Okay peeps, I bought Progress lowering springs the second week in December and my good friend SSFamilyWagon installed them for me this past Sunday. Anyhoo, I have rims on the car, because they came with them from Midway Chevrolet (in Phoenix AZ) and they came with locks, not just one, but 4 locks PER rim. I got a key, but, my local dealership O'Rielly Chevrolet (in Tucson AZ, and also where I work at now) they stripped my key during a tire rotation and never ordered a new key.

Now fast forward to present time, SSFamilyWagon has done over 7 Cobalts and Ions when it comes to lowering springs. He was able to install the springs with the tires and rims on. However, our first shot was the passenger side, we left everything connected and we stretched out the CV Boot. This is the one located by the rim. The car will start and all, when you put it into gear you can hear grinding, which is the bearing spinning in the CV that is not together.

My car got towed into O'Rielly and my stepbrother is my service advisor, they finally started working on it yesterday and the suspension guy told my stepbrother my springs were upside down. I called SSFamilyWagon and he told me thats impossible, because it wouldn't look correct and I trust him working on my car. Anyhoo, my story is that there are no lowering springs on the car, and I can't get any installed with locks on the rims without a key.

Now my question to the masses is; can the inner CV Boot (closer to the rim) get fixed quickly or do I have to get a new passenger side axel?

PS: Admist all the chaos and not having a car, the drop made the little 2.2 look damn good.

 

dude... I hate to flame... but why didn't you just do the smart thing and go get a new key for the wheel locks?

 

Werd and make the dealership pay for it!!

Pics of the lowered balt as well

 

Heres the thing, last saturday I went to several stores during my lunch hour to find a ******* 7-sided key. I went to PepBoys, a local wheel shop, and Autozone. But to no success. What pisses me off is that the tire shop NEVER got another key for me. Now that I work at for the same company, its a bitch move that it was never ordered. Heres another catch, my stepdad also works at O'Rielly and I told him as soon as I ordered the damn springs, order me another key....Did it get done? Nope! Apparently the main guy at the Tire shop was on vacation, but its funny, you can order it without him being there. Oh well, my e-brake button popped out too, so I hoping I get everything under warranty.

I really just want the car to work again before Saturday, hell even Friday. Because my car club is heading up to Casa Grande for an AZ car show. Funny thing is I didn't know SSFamilyWagon was gonna install the springs on Sunday. I just thought he was gonna put on my ShiftPlus.

EDIT: My ultimate story for serivce is this; well, "I was driving the car the other day and I heard a grinding and the car stopped. The rims and tires came from another dealership and were left on the car for the dealer trade." Ultimately I don;t want to mention anything about springs.

 

I wouldnt tell them either. Find some way to get those others off, maybe take it to a wheel shop theres some way. Order some factory lugs and a factory lockin lug kit from GM with one lock per wheel. If somebody wants those wheels bad enough they will just take the whole car so puting 4 locks per wheel isnt worth that much trouble to me.

 

4 locks per wheel did seem a little like overkill... is crime in tuscon really that bad?

 

Dude, when your city is in the top five just like ole Phoenix, yeah it is. A majority of cars and trucks get stolen and taken into Mexico. Its only a 45 minute drive really.

EDIT: heres a linky... http://www.morganquitno.com/cit05pop.htm Just scroll to the bottom

EDIT 2: The car will be fixed today, it wasn't covered under the warranty. So its gonna run me about $200 for a new axel. Damn it, I just want to freaking try out stage 2 of my shift plus.

 

i didnt read the whole post but how could you mess up your Axel just putting on lowering springs...


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They installed the springs without removing the wheels because he doesn't have the key to the locks on the rim. They messed up the CV joint.

 

ok i get it now... and yes the smart thing to do would buy a new wheel lock....


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