Help wanted, Front tires not centered
So the Duster wheel openings are a lot closer to being symmetric than the Dart wheel openings, which definitely aren't.
I went back to some older pictures of my Duster just to have a reference. At this point I was running stock UCA's with offset bushings, stock boxed LCA's, poly LCA bushings and adjustable strut rods with 73+ BBP spindles/disks. Wheels are 15x7" cop wheels with 225/60/15's. Can't help with any reference on the poly strut rod bushings because I don't use them, I change all my stuff over to adjustable strut rods. So as far as being centered goes the wheels in the picture may even a little bit forward of center, hard to tell because they're not perfectly straight ahead in the picture though. Some of that could be the adjustable strut rods, I've found that adjusting them for no binding on the LCA often results in them being a little bit shorter than stock. But I would say the wheels should be roughly centered in a Duster front wheel opening. Obviously there's some body tolerances involved so I wouldn't say a small offset one way or another is weird. But the OP's wheels are clearly pretty far back in the opening.
Now, if there's no interference anywhere and the alignment specs are good there really isn't a big issue, although the less centered the wheel is the more restrictive things will be on tire size. For me, I'd just make sure that the LCA's aren't being pushed back on the LCA pins. If that all looks good and the alignment specs are fine I don't see an issue as long as nothing rubs.
So the Duster wheel openings are a lot closer to being symmetric than the Dart wheel openings, which definitely aren't.
I went back to some older pictures of my Duster just to have a reference. At this point I was running stock UCA's with offset bushings, stock boxed LCA's, poly LCA bushings and adjustable strut rods with 73+ BBP spindles/disks. Wheels are 15x7" cop wheels with 225/60/15's. Can't help with any reference on the poly strut rod bushings because I don't use them, I change all my stuff over to adjustable strut rods. So as far as being centered goes the wheels in the picture may even a little bit forward of center, hard to tell because they're not perfectly straight ahead in the picture though. Some of that could be the adjustable strut rods, I've found that adjusting them for no binding on the LCA often results in them being a little bit shorter than stock. But I would say the wheels should be roughly centered in a Duster front wheel opening. Obviously there's some body tolerances involved so I wouldn't say a small offset one way or another is weird. But the OP's wheels are clearly pretty far back in the opening.
Now, if there's no interference anywhere and the alignment specs are good there really isn't a big issue, although the less centered the wheel is the more restrictive things will be on tire size. For me, I'd just make sure that the LCA's aren't being pushed back on the LCA pins. If that all looks good and the alignment specs are fine I don't see an issue as long as nothing rubs.
