Okay I am running 19x8 wheels on my tC with a road magnet drop which seems to be similar to sportlines. Well with running 225-35-19's I rub on the fender liner and I can't put the car into any turns or anything like that. Does anyone else have these issues?

It is kind of what happens when you lower the car and put rims on with a lower offset, especially 19s. Either take out the fender liners or live with it

OR get 17 or 18 inch wheels... they look better anyways :P

take out the liners its not that hard just pop a couple clips

You can't be rubbing that bad. I'm runnin 18x9.5 +35 with 245/35/18 tires and really low.

whats your wheel gap? if you have 1-2 fingers worth and youre still rubbing, then your springs are really flimsy. you'll need to upgrade to stiffer springs and shocks.

i doubt you still have your liners in...or do you O.O

I still have my fender liners in..

Im running 19x8.5 +35 with 235/35/19(I know tire is too big...) and im lowered on TRDs. My fenderliner got damaged so I just took em off...

I'm not gonna remove the liners, I have my wheels up forsale and am gonna buy the same wheel in 17" and run 215 45's on them. I have holes worn in the liners from rubbing, it's right near the bumper/fender seem.

If your not rubbing your doing something wrOng haha

If your not rubbing your doing something wrOng haha


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I thought my car was low but one day i realized.. "how is this low if i never rub or scrape on anything?" So i had to lower it more until it rubbed.

Thats like saying "I havent completely degraded my handling to a point where it handles worse than a dump truck.. so I havent lowered enough"

not everyone cares about handling. some prefer the looks of being extremely low.

x2! but OP, you seem to be doing the right thing by selling them and getting smaller wheels.

Thats like saying "I havent completely degraded my handling to a point where it handles worse than a dump truck.. so I havent lowered enough"

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i would just take the fender liners out or get coilovers.

not everyone cares about handling. some prefer the looks of being extremely low.


No, but I would hope that people would not want the car to be 100% unpredictable in an emergency situation.. which a car slammed like that will be. I guess if they just cruise at 30 mph down city streets....

pshh engifineer... you need to take some advice from the jdmlegend himself.




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HERself actually... I was corrected on that.. but figured I would leave it wrong anyways in the sig :rofl:

No, but I would hope that people would not want the car to be 100% unpredictable in an emergency situation.. which a car slammed like that will be. I guess if they just cruise at 30 mph down city streets....

not necessarily, i know exactly how my car will handle. infact it handles the same now (1.5" drop roughly) as it did when i had my 2.5 inch drop

No it doesnt. Not unless you had new spindles/suspension pickup points custom made for the car to acheive that 2.5 inch drop.

Unless you go out and push the car on a track, course, etc regularly and under both setups you have no idea how it really handles under an emergency situation. If you do nothing but daily drive it.. you know how it handles on a daily drive.. maybe pushing a corner every now and then. Taking it to the limits of traction on a track tells you a thousand times more how your changes have affected handling.

Roll couple is not improved (and most times harmed) on a macpherson strut setup when you over - lower.

You are WELL into the positive part of the camber curve when you lower 2.5 inches. That means your traction decreases sharply as the suspension compresses. So there is no way possible your car handles as well at a 2.5 inch drop as it does at a 1.5 inch drop. If you took both setups and threw the car into an emergency lane change or abrupt transition at speed, the slammed setup would not grip as well. That is just the geometry of a suspension setup in action.

Your not dubbin unless your rubbin.