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Old 01-27-13, 12:21 PM
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Question Front scraping after 20" wheels

I just put on some 20" wheels along with coilovers and now the RH front is scraping when reversing and turning at same time. Seems as if its rubbing on the fender liner where the vents are. It only happens on the right front, never had an issue with the factory wheels. I read something on here about a similar issue but can't find it now. Front wheels are 20x9 ET38 with 245/30 tyres. I don't really want to remove the whole liner, am I best just trying to use a heat gun and push the liner back?
What do you guys running 20" wheels on coilovers do to fix this?
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Heat gun......
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^^^nailed it
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It happens to everyone that has lowered their cars. It's just a small section that rubs the wheel, so I resorted to trimming it off. It is only noticeable when the wheel is off, therefore not much to regret taking easy route of trimming as oppose to heat gun.
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I tried the trimming option but it still scraped. Just got a heat gun and pushed back inner liner now all is perfect. Zero scraping!
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so all we need is to heat up the fender and keep pushing back on it?
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