Q: Under hard acceleration or braking, a rubbing sound occurs

asked by on June 17, 2017

I have been trying to figure this out for months. My car is lowered, but it has never had this problem before. I have replaced the control arms, cv axle, wheel hub, had it balanced. It feels absolutely perfect when I'm not trying to push it. But as soon as I try to accelerate not even entirely hard, it feels like something on the passenger side of the car is rubbing. I have inspected the tire and no damage to that or the fender. Albeit, I haven't driven it much since, but I would assume there would be some evidence there. I am completely dumbfounded and really would like to get my car running again. Thank you!

My car has 150000 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.

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