After 20+ years, I've ruined my run....

[Peter DLM]

I've kerbed a wheel :fail

It was whilst parking, I could see the granite kerb in my near side mirror, I needed a bit more room on my right so I decided to shuffle over a few inches. Big mistake front wheel was right by a kerbstone that stuck out higher and further than the ones I could see. Horrible feeling and noise.

Would be so bad if it was the Smart, but it was my E63.

 

[st13phil]

Sorry to hear that Peter

It is indeed a horrible sensation, the unpleasantness of which is accentuated by the subsequent lightening of the wallet.

 

[markjay]

Sorry to hear that. I will never understand why some kerbs are made of 90 degree straight angle with razor sharp edge. A more rounded kerb would have been more forgiving for wheels and tyres.

 

[Peter DLM]

Thanks chaps, I'm even too traumatised to get a picture as I'm still in denial. I take pride in not doing this and take utmost care, but nobody is perfect I guess lol. Ah well.

 

[Deleted member 65149]

I feel your pain.

 

[wu56Shoozz]

Ooohh been there wearing the T shirt... mine happened a few weeks after I got my car, the wheels were absolutely mint, not a mark or a blemish on them.. so I debated whether to go to a full blown Tesco's or the local 24 hour which was closer.. opted on the second. The turning is tight into their car park... and typically a Bimmer took all the road on the exit...and I thought I could squeeze through between the Bimmer & the kerb ...gently...gently.. Oooh the nose is getting through..oh.. oh and then it happened, that dreaded crunching sound and the feel of the rear of the car dance a little over to the right.. I was so afraid to look.. I hoped and I prayed that the rim protector on the Uniroyals had done their job... alas it wasn't to be the damage was done, 3 minters and one with a gouge out the rim

Do you ever get the feeling that you and your car wasn't meant to be?? three weeks later and I'm in a car park, sitting stationary, on the phone and Kerruuunnncchh ...yes a woman had parked beside me ( now I usually park on my own for this very reason...) and my wing mirror is broken back the wrong way.. not a sorry of hee haw.. just a scowl and a look down her nose as she got out of the car...two months later and a builders van gave me a love touch in the same car park...

Since buying the car I've never been "touched" so much.. it was a change of marque for me and now I'm beginning to wonder...its been off the road over Xmas.. my van has done the trick lols! (And its a Vito!)

 

[Peter DLM]

Lol holy crap, I'd struggle to maintain my composure with all that on a new car.

 

[A250 Bennyboy]

Gutted for you I feel your pain costly bummer

 

[richard]

Hopefully a refurb by lepsons will not be too costly ..

Richard

 

[T5R+]

Most of us have been there at some stage.

Some of us feel absolutley gutted with a sick feeling in the stomach. The cost part is irrelevant. Other people just shrug their shoulders and say "so what, it is only a car"

Feel your pain as managed to do similar with diamond cuts alloy.

 

[Iwoody]

The noise is horrible, it sends a shiver down my back..... Also the thought of "do I go backwards or keep going forwards". When I kerbed my wheel I couldn't bring myself to look at it for a few days

 

[A250 Bennyboy]

The noise is horrible, it sends a shiver down my back..... Also the thought of "do I go backwards or keep going forwards". When I kerbed my wheel I couldn't bring myself to look at it for a few days

Haha I know what you mean I've even left mine dirty trying to hide my small chip on the edge off my Rim

 

[Headhurts]

Did mine when car was 2 months old just a graze but as they are diamond cut cannot be repaired by the mobile specialists.

Doubly annoying as many new cars no longer have a spare so you have to remove the wheel somehow and get to the specialists.

In the end I removed mine and gently rubbed it down myself, just smoothing out the rough edges then covered with clear lacquer.


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[wu56Shoozz]

Haha I know what you mean I've even left mine dirty trying to hide my small chip on the edge off my Rim

I see where your coming from.. but I hate dirty alloys as it looks as though you have a great car and don't look after it.. at least that's what I think of mine...

 

[StMarks]

Haha I know what you mean I've even left mine dirty trying to hide my small chip on the edge off my Rim

I'm sure you'll probably know, but just in case you don't, brake dust is actually quite corrosive...

 

[A250 Bennyboy]

The OCD in me won't allow the wheels to be dirty for long though

It's the first thing I see when I look at this wheel, so I try not look