Low passenger rear

[afflora]

Another one from me. My back rear passenger side seems lower than the driver side. Actual a couple of inches lower Is there something that I need to look for ie replace the suspension springs or what. Comments will be appreciated.

[conedriver]

afflora,

You didn't say what year your Spider is, or where it has spent it's life, but here's my experience: I bought a new 1750 Spider in 1971, and used it for a daily driver. Several years later, I noticed a sagging rear side and discovered one of the rear coil springs had rusted in two inside the plastic tubing attached to the lower part of the spring. The fracture was near the bottom of the spring, so only 1 or 2 coils were affected. Obviously, the tubing captured water and wintertime road salt and the stuff just festered away until the spring broke.

I don't remember seeing this tubing while recently underneath my '91 Spider. I wonder when the application ceased.

[Roadtrip]

Previous owner was obviously driving around too many fat chicks.

In my car, the driver's side sags a bit.

[Sam Z]

Try shifting aluminum spacers on the passenger side from the driver side.
the spacers are found in the front coils. Seems weird I realize but an Alfa specialist told me to add one spacer on the lower side and it evened it out.

buona fortuna (good luck)


sz

have someone sit in the drivers seat and then check height, sounds weird but didn't alfa set it up to sit level with the driver in place, don't have the manuals handy but I belive the specs call for more weight to be placed on the drivers side when setting alignment specs.