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Old 09-24-2020, 12:24 AM   #1
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When to get alignment after installing lowering springs

I plan to install my lowering springs in a couple of weeks. I searched the internet and have read different perspectives. Get the alignment as soon as possible, wait for the springs to settle, 100 miles (or higher).

Looking for feedback on when to get my alignment.
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Old 09-24-2020, 10:54 AM   #2
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about a week or so depending on how much you drive your car
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Old 09-24-2020, 12:49 PM   #3
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If you can find a shop that will do a check for free that's convenient to go to you might as well at least get it checked right away to make sure nothing is drastically off. If not waiting a few hundred miles won't hurt. The springs themselves should need any time to "settle," but all the rubber isolators and stuff will. If your springs use the stock isolators that you've been driving on you won't need much time on them to settle everything in (since the rubber is already partly compressed), but newer stuff will probably shift a little in the first hundred miles or so.
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Old 09-25-2020, 12:00 AM   #4
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Thanks for the feedback guys! I daily drive my Camaro and put about 100 miles a day back and forth to the office.

Currently have about 25K miles on my car and plan to drive it 100 miles with the new lowering springs before getting it aligned.
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Old 10-05-2020, 11:11 PM   #5
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Installed my aFe Lowering Springs this past Friday and just got my alignment late this afternoon.

Alignment was way off after installing my springs as every bump I hit or getting on the freeway grooves on the 405 in OC (SoCal) made my car dance around.

Night and day with the alignment. Only put a few miles on my car definitely handles better with the aFe springs; still waiting for the rear to settle as it's only dropped about an inch.
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