245/40/18 fitment issues.
#21
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Those wheels are way too wide and too low offset the car, and 245s on those wheels are too wide for wagon fitment. I would pick up a different set of less aggressive wheels. You can run wider tires and the car will handle and drive better
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the problem is the 40 series tire. dont be discouraged EVERYONE makes this mistake with low fitment wheels. since you dont wanna swap that out, youre gonna have to wait until your camber plates for the front come in and then your gonna need a small spacer so you dont rub in the front, add some camber up front to make up for the lost clearance due to the spacer and all should be well.
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Then you'll have outter rubbing issues. Bite the bullet and downsize, other than that accept the fact your herra frushness is not as functional as you thought. You gotta compromise dude. You can't have superior handling and frushness. What a lot of people automatically assume is that bigger wider wheels and tires give you more grip in turn making you go fast. Wrong. Then people comcomplain that they can't go fast because they rub....well....lol. I'm about to give up my 18s. I'm just dlne rubbing
#28
235/40/18 is a tall tire, you would gain an inch of height clearance by dropping that to a 235/35/18. Personally as much as it sucks I would get new tires and sell your others. You might not have to run spacers after the tire swap. I run 245/40/17s which is close to the same height as 245/35/18s and dont rub on my 04 wagon. This is with 17x9 +35 wheels which should sit similar to how your wheel sits in the wheel well.
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