Kerbing alloys. Why can't the problem be solved??
Discussion
slipstream 1985 said:
then you say have you never had to swerve or avoid a lorry coming the other way and hit the kerb. well that is a totaly different argument one that you have no relative control over unles you have the power of foresight.
Or giving correct right of way. There's no reason why you should have to take to the kerb. In 15 years of driving, most of those years doing 60-70k a year, I've only once taken to the kerb, and that didn't even damage the alloys.If you kerb alloys, you need to consider going on a car control course, IMHO.
Or just live with it as a mistake.
It's not like they are THAT important to be perfect, and THAT important to repair as soon as damaged etc etc...
I see them as wear items, but that doesn't mean I kerb wheels on purpose. Mine are kerb mark free, but if I picked one up I wouldn't call out for lower kerbs, rim protection etc, I'd just live with my mistake.
Bit of a non-problem to me. If you are getting them every other day, then you are a s
t driver. If you get one every year or two, accidents happen.
Dave
It's not like they are THAT important to be perfect, and THAT important to repair as soon as damaged etc etc...
I see them as wear items, but that doesn't mean I kerb wheels on purpose. Mine are kerb mark free, but if I picked one up I wouldn't call out for lower kerbs, rim protection etc, I'd just live with my mistake.
Bit of a non-problem to me. If you are getting them every other day, then you are a s
t driver. If you get one every year or two, accidents happen.Dave
everyone, regardless of how perfect WILL cause damage to a wheel by kerbing at some point in there driving life.
It takes one slight lapse in concentration and before you know it, its too late.
When i passed my test the first day i kerbed my wheels about 10 times. 2 years on and i've maybe added another 2 to that count.
i have however hit a fence when parking.
I forgot i was working the next day as my shift had changed, went to bed at 3, was up at 5.30, drove to work went into carpark, turned into my space and some how hit an eight foot high green fence.
Things like this (Kerbing, not the fence thing) happed. Live with it.
It takes one slight lapse in concentration and before you know it, its too late.
When i passed my test the first day i kerbed my wheels about 10 times. 2 years on and i've maybe added another 2 to that count.
i have however hit a fence when parking.
I forgot i was working the next day as my shift had changed, went to bed at 3, was up at 5.30, drove to work went into carpark, turned into my space and some how hit an eight foot high green fence.
Things like this (Kerbing, not the fence thing) happed. Live with it.
..or alternatively to all of these things.. just don't give a monkeys!
it's (a bit) like these old women on here who go to north wales or yorkshire moors and moan because they got some stone chips...
cars are for using. fair enough if you want to keep spending money on refurbs and things but i for one don;t really care. i might get mine done because i have got the car back to use as my own (hurrah!) but even then i think i might catch a wheel (one of my kerbings was me - i was going to my auntie's where my grandmother was. i arrived and saw that there was an ambulance outside and wanting to get in quickly i ended up taking a bit of the wheel with one of those horrible 1950s kebs with all the stones proud of the concrete.. (as it turns out it was her neighbour so i needn't have worried!
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although now i am moving to a whole set of potenzas i should be unlikely to do much harm because they have quide serious sidewalls...
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with reagrd to actually doing the kerbing... i guess some people can park quickly and well but to be fair in most south east market type towns you'll have loads of angry people honking at you as they try and get Petulla to ballet or william to lacrosse whilst one tries to get into the space between the wonky CLS and the RRS..
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it's (a bit) like these old women on here who go to north wales or yorkshire moors and moan because they got some stone chips...
cars are for using. fair enough if you want to keep spending money on refurbs and things but i for one don;t really care. i might get mine done because i have got the car back to use as my own (hurrah!) but even then i think i might catch a wheel (one of my kerbings was me - i was going to my auntie's where my grandmother was. i arrived and saw that there was an ambulance outside and wanting to get in quickly i ended up taking a bit of the wheel with one of those horrible 1950s kebs with all the stones proud of the concrete.. (as it turns out it was her neighbour so i needn't have worried!
).although now i am moving to a whole set of potenzas i should be unlikely to do much harm because they have quide serious sidewalls...
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with reagrd to actually doing the kerbing... i guess some people can park quickly and well but to be fair in most south east market type towns you'll have loads of angry people honking at you as they try and get Petulla to ballet or william to lacrosse whilst one tries to get into the space between the wonky CLS and the RRS..
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)why dont you just mount the kerb when parking, taking it on head on stops the wheel from grazing along the kerb. I do this all the time.
Slowly up on to kerb at say 30 degrees(ish), drive a little way on, then full lock to take you off the kerb, more often than not gives me perfect parking results, sometimes need to tidy up a little, but I have had no kerb marks on my car in the last 8 years, had a couple in first year of driving, but non since.
Slowly up on to kerb at say 30 degrees(ish), drive a little way on, then full lock to take you off the kerb, more often than not gives me perfect parking results, sometimes need to tidy up a little, but I have had no kerb marks on my car in the last 8 years, had a couple in first year of driving, but non since.
The Wookie said:
If I need to park close to a kerb I dip the relevant mirror so I can see the kerb and the wheel. Some cars do it for you.
I've only ever once kerbed a wheel while parking, however I have caught a kerb going through a width restriction more than once
I've got to say that my cars auto dipping side mirror, and parking sensors make it very easy to get into a tight parking space.I've only ever once kerbed a wheel while parking, however I have caught a kerb going through a width restriction more than once
One issue I had was Council contractors for Barnet Council repainting parking space lines and and making them narrower, forcing us to park even closer to the kerb (kerning our wheels in the process). Then came the 'enforcement officers' ticketing cars whose outer wheels were outside the white line.
Eventually our local know-it-all on matters of parking, the intrepid Mr Mustard, challenged the Council, and they accepted that the new lines were not of regulation width, and repainted them again. Still, my wife's Q7 has a tyre-to-tyre width that won't fit within a regulation parking space without kerbing the wheel.
Modern life certainly does not get any easier!
Eventually our local know-it-all on matters of parking, the intrepid Mr Mustard, challenged the Council, and they accepted that the new lines were not of regulation width, and repainted them again. Still, my wife's Q7 has a tyre-to-tyre width that won't fit within a regulation parking space without kerbing the wheel.
Modern life certainly does not get any easier!
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