18" Rubbing on rear
 

Just had my new inovite prodrive replicas fitted with yoko parada 225/40/18 tyres.
The fronts are fine but the rears rub on the bottom of the spring. Its rubbing too far in to space tyre off. Only seems to rub when going ove bumps doing between 30 and 40mph

Car is a 99 classic

Fitting 215 or even 205 tyres would help. I'm running 215/45/18 and after rolling the arches have very few 'rubbing moments'.

is there anything i can do apart from changing tyres to lower profile?

As gpssti4 said you could ROLL THE ARCHES.

its not my arches its rubbing on. Its the bottom of the suspension. Do i need stiffer suspension?

nope a wheel spacer and ya arches rolled

Could your wheel offset be wrong by any chance?

Mine has 18's, the arches have been rolled and they still rub on the arches when I corner fast or when there is load in the car (person in the back or my drum kit :) )

It's not too bad but it's gradually wearing my tires on the sidewall :wonder:

how much spacing is required and where do you get arch's rolled?

Any decent bodyshop will role arches.Basically if you have a look at your arches you will see it has a lip all that happens is that the lip is rolled upwards giving you more clearance to the tyre.

how can it rub on the spring?, the spring should move upwards when the wheel moves upwards ?

if it was rubbing on the spring, it should be rubbing all the time, maybe the wheel bearing is slack alowing the wheel to tillt ?

its rubs on the base of where the spring sits, but as the wheel moves up it seems to hit it.

the base of the spring moves up with the wheel mate lol

Perhaps the tyre rubs on the spring when the spring compresses under load become slightly wider?

The tyres you should have are 225/35/18 or 215/35/18 depending on the offset of your wheels, ET53 will allow the 225 without contact with anything. The reason you have contact with the spring pan is because your tyres are to tall i.e. 40 profile so even if they don't hit when the car is not moving when you corner or load up a tyre it deforms or moves giving you contact. I think it's more likely to get flex in a trye than a wheel bearing.
Thanks,
Paul.

I have 225/35/18's on mine and it's usually ok when i am on my own, if the car is loaded then it will rub, i have an ET of 48

just been out in the car and got a few mates to sit in the boot and in back. It dont hit the arch or bottom of spring, its hitting somewhere else so perhaps i will just have to space them and get arch rolled.

my money is on the part where the bumper bolts to the rear 1/4 panel ;)

me and my mate was tinking that. think i will jack the car up and have a good look when weather gets warmer.

i had this issue with another car that i have, i found out that the guy i brought it off had put a larger profile tyre on than it should have had and as such it rubbed,
I could see where it was rubbing while the wheel was on the tyre so i took a wheel off and could see that the tyre had been rubbing on the inner arch at the front and had rubbed all the paint/protective covering off
It would be worth taking a wheel off to have a look

Can depend on the make of the tyre aswell, i had 215/35/18 Toyo's and had no rubbing at all, went to a 215/35/18 Avon ZZ3 (they are quite a bit wider than the toyos even though there the same size) and they rub on the arch, have since had an extra 1/2 a degree of negative camber put on the rear, problem solved.

Could probably get away with 225/35/18 in some makes but not all.

I've had 2 classics on 215/35/18's... I had coilovers on my UK turbo and it was very Low, and that never caught...
I'd just change the tires...

i was under the impression that new age's ran 225/40/18, and classics used 215/35/18

I think P1's with the 18" option came with 225/35/18 but most people use 215/35/18 as it is a more popular size so costs less.

Think newage with 18s come with 225/40/18 except some jap models which come with 235/40/18