Wanting to raise the stock suspension 1-2”

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    Alidins Greenie N00B Member

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    Living in Canada, I often find that when backing out of my garage on days with heavy snowfall, my car can become high-centered. The snow prevents my wheels from making sufficient contact with the ground, forcing me to rock back and forth between reverse and drive just to get out, and there are times when I have to use a shovel to dig myself out.

    My Mazda Speed6 is my daily commuter during the winter. I'm curious if anyone has successfully added spacers to their suspension and what issues I might encounter if I do the same. Also, does anyone have recommendations? I rarely drive this car in the summer.
     
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    Are you sure you are on stock springs? Ms6's sit pretty high stock
     
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    The car is 99% stock. I am the second owner and purchased it from a dealership when it had 60,000 kilometres 37000 miles. It remains 100% stock except for the catalytic converter, which is not a direct OEM spec replacement. The struts are getting weak and are intermittently squeaky. The car now has 155,000 kilometres 96000 miles, and I just completed a major tune-up as well.

    Gotta fix a leaky PTO and upgrade the rear differential mounts sooner then later now.

    also, I got snowfall that comes up to my headlights sometimes fyi.
     
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    Don't know what the answer could be for the ms6 ms3 can just install Mazda 5 springs to raise. Maybe @phate can help
     
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    I see a couple different ways you could do it -

    Add a spacer under/over the spring in the strut assembly. This increases the preload on the spring, and might hurt ride comfort a bit.

    Add a spacer on top of the strut assembly. No change in spring preload, but you would need longer studs to go through the spacer.
     
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