Hey all

Took my struts out and noticed my right wheel had a huge scrape around it on the sidewall where it joined with the rim. About a 1cm incision, turns out one of the screws that used to hold my cargo bay had been touching it after I've had it lowered, luckily I found it in time, didn't look far off a blow out. Just a heads up, not sure if it was specific too my car but the bolts were stock bolts

could you take a picture? not too sure of where you mean... lowering my car this weekend :P

They seem to be the bolts the cargo barrier might have bolted into, Just look above your wheel inside the guard. No cargo barrier was in the car when I got it so not sure if its OEM or aftermarket install

I've got a cargo barrier fitted to my wagon, but no bolt holes where you're talking about.

A pic would help to identify what it might have been for.

Wouldn't be the first time something similar has happened. I was cleaning under the guards in my dad's 4WD a little while back and caught my hand on two screws in the guard. He had a fire extinguisher 'professionally' installed in the boot... they drilled holes into the guard to mount it above the wheel arch. The screws stuck a good inch into the wheel bay :nuts: It wasn't going to cause clearance issues on a 4WD, but I certainly got a suprise :/

Alscall: I'll get that picture for you, but at the moment my car is in my mates garage on stands, can't get to it!

Red valdez: Same story here, seems it might have been aftermarket and they've taken a slack route, 2 bolts straight through each guard, probably even more than an inch out, I think there 40mm bolts :|, I just got some shortened ones so they sit flush