Showing posts with label wider tire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wider tire. Show all posts

Saturday, December 22, 2007

Rear tire scratches

Today I decided not to go Touge myself as I know that there will be lots of tourists going up to cameron due to holiday seasons.
As usual I like to check my tires and rim condition every weekend to make sure it is ok. But when I checked on my rear right hand side tire; I found out that my tire wall got scratches along it!!!
Heart pain when I saw this!

Tire scratches on my new PP2 :(


Later i found out that its the clearance between the tire and fender was too close on the right side. The left side was ok and i think someone had bended it out a bit maybe during rim change last time... Shit! why no one bend it for my fender at the right side!!!
So I decided to jack up my car and knock the fender out myself. I asked my parents to sit at the back my car and tested the clearance and it was still not so ok. Then i use the hammer's back to bend the fender out a bit; and tested again... Now the fender got enough clearance for the tire walls :P
I bend the fender out a bit so that it got enough clearance even with heavy load!
So it was a trade off to use lower spring and wider tire if there are not much clearance on it... :(
I think it is due to heavy load at the back when I fetch someone also... However now the problem had been solved and i learn some lesson too... :P