Rear rotor rubbing (1 Viewer)

[AlpineSoccerMom]

Have been banging my head against the wall on this for a couple months now and can't figure it out.

Replaced rear rotors and pads on both sides, now the rotor is rubbing on the lower dust shield. It's fine when driving in straight line, but as soon as I turn the wheel slightly there is a rhythmic rubbing, almost as if the wheel isn't centered.

Have taken pad/caliper/rotor on and off three separate times at this point with no success.

The front and rear hubs are spaced out by the previous owner, but not sure how that could cause this. Was pretty aggressive getting the wheel off on that side, but all of the studs appear straight.

Curious if anyone has any ideas on where to go next?

 

[diego355]

Check the tabs were the caliper mounting bolts go into.
A couple months ago I was changing rear brakes on my Mazda 3 which the rear rotors were seized into the hub so I use a hammer to hit it from behind and accidentally bent those tabs 2-3 millimeters creating this same issue. It took me like 3 hours trying to figure it out what was going on

 

[Andy22r]

Have been banging my head against the wall on this for a couple months now and can't figure it out.

Replaced rear rotors and pads on both sides, now the rotor is rubbing on the lower dust shield. It's fine when driving in straight line, but as soon as I turn the wheel slightly there is a rhythmic rubbing, almost as if the wheel isn't centered.

Have taken pad/caliper/rotor on and off three separate times at this point with no success.

The front and rear hubs are spaced out by the previous owner, but not sure how that could cause this. Was pretty aggressive getting the wheel off on that side, but all of the studs appear straight.

Curious if anyone has any ideas on where to go next?

I'm having the same issue. Did you figure it out?

 

[AlpineSoccerMom]

Kinda. Turned out the rotor was slightly out of spec/ slightly larger than it should have been, despite being OEM. Or my dust shield was slightly bent. Either way, just ran it for a while, and it would rub on turns less and less, until around a month later it filed itself down and sorted itself out. Could use an angle grinder to skip the month wait.

 

[2001LC]

I've seen the rub a few times. Seems even OEM rotors may rub. Even in no rust rig.
Rust can expand, push brake dust shield into rotor.
Some tolerance between brake dust shield & rotor so tight, they rub.

Some let it rub down, works sometimes.
Some with bench lathe, cut back out edge of rotor.
Some use a grinder, to cut back outer edge.
I pound the brake dust shield, back just a tad at rub marks.

See rub marks just below each shoes end. I use a metal block same size rub marks (wherever they are). Hit block with hammer, to drive in dust shield just a tad.