Front tires and wheel liner clearance... - 986 Forum - The Community for Porsche Boxster & Cayman Owners

Johnny Danger · 08-01-2011, 09:32 PM

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Originally Posted by shlim8

Was taking out the front bumper the other day to install grills in front of the radiators and noticed that with the wheel turned to the extreme left or right, the tire that is turned toward the centre of the car has only about 1 cm of clearance from the wheel liner.... I have the M030 ROW kit and am running on the 205 wide tires on 17".

Is this normal ? I was originally thinking of upgrading to larger front tires (on 17") or even go up to 18". But with such little clearance, I'm afraid that the tires are going to scrape against the wheel liner at extreme lock.

With the wheels in the straight ahead position, there is sufficient clearance, only looks scary at extreme lock.

I had checked my wheel liner and they seem to be installed properly with all the plastic studs in place. No signs of misalignment or bulging out. And my front rims, although they are the stock cayman type, are 17" and 55 offset which is the same as the originals. I do have 7mm spacers though.

Anyone noticed the same ?? Or do I have a problem ?

If I'm following you correctly, the plastic liner inside the wheel well can actually be adjusted . There are different tabs or settings that will allow you to reposition it in order to gain more clearance . I discovered this in the course of installing my body kit .

shlim8 · 08-04-2011, 07:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Johnny Danger

If I'm following you correctly, the plastic liner inside the wheel well can actually be adjusted . There are different tabs or settings that will allow you to reposition it in order to gain more clearance . I discovered this in the course of installing my body kit .

WHoa, that's good to hear ! I guess I was so busy rushing to put back the bumper and part of the liner that I didn't notice that.

Hmmm, I guess again this is part of the german engineer's mentality. I wonder what's the significant benefit of having adjustable wheel liners ? To reduce the amount of air between the tires and liner when smaller tires used ??