How can I fix the rubbing issue....
I did the bumper tab relocation trick, and heatgunned the living hell out of my fender liners but I still rub... A lot. Just part of the game, it's your every day reminder that your car looks better than everyone else's!!
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I have just about the same set up as you except softer springs (8/10) BC coils on LC818 (dropped about a finger gap up front). If you want to do the easy way, use a dremel to drill a hole on the extra part of the metal tab. Drill a hole large enough to fit a zip tie in. Either bend or cut the metal portion of the tab. I cut of the tab on the bumper leaving enough to be held on by a zip tie, i recommend leaving 75% of that tab.
Sounds ghetto, but better than the tab eating up your tires. I'll re-do the entire tab in a better way later but for now this works.
I do have some rubbing some where but that's on very hard dips.
Good Luck.
Sounds ghetto, but better than the tab eating up your tires. I'll re-do the entire tab in a better way later but for now this works.
I do have some rubbing some where but that's on very hard dips.
Good Luck.
If you know what you are looking at, you can see how much I trimmed off...now I can drive fully aired down in the front without rubbing, I just can't turn 
This is before I used the grinder and smoothed out the edges and then used touch up paint on the bare metal...
This is before I used the grinder and smoothed out the edges and then used touch up paint on the bare metal...
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Cut like that, then how did you attach your bumper?
pretty easily...the square notch you see still houses the plastic bumper bracket thing, and the corner left on the underside of the fender I used a small self-tapping screw to hold the plastic bumper to the metal fender
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