So springbreak is over and being the nice friend that I am I agreed to drive my three friends back to university along with my gf, that's 5 people with another 300lbs of luggage by us together. My gf and I sat in the front seats during the whole two hour drive on highway and my three friends + my luggage sat at the trunk, putting tons of weight on the back of the car. I bet it put around almost 600lbs of weight at the back because when I was filling up the gas at the gas station the back of the car sank so low it left around 1.5cm of space between the body and the tire...

after I dropped off my friends at their res and unloaded ALL the luggage I have a feeling the suspension might be damaged by the weight because from my perspective the front body/tire seem to have a wider gap vs. the back body/tire

So should I take it to the dealership to check on it or is it like that already when the car is new? I haven't paid attention to my ride height at all but after this trip I'm paranoid! Never ever driving a full car after spring break again!

p.s on the trip there was an instance where I ran over a pretty nasty pothole and my friend at the back said the wheel might've scrapped a bit... *big sigh*

 

There is a huge gap in the front compared to the rear wheels on a stock lancer. Its normal. 1000:1 nothings wrong.

 

1. Front wheel gap is ALWAYS bigger. That's normal.

2. A slight scrape of the wheel is nothing. You just don't want it happening 24-7 and when the car is empty.

Your car is 100% fine. I swear.