Gettin' Low

[Zazzn]

How are you boys not rubbing the hell out of your fender liners and mashing up your fenders running super low?

I don't like a car that's bouncy so I keep my coils pretty soft, but if I make the wheel gap flush with the fender i rub absolutely everything.

What are you guys doing or is it that everyone is rubbing and replacing fenders lol

 

[mcammarn]

Ppl use fender flares, or flare there fenders, and or cut underneath the wheel whale

 

[Backlash2032]

I don't go that low.. my opinion is that if it's that low.. it's no longer a functioning car. Can't go over speed bumps.. scrape everywhere you go.. I'm dropped on eibachs and I still hate it sometimes.

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[Silver MK3]

I don't go that low.. my opinion is that if it's that low.. it's no longer a functioning car. Can't go over speed bumps.. scrape everywhere you go.. I'm dropped on eibachs and I still hate it sometimes.

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This is exactly what worries me about lowering my car. I hate scraping on anything, it is just a horrible noise and feeling.

 

[hvyman]

I rub my fender liners. With wider tires it pushes and pulls on the fender too.

It's not that bad tho.

 

[supraguy@aol]

I found that the Eibach's were very easy to live with in th real world.
Hardly ever scraped going over speed bumps, etc.

I think alot of people end up rubber their fender liners because they eventually lose a few of the fasteners here and there during maintainence.
If they have all of their screws/ bolts, I think they do pretty well, until you go crazy low(can't see the top of the tire).

 

[Zazzn]

Well, what i have is larger than normal tires.. For instance i have 275/45/18 on the rear which fills the wheel gap and it never rubs, I have less than 1 finger of gap... However, on the front, I have 245/45/18's as well looks nice and fills the gap but rubs everything and the big mistake is I didn't adjust the bump stops... So I never scrape anything on the floor at all however, my brand new fender lines are trashed (few years old) so I've decided to raise it up a bit so I have 2 fingers on the front because I HATE having to worry about a car.

 

[THMotorsports]

Softer coils is going to be part of your problem. It will allow for a lot of suspension travel. While suspension travel is needed, you don't need to have much to get a proper ride out of your coils. I run on STANCE SuperSports and Swift springs. I have my rates at 14k/10k which is nominal for street/race with about 1/4" gap and the ride isn't that bad (subjective I know). Remember, you can have stiff springs but it's all in the dampening that allows the springs to move the right way. PM me if you want more information on my setup.

 

[atmperformance]

I thought you were just supposed to run 20 degrees of camber to fit the wheel under the fender for that inner tire wearing stance.

 

[A-to-the-J]

It may be the sidewall. I used to run 275/35/18 all around with zero rubbing in the rear and very minimal rubbing in the front. However, I had a Tokico/Eibach setup and rubbed on the fenders, which were rolled, as I did not run fender liners. Then again, we don't have the same weather in SoCal.

Ninja Edit: My wheels were 18x9.5 +35 all around.

 

[IchibanEye]

It helps to keep things in the 16''-17'' wheel sizes also. Of course always keeping in mind offset and tire size. I'm dropped a bit over 2'' front and rear with no rubbing issues.

I however always look way ahead on the road and keep a nice distance between other vehicles. That allows me some reaction time to get around junk on the road.

 

[hvyman]

Ya sounds like softer springs or bad adjustment if coilovers. . Side wall is a bit high for me. I run 35. And no finger gap between fender and tire. Only time it rubs on liners is big bumps.

 

[GrimJack]

Very stiff springs, here. Not ideal, but it works.