Hey everyone. Longtime lurker here. Bought a 2011 TE from a Honda dealer. Took me a while to track down a used one and drove 7 hours to go get it. Once I got there, it noticed it already had 285's and sat slightly higher than I thought it would. Upon getting it home and doing some more research I found out it has the Bilstein 5100 leveling shocks (and I'm assuming stock springs).
The Destination A/Ts that came on it finally wore out so I just upgraded to 285/70/17 Nitto TG G2... now I have rubbing issues. I'm going on a road trip to Colorado (From Texas) in about 4 weeks so I gotta get this fixed fast.
Solution 1: Chop body mounts - possible but need to find some metal and borrow my neighbors welder. If I take it out on any trails while I'm in CO, not sure if that will be enough in itself.
Solution 2: Lift it - Hadn't had a chance to decide on a full lift, so for the time being I was planning to bump the adjustable fronts up to the 3rd setting (2.5" from my understanding?) and add in a rear spacer (1.5" I believe)
Now to the question: While looking under the vehicle and trying to read how to do the suspension upgrades without screwing up my KDSS, I noticed this. It appears to be a white plastic/nylon spacer at the top of the rear springs. Does it already have a rear spacer lift? If so, I can't seem to track down who sells white ones like this. I can only find black spacers. It doesn't quite look stock, but I'm not sure what to do from here. Seems silly to swap white spacers for black if they are going to be exactly the same. Or is this some sort of stock thing that's supposed to be there and the spacer fits under it?
The Destination A/Ts that came on it finally wore out so I just upgraded to 285/70/17 Nitto TG G2... now I have rubbing issues. I'm going on a road trip to Colorado (From Texas) in about 4 weeks so I gotta get this fixed fast.
Solution 1: Chop body mounts - possible but need to find some metal and borrow my neighbors welder. If I take it out on any trails while I'm in CO, not sure if that will be enough in itself.
Solution 2: Lift it - Hadn't had a chance to decide on a full lift, so for the time being I was planning to bump the adjustable fronts up to the 3rd setting (2.5" from my understanding?) and add in a rear spacer (1.5" I believe)
Now to the question: While looking under the vehicle and trying to read how to do the suspension upgrades without screwing up my KDSS, I noticed this. It appears to be a white plastic/nylon spacer at the top of the rear springs. Does it already have a rear spacer lift? If so, I can't seem to track down who sells white ones like this. I can only find black spacers. It doesn't quite look stock, but I'm not sure what to do from here. Seems silly to swap white spacers for black if they are going to be exactly the same. Or is this some sort of stock thing that's supposed to be there and the spacer fits under it?
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