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Originally Posted by SKREMN
yep you said it, i think thats ther policy lol, i wasnt told that...as i know them pretti well
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Originally Posted by SKREMN
yep you said it, i think thats ther policy lol, i wasnt told that...as i know them pretti well
my mate recently had his guards rolled and he was told bcause hes had his car resprayed a custom colour, that the paint will most probably start to crack right after which it did..
its an ugly feeling if it starts to crack the outside to..in most cases na...as it tends to crack under the gaurd where its been rolled, as it happend with my own one...
i guess thats the bad sides of things when you want to lower the car.
if you know someone who does it well it shouldnt crack.
I know a guy who works for Drift garage who does a very good job, good price and his a mobile mechanic too. Pm me if you want his details
a friend of mine uses a heat gun when doing it to prevent the paint from chipping. no problems so far on any cars that hes done! haha
Also it got mentioned i could try a 195 tyre instead of the 205 think that would change anything?
I spoke to a place today he said he has rolled about 10 commodores and about 5 of htem cracked
but he has rolled about 5 honda's and 6 subarus and none of htem cracked.
u could always try lower profile
if that works
i scrubbed with 195/55/15
so i changed to 195/50/15 and no more scrub
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Originally Posted by [[d a n n y]]
yeah i am kinda lookign into that.
I curruently run a 205/45 and guy a bob jane said maybe i could go a 195/45 and get a bit of -camber on the rear and it might stop it.
but i want to go lower so i want to be 100% it will work
this is a rough mesaure but
the lip on my guard is about 12-15mm wide the wear on the outside of my tyre is about 10mm wide and the wear on the lip on the guard is about 5mm wide.
hmmm and a 195 205 is what 10mm smaller?
I am not surprise hearing from bob jane, i bought their rim few months ago telling them i gonna lower my car later on, so i got 17s and they gave me freaken 215/40 tyre, as i didnt know about honda then cos i just bought my civic 2000, after reading many thread i will never able to lower it now if people get scrub with 205 tyre what chances i will get on 215/40 tyre, so now i still deciding whether to lower or not.Quote:
Originally Posted by nugget666
I've heard of jobs, if done properly, by heating the guard, will result in no cracking.
195/50/15 should not scrub however it really depends on the offset of your wheels too. Also it may only scrub the splash guard, not the guard itself.
I'm decked on about 3.5" with 195/50/15, no scrubbing. I had 17s with 215, they scrubbed, changed to 205, scrubbing is reduced.
Splash guard was scrubbed the most but also the actual guard, I had +35 offset wheels which seated the wheel quite out.. hahahaha.
Doing it properly means gheating the panel so that the paint stretches and won't crack :)