Scraping - Quick question

[Mugen.Kid]

Hey I am dropped on Tein H-Tech springs and I hear/feel some scraping when entering/exiting driveways from the tires rubbing on the inside of the wheel well. I was wondering if installing a sway bar would solve this problem.

I have a front upper strut bar but that's a passive component. Just wondering if installing a sway bar would reduce body roll at slow speeds when entering/exiting driveways, etc. I just need to reduce it a bit in order to avoid the scraping. (I have winter tires on now 185/65/15 so they are a bit high profile but I would like to avoid this scraping regardless).

Any info would be great. Thanks!

 

[THEDARKONE]

what type of scrapeing metal or rubber

have you rolled your fenders?

 

[mymmeryloss]

Nope...

 

[Failsafe88]

knock it in where you can tell where tire is scraping

 

[Mugen.Kid]

It's the tire scraping on the plastic under the wheel well and also on a bit on the inside chassis or whatever you call that (I can see how some of the dirt is rubbed off where the tire scrapes and I can see the blue paint).

I have no problems with my summer wheels (lower profile tires) but it's annoying to be moving so slow up/down driveways and still scraping. I need some way to reduce the minimal body roll that occurs when going up/down at an angle.

Would a front sway bar fix this issue?

 

[mymmeryloss]

Take your turn then make sure the wheels are straight through the dips and turns...

 

[ek4kat]

Get your fenders rolled. Or get a camber kit n tuck the wheels in more. So it doesn't scrape. My domani did the same thing when I lowered it.

 

[Tig.]

I wouldn't even worry about it, if it only occurs going in and out of driveways. Hell, summer is only a month away

 

[Eleanor41]

I am thinking !

 

[Puma]

Take your turn then make sure the wheels are straight through the dips and turns...

This is the ONLY correct answer in the thread. Rolling fenders won't do anything b/c he is rubbing on the plastic lining.

1st tip to lowering your car: KNOWING HOW TO DRIVE A LOWERED CAR.

 

[Mugen.Kid]

Okay, thanks for input. I'll just drive it how it is. I've been on FF type1s even lower than I am currently but didnt have this problem because I had 14" wheels, now with the suspension change and bigger profile tires I guess theres not much that I can do..

Thanks.

 

[mymmeryloss]

Change your tires

 

[cvcrcr99]

Pull the fender liners?

 

[project_civic]

check the backplate from where you put it in? i had my strut/shock put in and it started scraping like metal on metal. it ended up being the backplate

 

[Mugen.Kid]

This is definitely the tires so my original wuestion was whether I could fix this problem with a sway bar (minimize the body flex) but I'm putting on my summer wheels soon so I'll be okay until November