The stock wheels/tires seem to throw up plenty on their own. My paint is showing plenty of evidence of this and I've had the stock setup for 43k miles.

Now that you mention it, right when I moved here I started hearing this but not quite this bad. It went away when I got blizzaks for the winter but those are very soft. I wonder it it's because I got them skinnier to work well in the snow. Or maybe just less rubber actually on the road.
The northern Midwest streets look like the cities had some bad acne.


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Looks like they are 18x8.5 +45

I know exactly what you mean. I swap from my stock wheels to my track wheels (17x9+45) often and while there isn't any poke, there is always a noticeable difference in the amount of road debri I hear hitting the side of the car and wheel wells. I have oem mud guards which I'm sure help but still happens.

Any tyres on gravel will throw debris around.
Cars coming in the opposite direction throw up the most that cause damage.

Is it actually hitting the doors, or just the inside of the fenders?

It looks like both. Once I got on the highway and out of South Bend, things improved dramatically BTW!

I got a set of OEM splash guard from amazon for $50 hopefully they will improve the situation. The +45 rims were actually suggested by the tire rack website. ... I mean, I like the way they look (!) but they are definitely outside OEM specs.

Thanks everybody for the suggestions.


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What can I do about poke? Don't know what I'm doing
 

Looks pretty good. Just a little bit of tire sticking out past the guard in the back and even less in the front.
Either they swept the streets or the guards made a difference because no more clink in South Bend.

Also, I got 33.6 mpg on the way down to middle Indiana and 35.6 on the way back! Even better, my tires are taller so +3% according to the tire guide PDF somewhere floating around this forum. I thought my gas mileage would get worse due to the wide tires I got. I attribute my better gas mileage on the way back to driving behind some slower people. 50 mph looks optimal for 6th.

Anyway, here's what it looks like now
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Wth with the attachments 😧


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