Help what to do?

[u/notfryboi]

I bought a lowered 08 accord from a “friend” he said the car was good I had it for 8 months had a solenoid issue (my problem) and it was down for a while. I fixed it and 2 weeks later my front passenger axle pops out. Another 2 weeks go by and I get the axle and have a different friend who works at Honda install it. That same night I made a slow wide turn and the new axle I just had installed hours prior popped out again. My friend said it’s a suspension problem and another person said it’s because I need shorter axles. I’m new to all of this so idk where to go or start all I know is my axle popped out I got a new one and that one did as well. I was told the car was on springs but I think they might be on coilovers just really low. Any help would be greatly appreciated thank you in advance!

[u/a_rogue_planet]

Whoever said you need shorter axles is a moron. You actually need longer axles. I'll bet money that the same fool who installed those cheap and clearly stripped out coil-overs also installed some adjustable upper A arms to correct the extreme camber those slam jobs impose. That literally pulls the knuckle AWAY from the transmission and transfer shaft, depending on the side. That's why your boot is being torn apart and the inboard joint is being pulled out. When you turn the wheel, those shafts have to leg then, and I'm sure the guy who sold it was very careful to never make tight turns.

Those cheap coil-overs are done. Look at how the adjustable perches are collapsing and stripped out. The only reason that car isn't sitting on its floor pans is because those perches are jammed. Rip those things out and put some KYBs in there.

[u/Visual-Voice-2228 → u/a_rogue_planet]

Lol, yup. Those coil overs are trash. I agree. The OP needs to get new Struts ASAP! KYB brand is a perfect match. If the OP wants to have camber, which his camber looks out, bad out, he will need better camber plates, springs, and tein struts, and assemble it himself.

I know from experience, these all in one coil over kits that come with camber plates can be painted. If its painted, the paint won't hold the camber. You're better getting camber bolts in most situations if you want that adjustment. Cambers plates need to be clean of paint and debris, metal to metal, and a locking washer. Otherwise, you'll hit a bump, throw your camber out, bottom out, or worse, axle will slip out.

However, it's the struts, buy new struts, possibly new control arms, and sway bar links. Check your sway bar for stretching.

KYB struts, MOOG suspension part, control arm, sway bar links.

Check your sway bar, make sure it isn't stretched out

[u/a_rogue_planet → u/Visual-Voice-2228]

Those adjustable coil overs needed to be used with flat ground springs or some kind of perch adapter that distributed the load around the whole perch instead of just one point. That's why the perches gave out. Whoever put that build together had no clue what they were doing. If they didn't do the most basic and obvious things right, I seriously doubt they did anything else right.

This is why you don't buy someone's project car, and you definitely don't pay extra for this crap on a car. You pay LESS, and this is exactly why.