So I installed my new control arms on the driver side and had a shop do the passenger side. Now my driver's side is sitting about a finger higher than my passenger side and I'm trying to figure out why. When I did the driver's side, I removed the whole strut mount via the bolts in the engine bay. There is a little play to the positioning of this mount bracket as the holes are larger than the bolts. Could it be at a slightly different angle, causing a higher ride height? My other guess is that the control arms are torqued down differently. When I torqued down the driver side arms, I used a hydraulic jack and jacked the suspension up; however, I just estimated about where it would be.. I didn't do it with the wheel on. For that matter, I don't see how you could torque down anything with the wheel on... I could barely torque things down with the wheel off and the car raised high on jack stands.
The obvious unknown variable here is that I don't know how the shop did the work. I'd like to figure this out before I get it aligned because I'm thinking any future correction of it could potentially throw the alignment off.
By the way I'm lowered on H&R sport springs and Bilstein struts.
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