Crap lights on my dash after installing coilovers.

[Eelusive]

Well anyways.. I decided to put my car on some coilovers, Ksports to be exact, and for the love of god I don't need anyone being a complete fuck hole and tell me how I made a bad choice on coilovers. On to the main course, everything was running fine of course before I put the car on the lift, swapped out the stock for the coils. Put the wheels back on then when I started my beauty up the Tract light was on the CEL, ABS, Electric Steering light was also on wtf. So we hooked it up and scanned it with OBDII, it gave me a P0500 code for speed sensor A, and it also said something about the instrument panel... Any ideas what could have went wrong? We checked all the speed sensors and none of them where mangled or anything..,

[HATED1]

I had a few lights go on after installation. Just get it aligned and they will go. It's because everything is out of spec.

[ihaskrayon]

It's because you made a bad choice on coilovers

[Eelusive]

Originally Posted by HATED1

I had a few lights go on after installation. Just get it aligned and they will go. It's because everything is out of spec.

Thanks for the insight, are you sure it can't be something more simple than that?

[Dwood11]

After I recently installed my hotchkiss springs and some lca's and my car was doing the same thing. The car was scarry to drive. The car knows its out of spec and is telling you something is terribly wrong. Out of curiosity did you put in the lower lcas? Once you get an alignment you should be good. Oh and this should be moved to the suspension thread if a mod sees this please. You will have more luck with answers there.

[Eelusive]

Originally Posted by Dwood11

After I recently installed my hotchkiss springs and some lca's and my car was doing the same thing. The car was scarry to drive. The car knows its out of spec and is telling you something is terribly wrong. Out of curiosity did you put in the lower lcas? Once you get an alignment you should be good. Oh and this should be moved to the suspension thread if a mod sees this please. You will have more luck with answers there.

Thanks for the reply, I did replace the stock front end links with the adjustable ones. The lower LCAs are still stock >_>

[HATED1]

It's the alignment, trust me.

[Eelusive]

Originally Posted by HATED1

It's the alignment, trust me.

just got my alignment... lights still on.

[zc06_kisstherain]

Originally Posted by Eelusive

just got my alignment... lights still on.

try to reset ECU by removing Negative Battery

[Byebye]

I put coilovers on my car in my garage and didn't get any lights. Some wire is loose or broken. I don't get how your car can tell you that you are out of alignment and have an entire Christmas tree of light go off from a coilover install.

[Eelusive]

Originally Posted by zc06_kisstherain

try to reset ECU by removing Negative Battery

Done that

[wheelhaus]

There's no way the car can tell the wheels are out of alignment, especially when the car has just been started and isn't even moving.

THe only possibility a poor alignment could cause anything like this is if the alignment is SO HORRIBLY FUCKED that the wheels are scrubing and causing them to rotate at different speeds, or cause chassis yaw that the car thinks shouldn't be happening (such as driving in a straight line.

The speed sensors may not look mangled, but one may not be installed correctly or the wires may be damaged internally. If they were attached and the hub was lowered, the wire may have been pulled, or while things were moving one may have been pinched.

[HATED1]

Originally Posted by Eelusive

just got my alignment... lights still on.

sorry to hear man. In my situation, after putting on the coils, the wheels where way of spec. After the alignment everything cleared after driving it a few miles on the freeway.

[SubaSteve]

Originally Posted by zc06_kisstherain

try to reset ECU by removing Negative Battery

Do this any time you modify anything on the car.