R32 Rear Wheel Scrape

[mkillmier91]

All of a sudden when i was driving home today my rear passenger side tyre started scraping on the gaurd when i am driving around right hand turn. It hasnt happened till today and now its doing it around most right hand turns. I pulled the car over and i noticed that when i lock to the right that the rear passenger side lowers so the tyre sits under the gaurd, it does not do it when i lock to the left with the rear drivers side. any suggestions?

Thanks.

[GTSBoy]

Why don't people ever jack up their own cars and look underneath before posting on the internet?

[mkillmier91]

i did have a look underneath....could not see anything out of the ordinary.

[mkillmier91]

ok after moving the car around a bit and having another look it seems that i am missing a bolt, must have fallen out while i was driving. I take it that this is the upper control arm? im pretty new to these sorts of things.

Thanks

[GTSBoy]

Yup. Not upper control arm. Looks like the rear traction/radius rod. Goes forward on an angle from the hub to the chassis, yeah?

That's why I narked up about getting under the carand having a look. These sorts of things happen, but they all feel different and get reported differently. Not easy to diagnose over the net, but dead easy to see with the wheel off.

[mkillmier91]

This may be a silly question but would the bolt for the upper control arm fit for this? im meant to be picking one up today and i asked for a rear upper control arm bolt.