Ok, so I need help.. lowering Mach-E suspension to reduce wheel gap

[Superfly-Vic]

I love the fit and size of these 22’s from @vossen, but being that my Mach-e is a standard range RWD I am having trouble finding an inexpensive way to kill that wheel gap. I think I could lower this bad boy 2 inches and the ride would look amazing. Any suggestions?

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[azerik]

Eibach or H&R springs, only good for 1 inch drop. It might look better, but ride like a mini truck. There's less than 1.5 inches to the bump stop on the Mach.

 

[Superfly-Vic]

I don’t know if 1’ is enough

 

[azerik]

There was a guy on here custom building springs. He got a 2 inch drop at one point.

 

[markboris]

Least expensive way as stated above is to install H&R or Eibach lowering springs but you will only get about an 1" out of them. The KW coil over kit will get you the 2" or more that you want but when you start dropping it that low, you will have an excessive negative camber issue that some here have run into that cannot be brought back into spec without some modifications.

While this won't help you much since you just got new tires, I found the best way was to drop the car the 1" using H&R springs then install tires that are taller than OEM by 3/4" (265/45/20 F, 295/40/20 R) that lessened the gap by 1 3/8" which gave me the look I wanted.

 

[azerik]

If I go 20's I'm going up upsize the tires a little, just 5% or so on the ratio to help fill the gap. It's an 'SUV' says my wife.

 

[Superfly-Vic]

Yea I don’t know if my 22’s will fit with larger tires.. plus I don’t know if it does fit, how much it would mess with the speedometer and such being such big rims and also having a larger tire

 

[62Lincoln]

Least expensive way as stated above is to install H&R or Eibach lowering springs but you will only get about an 1" out of them. The KW coil over kit will get you the 2" or more that you want but when you start dropping it that low, you will have an excessive negative camber issue that some here have run into that cannot be brought back into spec without some modifications.

While this won't help you much since you just got new tires, I found the best way was to drop the car the 1" using H&R springs then install tires that are taller than OEM by 3/4" (265/45/20 F, 295/40/20 R) that lessened the gap by 1 3/8" which gave me the look I wanted.

Elegant solution to this 'issue'. Do you have an issue with speedometer error, or does the MME correct for the different tire circumference?

 

[Mach1E]

Elegant solution to this 'issue'. Do you have an issue with speedometer error, or does the MME correct for the different tire circumference?

Speedo will be off.

 

[markboris]

Elegant solution to this 'issue'. Do you have an issue with speedometer error, or does the Mach-E correct for the different tire circumference?

Thank you. No, I don't have an issue with the speedo being off per se. The difference in tire size gives me a speedo reading of 1.3 mph slower. However, with the stock tires, both my Premium and GT seemed to have a speedo that read 1 mph faster using my GPS Speedometer app. With my larger tires on the car, it reads .3-.5 mph slower. Unless my speedo was off more than 5 mph, I wouldn't worry about it and if I wanted to, could probably change it in FORScan like I've done for other cars.

 

[62Lincoln]

Thank you. No, I don't have an issue with the speedo being off per se. The difference in tire size gives me a speedo reading of 1.3 mph slower. However, with the stock tires, both my Premium and GT seemed to have a speedo that read 1 mph faster using my GPS Speedometer app. With my larger tires on the car, it reads .3-.5 mph slower. Unless my speedo was off more than 5 mph, I wouldn't worry about it and if I wanted to, could probably change it in FORScan like I've done for other cars.

Follow up question: any concerns about 'compressing' the magneride shocks the extra inch with the lowering springs, in terms of longevity? I'm thinking about lowering springs in other contexts where the OEM shocks were so compressed that their longevity was compromised. Not sure if that would be the case w/Magneride, interested in your take...

 

[markboris]

The H&R springs didn't lower my car all that much since it is a GT and is already lowered 1/2" from non-GT trims. I lost less than an inch of shock travel. The instructions on the H&R springs say to cut the bump stop on the front struts 3/8" which on the magneride's I can't do as it is built inside the body of the strut. The rears were easy to remove the 3/4" off the bump stop that they recommended to do. I have yet to bottom out the front or rear of the car in any of my normal driving. I have felt the rear bottom out when I had two passengers in the back and luggage in the cargo area but this also happened to me when the car was not lowered.

I guess to answer your question, I don't thing the slight loss of travel on the magneride struts/shocks would cause any concern in longevity or do I think they would on the stock struts/shocks. I did recalibrate the ride height of the VDM in FDRS in case it would make a difference however I didn't get any warnings or alerts that there was an issue with the suspension system.

 

[Superfly-Vic]

Hey guys, has anything changed with the options to lower this.. I saw that h&r offers a 1.5 inch drop. Should I go for it?

 

[azerik]

I'd actually say to call H&R. That 1.5 inch drop might be a AWD ER car, possibly less on a smaller battery.

 

[sleightofhand]

Victor, I have the CA Rt 1 - extended range AWD. So maybe a heavier vehicle? 2 weeks ago, I installed H&R springs on the OEM shocks. New tires are 285/40 and 255/45 on 20" rims. OEM tires are 225/60 on 18".

I put on approx 300 miles on them. They've settled down to 29 3/4" in the Front and 29 1/2" in the rear. This was measured from the ground to the lip of the fender. OEM springs were 31" all the way around. Im going to put on more miles and if it stays this way, I'll install spacers so the rear is slightly higher than the front. MarkBoris experienced this as well but maybe a bit greater differences.
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