Guard Rubbing

[marrari]

I just purchased an AE71 Corolla and its sitting on 14" Lonchamp XR4's with Koni Adjustable fronts with Lovell springs on the front.

The car is at legal height but only just clears the guards

The issue i am having is that the guards are rubbing the wheels on bumps and speed bumps

What is my best way around this?

Lower profile tyres?

Raise the car?

 

Any advice will be appreciated

Thanks

[rian]

Flare the fenders, raise the car, get different wheels. Any of these will work.

[It's_AUDM_Yo]

Rubs on the inside (engine) side or the panel?

If its hitting the panel you should be able just to lip the guard.

If its hitting on the inside, get a really big hammer and smash the crap out of where it touches.

 

Also clean car dude.

Edited August 18, 2013 by It's_AUDM_Yo

[styler]

You will find that the tyres are probably wider than the rims so you could run different tyres but seeing since they are

on there the next best bet is probably to roll the guards with a small amount of pump out, you can buy a guard roller

for around $150 and watch diy tutorials on youtube or pay $50 a corner drive in drive out deal but theres no guarantee

the paint wont flake chip its just how it is with rolling.

[ke70dave]

Persuming you currently have standard guards.

 

You should be able to roll over the inner lip of the guard without changing the look of the guard on the outside, you can get a good 10mm of clearance this way. If you are carful you can put something solid but soft on to the outside (say a brick wrapped in a rag), then carefully use a hammer from the inside to fold the edge up.

 

Unfortunately theres a good chance you will do some damage and it wont ever look as good as it does now.

 

got any camber at the moment?

 

If you use camber tops, 1 degree gets you a fair bit of extra clearance, and should give you some better cornering as well.

[styler]

Someone will probably mention stretched tyres at some point, its a way to run big dish on rims and still clear the guards but works more

in independent suspension motions than live axle motions. Theres different degrees of doing it from mild to wild but there's disadvantages

as well which are heavily debated from both sides.