I have the rear adjustables fitted from my coilover kit - fronts aren't on yet because they sent the wrong ones - they don't have the ARB bracket - doh!

It looked and felt okay at the rear until I drove with a passenger in the back, then it started rubbing, which is obviously a problem!

The wheels are 18x8, 35mm offset with 225/40R18 tyres.

In other posts people don't seem to have had issues with this setup, but all of the ones I've found have been hatchbacks.

Is the estate narrower at the rear, causing more issues?

Am I going to have to send the coilovers back and put the standard springs in? :(

Roll the arches? :(

why not just raise them slightly?

They're as high as they will go!

Theres always the 215/40/18 option. Tad stretch to pull the tyre in mate

Is it the inner or outer rubbing ?

The estates did have 16s not 17s so may be some difference in shape? Unless its the amount of stuff you could put in it ???

Run 215s n lower mate hehe

Unless you swap to a kit with bump/rebound adjustment and dont mind a harder ride ?

215s you may get it lower too

Looks very cool tho bud

It could be due to just having coilovers on the bk and once the fronts are fitted and it's all level it will be ok. Mines running 225/40/18's et37 and is pretty low it does catch occasionally when boots full and kids are in the bk.

Roll the arches mate.

Wait and see what happens when you fit the fronts. It should help.

It's the same story with the Weitecs, as I have the rear spring platforms set at maximum height and it's still low! Where as the fronts still have loads of adjustment up and down. I've set my car up so the arch gaps are perfectly equal on every corner with a full tank of petrol.

It's almost as if the first company who made the coilovers for the car got the rear spring height wrong, and all the other companies just copied them! Or everyone just wants a stupidly low car....

Here's my rears (the top of the spring platform is flush with the top of the mounting tower, so the highest it can be while maintaining full thread engagement):

Gah bloody imageshack keeps rotating my photos!!

Edited 25 October, 201015 yr by Bodge

I would think thay are made to fit a car with its standerd wheels on and its down to the user if he trys to put bigger 1s on.

That way thay can refuse to refund them as thay work fine but you just but biggers wheels on and thay dont cover that.

That pic looks just like mine

Thinking about it the car did comes with 215s on the 16s.

I didn't like the stretch on the 18s with 215s so I recently bought 225s for the rear - doh!

They are rubbing on the outside by the way.

Might get a quote on rolling the arches.

What happens with the wheel arch liner if you do it?

rolling arches is normally quite cheap. UNIT18 charge something like £30 to do them.

Is there much arch to roll on the octy? My mk2 golf had a noticable lip that got rolled .... But the octy seems a very smooth arch anyhoo?

Is there much arch to roll on the octy? My mk2 golf had a noticable lip that got rolled .... But the octy seems a very smooth arch anyhoo?

just checked my vrs (hatch) and there's no lip on the back arch and only a slight lip on the front

Edited 25 October, 201015 yr by sivrs

Flared wheel arches :yes:

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2249624/2006-skoda-octavia-new-delhi-un-in

Is it wrong that i quite like this, apart from the stupid graphics

Edited 26 October, 201015 yr by banzaiman

I'll take the wheel off tomorrow and have a look, work out exactly where it's rubbing. Not liking this at all :(

It's not that low really!

I found another 5mm or so of upward adjustment from this height.

So the tyre's hitting the arch liner here where it curves in:

As you can see the liner pretty much follows where the inner skin comes in after they join. Not a lot I can do about this I imagine, apart from going back to 215 tyres :(

Hehe bring back the sneaky stretch mate,

Feel sorry for you bud, trouble sucks, have you still got the 215s or have you gotta buy some new ones? Try the falkens they always look nice stretched

The fronts are 215s, new rears are 225.

I could swap 'em but it seems wrong to have wider on the front.

The fronts are 215s, new rears are 225.

I could swap 'em but it seems wrong to have wider on the front.

Its really strange how they are rubbing on the rears!

If you wanna pay for my flights i will pop round and have a look?

The fronts are 215s, new rears are 225.

I could swap 'em but it seems wrong to have wider on the front.

Sureley wider on the front would be better, after all it is front wheel drive. look at lambos, they have huge wheels and tyres at the back to give it better grip because its rear wheel drive

quick shot of how mine sits on the rear, only scrub occasionally if fully loaded

Those wheels look so much better now that they are black Si! Surprised how much of a difference it makes...

Those wheels look so much better now that they are black Si! Surprised how much of a difference it makes...

cheers.

halfords rattle cans FTW it was only a quick fix they looked shocking in chrome lol, cant believe how much a wheel colour could change the overall look .

ideally they could do with a proper re furb as the salt has got to the chrome which is starting to show but that can wait till after xmas

Edited 27 October, 201015 yr by sivrs

Just swapped the fronts and rears around - need SWMBO to bounce in the back for me now, see how it goes.

what et are the wheels thats the only thing i can think off to make it rub, say most people have been all the way down and no issues

They're 35mm 18x8