all I can to keep the Eibach springs, I really like them. Found lowering springplates (fist pic), but I need the opposite. Not going to drive around with rubber stoppers in my springs. Please help me to figure out a smart and safe solution for the front!

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GGray
03-21-2014, 03:05 PM
Go order some OEM mounts then take them to a machine shop have them slice them and remove 10-12mm from the middle then weld them back together..

emmet
03-25-2014, 04:03 AM
I found adapters for the mount "poor road vehicle", some kind of eastern European option. Ordered and going to machine down to desired thickness.
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Dubbedown
03-25-2014, 09:55 AM
You can always run taller tires, assuming you're at 225/40, you could try 235/40 and benefit from the extra width. Downside is you may end up rubbing the liners. Or alternatively scrap the Eibachs and just get the OEM M-sport package suspension. It'll be lower than your non-M but you should still be able to get by fine. That was my original setup and I don't recall ever bottoming out.

emmet
03-25-2014, 10:59 AM
Yeah... but this will be fine. -10mm on the sport, +10 on the eibach, yet keeping them. I only have the standard se bmw springs and they are not ok with the new 19s, not with the 18s either actually.