[GOWRIN]

I'm curious! Is it just me or does everyone curb their wheels, the more I tried not to the more it happens With my old rubbish wheels not a single scratch (they were 17s) Bought some new 19s, wide rears and I've curbed them
Who else has been through such emotional times...

[Dsport]

Not curbed on in quite a few years
Park in the middle of the road, that tends to help

[Reece]

I had a mk4 gold slammed on the deck, got some porsche wheels had them refurbed looked lovely, on the same day i fitted them went to get petrol and got tugged by the old bill for too much poke, tyres were under rim was miles out, half hour later parked at a mates and done nearly the hole rim front and back on the near side i was in bits

[Thedirtymex]

I had a Chrysler Crossfire. Spent $6300 fitting offset Stance CS5 wheels wrapped in Pirelli p zero. On day 2 moving the car out of the driveway for my mum and bam. Huge chunk taken from the front left. Couldn't believe it. Almost cried

[themanthatcan]

I'd never kerbed a single wheel ever until I bought the 335i. The guy I bought it from seemed to have a magnetic attraction to kerbs though, so I had the MV4s powder coated in Shadow Chrome.

2 days later the missus asked me to do her a favour and rush up to her sisters to look after her kids and somehow I managed to scrape the nearside rear down a kerb. No worries I thought..bit of a pain but I'll just get that one refurbed again.

Then a few weeks later I had a slight mishap on the motorway and glanced off a crash barrier, taking the powder coat off the two offside wheels. They were refurbed again by the bodyshop, leaving me with just the nearside rear to sort.

Then yesterday I was cleaning the car and noticed that both of the wheels that the bodyshop refurbed have dirty great stone chips in them

Think I'm just going to bite the bullet and get all 4 done again lol

[P 5UML]

i think mine was about 4 months after i fitted the Hartge's - the morning of a car show!
wasn't technically my fault though...more of the pot holes fault and the bus driving driving straight at me!

[330ray]

Had mine a week so far no scuffs yet. But im touching plenty of wood after this post!!

[GOWRIN]

Originally Posted by Dsport

Not curbed on in quite a few years
Park in the middle of the road, that tends to help

LOL doesn't go down so well when you do that around London.

Originally Posted by Reece

I had a mk4 gold slammed on the deck, got some porsche wheels had them refurbed looked lovely, on the same day i fitted them went to get petrol and got tugged by the old bill for too much poke, tyres were under rim was miles out, half hour later parked at a mates and done nearly the hole rim front and back on the near side i was in bits

Yeah the po po stopped me the day I got mine, BS it was a random check! I feel ya, that alloy scratching noise.

Originally Posted by Thedirtymex

I had a Chrysler Crossfire. Spent $6300 fitting offset Stance CS5 wheels wrapped in Pirelli p zero. On day 2 moving the car out of the driveway for my mum and bam. Huge chunk taken from the front left. Couldn't believe it. Almost cried

It's always when you are doing something for someone else.

Originally Posted by themanthatcan

I'd never kerbed a single wheel ever until I bought the 335i. The guy I bought it from seemed to have a magnetic attraction to kerbs though, so I had the MV4s powder coated in Shadow Chrome.

2 days later the missus asked me to do her a favour and rush up to her sisters to look after her kids and somehow I managed to scrape the nearside rear down a kerb. No worries I thought..bit of a pain but I'll just get that one refurbed again.

Then a few weeks later I had a slight mishap on the motorway and glanced off a crash barrier, taking the powder coat off the two offside wheels. They were refurbed again by the bodyshop, leaving me with just the nearside rear to sort.

Then yesterday I was cleaning the car and noticed that both of the wheels that the bodyshop refurbed have dirty great stone chips in them

Think I'm just going to bite the bullet and get all 4 done again lol

Wow, perfection costs! I've had mine a week and all apart from the front drivers side are curbed, Seems impossible to avoid, I'll give it some time before I go do a refurb, get all the curbing out my system lol.

Originally Posted by P 5UML

i think mine was about 4 months after i fitted the Hartge's - the morning of a car show!
wasn't technically my fault though...more of the pot holes fault and the bus driving driving straight at me!

Oh damn before a show! It's always the pot holes fault or the random curb that appears out of nowhere lol!

[BoondogUK]

First time my wife drove my car, kurbed the brand new alloys... then it was 3 kerbs from four drives.. needless to say she no longer drives my car

[WRichieX]

I curbed my wheels the day before I planned to switch to my oem with winter tires on them. Sucked!

[Josh1a1h]

Haven't kerbed my rims in nearly a year... TOUCH WOOD

[John320d]

Had a set of new reps fitted at motor sport wheels in stockport. I left the fitting centre which was on an industrial park and came to a road narrowing set up to stop lorries from using the route through a residential area. I dropped the drivers side window right down and gave my full attention to just clearing by a couple of inches the solid stone bollard on my side. I got halfway through when I heard and felt this horrible grating sound. Now I have this dilemma, do I carry on going forward or back out. The bollards were stopping me getting out of the car to find out what the problem was. I inched forwards very slowly and the noise stopped, thank god I thought, and then the grating noise began again as I carried on through. I was bricking it when I got out of the car, wondering what damage had occurred. Yeah, your right, both wheels on the passenger side were write offs. The road had sunk on that side leaving a 5in. crater which had filled with water.
I now claim the all time record for wrecking two wheels after only driving 50 yards from new lol.

[john-vfr]

took me 6 days to kerb my AC Snits on my E46.Wife got out to look.....not that bad.About eight inches long on nearside front bad. Women!!!!!

[regy53]

I have never curbed wheels in my life until I got my BMW with MV4's

My front passenger I noticed has about 4 kerb marks in it and I only know of one that I did

[#Tee]

never ! lol

[Kassim786]

I did one in my VXR (19" snowflake alloys" .... There was a damn police car behind me forcing me onto a huge kerb to get by ... Ended up scraping the bumper and the wheel

[oliver51090]

Never kerbed the rims in my compact, 20 hours after picking up this car from bmw kerbed the back one coming out from my parking space. Salesman warned me dont park how i normally park, since then kerbed 2 more. Im used to it now i dont get that sinking feeling. And they gave me new wheels and tyres with the car

[SM8]

I've always wondered this so maybe some of you guys can enlighten me. But let's say you have really expensive custom forged rims or just really expensive rims in general that are like hand brushed or polished etc
If you were to curb them what the hell do you do? Aside from the obvious refurb, could you ever get the same original finish back and if so how? Because a new wheel could cost a huge amount so there must be a way with so many people buying expensive rims over the world etc or not lol?

[simmo1985]

Took 6 months after a refurb to do mine, then 1 month after fixing that mishap i did it again. Gutted is an understatement.

[Alex.J]

I never leave mine parked on the road, so doesnt see a kerb, so, it doesnt have marks and i cant remember the last time i ever have kerbed a rim..

[NEFARIOUS]

Bought my car on Sep 7 2013, had a food coma on Thanksgiving, thought I had enough space to clear the curb making a U-turn leaving my friend's house... But didn't. 1/2" scrape on my FR wheel, dislodged a few clips on the side panel and slamming the car down.

[Statler]

Originally Posted by Kassim786

I did one in my VXR (19" snowflake alloys" .... There was a damn police car behind me forcing me onto a huge kerb to get by ... Ended up scraping the bumper and the wheel

Same thing happened to me, vowed never ever to do it again for an emergency vehicle.
I'll stop to let them by but if they hit me they'll suffer the consequences of a hit and run.

Very uncharitable I know, but the last incident cost me £350 to repair.. good deed, indeed....