When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.
I have a question relating the rubbing of my GS. After the RSR lowering spring and fitting the VFS-2's my car rubs. It hits the plastic, what are they called, extensions at the side of the wheel housing of the front wheels. When you put your hand between the fender and the tire and feel the inside of the plastic wheelhousing, you'll feel at a certain stage a protruding bit of plastic. The tire hits that.
What is the best way to deal with that? Bending with a bit of heat, will that work? Or did you guys sort this out differently?
Can you please tell me how you solved this. Thanks in advance!
Bending the plastic with a heatgun dit most of the trick. There is still a little rubbing in the rear. Next week there will be a set of bump stoppers installed on the rear shocks. That should sort the last bit out.
Car looks great man! I'm running into the same rear rubbing issue after installing the rsr down's and 20" vossen wheels. It only happens when I drive over larger dips in the road though.. Please let me know if you come up with a solution
What you are most likely rubbing on isnt the plastic linear itself, but more so the bracket which holds the front bumper on. This was a common issue with the 2IS Chassis, which was remedied with the following modifcation:
There are multiple way of doing the tab modification, here is another members approach at the issue:
Originally Posted by kumquatism
These aren't the greatest of pictures, but it's pretty difficult to take pictures without removing the wheels. There are certainly other ways of doing the tab modification, but this is what my car has.
It should give you a general idea of what needs to be done.
mine rubs badly in the rear, not in the front (I dont think). I have the Tanabe NF210s and the springs finally settled on me. Rubs real bad in normal mode and kinda bad in S+
Bending the plastic with a heatgun dit most of the trick. There is still a little rubbing in the rear. Next week there will be a set of bump stoppers installed on the rear shocks. That should sort the last bit out.
Let me know how those bumpstops work out for you... I have to do something with my rear. Its driving me crazy. A luxury car sounding like a POS honda civic right now
mine rubs badly in the rear, not in the front (I dont think). I have the Tanabe NF210s and the springs finally settled on me. Rubs real bad in normal mode and kinda bad in S+
What size tires are you running? I just dropped mine on Tanabe NF210s also and about to pull the trigger on some wheels. I'm afraid I might run into the same issue with rubbing.
What size tires are you running? I just dropped mine on Tanabe NF210s also and about to pull the trigger on some wheels. I'm afraid I might run into the same issue with rubbing.
It's not the springs. Many of us are using them without issue. There seems to be occasional problems with the standard Vossen wheel offsets.
I just got my Vossen VFS2
F 20" +32
R 20" +45
and RSR super down springs
couple members have told me to go with
245/30/20 F
275/30/20 R
with no rubbing issue
What size tires are you running? I just dropped mine on Tanabe NF210s also and about to pull the trigger on some wheels. I'm afraid I might run into the same issue with rubbing.
I'm running the 275's
I didn't rub at all for the first 4-5 months the springs were on. Once they "settled" they are too soft for me and rub the fender on any decent bumps. If I have my small kids in the back then it's over... It rubs every bump
An update. Today the car is in for the bumstop solution and I received this image back:
Not something I like to see. Right rear shock is busted....
So far the RSR downsus lowered my GS450h f-sport 6.5cm instead of the 3-4cm claimed on their website. This was the main reason for my rubbing issues. Which of course helped a lot towards the shock failure.
04-02-15, 08:42 AM
Rubbing
