My car has 16inch wheels and they are rubbing the arches and it will not go onto full lock, how 2 fixs this?
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get smaller wheels
YOUR RIMS ARE TOO WIDE
you need to get spacers to bring the wheels further from the hub this will let you go on to full lock but will make the rubbing worse on the arch, so the arch's will either need grounding or flaring unless your good with a grinder dont bother take it to your local bodywork shop. not gonna be cheap sorry mate..
as for kwick fit used to work for them they will do anything for cash!
your gonna have to change the wheels or have the suspension raised again.. If you are subject to a police spot check they will take your car off the road.
You will need to change the wheels, unlower the suspension or modify the wheel arches.
The arches can be modified with a large hammer however you may have difficulty getting an MOT if it is not done professionally.
Told you so when you asked your last question.
You will probably get away with the 16's if you put the original springs on.
BTW, I hope you have told your insurance company it has been modded or you are uninsured.
It's simple mate, just get someone to cut and graft the arches back on so they are wider and slightly shallower, then get the recommended spacers for the hubs this will allow you to achieve full lock but because you've also cut the arches hopefully it wont rub anymore.
Either that or change the wheels or raise the suspension!
smaller wheels
you can try wheel spacers or change your tyre size other than that you will either have to take lowering sorings off or get smaller wheels. go to a tyre dealer and ask there advice. good luck.
you are driving illegally mate and also have you notified the DVLC to have your details changed
Ok, your car has not been designed to have 16 inch wheels, which are not only a bigger diameter but also will be wider.
Unless you address this properly you have just made your car potentially dangerous, and if the wheel arches are rubbing it is already illegal.
The bigger diameter will have affected your gear ratios, giving you a higher top speed but marginally slower acceleration. Your turning circle is reduced and the wear on your power steering increased.
The handling will have been affected, but positively, as long as your lowered suspension doesnt force the wheel and tyre to foul out whe you go over a pothole.
You see Ford will have invested millions of dollars making sure that everything on your Fiesta works safely together as one big compromise. Once you start changing stuff it upsets the balance.
This is why Kwik Fit won't touch it as they are not specialised to make it better and would therefore be culpable if something goes wrong when you are driving it.
First some basic things which I'm sure you have already done. Make sure you have gone for the lowest profile tyres you can afford. This will give you a harder ride, but better stability at speed, and will also help to redress the diameter issue.
Secondly make sure that in addition to your lowering springs you have fitted gas shocks (something like Spax), otherwise your fiesta will shake itself to bits after about three months on our roads.
Thirdly your only sensible option is to have the arches professionally widened. There are a number of alternatives for this including buying a new set of front wings which have arch extensions built in. For bolt on wings you will be able to get fibreglass replacements which will be cheaper than steel.
Bolt on or screw on arch extensions look crap unless done properly and that would involve cutting away the exisiting arch and then fitting and blending the new arch in with filler and then repainting the whole wing.
Either way you will be looking at a re-paint but you are probably going to do that anyway if you are giving the car a new look.
There is a technique which I used once which involves using a car jack and blocks of shaped wood to gently push the existing arch out by a few mill at a time, but a minor mistake could leave it looking awful.
My advice would be to take it to a proffesional body shop and raid the piggy bank to get it done properly.
Hope that helps and good luck.
Without looking at your car it is not easy to diagnose the problem.
It could be that you have the wrong wheels fitted with the wrong `offset` this is quite common on `ameteur` lowered cars.
It maybe possible to put spacers between the hubs and the wheels, but then you get into some serious geometry problems with camber and toe in/out and spacers, to me, are just an engineering excuse, not an answer. You may need to make some interesting adjustments !
Or it could be just lowered too far ! Take it to a few specialists and have them look at it. Lowering a car is not as easy as people think and can lead to some serious handling and tyre wear problems, you cannot just shorten springs and make it work by putting harder shock absorbers on the car.
Good luck, modifying a car is great fun and a wonderful chance to get some auto engineering experience and an understanding of suspension and wheel control.
Maybe you shouldv'e thought about the consequences of lowering the ride too far.
You will need to either - increase the ride height, fit a smaller tyre (and get your speedo recalibrated), or perform major bodywork surgery / get the 'lock' limited.
try smaller tyres you idiot
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