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Marticus:
Hi guys I'm kinda disappointed atm, and in need of some advise.

Last weekend I fitted H&R coilovers and everything was great untill I put the summer wheels on and now any kind of hard cornering or hitting bumps while cornering is resulting in the tyres scrubbing, more on the drivers side I assume because my fat ass is in the car on that side.

The wheels are 18 x 8 et 45, so while more aggressive than the stock wheels I'm still running a 225 tyre and I don't think theyre 'extreme'?

Right now I have got the coilovers at max height on the front and that has almost eliminated the problem outside of really hard cornering. But hard cornering is what I bought the car for so I need this fully resolved.

What's more because these are the 'cheap' offering from H&R there is no separate adjustment between ride height and spring preload, so with the ride height at max, the springs compressed a lot which I would want to try and avoid.

I still need to get an alignment done, which might help depending on how much camber is there, but I don't have camber plates and aren't interested in doing the extreme camber thing anyway, max - 2 I guess..

So next step would be fender mods? , I was reading about the fender screw mod. Has anyone done this? If so how much space did it buy you?

Is there anything else I should consider?

Thanks in advance..

Clarkj93:
I'm on b14 coilovers and they're running about half an inch from the lowest possible setting on the front so it's pretty low along with TT arms which make the front track wider so ours are probably similar width.

I had to cut away about 10mm of the inside of arch liner and folder the inner lip of the wing and all clearance issues were gone. I just used a Stanley to trim the liner and use a jack handle with a heat gun to folder the lip inwards and touched up any paint blemishes with a standard touch up pen afterwards. I'm running just over 2 degrees negative camber also.

ROH ECHT:
Mine are the same; 225/40-18 w/18x8-et45 wheels.

Mine doesn't rub...even when cornering extremely hard. But I pushed the upper-center screw & tab, for the front wheel arch liner, upwards and I have both front and rear ARB's to greatly reduce roll during cornering. Yes, leave the screw in its tab, and push them upwards together.

I would suggest you first; push the front upper-fender-liner's screw & tab upwards.

Then check the side to side alignment of the rear subframe. Mine was off by nearly 1/8 inch (3mm) from being centered (don't know why...as I owned it from new). One side of mine measured nearly 1/4 inch more than the other. The FTG (Fender(highest point)-To-Ground) measurement on mine is 23-7/8" (F) and 24" (R).







With the rear sway bar (ARB), set stiff, it doesn't take much to lift the rear tire.

Marticus:

--- Quote from: Clarkj93 on May 14, 2023, 05:53:42 pm ---I'm on b14 coilovers and they're running about half an inch from the lowest possible setting on the front so it's pretty low along with TT arms which make the front track wider so ours are probably similar width.

I had to cut away about 10mm of the inside of arch liner and folder the inner lip of the wing and all clearance issues were gone. I just used a Stanley to trim the liner and use a jack handle with a heat gun to folder the lip inwards and touched up any paint blemishes with a standard touch up pen afterwards. I'm running just over 2 degrees negative camber also.

--- End quote ---

Thanks for the help, from your pics it looks like you may even be a bit wider than me and definitely lower now I'm at max height.

That looks like a lot of work you've done, I was hoping not to have to go into fender rolling, but I guess if that's what it takes then I'll have to go there. Glad it worked out for you.

I'll try the scre mod first and get the alignment checked and see what the outcome of that it. I would like to get down at least 10mm from where I'm at if possible.

Marticus:

--- Quote from: ROH ECHT on May 14, 2023, 06:52:07 pm ---Mine are the same; 225/40-18 w/18x8-et45 wheels.

Mine doesn't rub...even when cornering extremely hard. But I pushed the upper-center screw & tab, for the front wheel arch liner, upwards and I have both front and rear ARB's to greatly reduce roll during cornering. Yes, leave the screw in its tab, and push them upwards together.

I would suggest you first; push the front upper-fender-liner's screw & tab upwards.

Then check the side to side alignment of the rear subframe. Mine was off by nearly 1/8 inch (3mm) from being centered (don't know why...as I owned it from new). One side of mine measured nearly 1/4 inch more than the other. The FTG (Fender(highest point)-To-Ground) measurement on mine is 23-7/8" (F) and 24" (R).

With the rear sway bar (ARB), set stiff, it doesn't take much to lift the rear tire.

--- End quote ---

Thanks for the help!

Man this is what's confusing me you are much lower than me and Clarkj93, I guess the uprated ARBs make a lot of difference! Do you know what camber you're running?

I'm going in for the fender screw mod and maybe the alignment will pick up some weirdness like you had. And I'll go from there then.

Thanks!

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