I have an 88 T/A with GTA rims and 245/50/16's.. When I turn the wheel all the way to right or left lock, The front tires rub the back of the inside plastic fender cover.. Not alot but enough to leave rub marks on it.. Just wondering if anyone elses does that or not.. I have eibach pro drop springs on it but It did it before I put them on too.. Thanks for any info..

 

Damn....thats one hell of a car ya got....Great job:hail: :hail:

 

I'm pretty sure mine does that too (same size wheel/tire combo) but I cant check right now. Its hibernating in my frozen garage.

 

nice looking car!! love that hood!!

 

My cars an '82 but the tires touch the inner fenderwell in the same places since 95 when I put on 245/50/zr16s..

The car is lowered now with 275/40/zr17s on firehawk rims and rubs in the same place still. Not enough to damage but enough to shine the plastic...

I guess the best warm fuzzy I can offer is that after 7yrs of this no damage or excess tire wear occured..

 

My car rubs too
But I am in Australia and I think it's because I dont have the original steering box

 

I had the same problem(88 formula 350) when I bought this car new. Shortly after I found a little known recall where they have a new inner wheel well that goes BEHIND the fender lip not on top. Apparently this was only to be done if the customer complains. I have the pro springs on also with the 245-50-16 tires and have no problems. Unfortunaley it was so long ago that I dont have any part no. to offer but the inner wheel well was replaced free at the dealer . Hope this helps.

 

You do have the front wheels on the front and the rear wheels on the rear? They do have a different offset.

 

I had the Eibach pro kit and mine rubbed to, put the stock springs back in and it still rubbed, got a good front end alignment and no more rubbing. I would say to get a good alignment.

 

This seems to be more of a common problem to firebirds they just don't have the room that the camaros have up front.. there is a new inner fenderwell for sale from nextgenparts.com that may be the inner attachment type mentioned in above recall..

From looking at your car I would think you know what is right and what is not, assuming you have a good alignment, and your GTA rims are not back to front (all my wheels have had the same offset), I would still say it is really not a problem unless it starts to wear your tires or burn through your inner fenderwell.

 

My car has always done it, and its NOT lowered-

235/60/15's rubbed, and my current 245/50/16's rub, formy wheels, fronts on the front, backs on the back.

Steve

 

have 245's on my iroc no rub

 

I still think the rubbing has to do with the alignment, after I got a good alignment and replaced the front springs I didn't have the rub anymore.

 

just had the front end re aligned after i did some ramming into a 02 cavalier that pulled a right turn on red infront of me... didnt help the rubbing issue.

 

Both GTA's that I owned made a rubbing sound when I turned the wheels all the way to the left or right and one even had the original tires on it, so I guess this is normal with the 245 size stock tires.

 

BTW DreamState you got anymore pictures of that hood on your car?

 

i got 245 50 16s all the way around with my stock rs wheels just fine but when i went with centerline rims it now rubs a bit... not to bad but a littel bit

 

Thanks for the info everyone. I guess this is a very commen problem with our cars. Im definitly going to check out that recall, thanks alot.. And no im not dumb enough to put my back rims on the front, but thanks anyway..