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Evidence suggests lowering these vehicles improves range.So looks like the 2022 no longer has lowered suspension, does anyone have any suggestion on how to lower it and why they stopped lowering it? Did they do it to improve range etc?
From what I understand the performance models still have different spring part numbers (likely different spring rates) so I fail to see how MFG is simplified. Tesla's never going to tell us why they removed the drop but they did and that's all we know.Yeah was only like a 10cm drop anyway, simplified MFG and let folks do aftermarket if they want it is likely explaination
You can lower it with lowering springs from H&R, Eibach and other companies. You can also lower it with coilovers for even more handling gains and to improve the ride quality or firming it up further(with adjustable damping coilovers).So looks like the 2022 no longer has lowered suspension, does anyone have any suggestion on how to lower it and why they stopped lowering it? Did they do it to improve range etc?
sorry bro disagree with you. i had a 3.2020 m3p fsd/pup and sold it to get a 2.2022 m3p same build and trim. after putting ps4s back on the car and using a tape measure, the height of the car was the same as my 3/2020. the reason the newer builds look "higher" is because the pzeros are stretched on the wheel and therefore make the tire to wheel well height look higher than it is. i posted photos of this weeks ago. ive heard the studio on the website does not list lowered suspensions blah blah blah...So looks like the 2022 no longer has lowered suspension,
Just for reference, the original 21" wheels for a Model S (with staggered setup) were 9.0" wide and came with 265/35R21 tires. Fronts were 8.5" wide and came with 245/35R21 tires. The 19" base and Slipstream wheels (square setup) were only 8.0" wide and came with 245/45R19 tires.The stretched Pirelli tire profile certainly makes the wheel gap appear larger due to less vertical sidewall. This gives an illusion that the car is raised. The 235 width tire is too narrow for the 9.0" rim. The rim looks like it's practically sitting on the ground. While the 235/35R20 tire is rated with a sidewall of 3.2" (unloaded), the actual rim is < 2" from the ground once the tire is installed on the car, loaded with the vehicle's weight, and the sidewall angle is accounted for due to stretched nature of the narrower tire on a wider wheel (235mm tire on 9.0" wheel). Since the outer edge of the tire has less vertical sidewall and the peak diameter of the tire sits further in the fender well, the tire sidewall appears smaller making the wheel gap appear larger. Less light makes its way deeper into the fender well which further exaggerates the optics of the wheel gap due to the dark shadows. I tried to capture this in these pictures.
That would be almost 4 inches so you'd be 100% wrong. Here's a helpful conversion link: Google cm to inchesYeah was only like a 10cm drop anyway, simplified MFG and let folks do aftermarket if they want it is likely explaination
That would be almost 4 inches so you'd be 100% wrong. Here's a helpful conversion link: Google cm to inches
Unlikely.maybe air suspension plan in the future for LR and Performance models only.
Night and day diff in ride quality in the 2021+. Go for a ride.Visually the "drop" makes virtually no difference IMO and as others said, the OEM ride quality is atrocious on the M3P.
Recommend the MPP comfort coilovers if you want it to look and ride much better.
Yeah it's kind of ridiculous really as I wouldn't run a stretched tire like that with aftermarket wheels. They should have gone up in tire size to match the increased wheel width.The stretch on that tire is insane, I've never seen anything like that from an OEM
You probably made a typo, but it's 1cm or 10mm. A 10cm difference would be significant and the car would almost be dragging on the ground!Yeah was only like a 10cm drop anyway, simplified MFG and let folks do aftermarket if they want it is likely explaination