Now here’s man that knows how to make conversation! I hope being stereotypical here isn’t going to get me into trouble, as I don’t think you can edit a message after it’s been replied to.
I think a nice addition here would be to include the wheel sizes.
- '75 Civic with 13’s
- '81 Civic with 13’s
- ‘88 CRX with 14’s
- ‘89 Civic with 14’s
- '91 Prelude with 14’s
- '97 Prelude with 15’s
- 2000 Pontiac GTP Supercharged (with tiny brakes!) 16’s
- 1996 BMW 328i - came with 15’s, +2’d to 17’s!
- 2004 Sti blue with gold 17’s
- 2007 Subaru Spec B with 18’s (curbed at a gas pump!!! my lovely fiancé at the time, said don’t worry about it she she’ll buy me a new one. Now that I think about it, it’s like a kid with a broken toy hahaha. I knew I picked the right woman!)
- 2008 MB C350 with 17’s
- 2013 Lexus GS350 with 19’s (missed my MB)
- 2012 MB C63 AMG p31 481hp (I needed to top this RWD gas guzzler!) 19’s
- 2015 Tessy P85DL+ 681hp, 404km range (great car!) 19’s
- 2022 Plaid with 21’s (I don’t like them; I want 19s)
Now, In the second last year of ownership with my P85DL I forgot I still had snowes on and I was going around a fast sweeper and the car was squirming around a lot more than I realized. I barely brushed (kissed?) a curb so lightly I looked at my wife and said, did you hear that that? She wasn’t sure. We got out and there was a tiny 0.75” inch mark on the wheel that was so light It was barely noticeable. Actually, I wasn’t upset as I was having so much fun in the car. There was *some* rim protection built into those tires but not a lot. (See pic below). The Y rims stick out further.
I think the model Y set ups are worse than this, and are more easily scraped if the tire touches the curb. I mean that’s really it isn’t it? If you bump into the curb, you might scratch a rim. If you stay 6-10 inches out, you won’t. I know it’s easy to say, and it depends where you live. In London just about every Model 3 we saw had scratched rims. Tight, narrow roads, narrow laneways etc would make it difficult not to curb.