Arch rolling

[Grrrmachine]

At some point in my car's battered past, it's taken a knock to the rear driver's quarter panel. I uncovered the dents and an inch of filler during the resto, but since repaired and painted over it.

Now I've switched from 195mm to 205mm tyres, I'm getting rubbing when there's weight in the back. Looking inside the arch, the tyre is JUST polishing the inside of the quarter panel at one point; enough to burn away the stone chip, but not enough to do any damage to the tyre sidewall.

Ideally the panel needs to come out 3-5mm. Anyone got any recommendations on how to do it?

[DanThe]

It will be the inner arch its touching I expect, probably more so because you adjusted the rear camber. Easy enough fix though

[uvels]

This all you need mate.


done on my e30,wery easy and quick job.

[Grrrmachine]

Yeah, I saw one of those, but you can't rent them in Poland and they're 200 quid to buy

I did come across this thread on a vag forum: http://vagdrivers.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=18639

but it'd take time to have someone else cut the metal (5mm and 12mm plate!) so I could weld up the bits.

[Simon13]

arch rolling is majorly council and encourages rust as it breaks the seams where the arches joint. Your patchwork e30 needs no help in this department! Another polish winter would get it ripe again in no time