 Uneven tire to fender clearance from side to side |
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| sixnotfour |
 Jan 18 2019, 11:12 PM
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914 Wizard  Group: Members Posts: 10,418 Joined: 12-September 04 From: Life Elevated..planet UT. Member No.: 2,744 Region Association: Rocky Mountains 
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QUOTE This is how I pictured the front of your house in my mind's eye. BTDT..now in the back 1/2 acre.. Wife in the front,, Party in the back... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/av-943.gif) |
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| Tdskip |
Jan 19 2019, 09:38 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 3,686 Joined: 1-December 17 From: soCal Member No.: 21,666 Region Association: None
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QUOTE(sixnotfour @ Jan 19 2019, 12:12 AM)  QUOTE This is how I pictured the front of your house in my mind's eye. BTDT..now in the back 1/2 acre.. Wife in the front,, Party in the back... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/av-943.gif) Wish I had that space. I just give rides to people and go out of my way to be helpful to my neighbors. |
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| anderssj |
Jan 19 2019, 10:02 AM
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Dog is my copilot... Group: Members Posts: 1,654 Joined: 28-January 03 From: VA Member No.: 207 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region
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I know I'm a little late on this, but one more data point...
On my 1972 car with the same wheels (American Racing Le Mans) and 165-15 Vredestein tires, there is roughly 5/8 inch fender clearance on the driver's side and less than 1/4 inch fender clearance on the passenger side. Camber is the same on both sides. It's been like that since new. Hope this helps! |
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| Tdskip |
Jan 19 2019, 11:45 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 3,686 Joined: 1-December 17 From: soCal Member No.: 21,666 Region Association: None
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QUOTE(anderssj @ Jan 19 2019, 11:02 AM) I know I'm a little late on this, but one more data point... On my 1972 car with the same wheels (American Racing Le Mans) and 165-15 Vredestein tires, there is roughly 5/8 inch fender clearance on the driver's side and less than 1/4 inch fender clearance on the passenger side. Camber is the same on both sides. It's been like that since new. Hope this helps! Thanks for the info and getting us back on topic. Seems to me quite common. Did these wheels come in different offset but same look? That could explain it too. This car, which I am happy with and had a great experience dealing with the seller I hasten to add, is a mishmash so it wouldn’t surprise me. |
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| anderssj |
Jan 19 2019, 12:25 PM
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Dog is my copilot... Group: Members Posts: 1,654 Joined: 28-January 03 From: VA Member No.: 207 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region
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While I've heard that these wheels had different sizes and offsets, most seem to be for VW Bugs in late 1960s-early 1970s.
 My wheels have a backspacing of about 4 1/8 inches (or ~ 105 mm), so their offset is around 20mm. IIRC, the offset on the 914's OEM 15-inch wheels (Fuchs, Mahle, or Pedrini) is 42mm. That means that the American Racing wheels on my car are about 20mm (slightly more than 3/4 inch) outboard of where an OEM wheel would be. With that much additional clearance I probably wouldn't have noticed any side-to-side difference, but with the AR wheels any difference becomes pretty obvious...and makes running a modern low-profile tire almost impossible unless the fenders are massaged. Were those wheels original to your car? The dealer in Colorado Springs used to install them as a free upgrade (instead of steelies) back in 1972. |
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| Tdskip |
Jan 19 2019, 01:09 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 3,686 Joined: 1-December 17 From: soCal Member No.: 21,666 Region Association: None
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Hi Steve - great info.
I’m not sure if these were added by the dealer when the car was new or not, my hunch is that they were picked up along the way but I don’t really have any way of tracking that down. I will have to pull these off the car at some point and check them for their backspacing and if they’re consistent or not. |
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