Chris F

Hey,

My car is lowered (front jack points are 4.25 inches from the ground). Where I pull into my driveway, the curb isn't cut so it's a pretty sharp impact for the right front. Sometimes it rubs, and it turns out that each time it rubbed I'd take a sliver of tire out. Sometimes it wouldn't rub (when I go REAL slow).

It's hitting the top of the wheel well near the middle of the tire, there's a seam/edge of the fender that runs behind the wheelwell liner. That sharp edge is where it's rubbing. The tire is a bald 205/45R16, so it's about a half inch shorter than stock.

Does anyone else have this problem? Has anyone taken a hammer to that edge to flatten it? Raising the car is the alternative, and I kinda like it where it is, but I also don't like taking the ol' sledge to the caR.

-Chris

Chris F

After a lot more searching, I came up with this sage advice from the Integra forum.

Big hammer it is.

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=989260

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by VTEConly &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">You have to file down that ridge (sharp edge) up inside the fender well or bang the sh*t out of it with a hammer. Mine had ripped the wheel well plastic liner and was sticking out through the liner. That's how I found out what was causing it. I had a cut down the middle of my new Falken Azenis. It happened everytime I went over large bumps or or dips on the street and when auto-xing on uneven rough lots.

Your car is actually lower than mine and pretty low for my standards. Your car is lowered at least 3". Mine is 2.5".
I aslo had 205-15's when this began to happen to me but it only started when I noticed my aftermarket adj. shocks started deteriorating and weren't damping my 650lb springs they way they did before. Raising the car 1/4" should eliminate the problem. This could be an indication that your shocks are going or they don't have enough damping (bump/compression) and they could be riding on the bumpstops. I put my old Konis back on the car after sending them out to be rebuilt and revalved. I no longer have the problem.

It was my failing shocks that was causing it. Again a simple and cheap solution like others said is to beat the crap out of that sharp metal ridge inside the wheel well (at the top) with a hammer, file it down as much as you can, or raise the car a little. </TD></TR></TABLE>

808 NA1

If you cut slits into the seam every inch or so, it will make it much easier to hammer flat. Or you could completely cut it off with a cutting wheel or something, but I think just hammering it flat is much easier.

Haleiwa-Brando

You can also get ahold of some concrete and make the radius of the curb less dramatic and more sloped. I've seen this a number of times. It is something I have considered several times. You can even be tech and bust up the original curb, lay a pipe in there for drainage purposes then cover the pipe with your new concrete while making the slope much more gradual.

drdisco69

You might be a Type R owner if solving a problem means you'd rather undertake a major home improvement project than damage a part of your car you can't even see.

Chris F

I thought you guys were gonna let me down.... so I posted the same question in RR/AX when this post made it to the 2nd page
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1193257

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 808 DB8 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">If you cut slits into the seam every inch or so, it will make it much easier to hammer flat. Or you could completely cut it off with a cutting wheel or something, but I think just hammering it flat is much easier. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Yep, that's the plan. I may raise the car a little too. Thanks guys.

-Chris

MattD@Stoptech

You're still going to bottom out at that ride height with the springs you have. The only thing you're going to be changing is what the tire/UCA is going to hit.

You should either raise it, or put some stiffer springs in front.

RTW DC2R

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by drdisco69 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">You might be a Type R owner if solving a problem means you'd rather undertake a major home improvement project than damage a part of your car you can't even see. </TD></TR></TABLE>

nice

chris, just hammer it you pussay.