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Tangy

Member Since: 17 Mar 2008
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How long before you kerbed your alloys?

Picked my RRS up last Tues 11th and the wheels were as new, not a single scratch. Popped home from work today and the wife says she kerbed an alloy! ARRGGHHHH! 6 days.....

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Mon Mar 17 2008 5:50pm

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Mon Mar 17 2008 8:05pm

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Mon Mar 17 2008 8:09pm

JayMann

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You mean chunks of alloy missing?? RRS TDV6 Gone but still around
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Mon Mar 17 2008 8:11pm

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Or just completely smashed up as in VA's case........................................
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Mon Mar 17 2008 9:47pm

NickM

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One of my new 22'' - kerbed about 36 hours - and I like to think I'm careful!

I got my wife a new TT some time back, she went out for a drive with her son....and she kerbed all 4 in a 10 min spin around the block!

Mon Mar 17 2008 10:46pm

Tangy

Member Since: 17 Mar 2008
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by kerbed i mean when the wheel makes contact with a kerb and you hear the kind of grinding/scraping sound that sends shivers up your spine, making you wince and screaming, noooo! doesnt have to have chunks of alloy missing but a battle scar will be apparent.
reading some of your incidents, i should think myself lucky, the alloy is definately scratched but it could be a lot worse........ still bloody annoyed by it though!

Tue Mar 18 2008 12:20am

Alicatt

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Not on the RRS yet, touch wood. Let the SWMBO drive the MG to Tesco in Sunbury on Thames and some prat in a merc pulled out onto the wrong side of the road and SWMBO mounted the kerb to avoid it so one badly kerbed NS front alloy

Edit: Driving across a hillside did scratch the 20" wheels on the RRS that was only 4 hours from new Sons of dogs come hither and get flesh
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Tue Mar 18 2008 9:38am

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Mine was delivered on the Friday and I reversed it into a concrete pillar in a car park in Guildford on the Saturday. Well done me! The alloys lasted a while until they got kerbed though

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Tue Mar 18 2008 9:45am

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Tue Mar 18 2008 10:00am

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new Stormers got killed by wife 1.0 after 2 days - I WIN !

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Tue Mar 18 2008 10:26am

Phantom

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2008 Range Rover Sport TDV6 HSE Java Black

1 week before the 1st one got kerbed, now 3 out 4 are kerbed, and this after 3 months

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Tue Mar 18 2008 11:13am

shmoogle

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50 euro is pretty good.... it's about £50 a wheel here

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Tue Mar 18 2008 11:30am

ViewWise

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2008 Range Rover Sport TDV8 HSE Java Black

Not got the RRS yet but on the current BMW i went all the way to scotland to get new alloys. Shattered when i finally arrived back in london. Woke up a few hours later, and was watching the telly. Mum then goes 'you know those new alloys you brought - ones already scratched alot'. No guesses as to what she did while i was sleeping .

Tue Mar 18 2008 1:00pm

kam100

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Never kerbed the RRS, however got my M3 in Nov 07, lasted until i was being a cheap skate and went to save 3 cents per $ on the exchange rate recently, and popped into solihull town centre, and managed to kerb the left front wheel up the kerb entering a car park! great.. worth the saving, don't you think!

Tue Mar 18 2008 2:06pm

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