hello all....ive got a quick question. im getting a vibration in the front end of my 02 cavalier after installing tein basic coilovers, ive searched but didnt come up with much i was just wondering if anyone else had this problem after lowering and if there is any way to fix it? its only on acceleration and as soon as you let off the gas it goes away so im assuming its driveline related. any help is appreciated and i thank you in advance. here is a picture of the car.
Well, I'm not familiar with your problem. I had the Tein type Basics and didn't have any "unusual" vibrations occur. Though I will point out that the suspension will no longer dampen a whole lot of things you didn't know about earlier. Small vibrations durring acceleration might be one of them. If it is minor, you didn't specify, this is what I would chalk it up to and I'd ignore it. If it is more serious I'd suggest looking at your engine mounts.
Mine does it. I didnt really notice it when I first put them on. But the lower I went in the front, the more it vibrated. It isnt really bad at all. very minor.
I think it is just the CV joints at an extreme angle. But im not sure.
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Hmm never had any vibrations with my basics that I remember.
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yes i did get an alignment. i work in a service department at a dealership as a detailer and the mechanics dont know much of anything aftermarket. they are saying that the cv joints wear grooves in themselves and now that its lowered its going in and out of the worn grooves due to the different angle. i have to belive there is something wrong specifically with my car since there is many j bodies lowered that dont have this problem. also i noticed that when i had it lower it was worse
im unsure why this is doing it and all i have experience in lowering was a camaro when i had one a few years back and had no such problem, but then again a completely different car....
mine vibrates sometimes under acceleration....and the grooves in the cv joints sounds like a good reason, so thats what im blaming it on.
well i am going to attempt to raise the motor 1" to make up for the drop, im hoping if all goes well this well solve my problem.
well see....
Check your control arm bushings.
Mine only just recently started to vibrate, but everything is tight and square. I'm blaming it on the bushings. If I don't start off as hard I don't get any vibration. Once I'm rolling tho I don't get it.
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jason case wrote:i work in a service department at a dealership as a detailer and the mechanics dont know much of anything aftermarket. they are saying that the cv joints wear grooves in themselves and now that its lowered its going in and out of the worn grooves due to the different angle.
I'm kinda iffy on this explaination. If that were the case, everyone who lowered their car would have this problem and we'd all know about it. It sounds like your mechanics don't know much of anything at all.
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i have to belive there is something wrong specifically with my car since there is many j bodies lowered that dont have this problem. also i noticed that when i had it lower it was worse im unsure why this is doing it and all i have experience in lowering was a camaro when i had one a few years back and had no such problem, but then again a completely different car....
Woah there, read the other posts. Atleast two other people have mentioned this problem. You're not the only one.
Also supporting my theory I mentioned earlier about engine vibrations, the tein basics seemed to become more stiff the lower I made the car when I had mine on. Lower car = stiffer suspension, stiffer suspension + engine vibration = more vibration to the frame.
well i guess i would have to consider this a shake/wobble/vibration specifically only during acceleration, any road surface not just bumpy roads. the very second i raise of the gas pedal it will go away and come right back as soon as i get back on the gas, also if in a slow turn like turning from a stop sign it will be worse until the vehicle has straitened out. so i have to doubt the theory of it being caused by a stiff suspension. also cherubim i see your from flint, i live in owosso only like 15 minutes from there. small world
i have this problem as well...but not sure
Thanx Charles
its an even smaller world, i live in flint now too.
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I used to get it also. I went threw a lot of dif setups on my cavalier and it would get the shakes at 1st but go away.
Once I got the bags on it was pretty well worn threwout the whole range of motion and was smooth at any height.
I went over 100,000 miles on my stock CVs that spent most of their life at extream angles
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I had them severly when i had dropzone springs, then went to the prokit/ AGX setup new CV shafts and problems went away. Once in a rare while i may get a little shimmy. But nothing that concerns me because its prolly the road condition i think and also the fact of 40 series tires adds a little more road love feeling.
hey Nity9CavSedanCRJ how much is the drop with prokit? ive got the tein coilovers but to get the shaking to go away i got the front turned up about 2 1/4 inches pretty much as high as they go maybe 1/4 from the top which now puts the front higher then the rear and looks ugly in my opinion but its just till i can get my trans and motor mount made to see if i can solve this problem. also were the cv shafts you got new or remanufactured, i had a little bit of play in my passenger side so i replaced it with a reman but it didnt come with the "teeth" end that go into the trans and that is where the play seems to be, either way that didnt seem to help at all.
anyone else have this problem and figure out how to solve it? any help is appreciated, it seems many of us have this problem, and it would be great to solve it. on a side note i hear "extreme angles" when that is not the case at all and actually a 1.5 inch drop puts the cv shafts almost perfectly strait. either way cv joints are mad to run on pretty rough angles, ever see an IFS truck with 6 inches or more of lift? way way more of an angle the a cavalier could ever produce
