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    Exclamation Help! Wheel too Wide.

    I own a 86 Honda Accord LXi HB and when ever i hit a bump my back tire seems to be hitting my Quater panel. and eating away at my tires. Is there anyway to fix this w/o getting new rims?
    BTW its only affecting the Rear Drivers Side Tire.



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    Re: Help! Wheel too Wide.

    Roll pole the lip in side the gard and should give another 10 to 15mm more room. What size tire's have you got?

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    Re: Help! Wheel too Wide.

    Quote Originally Posted by 89accordex4dr
    Roll pole the lip in side the gard and should give another 10 to 15mm more room. What size tire's have you got?

    what do you mean Roll pole the lip and can you show me a pic if possible. sry im somewhat of a n00b

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    Re: Help! Wheel too Wide.

    Do you have aftermarket or stock rims?
    What size tires do you have?
    Alex.

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    Re: Help! Wheel too Wide.

    use the least widest tire you can find and just take out the rubber under fender liners and then either use a baseball bat or mallet and bend in the inner metal parts that hold the plastic liner in place...should give you at least a half inch of clearance just like stated above.

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    Re: Help! Wheel too Wide.

    There is a how too or something on rolling fender lips. Search.

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    Re: Help! Wheel too Wide.

    or you might have a blown strut/spring???

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    Re: Help! Wheel too Wide.

    Quote Originally Posted by 3rdgenhatchDX
    or you might have a blown strut/spring???
    no its Deff not that.

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    Re: Help! Wheel too Wide.

    i think my tire are if i were to guess. 16x8-8.5 maybe 7.5


    Last edited by Deathroll77; 02-23-2006 at 03:06 PM.

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    Re: Help! Wheel too Wide.

    those rubbers look a liitle tall u might want to go with a smaller side wall

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    Re: Help! Wheel too Wide.

    Quote Originally Posted by ghettogeddy
    those rubbers look a liitle tall u might want to go with a smaller side wall
    does anyone disagree?

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    Re: Help! Wheel too Wide.

    No. Whate size are they?

    If your rims are 16", go with 205/45/16 (that is if those rims are 16x7..)

    Also, the offset on those rims looks wayy too big. I think the biggest you should go on offsets was 42. Those look a lot more, like 38 or so.
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    Re: Help! Wheel too Wide.

    Yep, I agree with Acid. Someone put the wrong offset wheels on that car.
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    Re: Help! Wheel too Wide.

    when i bought the car it came with them on it.

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    Re: Help! Wheel too Wide.

    those wheels sticking out too much. you may want to replace them with stock ones or right aftermarket ones.
    look around the board and you may find people selling wheels and tires.
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    Re: Help! Wheel too Wide.

    I had problems with it too, but in my case, rolling the lip and rotating wheels fixed the problem, you may try to do that
    check your reaction HERE
    find 3 differences HERE

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