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jghood13

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I have a set of 17x9 cobras with 315 35 17 bfg DR in the rear and the rub what can I do to stop the rubbing
 

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jghood13 said:
I have a set of 17x9 cobras with 315 35 17 bfg DR in the rear and the rub what can I do to stop the rubbing
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how much is it rubbing by??? you could probably get away with a real thin like 1/4 inch spacer or somethin like that......dont use washers tho because you want the pressure of the wheel against the rotor to be even all around and noit just at the lugs....good luck
 

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Where are they rubbing at?
 

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yeah are they rubbing the inside or the wheel well...



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step down in tire size to a 305 or 295 or even a 275, i always hear about 315's rubbing on dropped cars. the only thing to do is go down in tire size or get some springs that don't drop the car as low in my opinion, like some b springs or even c springs.
 
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they rub in the back of the wheel well and with the spacers I have they rub really bad on the outside of the wheel well the wheel well actually cut up the outside of the tire
and yes the cars droped pretty low
 

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jghood13 said:
they rub in the back of the wheel well and with the spacers I have they rub really bad on the outside of the wheel well the wheel well actually cut up the outside of the tire
and yes the cars droped pretty low
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im having the same exact problem....im going to take off the spacers today and hope that it wont hit anymore!
 

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buy some stiffer shocks..... that'll cure it.... it's what i wound up having to do with my 285/35/18's and my 10"rear rims...


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I have 17x11's with 315's on them (how the hell did you manage to get 315's on a 9" rim?)
anyways...when I was backing out of my brother's steep driveway at an angle (so my front bumber and tailpipes did not scrape), the rear axel must have been at some weird angle, because my tires actually bent out the lip of the wheel well opening, and cut up my tires some. I just used a hammer and beat that lip back in, and actually kinda rolled it up inside, so the sheetmetal edge of the lip is pointing up, instead of horizontally in like it was stock. The paint loos kinda ugly if you stick you head under the wheel well, but otherwise it did not hurt the visible sheet metal/paint at all.
 
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