control arm hitting the wheel well

ccastaneda4 · Apr 21, 2011

i have a 99 honda accord ex 4 cylinder and was having a little issue with it...
i dropped my car about a year ago i had it with the stock shocks and it was hitting the wheel well.. today i got my koni yellow shocks and the problem is still there... i thought it would go away but it didnt.. now idk wat to do cuz the sound is getting annoying every time i hit a lil bump.. any suggestions???
i have the tein ss springs with the koni yellow shocks

Cpyro · Apr 21, 2011

Maybe you have another problem, Im on koni yellows with Ksports which are lower than the Teins. I dont get any knocking. Might want to double check everything and make sure u know whats making the noise.

CG6Lemon · Apr 21, 2011

control arm hitting wheel well? you mean control arm hitting shock tower? that's what happens when you lower you car 2-3 inches with shytty roads where you live. Enjoy the life of being lowered while you can.

ccastaneda4 · Apr 22, 2011

roads arent bad.. its just that it hits everywhere and its only on the passenger side that hits..

JMillerUA6 · Apr 22, 2011

Did you put your bump stops back in?

sabSquishy · Apr 23, 2011

In with the same problem. It sounds like a hammer each time.

Chris Vu · Apr 23, 2011

me tooooo lol. mines in the rear pass side. it happens only when theres a passenger in my car. itll happen with the smallest crack in the road too

sabSquishy · Apr 23, 2011

Jason (Accord2UN something something) had a hole cut out where it was hitting. I've been considering it but its sort of an irreversible process.

Sketch o5 · Apr 23, 2011

ogliquidmetal said:
me tooooo lol. mines in the rear pass side. it happens only when theres a passenger in my car. itll happen with the smallest crack in the road too

thats not the same problem the op is having. if you have a noise in the rear that sounds like the front upper control arms hitting the strut towers, then you should get that checked out asap, since theres nothing back there to come in contact with the body of the car like that.

as for the op, stop hitting those damn huge bumps. theres no reason you should have this problem with those tiny drop tein springs, unless your suspensions alllllllll ****ed up on the side its happening on. this usually happens frequently when people lower these cars a lot, like 2.5"+ lower id say. mine dont even hit that much and im pretty low, theres only a two finger gap between the my uca and the strut tower when the cars on the ground.

theres really nothing that can be done to fix it other than raising your car or cutting a hole in the top of the front strut towers. or custom made knuckles that are shorter height wise, but good luck on that haha.

JDMCG7 · Apr 24, 2011

what is happening there is the control arm has no room to extend out so therefore it is topping out on the shock tower. believe me im been slammed/dumped/lower or whatever you wanna call it for 5 yrs. and im haveing the same problem and im on type 2s you have to cut out the shock tower an extend it up a few inches or keep it open heres some pics of my boys that already have done it.