Has anyone on here modified their quarterpanels in order to prevent wheel rubbing with extremely low offset wheels, very wide tires, or very slammed cars?
I got my car aligned on Saturday and the rear driver's side wheel started rubbing on the quarterpanel. The guy first made an excuse that he heard the exhaust rubbing on the sway bar (because apparently the metal exhaust rubbing on the metal sway bar sounds exactly like a rubber tire rubbing on a metal quarterpanel... even though the sound clearly comes from the opposite side of the car). After being showed the rub marks, the guy claimed that because I have 205/65/15s that that must be the problem, ignoring the fact that those tires have been on there for over a year with no problem. He then blamed the car's lowering springs (only Teins which offer like a 2" drop, before putting the Konis on their highest perch setting, which have also been on there over a year with no problem), at which point he told me I needed stiffer shocks to compensate for the drop, which is when I pointed out that my Koni Yellows are about as stiff as you get. At that point he then tried to sell me new, smaller tires (which I already explained weren't the problem). He also failed to understand that if either of those were the problem, then it should be occuring on both sides of the car, not just one.
So, since it's not worth my time to show up at every Tires Plus I can find every day and wearing through my tires trying to fix whatever they screwed up, I'm gonna have to modify the quarterpanels to give myself better clearance. Rolling the lip was nowhere near enough, so time for some more drastic measures. Does anyone here have pictures of Accords with quarterpanels that have been stretched, flared, or radiused to better accommodate such wheels? I'm gonna start by grinding off the bottom edges of the quarterpanels, just not sure where to go from there, looking for some good inspiration here :/
I got my car aligned on Saturday and the rear driver's side wheel started rubbing on the quarterpanel. The guy first made an excuse that he heard the exhaust rubbing on the sway bar (because apparently the metal exhaust rubbing on the metal sway bar sounds exactly like a rubber tire rubbing on a metal quarterpanel... even though the sound clearly comes from the opposite side of the car). After being showed the rub marks, the guy claimed that because I have 205/65/15s that that must be the problem, ignoring the fact that those tires have been on there for over a year with no problem. He then blamed the car's lowering springs (only Teins which offer like a 2" drop, before putting the Konis on their highest perch setting, which have also been on there over a year with no problem), at which point he told me I needed stiffer shocks to compensate for the drop, which is when I pointed out that my Koni Yellows are about as stiff as you get. At that point he then tried to sell me new, smaller tires (which I already explained weren't the problem). He also failed to understand that if either of those were the problem, then it should be occuring on both sides of the car, not just one.
So, since it's not worth my time to show up at every Tires Plus I can find every day and wearing through my tires trying to fix whatever they screwed up, I'm gonna have to modify the quarterpanels to give myself better clearance. Rolling the lip was nowhere near enough, so time for some more drastic measures. Does anyone here have pictures of Accords with quarterpanels that have been stretched, flared, or radiused to better accommodate such wheels? I'm gonna start by grinding off the bottom edges of the quarterpanels, just not sure where to go from there, looking for some good inspiration here :/
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