Aircooled VW South Africa

I have a problem with my front tyres fouling my wheel arches when on full lock - any suggestions as to how I sort this out? It's caused the arches to pull out a little and is damaging my nice paint job!

Are you running adaptor plates, or non-standard wheels?

Any mods to the front beam?

N.

It's got original rims with Mozambique made Mabor tyres - 165R15 no spacers and as far as I can workout the front beam is stock. Is there some kind of adjustment on the steering box to limit the degree theat the wheels turn perhaps?

Hmmm, beyond my suggestions it gets a little technical for me...best I let the other chap around here give it a go.

N.

Who's the 'other chap'? Do I need to fit lower profile tyres? As I said, the front hasn't been adjusted... Any other ideas?

Ghias have always been very tight in the wheel to body clearance stakes
The correct tyre is a 155 x15 which is a bit scarse over here The old Citroen club used to import but my info is about 10 years old
Smart cars also have small tyres.
You could measure the rims VWs had 4 and 4.5 inch rims maybe a set of 4 inchrims would give clearance
Dont use rostyles.
Armand

andyrtmorgan wrote:Who's the 'other chap'? Do I need to fit lower profile tyres? As I said, the front hasn't been adjusted... Any other ideas?

My fault: rare typo.

chaps, ie: those of us around here who are more technically-inclined than I.

N.

IMPI wrote:Ghias have always been very tight in the wheel to body clearance stakes
The correct tyre is a 155 x15 which is a bit scarse over here The old Citroen club used to import but my info is about 10 years old
Smart cars also have small tyres.
You could measure the rims VWs had 4 and 4.5 inch rims maybe a set of 4 inchrims would give clearance
Dont use rostyles.
Armand

I have no idea if they can help or not, but with regards to Armand's suggestion about the Citroen club...

Traction Avant Motors

011 949 1415

Cheers, N.