I feel your pain - had the exact same experience with a previous car many years ago: brand new wheels (one week old...) and she kerbed heavily one of them taking the car out.

...but if this helps make you feel better, I am very careful and still I managed to kerb 3 of my Xtremes - in the end I just went "whateva..."

Feel yourself lucky that is not a diamond cut wheel and should be easy to refurb.

Edited 2 July, 20187 yr by Jaco2k

I wonder if the auto parking function has curbed any wheels for someone? It almost seems inevitable.

Fwiw I got a brand new Gemini for £180 from Horton's online store.

Was going to swap it with one I kerbed, but have put it in as a spare. Living in London with loads of high kerbs everywhere, I think I will learn to live with it as it will probably only happen again.

6 hours ago, juan27 said:

I wonder if the auto parking function has curbed any wheels for someone? It almost seems inevitable.

 

 

I've never used it for Parallel Parking, used it once for Bay Parking just to try it, then drove out of the bay and parked it somewhere with more room.

Sad story and not much to add.  How about getting a scuffed set and put them on for general knocking around and all that and put the best ones on for Sunday and other special days?  No - perhaps not.

 

Taken from my 'Silly Ideas' department

18 hours ago, pist0nbr0ke said:

 

Fair play - she wants to give you the opportunity to kerb her wheels whilst you are pi**ed it seems!

I think you're pi**ed in more ways than one

23 minutes ago, ords said:

I think you're pi**ed in more ways than one

 

Lol - funny enough, I don't drink but cheers anyway 

9 hours ago, juan27 said:

I wonder if the auto parking function has curbed any wheels for someone? It almost seems inevitable.

It parks based on the width of the car in front of the gap, so if it's narrower than your car then you'll be nearer to the kerb - or if it's much narrower against the kerb!!!

23 hours ago, Ozzy25 said:

First time my wife has driven my car today. 

She's gonna have to take it up the wrongen to make up for that

Not sure about her walking funny, but she will definitely be walking from now on. 

Anyway, it’s 6 months old today, I had waaaay too much time driving round in a nice shiny car .

Edited 2 July, 20187 yr by Ozzy25

13 hours ago, juan27 said:

I wonder if the auto parking function has curbed any wheels for someone? It almost seems inevitable.

 

I've used it a few times on parallel and it manages to get into scarily tight gaps and park it brilliantly. You have to have faith in it, but the first time you do it, you're wetting yourself!!!

All of my extreme wheels are damaged by kerbs or having to avoid the kamikaze taxi drivers of SW Surrey and a couple of female drivers in Somerset, can't afford to replace them, I don't know how much it will cost to repair them all or whether it will be worth doing. 

 

Some of it is down to the damned awful Pirelli tyres that are on them having no rim protection whatsoever, absolutely abysmal tyres. 

Paint code anyone for the metallic black Gemini???

On 01/07/2018 at 19:29, andyh41 said:

I know that feeling. I was quoted £90 + vat to fix this little mess.

 

 

Where did you get yours repaired? Guessing at that price it wasn't classed as a diamond cut repair.

 

Mrs kindly kerbed the two passenger side wheels, she only drove it six ft while I was at work...

My wife has never driven two of the multiple cars we've had in the last 20 years.  Two of said cars have never had kerb'd alloys.  I'll leave it up to you lot to guess which....

 

In my head, the imaginary conversation about which options to select goes like this "No darling, we don't need parking sensors or park assist.  When the metallic grinding noise of the alloys on the kerb becomes intolerable, I know I'm parked too close" 

OK, refurbished = acid dipped to remove all of the black finish back down to the alloy. Repaired. Powder coated. Baked. Painted back to Metallic Black. Then clear coat back to OEM finish. €103, which I thought wasn’t bad. Am I expecting miracles or will I see where they have repaired it? Or to order a brand spanking new one. €192. 

I had 2  diamond cut ones refurbed locally to me and the finish is perfect. I used Maxpowder in Apsley, www.maxpowder.co.uk damage wasn't heavy but I am still in the 'being precious' stage of ownership.

 

Prices below, for reference:

 

3 hours ago, MattChr said:

 

Where did you get yours repaired? Guessing at that price it wasn't classed as a diamond cut repair.

 

Mrs kindly kerbed the two passenger side wheels, she only drove it six ft while I was at work...

 

“Why can’t some people seems to avoid the flippin kerb!! It’s a huge 6 or 7” granite / concrete thing that lives alongside most urban roads to delineate the pavement from

the accepted driving surface. If touched, it is not kind to pucker alloy wheels. 

 

Keep the car on the flat, smooth part of the road, FFS.”

 

I regularly imagine myself saying this or similar to Mrs Dunc..... 

 

... then I try hard to remind myself there are more important things in life. 

 

But it still and always will p1ss me off. 

 

My dream is to have a car for me (period) and a car for her.   One day! 

 

Rant over - breathe. 

4 hours ago, MattChr said:

 

Where did you get yours repaired? Guessing at that price it wasn't classed as a diamond cut repair.

 

Mrs kindly kerbed the two passenger side wheels, she only drove it six ft while I was at work...

 

Yes, that quote was to redo the diamond cut too. It was cheaper without - can't remember how much different though.

 

This was Wheelworks in Crawley. I haven't had it done yet though, so can't say how good the end result would be. 

On ‎01‎/‎07‎/‎2018 at 19:25, Ozzy25 said:

OK, so I can double that price because I live in rip off Ireland. 

Guy in my street does excellent alloy refurbs for £50 per wheel. He's had plenty of practice thanks to the wife!

 

When you say to the missis who's learning not to kerb the wheels....then you do it yourself.

Oh dear - I feel your pain

Not just kerbing to worry about ,watch carefully when they remove the tyres to get new one fitted,you know when that big metal lever comes down to release the old tyre,i was looking at mine carefully and noticed a scuff that could only have been done by that lever and don’t get me started on diamond cut wheels I think they are a receipe for disaster with only a thin lacquer spray for protection over an alloy which only needs a sniff of salt spray to start to disintegrate.

Edited 12 July, 20187 yr by Sad555

On 03/07/2018 at 16:33, TheWanderer said:

All of my extreme wheels are damaged by kerbs or having to avoid the kamikaze taxi drivers of SW Surrey and a couple of female drivers in Somerset, can't afford to replace them, I don't know how much it will cost to repair them all or whether it will be worth doing. 

 

Some of it is down to the damned awful Pirelli tyres that are on them having no rim protection whatsoever, absolutely abysmal tyres. 

 

I'm just loving that reply - typical of most people who post about damage. Public enemy #1 is the wife or some other female. (I've read about partner's causing car damage so in theory that could be male but...  nah. Alpha male? impossible). #2 is other idiot drivers.

 

But always tickles me to read those who blame it on the kerbs. And of course the damned silly tyres. 

 

Assuming kerbs don't move - that they don't magically come alive in the wee early hours and go around headbutting alloys, or in some drunken spree the tyres go looking for a fight, isn't the REAL reason the damage is caused by the bloke behind the steering wheel? Anytime my alloys have been damaged it's been down to my bad driving. Or perhaps I'm just unlucky.

Edited 9 July, 20187 yr by Guest

What's it like to live in your perfect and idyllic world where you do no wrong and you have no moronic idiot taxi drivers who think they own ALL of the road and then you have the most dangerous thing on the road... The yummy mummy with their Chelsea Tractors who have as much road sense as a two year old. 

Edited 9 July, 20187 yr by TheWanderer