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I don't really see the problem? It doesn't affect the way the car drivers and the owner presumably doesn't care what the wheels look like.
I don't think I've ever curbed a wheel, but if I did I certainly wouldn't bother getting it "fixed" just to make the wheels look pretty again. Cars are for driving.
I don't think I've ever curbed a wheel, but if I did I certainly wouldn't bother getting it "fixed" just to make the wheels look pretty again. Cars are for driving.
LMC said:
Almost every time I've parked my car, the kerb stays pretty much where it is, it doesn't jump out and take a bite out of your wheels.
Yeah, it's the bollards you need to look out for. I saw a Gallardo at Brands once (was told it belonged to the Friends Reunited chap who was driving that as he'd pranged his Murci) and it did upset me to think that each of his four kerbed wheels was still worth more than my car.
kambites said:
I don't really see the problem? It doesn't affect the way the car drivers and the owner presumably doesn't care what the wheels look like.
I don't think I've ever curbed a wheel, but if I did I certainly wouldn't bother getting it "fixed" just to make the wheels look pretty again. Cars are for driving.
Have you thought how the force of the wheel hitting the kerb and trying to push the entire car sideways via the wheel affects other parts including, but not limited to:I don't think I've ever curbed a wheel, but if I did I certainly wouldn't bother getting it "fixed" just to make the wheels look pretty again. Cars are for driving.
Wheel Bolts
Wheel Hub
Wheel Bearing
Bottom Ball Joint
Wishbone
Wishbone bolts
Rubber Bushes
Chassis Rail
Damper
Tyre
Chassis Rail
Just a thought for you, but I wouldn't want to replace any of those on a Lamborghini, or drive with any of those weakened!
But if your happy then feel free to continue to smash your wheels and tyres into kerbs, just keep away from me when those parts fail and you land on your roof....
Petrolhead_Rich said:
But if your happy then feel free to continue to smash your wheels and tyres into kerbs, just keep away from me when those parts fail and you land on your roof....
I've never kerbed a car in my life. And anyway, that damage looks like it's from scraping along a kerb, not sliding sideways into it. The lateral loading in that case will be no higher than you'd get under cornering.
Petrolhead_Rich said:
Have you thought how the force of the wheel hitting the kerb and trying to push the entire car sideways via the wheel affects other parts including, but not limited to:
Wheel Bolts
Wheel Hub
Wheel Bearing
Bottom Ball Joint
Wishbone
Wishbone bolts
Rubber Bushes
Chassis Rail
Damper
Tyre
Chassis Rail
Just a thought for you, but I wouldn't want to replace any of those on a Lamborghini, or drive with any of those weakened!
But if your happy then feel free to continue to smash your wheels and tyres into kerbs, just keep away from me when those parts fail and you land on your roof....
Oh come on - he touched the curb whilst parking. I can't really see major chassis rail deformation from that!Wheel Bolts
Wheel Hub
Wheel Bearing
Bottom Ball Joint
Wishbone
Wishbone bolts
Rubber Bushes
Chassis Rail
Damper
Tyre
Chassis Rail
Just a thought for you, but I wouldn't want to replace any of those on a Lamborghini, or drive with any of those weakened!
But if your happy then feel free to continue to smash your wheels and tyres into kerbs, just keep away from me when those parts fail and you land on your roof....
An aloy wheel isn't very strong, compaired to most of the parts you mention. The wheel would break/bend/fracture if he had hit it hard.
Anyway I suspect its easily done when driving something 14ft wide with s*d all visiblity.
Supercars are glorious, but not really very useful like that.
Edited by balls-out on Wednesday 23 March 13:43
kambites said:
I've never kerbed a car in my life.
And anyway, that damage looks like it's from scraping along a kerb, not sliding sideways into it. The lateral loading in that case will be no higher than you'd get under cornering.
Fair enough, I was perhaps a little OTT to suggest you were happy doing it, non the less cornering is a constant force and is mostly down, also it isn't against a solid object so the tyres can slip if your pushing too hard, and the friction of a tyre is much less than the molecules of steel, a kerbstone planted 8" into the ground may however be a little stronger than a bolt, and given that it appears to have been done repeatedly worries me! Also it will be a shock loading when it first makes contact, not to mention the possibility of damaging the sidewall of the tyre with the force being concentrated on one small part of the tyre!And anyway, that damage looks like it's from scraping along a kerb, not sliding sideways into it. The lateral loading in that case will be no higher than you'd get under cornering.
OP - why did you check his wheels/tyres, are you BiB and wanted to give him a ticket for bald tyres???
Petrolhead_Rich said:
kambites said:
I don't really see the problem? It doesn't affect the way the car drivers and the owner presumably doesn't care what the wheels look like.
I don't think I've ever curbed a wheel, but if I did I certainly wouldn't bother getting it "fixed" just to make the wheels look pretty again. Cars are for driving.
Have you thought how the force of the wheel hitting the kerb and trying to push the entire car sideways via the wheel affects other parts including, but not limited to:I don't think I've ever curbed a wheel, but if I did I certainly wouldn't bother getting it "fixed" just to make the wheels look pretty again. Cars are for driving.
Wheel Bolts
Wheel Hub
Wheel Bearing
Bottom Ball Joint
Wishbone
Wishbone bolts
Rubber Bushes
Chassis Rail
Damper
Tyre
Chassis Rail
Just a thought for you, but I wouldn't want to replace any of those on a Lamborghini, or drive with any of those weakened!
But if your happy then feel free to continue to smash your wheels and tyres into kerbs, just keep away from me when those parts fail and you land on your roof....
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