jay.k

I have the car lowered, and I only rub when going over big dips. An inspection of the tires reveals only one rub point on each tire - there's a groove (I've drawn arrows in each pic) but I cannot find the culprit inside the wheel well. I put masking tape around the wheel well and drove around to bottom out the rear - when I checked the tape, there were no scrapings or indications of rub, so I don't think the problem is in the L part of the fender wells. For my tire/wheel specs, check my sig.

Anyone else experienced this? Does anyone have any ideas?

Here are the pics:

Left Rear Tire:


Right Rear Tire:


Cheers!

Jay

Shoofin

Probably because you're 7.5 inches wide with the 45 mm offset. I had the same problem with 8" wide, a 45 offset and 235 wide rubber..
Ed

joseph_99tl

I HAVE 235/45.
17x8 rims.

i have rubbing.

not like that.

i've been trying to find more about fender
tab trimming.

but these pics look different.

njtls

how do you rub so far into the tire with a 45 mm offest...i rub too but its oin the edge of the sidewall

StanMan

actually that indicated line is suppose to be there....his real problem was camber wear removing the identical line along the inside of the tire. go look up these tires and you will see what i mean. someone else figured this out but i thought i would stop the debate! pretty interesting though...

jay.k

Yeah - I do have uneven wear because of some negative camber. The line is supposed to be there, and there should be a matching one on the other side of the tire.

I'm rubbing somewhere else - must figure out where....

Cheers!

Jay

joseph_99tl

if you look where the fender metal meets the bumper plastic.
and then look a little further up into the wheel wheel.

there's other edges up there..

you might be rubbing high up where the fnder metal and the bumper plastic meet.