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Originally Posted by onebluemcm
This is definitely on my list as an option. Mainly because I plan to perhaps lower it a tad - Dinan springs, so it won't be much, if anything. I'm going to try to use a heat gun on the liners first, then do my springs swap, and see if I then need to reduce the tire size.
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Before you do that, pop those rivets and bend the liner back a little to see how much the back of that bumper flares back in. I have a feeling, just judging from where the rivets are located and how they are mounted on the bumper, that even if you were able to heat up the liner and bend it back, it'll just rub on the bumper instead of the liner.
And going to 245/40/18 not only gives you 5mm of width clearance to the edge of the liner, it also gives you .15" (3.8mm) of height clearance, especially if you're considering lowering the car.
Frankly, I'd just go to 245/40/18s and be done with it. I run especially wide tires at that size (Nitto NT-01 for the track, Toyo R1-R/Falken Azenis RT-615K for the street...All tires that tend to have a wider footprint at the same size as their other performance tire counterparts) and even at 245/40/18, I needed additional negative camber from camber bolts to clear on the ET38 offset. And it BARELY clears without rub on the track where full compression on one side or the other is happening all the time and rubbing, even slight, will damage the tire within LAPS.