I recently received my 2023 JCW Clubman. I ordered the car with 19” wheels and summer tires. I am thinking of ordering Kw V2 street comfort coilovers and dropping it approximately 25mm. My intentions are to also add a 25mm rear sway bar. For those of you that have lowered your F54 were rear adjustable control arms required to get the alignment correct?
Any other suggestions are welcome. The car will be used for back road twisty’s only and will not see any track use.
Thanks for the help, Steve

 

With only a 1” drop you should still have some OEM camber adjustment left in the suspension. That isn’t extreme for lowering.

 

Thanks for the info njaremka.
If someone has any experience with KW I would certainly like to hear their opinions on overall performance.
Thanks, Steve

 

Not fully required. I bought the Megan ones just because of price, and they're actually too long and exasperated the negative camber. I took off one of the jam nuts and got it to work, but I think what I really need is their upper rear control arms to make it fully adjustable.Good thing about Megan stuff is that it's good quality, and a full set of upper and lowers is still less than the cost of Forge or NM lowers.

 

Did you zero out the OEM camber eccentrics first?
When I did that the Megan arms were right in the middle of adjustment.

 

Dear replier, I did NOT do that, and now I feel like an idiot for not even thinking about it. Maybe I'll revisit, but my point stands, though, that by default, they don't really adjust the correct way for me, since they can only be pushed out, causing MORE negative camber. The uppers are more so the way to go to get more positive camber, at least in my car and my experience.