Sitting low at one corner

[mel]

The drivers side front corner of the Griff appears to be sitting lower than the rest of the car, the gap between the wheel and the arch is "a fist" on the passengers side but only "a finger" on the drivers side. The handleing does not appear to have been noticable effected (but admittedly at this time of year it hasn't been pushed hard) The first thought has that a spring had broken and that the car was thus sitting down on the broken turn. Now I wasn't able to get under and see or obviously take the wheel off without jacking the car up and taking the suspension off load, however once I got it up on axle stands and with the wheel off all appeared normal! Nothing appears to be bent or damaged and there appear to be no leaks from the shocker, with the spring off load I can't find a break and can't see any obvious cracks so I'm a little confused. I can't think ofanything else that would cause this other than a broken spring so am tempted to just go ahead and replace it, but has anyone else experienced this ????

[simont]

Mel,

Is there a difference at the rear, I would expect the other side rear corner to be that much higher?

The only thing I can think of is a broken spring or maybe the outrigger on the low side has broken?

Does the car drive OK?

Simon

[bennno]

a gas strut snapped on my first cerby which let the spring bend in such a way that the upper wishbone sat on it, causing a very similar effect to that you are describing.

my advice would be not to drive it, either get it collected or jack it up and remove the wheel for a luck. I drove mine to the dealer and it mysteriously got fixed at no cost, never even saw the bits!

Bennno

[futie]

I've had a couple of dampers go phut on the Cerbie and surprisingly I didn't notice the difference in handling, but just because one corner seemed to sit lower than the others.

I'm not sure how, but it seemed that the car 'settled' lower at the corner with the knackered damper. So before you go buying a new spring, it might be worth bouncing that corner to see if the damper is shot?

[Simon T]

So Mel, did you sort it?

[mel]

Not yet, will have another good prod and poke tonight.

[griff2be]

mel said: Not yet, will have another good prod and poke tonight.

Enough about you and Mrs Mel. What about the car?

[mel]

fat chance of that we're married

[GasBlaster]

Mel, at the risk of making a bleeding obvious suggestion, are you sure the road is level?

The other day I thought my Griff - parked on my driveway - was sitting low at one corner - did the old fingers on the tyre test and thought ..oh sh1t.., then once it was in the (level) garage, everything was fine. Just a thought!