Arghh. Curbed alloy on brand new car.

oscarward

I have used a wheel repairer when I get enough scrapes, my local one has 2 types of repair. Basic where they just deflate and push the tyre back to smooth and repaint, about £40 per corner while you wait even! Or tyre off strip to bare metal and refurb to original standard for £55-70 per corner, takes 2-3 days. Very good results from them.

Wig

Each to his own, but I would wait at least a couple of years before paying for a repair and only then if i have done more scrapes, otherwise I would leave it until selling it.

What you could also consider is going to the dealer, buying a new rim putting a tyre on it and put it on the car with your damaged one as a spare. as I bet you probably don't have a spare wheel in your boot, just some of that squirty stuff that does not work.

jimmy_cricket

Wig wrote: »

Each to his own, but I would wait at least a couple of years before paying for a repair and only then if i have done more scrapes, otherwise I would leave it until selling it.

What you could also consider is going to the dealer, buying a new rim putting a tyre on it and put it on the car with your damaged one as a spare. as I bet you probably don't have a spare wheel in your boot, just some of that squirty stuff that does not work.

Runflats. So not even a spare.

BeenThroughItAll

George_Michael wrote: »

It's not too difficult to get some damage to allow wheels from deep potholes, especially if they are filled with water and it's raining so it's next to impossible to see how deep the hole is and on some roads, it's not always possible to go around every one.

And yet over hundreds of thousands of miles, all over the UK and Europe, on all kinds of good and bad roads, I've not had a damaged alloy wheel for years.

George_Michael

BeenThroughItAll wrote: »

And yet over hundreds of thousands of miles, all over the UK and Europe, on all kinds of good and bad roads, I've not had a damaged alloy wheel for years.

Not had one "for years" which still means that it's happened to you at some point in time so whats wrong in thinking that it can and will happen to drivers who don't have as much driving experience as you?
Last year alone, some estimates quoted in the region of 1 million reported potholes in the UK so it's not as if they are rare things to encounter nowadays.

IamNotAllowedToUseMyName

Take a look at different brands of tyres. Some have extra rubber to help defend the rim against kerbing. Off the top of my head I can't say which are better, but it was something that was pointed out to me at one point.

Older, higher profile tyres are less prone to kerbing - the rubber sits "fatter". When we spec'd our Q3 we went for the lower spec plus upgrades rather than the SLine to avoid the mandatory low profile tyres. Advantages were more comfortable ride and less risk of kerbing the alloys - downside, presumably less road-holding when driving fast, so no downside for me!

EssexExile

Oh for the days of steel wheels with chrome hubcaps.

BeenThroughItAll

George_Michael wrote: »

Not had one "for years" which still means that it's happened to you at some point in time so whats wrong in thinking that it can and will happen to drivers who don't have as much driving experience as you?
Last year alone, some estimates quoted in the region of 1 million reported potholes in the UK so it's not as if they are rare things to encounter nowadays.

No, not had one 'for years' means I've not owned a car with a damaged alloy wheel 'for years'. I'm not aware of EVER having had a damaged alloy wheel as a result of a pothole, and ten years ago there were far fewer potholes for me to avoid.


I've had three damaged alloy wheels.


One, my own fault, slid into a kerb on ice in 1999 in my company Ford Escort
Two, my own fault again, around about 2004, I bounced the front wheel of my Skoda Octavia vRS off a low concrete section around a toll-booth trying to get closer to the window in France.
Three, the Volvo S40 I bought in 2006 had a depression on the inner bead of one wheel, which could well have been there since I bought it as it was discovered when I had winter tyres put on for a trip to the Alps only about 3-4 months after I had it.


None of the other cars I've had since have ever had any problems with the wheels, and I've not kerbed them either - I always have the wheels refurbed when I buy a car now, the £2-300 it costs me is worth it when it comes to resale I've found, and I can't stand kerbed wheels on my car.