Hey everybody,

I have a quick question and, forgive me, but I'm not the savviest when it comes to cars. I purchased a '96 Civic a few years back. The owner had lowered the car and, when I asked him to raise it, he said he'd get around to it. I learned the hard way to get stuff like that taken care of before the sale. As you can guess, he never got around to it, and I haven't seen him since I bought the car.

Anyway, he said that raising the car should be fairly simple. He mentioned something about just needing to adjust a screw on the underside of the car. Now, he was either messing with me to try to get the sale over with or he had some sort of custom suspension put on the car.

I just had a tire blow the other day, and noticed that the wear on the inside of the tires was pretty bad. Also, the tires bow out a bit, which tells me he didn't put a camber kit on the car. So, I either need to raise the car back up or put a camber kit on it.

Here's where I need your help. Is it possible that it is as simple as adjusting something on the underside of the car to raise it up, or was he pulling my leg? Also, would it be a better idea for me to just put a camber kit on the car, or should I pursue trying to raise it? I'd assume that, if he simply modded the springs, I would need to replace those, which would probably be costlier than a camber kit.

Any advice? Let me know if you need more clarifying information.

Thanks!

It could be that you have adjustable coil-over setup. If so, you should be able to jack car up and take load off wheels, and run spanner up couple threads all way around and let down jack till you get it like you want.
If you don't have adjustables, well it's a lot of work and expense to put back.
You'll have to shop junk yards for set of springs, and maybe top control arms.

either go to the junkyard and go back to stock, or as the previous poster mentioned, raise the collar back up.

My advice no matter what route you take would be to make sure you get an alignment done right after, as you will mess up your cars suspension geometry.

You don't need a camber kit, just go get an alignment.

It's not the camber that causes that horrible inside line wear on your tires, it' the toe angle.

Camber kits happen to fix the toe angle too, when adjusted properly