Need Help with my Rims...

[GotMilk89427]

I drive a 2000 Civic EX that has been lowered with Neuspeed sport springs. It is 1.75 inches lower in front and 1.5 inches in the back. Everything was fine until I just put my new rims on. I just put on a set of 17" Enkei RS6 with 205/40 17 Nitto NT555's on yesterday. I am having problems with rubbing on my right rear tire. Is this normal? It normally happens during cornering and over bumps. If this isn't normal, what can be done to correct it short of rolling the fenders? Any help would be appreciated.
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[enzo@af]

You can get your fenders rolled, so there's more room under there, or you may want thinner wheels. I have 17x7.5" wheels, and I lost some of my turning radius because of it. But, I'd suggest getting the ole' wheelwells pounded out a bit.

[GOD]

my friend has the same problem on his SI he lowered it with the Ibach sport kit its about 1.7 in the from and back and his from tires rub his fender wells if he goes real slow and turns . I think he put some arms or something from ibach .....i dunno if a camber kit would correct this or not but thats some ideals and ur tires arent that wide are they 205/40/17 is about 7.0in wide isnt it ?

[BBD]

Before installing rims you should mesure how wide you can go... if you go over a little your tires would rub with the inner wall weird thing you say only one of the tires are rubbing anyways mu suggestion to you is to install Spacers to get the rim out a little even if it was a few melimeters,,,

[flylwsi]

spacers would fuck it up more.
the rolling thing isnt that hard.
all you would really have to do is take the wheel off and just push up the small lip inside so it has a soft edge down, instead of the sharp side of the metal...
so when you run your hands under the lip it would feel like a "V" instead of an "L"
make sense?
that is necessary on a shitload of cars...
i just saw a ford ranger dropped on airbags on 20s that rips the shit outta his pirellis...
he didnt roll the rim of the fender. shitty for him...

[1HGD16Y8NH-578]

I had the same problem on my 99 EX with 17"s. I made two mistakes, first I used 40mm offset instead of the suggested 45mm. Second when you lower a car you need to make sure like the others posted to "roll" the fenders. You can solve the major rubbing by "rolling" the fenders.

Rob

[Worshp]

Definitely roll the fenders...anything else, like a camber kit or raising the car back up again is like giving asprin to a gunshot victim. Correct the problem rather than half fixing it.

[Racing Rice]

I had the same problem.. My best suggestion if you dont want to roll the lip is to purchase a set of Koni sports (yellows) so you can adjust the rebound on them and make them stiffer.. I changed to the skunk2 coilovers and koni yellows and was able to sit it alot lower and never had a rubbing problem at all.

[Luke@tirerack]

The wheel obviously have the wrong offset. When you purchase wheels with an offset that is to low it causes the tires to stick out to far and they rub. Talk to the people where you got the wheels and they should be able to resolve this issue. It doesn't matter if the car is lowered or not because the suspension travel is in the same arc and the tires shouldn't rub. In one of the previous posts somebody mentioned upgrading the shocks eliminated his problem. It didn't fix the problem it just restricted the suspension travel enough so that the tire didn't rub which in turn makes the ride quality suffer

Luke