Tires rub against my fender..Helpp!?

Question

so i dropped my civic last week and i liked the way it came out but the problem is that the tires rub way too much when im making a turn or when im in the freeway and the car goes up and down... i want to know what can i do or buy so the tires wont rub as much or at all? and no raising it is not an option.... thank you....

Answer 1

Use a baseball bat and roll the lips of the fenders.

Answer 2

put low pro tires on and you may have to take off the little plastic rubbery wheel well inside your fender. had to do it on my Si. the low pro tires should help aloot. if you dont already have them. if u do then you should try taking out the wheel well dealy and if that doesnt work u need smaller rims with low pro. i did a 2" drop in the back 1.5 int he front with 17s with really low pro tires and had to take the wheel well out and that fixed it kinda. but i just eventually put the stock Si rims back on cause i think they look better now.

Answer 3

if they rub when u turn u can pick up some spacers that fit behind ur rim! u may need to install longer studs to aaccommodatethe spacer but this will also make ur tires stick out a little more! OR just go with a lower profile tire! like some of those rubber band style tires! that might fix it all together! trial and error! i wouldn't take a hammer to the finder! they made the kit to lower it so there is a way around the rubbing! good luck!

Answer 4

plain and simple. it's way to low.

think about it, how can being that low help with perfomance?

Answer 5

it really depends on what in rims you have on and the tires

if you have stock which should be 14in then try to get some lower size tires

or get some adjustable springs  

Answer 6

Put 14" tires on it, then it will be lowered even more but the fender rub should go away. And just think of the mileage you'll get!

Answer 7

i had the same problem with my civic i put air cylinders on it to fix the problem, the option would be to roll ur fenders like the others have said i personally would not go with spacers and all of that makes it look to weird... so u can either get use to the tires rubbing, roll ur fenders ( would suggest maybe professional), or airbags or air cylinders

Answer 8

You might try increasing the length of the the horizontal bumper stops that control the distance for hard left or right turns and  increase the vertical height stop bumpers for the down bounce.  I had two cars I had to trim (grind) back the internal lip of the front fenders to stop the rub/wear problem.  Changing to similar type narrower tires that would carry the same weight load as the original factory tires might work.

Answer 9

take off the wheel and beat the fender in with a hammer where its rubbing.