So happy the wheels on my car are designed to prevent any curbs from suffering from getting tire marks on them. Thankfully, the wheels scratch instead of the tires making contact.
Over the last year, i've managed to ever so slightly get too close on three of my four wheels. Leaving scratches on my AMG wheels, but they are minor. Anyone having the same bad luck? How easy is this to repair?

You just have to take wider turns and use the 360 camera view to avoid curbs. As far as repair, most wheel repair places can take care of this I think.

Just pissed at myself. So damn careful with the car, but sometimes you just get into close quarters and a wheel finds a curb.

This is one of those areas where I drive like I'm 100 years old. So afraid I'm going to hit the curb. I would agree that the 360 camera is the best defense - that and not parallel parking!

A wider turn is definitely the answer. Learned that the hard way after curbing three wheels due to stupidity. When I bought the car, I also got the wheel and tire insurance from the dealer, only to find out that the insurance only covers OEM wheels, not aftermarket. Cancelled the policy and used the refund to buy a new wheel.


Since then I've been extremely careful and haven't curbed a wheel in a year.
Knock wood.

A couple of links if you want to DIY:

This is cost effective-and readily available at P-Boys, but you get adequate results only:

http://www.pepboys.com/product/details/73488/01036

This is a higher end product that a friend used (he bought two kits) on his wife's Audi and it looked great-it took him about two days to complete all four wheels, not including shipping cost and delivery time:


I had 3 out of 4 done by a professional (Thialgo) with the wheels on in my garage in a couple of hours, a great job at a great price. You can get it done at a local shop that can repair and powder coat if you can spare the extra cost and do not need the car for a few days, I could not-I wanted to cruise with a nice set of wheels.

Thanks, not sure I can gather the time to do it myself. I've arranged for a local repair guy to fix the wheels at $150 each. Hope to have it done by next week. I will report on the results. Can't tell you how much I hate curb rash.

All done, they came out like new. Now, I need to just remind myself to STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM CURBS.