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      02-24-2016, 05:47 PM   #1
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Lowering M4 shop needed

Can anyone recommend, based on their experience, a shop in Seattle area that is capable of doing lowering springs (ma cht schnell) and alignment on 15M4 with active suspension. I live up north by Bellingham and local shops have not have much experience with these, at least that's the answer they give me.

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      02-25-2016, 10:30 AM   #3
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I don't have specific experience on the M with them but Actuning in Redmond is highly recommended as an indy shop. I had them do my alignment on my 335i after a coilover install and they were top notch.
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      02-26-2016, 04:03 AM   #4
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Omni Alignment in Kirkland off the 124th st exit. I called a couple "tuning shops" (do bmw's, porsche's etc.) and they said $1200-1400 with alignment plus tax. You provide the springs (not coilover kit, just springs). Omni was something like $840. Anyone will want it 6-8 hours so you have to drop it super early. I asked the others if their price included alignment and they said yes and they send it out and one shop admitted they send it to Omni. lolz.
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PM me if your interested. Plenty of experience and work on all my own cars. If you're willing to make the drive I'll do it for $100. You'll have to get an alignment after the springs settle though. Any Firestone or similar is perfect for that. Lifetime alignment is like $125 through them I think.
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Achtuning, Redmond for both the springs and the alignment...Omni fucked my alignment twice.
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PM me if your interested. Plenty of experience and work on all my own cars. If you're willing to make the drive I'll do it for $100. You'll have to get an alignment after the springs settle though. Any Firestone or similar is perfect for that. Lifetime alignment is like $125 through them I think.
I would totally take up your offer, but it's a shame your so far away
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Thanks to everyone for feedback, I will call-up the mentioned places and see who has the best deal, it's a shame that shops in our area charge more, I was trolling a few suspension threads regarding spring install and ran into some posts where members paid $500 for install and alignment.
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Thanks to everyone for feedback, I will call-up the mentioned places and see who has the best deal, it's a shame that shops in our area charge more, I was trolling a few suspension threads regarding spring install and ran into some posts where members paid $500 for install and alignment.
Thats still too much! DIY man. Only takes about 4 hours and a cheap set of spring compressors. Then take it to an alignment shop after driving it about a week.
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Funny, when I called 5 places which were all well respected and known (and some even posted in this thread), they all said about 6-7 hours and 1-2 for alignment. I haven't put in springs on an M4 but put coils on other cars in my garage. I would have thought it would be 4 hours but 3 of the places alleged that with the electric option for suspension it took a bit longer. This along with more things to undo/disconnect/remove than say an older car without all of the intricacies of the M3/4.

I'd love to hear of anyone who has gotten it done in under 5 or otherwise charged for less than 5hrs.

As far as alignment I have used who I have used for 6 cars (BMWs and Porsches), never had an issue and they actually fixed an issue when i had installed a fully racing adjustable coilover kit (camber, trailing, etc. everything). Having said that, there are many places that can do a good job on the alignment.
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Cohesive Garage in West Seattle lowered my M4 with Active Suspension and aligned it. I don't remember the cost it was 2 months ago and everything is perfect. He has worked on a bunch of M4's.
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Cohesive Garage in West Seattle lowered my M4 with Active Suspension and aligned it. I don't remember the cost it was 2 months ago and everything is perfect. He has worked on a bunch of M4's.


Do you remember within say $100 what it was for lowering and alignment?
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Cohesive Garage in West Seattle lowered my M4 with Active Suspension and aligned it. I don't remember the cost it was 2 months ago and everything is perfect. He has worked on a bunch of M4's.
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Another for Noah! He has been working on my E92 and now F82 M4 and has a ton of experience with this car. He is a one man shop and his schedule can get pretty busy but he is worth the wait.

He installed TCK coilovers on my F82 another with a Brembo brake kit and knows the F80/82 platform very well.

He doesn't have an alignment rack but you have many options for that around the area. I highly recommend Chris @ Prova Motorsports in Magnolia.
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