Rear tire is rubbing against the fender

It's common for the rear axle to be off-center a little due to production tolerances and / or alignment angles. If the rear "camber" can be adjusted, lowering it a little will tip the top of the wheel in. It might be necessary to do that to the right wheel too. That angle should be nearly the same on both sides because tires want to roll in the direction they're leaning. The two must counteract each other equally. The left wheel is often set a little higher to make up for "road crown". That is roads leaning to the right so rain runs off. That's much more important for front wheels, but the rear camber also has to be close to specs to reduce tire wear on one edge.

Some cars have a rear cross member that can be shifted from side to side a little. Depending on the suspension geometry, shifting the cross member to the left could move the entire wheel to the left, (which is what you don't want), or it could move just the bottom of the wheel to the left and tip the top to the right which would increase the clearance to the fender.

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So what have you found for a solution? If you bought the wheels and tires locally, what do they have to say? Any problem you can encounter, they've run into before. A tire and alignment shop should have answers too. I was a suspension and alignment specialist for 16 years but I left the repair industry in '99 so I'm not familiar with your car specifically. I can't get into our online service either to see how your rear suspension is designed.

Once the problem is solved you might consider taping off the lip of the fender with masking tape on the painted surface, then spraying some primer and paint or some rubberized rust proofing on the edge where it had been hitting the tire. Any original paint or coating is going to be rubbed off and will promote the formation of rust.