Hello everyone,

I'm kinda new to these forums, however, I've lurked quite a lot over the past few years.

I own a 2002 Stratus R/T Coupe. For quite some time the suspension has been extremely squeaky and rough on the roads. So, i figured i would just put a new set of shocks, struts, linkage arms, whatever else it needed.

I ended up getting the Eibach Sportline springs with KYB-GRS shocks/struts.

This lowered the car considerably. It looks much lower than other Stratus's I've seen. The front tires scrape on the inside wheel well when i take sharp turns in parking lots, it's a loud grating noise. The mechanic i took it to to install everything even cut out some of the plastic so it wouldn't rub.

In addition to replacing the above. I've had to put in front and back camber kits (to be expected). The rear upper control arms needed to be replaced due to some bolts on them being rust locked and they couldn't put the camber kit on it.

I've now got the camber kits on it, however there is still a negative camber on the back wheels even though it's adjusted as far as it will go. In order to get it aligned, they also need to replace all of the tie rods in the front, both lower and upper. Even then they didn't guarantee that getting it aligned will fix the camber issue. Much less the front end being too low.


Sorry for so much exposition. It's just been one issue after another. I'm up to 1,700 so far on it just this issue.

My question is, Is there something I can do to increase the ride height by .5"-.75" just to keep it from scraping when I make slow turns. It also has a tendency to hit the strut stops (bottom out) on the smallest bump in the road if i'm not too careful.

The only thing my mechanic has suggested is switching to the proline springs.