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Old Dec 23, 2012 | 04:39 PM
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Front struts installed backwards? (front left/right)

I just got some robispec springs and had a ship swap the robispec springs onto my stock kyb struts. I installed them on my car on my own with a friend. I had tein s springs on kybs before from the previous owner and hated it thats why i went this route. I have everything installed and I am getting it aligned tomorrow but I took my car for a test drive and when I turn the front back of the tires are scrapping the plastic in the wheel well. My car has 18 inch rims on it so idk if that could be causing it but I was wondering if maybe I could have installed the front left strut on the wrong side and the front rear stut on the wrong side? I didn't see any marking on the strut to say if it was for the right or left side of the car. NEED HELP, thanks.
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Old Dec 23, 2012 | 07:00 PM
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When posting, please consider using proper punctuation and grammar. It took me entirely way too long to read that paragraph.

There is no front right/left mandatory strut, so you are fine there. What size tires are you running?
What is your rim size including offset?
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Old Dec 23, 2012 | 09:09 PM
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left to right are the same unless you're corner balanced.
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Old Dec 24, 2012 | 05:31 AM
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Sorry about the grammar, I was in a huge hurry. Thanks for the response guys my rims are rota p45r 18 inch. My tires are 245/40r18. I removed some of the plastic on the front rear inside wheel well and now there is no more scraping. Is it okay to leave some of that plastic off the inside wheel well. I imagine debris, dirt and crap will fly up in there now..
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Old Dec 24, 2012 | 05:38 AM
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What's the offset? The plastic is there to keep like you said, dirt and debris out of the engine bay. You shouldn't have to cut that stuff up to fit 245's. So you are running robispecs on the kyb's?
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Old Dec 24, 2012 | 12:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Tom Stout
What's the offset? The plastic is there to keep like you said, dirt and debris out of the engine bay. You shouldn't have to cut that stuff up to fit 245's. So you are running robispecs on the kyb's?
Yeah robispec springs on kybs and I forgot to mention that my car has spacers on the front also. I'm not sure what the depth is but that may be what was causing the problem too. The only thing is I don't think the rotas p45rs will clear the brembos without them..
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Old Dec 24, 2012 | 12:51 PM
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I would not remove the fender liner. What offset are the wheels?
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