A couple days ago I posted about my new wheels and tires. Well I've noticed when I cut the wheel all the way left or right, I hear what sounds like metal grinding. I pulled in the in the garage and took a look, and the wheel (not the tire) just below the bead rubs on the strut when its turned all the way. It's cuting up the wheel a bit. Granted it only happens when you turn the wheel all the way but I bought this setup from Tirerack.com understanding it would fit. Has anyone else noticed this problem? The wheels are Sport Edition CD's which are 16 x 7.5".... the stock 17" (being a little taller) would turn over the top of this bracket like area on the strut..I don't know if 16 x 7" would be any different. I just wanted some other opinions before I call up tirerack.

 

Call them up, and send them back. They said it'll fit, that's false advertising man.

 

The camera's upside down, but here you can see where the strut bracket is cutting a groove in the wheel



After further inspection, this was only happening to the driver side wheel. That groove is less than a mm deep. And it looks like the cause was actually a small bump (likely casting flaw) in the bracket on the strut. So I ground the bumb off and all is good again.