Rear tyre is struggling on arches

[gurdich]

Hi,

I have on my lowered (-30mm) Alfa 156, wheel spacers 20mm on each side and tyre is struggling on arches when someone seats on the back.

Tyre is 215/45/17...and from the top of the tyre to the arches is about 3cm when no one seats on the back.

How to solve this problem? Will gas dampers (Bilstein?) solve that? Or if on the market are some products which are used for that?

I saw on many pictures, cars which are lowered full to the arches. Specially german "school of tuning" on VW cars.

Thanks in the advance,

[Freddie]

I don't think that new dampers will make much difference? He might have a slightly different damping ratio and therefore compress less (I think?!), but it's probably easier to ask a bodyshop if they can trim the arch.

Or the lose the back seats and then no one can get in?!

[waynne]

Stiffer springs may help with this (get some progressively wound ones). To be honest though, the car is pretty low and rolling the arches may be your only option.