Wheels rubbing

[L_sutts]

Hi people, i know this subject always comes up and i'm sure you get bored of it but i'v read loads about it and cant figure out my problem.

Iv recently had my car lowered on weitec coilovers and now the front wheels catch. I didn't think it was silly low, still gap for 2 fingers between tyre and arch. I'v had the arches rolled and the guy thought there should be plenty of room but they still catches.
I have the old S3 wheels which are on 205/40/17 tyres.

Any thoughts welcome, thanks in advance.

 

[borderboy]

EH

cant see how that is ..... are the damp adjust aswell ? maby on the softest setting ?

i had old s3 wheels on 205/40/17's on a slambed fabia vrs and it never caught once !

and now have a cupra tdi lowerd even more with 215/35/18 on it and it just catches at times......

do you have any pictures ?

 

[L_sutts]

Nah there fixed damp, i'm out of ideas, dont want to go back to standard wheels!!!

Hanv't got any pics but dont think i can post them yet. Havnt got my 15 posts.

 

[st10587]

get the front set up with a little bit of neg camber

 

[L_sutts]

would neg camber make the tyre wear uneven?

 

[andycupra]

whats the offset of the wheels, are you running spacers?

 

[L_sutts]

offset is 32 and no spacers.

 

[BKR]

where in lincolnshire

there may be a few of us that could help around here

 

[L_sutts]

I'm about 20 mins from boston. Near coningsby/ woodhall area if you know where they are???

 

[george130]

I'm on weitecs and getting a bit of rubbing: the screw at the top of the arch liner on the outer edge is the main culprit - take that out, the arch liner supports itself fine.
There was also a small bit of arch liner on the inside that was trimmed.
Now its not too bad, just try to avoid big dips and bumps - it's what im doing until I get the chance to sort it out properly!

 

[L_sutts]

Iv taken the screw out too, read that somewhere on here and cut the plastic lining, which i wish i hadn't done.

 

[george130]

Just to let you know, I got my rear wishbone bushes replaced with new cupra bushes and 99% of the rubbing has disappeared!

 

[Aimez]

So the noise was not the wheel rubbing in the first place then?

 

[george130]

It was.. the tyre marks on the arch liner being proof - I trimmed bits away in the first place to try and avoid the rubbing but it only worked for smaller bumps/dips. Now I've replaced the bushes the wheel never rubs (aside from once I think on a massive dip) - I'm guessing the wishbone was moving around so much due to the shagged bushes that the wheels angle was changing so much on bumps that it'd rub the arch liner.

 

[Aimez]

ah right I see someone posted this on that other thread just goes to show how much they move, I am guessing the bushes on this car are wrecked when this video was made http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJaZ4yLCTeg

 

[L_sutts]

Arhh right, thanks for that. Sounds dead the same as whats happening to me. My car is going into the garage this weekend so i'll see if he could do it then.
Are your wheels et32 george130???

 

[Aimez]

Well mine is so noisy now it is embarrassing, dropped a mate off home on Sat night and he asked what the noise was! But only does it in the rain?!

 

[george130]

Arhh right, thanks for that. Sounds dead the same as whats happening to me. My car is going into the garage this weekend so i'll see if he could do it then.
Are your wheels et32 george130???

I think so... either et32 or et35... they're Leon FR+ wheels, 17x7.5J with 205/40/17's on.