Alloy wheel insurance

motorguy

BOWFER said:

BVRLA guidelines for allowable damage include scuffed alloys.
So provided the lease company follows BVRLA rules, don't fix them at all and you won't get a bill.

Only 50mm / 2 inches on the full circumference of the wheel though, which is quite little - a 17 inch alloy wheel has a circumference of 53.41 inches, so an allowance of damage to just 3.7% of the edging.

BOWFER

motorguy said:

BOWFER said:

BVRLA guidelines for allowable damage include scuffed alloys.
So provided the lease company follows BVRLA rules, don't fix them at all and you won't get a bill.

Only 50mm / 2 inches on the full circumference of the wheel though, which is quite little - a 17 inch alloy wheel has a circumference of 53.41 inches, so an allowance of damage to just 3.7% of the edging.

Fair enough.
I've never actually kerbed an alloy in all my years of driving, not once - proud to say!
I did get some rim damage to my 18" alloys the other week, a pothole.
That was £70 to fix (diamond cut alloy) that had to be 'shaved' to get rid of the damage.

tr7phil

BOWFER said:

motorguy said:

BOWFER said:

BVRLA guidelines for allowable damage include scuffed alloys.
So provided the lease company follows BVRLA rules, don't fix them at all and you won't get a bill.

Only 50mm / 2 inches on the full circumference of the wheel though, which is quite little - a 17 inch alloy wheel has a circumference of 53.41 inches, so an allowance of damage to just 3.7% of the edging.

Fair enough.
I've never actually kerbed an alloy in all my years of driving, not once - proud to say!
I did get some rim damage to my 18" alloys the other week, a pothole.
That was £70 to fix (diamond cut alloy) that had to be 'shaved' to get rid of the damage.

Kerbing an alloy wheel is usually one of the first things I do with a new car, having done it the once I then normally don't do it again until I replace the car!  This has held true for the last three cars I've had.  Also another where I fitted alloy wheels to replace the steels, I kerbed one on the first day of them being fitted, I still have the car now some 25 years later and have not damaged a wheel since.  I must be a special kind of stupid!