Thread: A tire and a vocabulary problem!

Okay, here are my two main issues:

I had a friend work on my car for me. He took the tires off and checked the meat on the brakes and he said next oil change. Now that the tires are back on, the driver's side tire rubs against something when I make sharp right hand turns only.

I think it's rubbing against the wheel well or the fender wall, it's this little piece of hanging plastic. So, we cut that little piece off and it's still making the sound with those turns. It's definitely grinding against plastic of some sort and only when the wheel it at a certain angle in the well.

Could he have put the tire on wrong? He said the tires are big for my car, but it wasn't doing that before he took them off.

Secondly, there is a part that I can't find the name of. It's a rubber or plastic t-shaped piece that connects a vacuum hose to the engine I believe. I got a check engine light and the scanner said I was running "too lean," and he could hear that there was a leak in the vacuum hose, but I can't identify the piece to order another one. I'll take a picture of it tomorrow and post it, but if anyone knows the name off the top of their head, that'd be great.

Thanks!

The rubber t's are alomost impossable to get at a normal auto parts store maybe its a dealer order only type part I had the same problem I ended up redoing my whole vacuum setup only took 10 min and 20 bucks worth of stuff (only cause i bought the Big multipack of t's)

As far as the tire goes he could have bent the dust shield on the brake rotor area turn the wheel as far as you can and feel around the wheel if you have clearance on both sides that probably it