Here is my problem..... I have a 2008 pathfinder SE and I put ready lift rancho coil over struts or shock on the front ( whatever you want to call them), and then I put the matching rs9000xl shocks on the rear. The rear suspension was way too soft for me. Im a big guy and my son is a big guy (both around 300#). We live in a rural area of Pennsylvania and the roads are bumpy and bouncy to say the least. Everybody was saying to get the coil spacer for the rear. Then I read that people were saying to get OME springs because to spacer takes away some of the articulation. I decided one the Medium duty extended springs from OME. I put the springs in and it looks great. The ride front and rear are what I expected to get from the factory, but my mechanic keeps telling me that people that buy these things anymore want them soft for the ride. Well, until I put the aftermarket suspension under it, the silly thing bottomed out on almost every single bump in the back roads.
This is where the problem comes in..... Now that the suspension is basically sitting at its upper limits sitting still, they can't get it to come into alignment perfectly because there just isn't enough adjustment. I remember the mechanic telling me that on the front, it wouldn't be a big deal because of the fact that there was more adjustment that could be done on the front with another set of camber/caster bolts. He said the hole and everything are there, its just that Nissan was too cheap to put a set of adjustable bolts in it and just used regular bolts. So, the front end fix is gonna be easy and cheap to fix.
The rear is the problem. I dont know if the rear adjustment on the lower a-arm is the limiting issue, if the adjustment on the lower rear control arm where the spring is located is the problem, or if it is both. I dont know if there is enough adjustment on the a-arm to correct the camber, but then not enough toe adjustment in the rear control arm. Or, if there is enough adjustment in the toe adjustment in the control arm, but not enough camber adjustment in the a-arm. Or, is there just not enough adjustment period?
Then my next question is whether there is enough adjustment gained using adjustable offset bushings to correct the problem or if I am going to have to FAB extenders to get the adjustment that I need.
On dry pavement it handles like a sports car, very tight. Going through bumps, it likes to rock from side to side. Im pretty sure that for the most part, that is tire flex and putting a set of E rated tires on it is going to take care of most of that. But when the road is wet or when there is snow, whenever the rear end loses traction in one of the tires, the rear end is all over the place because it pulls and pushes from the left to the right or vice versa according to which tire loses traction and this is all because the camber is not at 0 or is not negative, and because the toe in is not correct because the camber cannot be corrected.
I really like the way the vehicle rides all the way around and really want to keep it this way. I just want your input as to which mods need done from experience, or just from your educated guessing.