Originally Posted by
cny-bikeman
So you saved $2 on the wrong solution - adjusting the brake to avoid rubbing on an out-of-true wheel.
We don't know how far out of true the wheel was. It might have been true to within 1mm TIR but simply positioned wrong, or positioned right but the brakes not. The fact that a brake adjustment solved the problem seems to indicate that the wheel is basically OK. Of course the mechanic might simply have opened them up to clear the out of true wheel.
My point is that there's not enough info to render an opinion, and we have to defer to the mechanic who actually saw the bike.