In reply to SkinnyG (Forum Supporter) :
Now you have to pull the fenders out a bit (the old baseball bat trick). :) Love the illustration, btw.
I have a proper fender roller, but I find I get the best results with a wooden Louisville.
I think they won't rub. We're going to find out.
They rub a little bit. Debating if they are rubbing enough.
My older (15x7) wheels on my wife's car on the left, mine (15x7.5) on right:
In reply to SkinnyG (Forum Supporter) :
In the front a little camber would fix a lot of it. In the rear maybe a taller bump stop and rolling the fenders?
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Hello SkinnyG, I found your thread and ended up reading the whole thing. Those workshop videos have been cool to watch. The matching cars are awesome, especially with the widened steelies. Never heard of that before but it's really cool.
My 2009 Hyundai Accent GLS looks exactly like the pic below (found on Google). It's been awesome to learn about my own car by reading. It inspired me to start doing something of my own, whereupon I settled on foglights. I started wondering what would be required to get a set of OEM foglights installed properly, or as close to factory-style as possible. Do you have it in your heart to do a quick "compare and contrast" between the two cars' electrical systems? I'm hoping to arrive at a ballpark price for each part I need.........Pics are from https://hyundai.oempartsonline.com/. If I'm out of line in asking this just tell me to buzz off....
I would source from a junkyard.
Having said that, I'm thinking of finding some large, round, old-school "driving lights" and then just cutting holes in the bumper/lower-grills until they fit nice.
In reply to SkinnyG (Forum Supporter) :
That's a good idea; an LKQ nearby has a couple Accents. I'll check it out soon.
If you go through with the driving lights, I look forward to seeing pics of the end result. Seems like it would look pretty neat.
In reply to SkinnyG (Forum Supporter) :
hey dude
Are you interested in my H&R springs?
You can have them for whatever shipping costs. I checked with with the post office and the site said it would be like $50-$60 from my neck of the woods to yours.
I went back to new stock bushings in my control arms as well and the mechanic that pressed out the big ones said they should be reusable, you can have those to if you want. I would have kept the bushings but I had to cut the back bolt out of the control arm the first time I put them in and didn't want to risk having to do that again when I had to lube them. I'd still be rocking them if i didn't have to worry about lubing the large ones.
Nope.
Back on page 1 of this very thread on my very own car, you saw me put lowering springs in already. I don't need another set.
In reply to SkinnyG :
Yes I have read your thread SkinnyG. I assumed these may be stiffer than the springs you purchased off ebay. I wasn't trying to make money off them I just don't want to see them thrown into a scrap bin, if I could help it.
oh and the steering rack on the sports model does have a quicker ratio steering rack.
also thank you for the help and information and interesting videos .
This just in: 15" steelies widened to 7.5" are too much for the 06-11 Hyundai Accent when lowered.
Fortunately, there is a solution:
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