when i turn my back right tire rubs up against something and i was thinking maybe it has something to do with the cv boot? i dont know.

 

The CV joints aren't going to have anything to do with the rear tire. I'd look inside all your wheel wells and make sure there isn't anything there that would cause that noise, if in fact it's coming from the rear tire.

 

You need to give more info for anyone to begin to help you.

For example, what exactly is the right-rear tire rubbing? When you say right, you are referring to the passenger side, correct?

Does this happen when you turn right or left? Pretty unlikely happens both ways.

Is the car's suspension modified/lowered? Was the car ever in an accident and could something in the back be bent?

BTW, if you have a FWD Civic, CV joints are only in the front (on the driven wheels).

 

everything looks fine under and in the wheel well but there are rubbing marks on the tire? is it possible that the rear end of the body of the car is sliding over and causing the rear fender is rubbing the tire?

 

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if the body was "sliding over" then you have some serious suspension problems. So is this a lowered car? and where is the rubbing? outside or inside of tire?

 

yeah the car is lowered and its rubbing the out side of the tire

 

If its the outside edge/corner of the tire, it sounds like you are rubbing the rear fender lip. If you still have the black liner on the lip, you should start to see it wear through to the inner ribbed-metal reinforement. If not the fender lip should show some wear on the paint.

It sounds like you are just a little too low for your current setup. And by setup I mean there's a whole bunch of factors: shock, spring, wheel offset, tire width, (cross) weight of car, etc. that could be adjusted in different combinations to correct this. This is also assuming nothing is wrong/worn/bent.

Easiest thing, is just to raise it up a little. I'm willing to bet your rim/tire assembly is probably close to flush with the outter rear fender. You just can't go too low in this case (and forget about tucking), unless you have fairly high rear spring rates.