How did you get your gutter rash?

[LowEL2XR8]

Most of us really look after our cars and drive sensibly on the roads but there is quite a few who still get gutter rash, albeit minor in most cases.

How have you gutter rashed your mint condition rims?

I did mine on a giant curb at a coffee stand. The milk truck was blocking the entry mostly but I thought I could squeeze in. As soon as I touched the curb (which was a good 8"s high) I stopped, realised I couldn't make it and backed out. I had just touched the rim slightly at about 1-2kph. It was my rear left one.

[rancidpunx]

2 week old 20s and i was travelling in a left lane of 3 when a tree lopping truck merged from the right lane across all 3 lanes without looking and i ended up on the curb. Luckily the front made it up a driveway but the back got a nice rash on it. Livid. Just luck there were no signs or poles on the section of curb i mounted. All fixed now.

[70caprigt3k]

I was driving out of a pretty tight and twisty bottle shop driveway while trying to check out the mint brunette in the astra coming out of the other driveway at the shopping center. I ended up gouging the rim on the kerb and putting a wheel into the garden.

The worst thing was the chick noticed my stuff up and and laughed at me.

Then i lent my wheels to a mate to put on his car for a bit, he managed to put it into a gutter and destroyed a rim.

I need new rims.

[LUXO_8]

got my rims cheap cheap but they were gutter rashed pretty bad on one rim and a bit on the other 3...
they're 3 piece rims so i doubt it'll be too expensive to get new outers put on them when i get around to it

[guntersmells]

oh god this hurts to bring it back up :P

Didn't see a little protrusion coming out of one of those really stoney harsh gutters in redcliffe....The only good thing about it is that it only hit the front left....but it's so bad lol :P

[hendrixhc]

Thats easy to answer: let the misses drive our two week old car to the shops. Goodd bye front left wheel. Lucky its her car.

[pauljh74]

The tyres on mine sit out far enough from the rim so that simply grazing the kerb will only scrub the tyre. The previous owner did all the gutter rash on my car in 2.5 years. I haven't added one in 9 years. That tells me the previous drivers stuffed up big time.

[Iggypoppin']

had to let my friend jess drive one night, truck cut her off on a merge lane and bang. Bye bye 2 day old rim. Got new one, reverse parallell parked it at the docs a day after and...

It was the rear left :(

[pottery beige]

+1 for rear left.. dohhhh!!!

[CADSKY]

went for a cruise with some mates throught the dandenong rangers at about 10.30PM, it was pitch black and no lights on the roads, we were coming up to a large sweeping "bend" or so i thought and i didnt really slow down for it. as i got into the bend it got tighter and tighter as i went though, tried braking as much as i could but i droped the rear left off the road and into the dirt as i was coming out and just kissed the guard rail. end result was gutter rash the whole way round my 1 week old 2k rims and a nice 6cm scratch along my wheel arch.

[Powdered Toast Man]

Never have. The only scratches my 17" BA rims have on them are from tyre fitters. Mind you I rarely have to park near a gutter.

I had 17" AJRs on my previous car which had big rolled lips that protruded past the tyre. I never scraped them but as soon as I sold it to my mate he managed to rash all 4 plus buckle 2 all within 6 months.
Before that I had 16" tickfords but the tyres had big chuncky sidewall protectors so I would have had to have hit something pretty hard to rash the rim. I did hit a drain once but I missed the rim; took a big chunk out of the sidewall. Managed to buckle 1 though, not sure how.

[ea90gl]

Originally Posted by hendrixhc

Thats easy to answer: let the misses drive our two week old car to the shops. Goodd bye front left wheel. Lucky its her car.

lol mines just the same, she now either parks 3m from the kurb or demolishes a rim to hell, not in my cars but still painfull to see

[seduced_xr]

10 minutes ago at IGA canning vale i just misjudged the kerb and hit the tyre and the rim. luckily the previous owner already totally screwed that rim for me

[LowEL2XR8]

It seems that left rear is popular to cop damage. Its also the furthest away from the driver. Being on the opposite side and at the back is probably out of our sense of knowing where the car is.

[MITCHAY]

All my wheels were mint when I bought my car, all four have gutter rash now. All but one are from parking. I don't really care though at all.

[XR Lita]

Never once put any gutter rash on any of the rims on any of my cars over the years...

Only incident I had was when I cracked a rim hitting a pothole a few years back. Council bought me a new rim and tyre, but still didn't put any rash on it

[Dezza]

Mine were never mint condition, but driving through a carpark, the EA just didn't fit. I should have backed up for a 2nd go but instead just scraped the kerb, gouging the lip of my front left SVO

[fordOwner]

245 tyres. Problem solved and it looks Phat!

[SVD]

let my mum drive :( oh the horror when i got the car back, rear left was missing a nice big chunk and the front left became a cheese grater... i did my front left when i wasnt paying to much attention it was only a little bit but enough to annoy me...

[Zero_PSI]

I don't have any gutter rash

But on my old rolla I hit a gutter from fatigue.

[Poidevin]

The roads were wet, I went into a roundabout in the right lane at about 20k/h, went to accelarate out and the back end completely lost traction, I got pitched into the left lane right infront of a truck and I wrenched the car around and smacked the front wheel it into the concrete island in the middle of the road. So yeah massive gutter rash, pretty lucky it wasn't a major accident

[DBourne]

easy: stupidity

[V3RSAC3]

Because I've white walls i tend to be extra careful as it shows much worse as it does on rims!. ... Did mine saturday night in town. Not good :(

[Fev]

Maccas drive through and rushing to get a good car sport at work. Didn't check properly when i went to park and i could feel the car cringe as i took a nice chunk out of the front left rim :( big and ugly scar..

[AzuR]

have 20's on my ute that i use for work hurts me so much :P both times i've clipped my back rims, ive been dropping gear off on william st in perth, those dam 2 foot kerbs, it's a union site, bad omen!

[Mr Brooksy]

Had just put my 19's on about 4 weeks before my lovely wife went for a drive down to the shops. I must point out that she had been saying that "the reason I didn't let her drive was because I didn't trust her with my new wheels". Anyway she comes back home white as a ghost with a huge chunck out of the right rear rubber and some fairly minor gutter rash on the rim! Her explaination was that she was turning right at a set of lights when she suddenly noticed a new FG GT, and looked at it for too long, miss judged the inside curb and crashed over it! All I can say is I'm glad Maxxis has a huge chunk of rubber as a lip to protect the wheel or the small bit of rash would be huge!!

I still let her drive, I figure if she was admiring a FG GT it's ok! Haha!

[BADan]

I gutter rashed my front left wheel. Not too bad. Did it while leaning over towards the passenger side trying to read a parking sign while still rolling slightly. As I leaned over, must have moved the wheel to the left slightly and heard the lovely crunching noise against the gutter.

Had the wheels on for about 6 months before the first gutter rash. 19".

[ED Ford Falcon]

I love my stockies haha

[Dave R]

I 'rashed my front left FG 19" whilst trying to eat a cheeseburger and talk on the phone in a Mcdonalds drive through. I fail at multi-tasking.

[Smoke Pursuit]

Originally Posted by Adrenaline

I 'rashed my front left FG 19" whilst trying to eat a cheeseburger and talk on the phone in a Mcdonalds drive through. I fail at multi-tasking.

That was an expensive feed wasnt it..

I bet there were a few F's flying at your end of the phone somewhere between taking a bite and scrrzzzzzzz.