I had my 260E have 2 friends in the other day and the tires were rubbing the wheel arch going over regular road bumps at 5mph...I had about 400lbs worth of people in the car. It should definitely not be doing this...

Would this indicate that springs, shocks or bump pads are bad? Or a combination of the both? I read the FSM and it says to test them using scales, but I really don't want to have to remove them all just to test. I don't know a whole lot about suspensions, hense why I am asking if its possible just to "know" which it is, so I can just replace them right off the bat instead of pulling each off separately to test.

I'm more of a "replace-it-if-it-comes-off" kinda guy. So without any history on the car, I'd rather just replace parts of the suspension if I remove them so I got a good baseline to go off from. I would assume everything is original based on other observations.

The tire size is not the issue. They are only 16" rims shown in the pic in my sig.

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