Fender roll near bx ny

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Just remove the black plastic trim and bend back the small metal that is behind it, and trim the black plastic with a dremel. that's what I had to do on my '05 when I was rubbing.
 
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Front you really can't do much with. Only a little bit of metal there, but it's pretty easy to push up. My old setup basically rolled my fenders for me by hitting the metal tabs, it bent them up a lot. Then I lost some of the tabs holding the liner in from the constant rubbing so I took a baseball bat and pushed the rest flat. You can only bend it so far because the screws will touch the outer fender (I'm missing a few so not as much of a problem). You can't use a fender roller on it - at least not unless you're very careful. It's not like the rear, if you apply more than a tiny bit of pressure you'll likely deform the fender. With the rear, the metal is really thick so you can go to town with the roller. If you remove the top screws, you can get that part flat and the liner will still stay since it's being held in by the metal itself. I haven't had any problems in over a year now.
 
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Front you really can't do much with. Only a little bit of metal there, but it's pretty easy to push up. My old setup basically rolled my fenders for me by hitting the metal tabs, it bent them up a lot. Then I lost some of the tabs holding the liner in from the constant rubbing so I took a baseball bat and pushed the rest flat. You can only bend it so far because the screws will touch the outer fender (I'm missing a few so not as much of a problem). You can't use a fender roller on it - at least not unless you're very careful. It's not like the rear, if you apply more than a tiny bit of pressure you'll likely deform the fender. With the rear, the metal is really thick so you can go to town with the roller. If you remove the top screws, you can get that part flat and the liner will still stay since it's being held in by the metal itself. I haven't had any problems in over a year now.
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Thx for the input i might have to just do a bit of camber up front jus to clear sum space i only rubb on bad dips other than that the 14ks are doin theyre job even tho i feel like im back in a slammed car LOL def doesnt feel like a truck


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Yeah, the 14k rear springs definitely aren't soft. It's fine most of the time, but there are a lot of metal plates where I live and hitting them w/ 12K front and 14K rear spring rates is an experience.

FWIW, make sure you're not rubbing on the actual fender liner. If you're low enough that you're rubbing on the liner, there's not much you can do other than raise your car. I heated my liner up some and pushed it up, basically put a bulge in it for tire clearance. That helped some, then I got slightly smaller tires and no more rubbing. On my old setup, I was rubbing on the fender and then added negative camber to try and clear the fender. Then that resulted in rubbing on the liner itself. Look for rub marks on the liner to see. And it sounds different than the tire on metal sound of fender.
 
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Yeah, the 14k rear springs definitely aren't soft. It's fine most of the time, but there are a lot of metal plates where I live and hitting them w/ 12K front and 14K rear spring rates is an experience.

FWIW, make sure you're not rubbing on the actual fender liner. If you're low enough that you're rubbing on the liner, there's not much you can do other than raise your car. I heated my liner up some and pushed it up, basically put a bulge in it for tire clearance. That helped some, then I got slightly smaller tires and no more rubbing. On my old setup, I was rubbing on the fender and then added negative camber to try and clear the fender. Then that resulted in rubbing on the liner itself. Look for rub marks on the liner to see. And it sounds different than the tire on metal sound of fender.
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What profile tire are you running now?

I'm gonna be moving to shorter tires now that the car is dumped. I need that extra space so that when I dump out it will hit the ground.
 
275/40/20 so about 1.7" shorter than stock. Basically car sits .85" lower and you get .85" more clearance in wheel well. Old setup which was OEM diameter tucked slightly. I dropped the car another .5" with new setup by pulling rear shock collars and the tire is just even with the fender. So all in I'm at least an inch lower than max low on coilovers with OEM sized tires. Belly pan is 3" off the ground. And there is more than 3" clearance in the wells so on air, you could put the body on the ground without messing up the wheel liner.
 
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275/40/20 so about 1.7" shorter than stock. Basically car sits .85" lower and you get .85" more clearance in wheel well. Old setup which was OEM diameter tucked slightly. I dropped the car another .5" with new setup by pulling rear shock collars and the tire is just even with the fender. So all in I'm at least an inch lower than max low on coilovers with OEM sized tires. Belly pan is 3" off the ground. And there is more than 3" clearance in the wells so on air, you could put the body on the ground without messing up the wheel liner.
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Good information. Thanks for that. You've done half my trial and error for me already.

I'm contemplating custom wheel liners already, but I would like to hold off until I find out what I am doing bodywork wise. My ultimate goal is to go slightly wider and get rid of the black plastic moldings. So at that point I would definitely be into the custom fabrication area...
 
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