That looks like it could be a safety issue and cause a wheel failure if it goes long enough without attention
What we are looking at in the photos is the new adjustable camber plates. The "washer" that is on view above the nylock nut at the attachment point to the bottom of the kingpin isn't just a simple washer. It is welded to a short piece of threaded bar which forms part of the adjustment mechanism. The threaded bar is adjusted by the other nylock nut (with the blue nylon core showing) which is facing us in the top photo. As this nut is screwed in/out it moves the "washer" with it, and so alters the kingpin bottom pickup point to adjust the camber angle.
From Heinz's photos, I cannot really see why/where the contact between the suspension and the rim has occurred. It looks like it is the end of the threaded bar sticking out from the bottom of the kingpin, but if that we're the case then presumably it would be touching most of the time. Unless, there is enough wheel deflection permitted by the wheel bearing during cornering?
Given Cereal's assertion above, shouldn't this warrant a safety recall of cars with Minilites and the new adjustable camber plates fitted?
IMHO, of course
