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Curbing a wheel and scraping the rim is an aesthetic issue
Curbing a wheel and damaging the tyre is a safety issue
I’d rather scrape a rim than damage a tyre
I still remember that time Jalopnik totaled out a Camaro at Belle Isle. Is it a walk of shame when they ask you to leave?
Curbing is especially heinous here in New Jersey, where seemingly every locale insists on creating 90 degree curbs with that godawful Belgian Block. I hate that shit with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns.
On a related note, I also wish every auto manufacturer would add the feature where the passenger mirror rotates down, making it easier to avoid those stupid curbs when reversing/parallel parking. Not that it prevented our lovely daughter from allowing a few to take large bites out of her Mini’s wheels, but still…
I’ve sadly now managed to curb both left wheels on my BRZ in separate incidents. Always hate that. Some tires actually have much better curb protectors than others, even in the same size, just depending on design, but it’s damn near impossible to figure out which ones really have good ones without physically lining them up next to each other, something that the average consumer can’t do.