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Modified by kaluwa3 at 12:32 PM 10/4/2007

 

Did you examine the tire sidewall to make sure that the size is actually the 205/50-15 you ordered? I've heard of cases where they shipped the wrong size tire. That's the most likely cause I can think of.

AFAIK the SPT does not run unusually larger than other tires labeled as the same size. (Unlike, say, the Falken Azenis RT-615, which is notorious for running larger.)

That's the only thing I can think of, unless they messed up something in the suspension. On your car, 205/50-15 should fit fine without rubbing, heck without even coming close to rubbing. As you know, 205/50-15 is slightly wider than your stock 195/55-15 tire size (by 10 mm), but it's also slightly smaller in diameter (by about the same amount). In terms of clearance, they really shouldn't be any different from the 711.

 

I just went out into the garage and they are indeed 205-50-15.

You mentioned that they may be messed up something with my suspension. My car is lowered on function-form full coilovers. All he did was raise the car 1/2 inch. Could he have possibly "messed" something up that would cause the rubbing?

I'm lost on what it can be.

Thank you.

 

Two things I can think of.

1) maybe try lowering your car to what it was before and see if the problem still persists,
2) What is the offset of your rims, maybe too much and these new tires put you over the threshold.

Just wild guesses really.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by old man neri &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Two things I can think of.

1) maybe try lowering your car to what it was before and see if the problem still persists,
2) What is the offset of your rims, maybe too much and these new tires put you over the threshold.

Just wild guesses really.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Regarding that guess #2, keep in mind that brand new tires are about 1/2" larger in diameter than tires that are worn to the point where they need replacement.

 

Raise the car, you lessen the negative camber, and increase possiblitiy of rubbing on the fender lip. Increase negative camber and rubbing should lessen....what are your alignment setting?

 

After I got the car raised, I also had a 4 wheel alignment. I have the sheet for the alignment, but I'm not sure where it is right now.

All I know is that everything was in the green section. Although before that, the front tires had bad positive camber, but now everything is in the green.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by chrisw85 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Raise the car, you lessen the negative camber, and increase possiblitiy of rubbing on the fender lip. Increase negative camber and rubbing should lessen....what are your alignment setting?</TD></TR></TABLE>

and try changing your tire size 205/50r15 to 195/50r15 , i think that would fix your problem..

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by kaluwa3 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">After I got the car raised, I also had a 4 wheel alignment. I have the sheet for the alignment, but I'm not sure where it is right now.

All I know is that everything was in the green section. Although before that, the front tires had bad positive camber, but now everything is in the green.</TD></TR></TABLE>

So I take it that you know nothing about your car.

You should start by helping yourself and reading before you modify your car so that you know how the parts work. Because you see, now you don't know what's going on with your car after you let someone work on it. Shops love to make money from people like you.

 

^ Please explain why I dont know anything about my car.

 

We need to know the numbers from the alignment sheet. Camber for example (the green section) is 0 +/- 0.5 deg. So your wheel could be at +0.5 or -0.5 deg of camber and it would still be in the green section. The numbers would really help diagnose your problem.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Naked &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">try changing your tire size 205/50r15 to 195/50r15</TD></TR></TABLE>

Bad idea.

When you have a problem with your car, you're better off fixing the cause of the problem, instead of doing something else wrong and then you have to go chase down two different problems with unpredictable results.

 

really?? what could go wrong, I want to know :[ because I did that with my car 00

 

Your speedometer and odometer are off.

Your car is lower and that could hurt the suspension geometry.

Your fuel economy could suffer.

If you still have rubbing, you won't know whether it's caused by the lowering of the car by the undersized tires, or by something else. (The difficulty in pinpointing the cause of problems when you do multiple things wrong is one of the biggest reasons not to do multiple things wrong.)

And there are NO significant advantages of using undersized tires. Unless you are looking for the "low rider" look.

 

nsxtasy, you seem to know your stuff.

Should I post up the numbers from the alignment sheet? Will take help in solving this problem?

 

Just raise your car up a bit..

unless you want to tuck .. change your tire size to 195/50R-15 ... I had this problem as well and switched my tire size and the problem was solved but this is only if you are slammed.

What nsxtasy said is correct... just raise your car or change your tire size and suffer some consequences.