This wheel is attached - but only just, I reckon - the to the back of an Aston martin DB9 seen near my house yesterday.
Wheel kerbing - everyone's done it at some point, and it's infuriating if you love your car. I did it once to my Fezza manoeuvring on a narrow country road. It was only a tiny chip, but I had to have it mended because I couldn't sleep.
This, though, is not a light scuff. This is the work of someone who nudged the kerb and then decided to keep going. Notice that even the tyre has a piece out of it.
This car actually belongs to someone I know. To spare his blushes, we'll call him Bob. His real name's Paul Norris.
This has got to stop. The world is full of organisations protecting animals, regional foodstuffs, historic buildings and even people. But the alloy wheel is weeping at the roadside, unnoticed. Photograph, name, and shame.
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Any reasonable Aston owner knows to opt for the plastic hub cap option.
I have them on my weekend PT Cruiser for this very reason.
Is it made out of the same ABS plastic as the "special person" helmet you're required to wear?
Yes. My helmet is also chrome-painted to match my hub caps.
With her sloping shoulder, moist with the dampness of night, Al Lloyd could not resist such sturdy constitution. And under the mad moon that pulled at his point of rotation, he drifted through the malodorous waves flowing around his black walls. Just beyond the smoke of a poorly tuned Renault cloaking the rugged cobble of blunt reality, he felt a rising surge, and they grinded in a mass of red-hot spark climaxing in guttural howl.
And when morning distorted night's desire into the sound of clinking glass and hydraulic arms, he found it, just above his repentant valve stem. A curb rash.
I wasn't so lucky the first time I hit a curb 😑😆
Ouch, that's not scuffed - it's buckled!
I just had four rims refurbished to hide the stigma of 'kerbing' from a previous owner.
I couldn't live with that level of shame and the accusatory stares... People assuming that I, 'I' had been the one responsible for this, abomination.
Not a wheel and not a curb, but I finally washed the winter dirt and grime and snow and ice off my Grand Cherokee and noticed that my trusty snow broom left scratches all over. On my car that I'm planning on selling in two weeks. I felt a bit ragey.
Why are you using a snow broom on your paint? Its for the windshield...
Because there's a foot of snow on my car. I'm not one of those idiots that drive around with a 3 inch hole to peek out of.