Dinzdale40
Large Member
Just thought I'd share this for those of you who wanna ride slammed with wheels and are currently rubbing....most people will tell you to roll your fender and with certain wheel setups you will have to...but there is something that comes in contact with your tire way before you have to resort to fender rolling....
i've had this done for a long time and it works very well, which is why i only have after pictures but i think i have pics that show you exactly what to cut and are pretty self explanatory...
all you need for tools are
jack to jack up the rear(also jackstands for safety)
tire iron to remove your rear wheels
screwdriver or socket to remove the screws holding your rear bumper on
dremel with diamond cutoff wheel
these are pictures of the cuts you need to make on the rear bumper....this is the first place that you will rub...be careful to make the cuts pretty clean....patience and thinking ahead will make your outcome more professional...you can do this with the bumper still on the car....and use masking tape to guide where you are gonna cut...
these last two pictures show the little white piece of plastic that is gonna make the rear bumper line up flush with the fender....after doing this you will no longer use the screw that went in it....just the plastic piece....and you can see i trimmed the plastic guide piece down also....
if you have lower offset wheels with camber correction you may have to use the dremel on the actual metal that the plastic piece goes into in order to stop the rubbing....i have 7.5" wide wheels with +42 offset and I had to...as you can see i didn't have to roll the fender....i may have pushed it up a little with my hand at the rear of the fender...but even tho the tire is less than 1mm away from the tire....due to the rear camber increasing as the tire tucks it doesn't get close...in fact it gets further away when you hit a bump...
anyways if you have any questions feel free to ask...you can see the final product in my current signature picture...
i've had this done for a long time and it works very well, which is why i only have after pictures but i think i have pics that show you exactly what to cut and are pretty self explanatory...
all you need for tools are
jack to jack up the rear(also jackstands for safety)
tire iron to remove your rear wheels
screwdriver or socket to remove the screws holding your rear bumper on
dremel with diamond cutoff wheel
these are pictures of the cuts you need to make on the rear bumper....this is the first place that you will rub...be careful to make the cuts pretty clean....patience and thinking ahead will make your outcome more professional...you can do this with the bumper still on the car....and use masking tape to guide where you are gonna cut...
these last two pictures show the little white piece of plastic that is gonna make the rear bumper line up flush with the fender....after doing this you will no longer use the screw that went in it....just the plastic piece....and you can see i trimmed the plastic guide piece down also....
if you have lower offset wheels with camber correction you may have to use the dremel on the actual metal that the plastic piece goes into in order to stop the rubbing....i have 7.5" wide wheels with +42 offset and I had to...as you can see i didn't have to roll the fender....i may have pushed it up a little with my hand at the rear of the fender...but even tho the tire is less than 1mm away from the tire....due to the rear camber increasing as the tire tucks it doesn't get close...in fact it gets further away when you hit a bump...
anyways if you have any questions feel free to ask...you can see the final product in my current signature picture...
thanks dan! i understand it a lot better now, haha. i definitely need to do this when i lower it.
danny
haha but i just can't see how the bumper could stay flush if the hole that was partially cut isn't a full circle any more. i'm confusing i know haha sry!
