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HI everybody,
Just saw the thread in the parts wanted stuff about the inner guards wanted by a lot of people and had a few questions.

My car has no damage to the inner guards that I've seen yet but what, to most people, have the found causes the damage. Maybe there is a link between big wide wheels or something? I'm just looking at going to 17*7's in the future and wanted to know if everybody has problems with this or it only seems to be those with 17*8 or higher or something.

My car was ultra low and had the stock 16 inch wheels on it. The guards were absolutely shattered which I would say started from rubbing.
I now have slightly higher suspension, but still low and 17x7 inch wheels and I got rubbing on both the guard liner and the guard itself. A bit of panel beating and the guard no longer rubs but there is one section of the guard liner that pertrudes and rubs a little in cornering.
I would say that 17x7 with stock suspension is _very_ unlikely to rub.

Ah ok thanks HiRAEdd,
I hadn't thought that lowering could also cause it, ah duh

Anyway thanks for that, come to think of it I guess the lowering would cause the most problems, am I right there?

I have 17x7 wheels (with 215/45 R17 tyres) on standard GPvR suspension. Before my recent accident i had no rubbing at all, however afterwards I got some on the passengers side - probably because they replaced the inner guard lining. But it seems to have gone away now - maybe I've worn enough to stop it.

RallyMad wrote:I guess the lowering would cause the most problems, am I right there?

It's proportional to both, anything that brings the tyre closer to the guard, is more likely to cause rubbing, whether that be lowering or bigger wheels.

Bear in mind too, you can legally go +/- 10mm in tyre size, so if you go slightly bigger tyre on a bigger wheel (as I did, I'll be going back to a 40 next time), that's going to make rubbing even more likely.