Curbing :(

Puppetmaster · 1 Jul 2008 at 22:50

Kerbing

Unfortunatly today, some ******* of a lorry driver thought it would be fun to not give me enough room to pass and i managed to slightly kerb both passenger alloys. Is this in any way fixable, because of the colour of the wheels it shows up quite a lot. Apologies for the crap pics, only quickly took them with my phone in my lunch break.

Peter Diffey · 1 Jul 2008 at 22:52

Did he swerve across into your lane? what happened?
At least they are only small

Tony Williams · 1 Jul 2008 at 22:54

Maybe generic paint would be a cheap fix? The wheels look black and scrach, silver.

Rims are buggered.

Peter Diffey said:
Did he swerve across into your lane? what happened?
At least they are only small

Sounds like the lorry was turning right and waiting for oncoming traffic to clear. So the OP drive past on the left but chipped the curb.

Solari · 1 Jul 2008 at 22:56

Ouch... were you passing on the left? I never do this unless their lane is moving slowly and I'm sure I can floor it and be past them in a second or two. I'm guessing they were coming towards you in the opposite direction though.

If it's any consolation I had a similar situation a while ago with a lady of afro-carribean descent coming the other way in a 4x4 almost smashing into me, forcing me up onto the kerb. I forgot to turn the wheel enough and crunched a bit of my passenger side front wheel coming down off of it

Puppetmaster · 1 Jul 2008 at 22:56

Tony Williams said:
Maybe generic paint would be a cheap fix? The wheels look black and scrach, silver.

Rims are buggered.

Sounds like the lorry was turning right and waiting for oncoming traffic to clear. So the OP drive past on the left but chipped the curb.

they are gloss black.

what happened was, the lorry was stopping on the right side of the raod (in a village) i guess to deliver something, there was quite a gap between him and the other curb. I tried to get past and caught the alloy on the curb on my side.

carpmaster · 1 Jul 2008 at 22:57

What on earth is a "curb" or indeed "curbing"?

Solari · 1 Jul 2008 at 22:58

carpmaster said:
What on earth is a "curb" or indeed "curbing"?

Kerbing you pedantic so and so

Or maybe he was curbing his speed to avoid killing children?

beermonster · 1 Jul 2008 at 23:00

Puppetmaster · 1 Jul 2008 at 23:02

im a noob at spelling, semi fixed it but it seems im not totally wrong

Tony Williams · 1 Jul 2008 at 23:08

carpmaster said:
What on earth is a "curb" or indeed "curbing"?

When your wheel mounts onto the edge of the pavement. If the OP knew it was going to happen, he should try to of hit it more head on.

Puppetmaster · 1 Jul 2008 at 23:09

Tony Williams said:
When your wheel mounts onto the edge of the pavement. If the OP knew it was going to happen, he should try to of hit it more head on.

i thought i was gonna be ok. And i think he was refering to my bad spelling.

Was just looking at the chips away site, saying they do alloy wheel repairs.

Is it worth getting them out or is this really screwed?

Solari · 1 Jul 2008 at 23:11

Vicious said:
i thought i was gonna be ok. And i think he was refering to my bad spelling.

Was just looking at the chips away site, saying they do alloy wheel repairs.

Is it worth getting them out or is this really screwed?

I'm looking at getting mine done but I think I'd rather go somewhere proper where they take the tyres off, acid strip them, coat and bake them, balance etc (or whatever the procedure is). Waiting on a workmate to arrange a group discount at the moment from a decent place as a load of us want ours done (we must either be unlucky or **** poor drivers

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Clarkey · 1 Jul 2008 at 23:11

Tony Williams said:
When your wheel mounts onto the edge of the pavement. If the OP knew it was going to happen, he should try to of hit it more head on.

what, and shagged the tyre up whilst bending the rim in?

Skeeter · 1 Jul 2008 at 23:12

beermonster said:
curb

My god, somebody wrote an entire paged Wiki for Kerb!

some people need to get out more

Capt-Cuckoo · 1 Jul 2008 at 23:33

carpmaster said:
What on earth is a "curb" or indeed "curbing"?

FAIL

[TW]Fox · 2 Jul 2008 at 00:24

I am the most anal person in the world when it comes to marks on my car and even I would leave that and wait until you kerb it some more before paying for the wheel to be sorted

Solari · 2 Jul 2008 at 00:27

[TW]Fox;12006050 said:
I am the most anal person in the world when it comes to marks on my car and even I would leave that and wait until you kerb it some more before paying for the wheel to be sorted

I took that point of view in that my two front wheels were kerbed a bit when I bought the car. I thought "I'm bound to kerb them a few times myself getting used to it so may as well wait"..

Seems sensible.