Mini Cooper Geometry not right
 

Hi

I have a 2003 Mini Cooper and Today I took the wheels off for the first time to change the Pads and Disc's .

I noticed that the inner rim of the front nearside wheel , is nearly touching the strut , I checked them both and the front offside Inner rim is 10mm from the side of the strut and the front nearside rim is 3mm .

I can not figure out how that can be , the Hub and strut are fixed in place , so whatever you do you can not alter that angle , offcource the , Camber and Castor can be altered and tracking , but none them will effect the angle of strut to Hub .

I am racking my brains here Folks can anyone shed any light on this !! .
just a note I swapped the front wheels around and the gap,of both remain the same .

cheers

spike

sounds like the struts are mushroomed to me

Hi

Not exactly sure what you are saying ! .

cheers

The minis have an issue with the top of the strut towers mushrooming out of shape sounds like the issueyou are having

Strut tower maybe mushroomed but more likely the strut is bent