You people let your significant others drive your vehicle?

[localbrew]

Originally Posted by seattle

18" wheels on my 35d. What's wheel curb rash?

I feel like I should go back to that setup as well; never had an issue with this configuration.

[localbrew]

Originally Posted by 1naztyx5

It sucks when they do things like this but at least you have someone to be mad at haha, I always remind mine to be careful and always park far from people when she's drives my car . First curve rash on my wheels was by my own hands worse feeling specially cause she was with me. She says "damn babe you gotta be careful and watch how you park!"


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My wife said mine are jinxed because I didn't tell her I was buying them; which caused a whole other issue....

[iconoclast]

Originally Posted by primeral

Again, curb rash isn't everyday wear and tear.

it is around here (along with bumper dings/dents and door dings. you can be the most responsible and meticulous owner in the world but the next guy who pulls up doesn't care and uses your car as a bump stop when parking)

you can buy that tire/wheel warranty and it covers cosmetic damage (curbed wheels) with unlimited repairs along with the tires and the wheels.

Originally Posted by primeral

These are all first world problems, things aren't that serious, and life goes on.

exactly my point. no big deal. next time you go for service just get it repaired

[rh71]

I did the curb rash on my own - my front right is a mess. 20s + spacers and the few rare times I've had to park it against a curb... ugh, not careful enough. I would get it fixed but the biggest problem is you need to leave the wheel there at their shop for a day or more and I can't do that since I need the transportation. How do people usually do it? I mean I can just drive the wheel there in another car but then the X would be on a jack stand in the driveway for days and I'm not completely comfortable with that. Otherwise, I have a 19" spare it came with... given the other wheels are 20s, would that be alright as long as I don't move it?

But to answer the question - no I don't let her drive the car... she drove it once in 5 years and that was to drive it 3 blocks back from the shop I left my other car at which needed to be coddled home. I don't think she even understands the shifter.

[iconoclast]

there are guys that will come to your home and repair it in your driveway... especially in your area.

[bawareca]

Originally Posted by rh71

. Otherwise, I have a 19" spare it came with... given the other wheels are 20s, would that be alright as long as I don't move it?

There are tire circumference calculators,but from what i understand all OEM size tires have the same circumference.I have used 18" full size as a spare on my X5D equipped with 20" and no light was lit on the cluster.If there is more than 5% difference in the wheel speeds all ABS related lights will go off.

[campsteag]

Originally Posted by TerminatorX5

I'd like to see you cook an omelet using her kitchen utencils and put a nick on the Teflon surface with a knife when you flip the eggs... and then tell her: it gives the frying pan CHARACTER!!! and just walk away...

LOL!

[TiAgX5]

Yeah, with that logic hailstorms add CHARACTER to vehicles.

Next time she chips her nailpolish, tell her is adds character.

[slowlanemcvane]

Hahaha I totally feel you on this thread. My wife just got a really nice low mileage X5 4.8i, sport package car, everything that she wanted out of an X5 (3rd row, navigation, 4-zone climate control, HUD) and within a week curbed a wheel bad enough to bury yellow paint into the wheel and scrub it all over the tire. She lied to me, saying that she don't know when it got there. I told her that there was no way that she wouldn't have felt a bump from the curb.

Then, about a week later, she curbed the wheel so bad that she gouged the sidewall of the tire and it had to be replaced, but she didn't bother to tell me that it was curbed until I went to drive it the following weekend, and I noticed peeling rubber and a definite scrub pattern of concrete all over the sidewall.

Then I went away on an Army trip that took me out of town for a couple of weeks, and she decided to drive my truck (6.0 Powerstroke Diesel Excursion) and she noticed it was low on "gas" so she put $125 worth of premium unleaded gasoline into the tank, then drove it until it died, and had it towed to the house. I had to drain the tank, replace the fuel filters, refill it with diesel, drive it until it started to run smooth, refill it with more diesel, drive it some more, and change the filters again. That little adventure cost me $125 worth of unleaded that I had to throw away, $150 worth of fuel filters, and $150 for the tow.

Now her X5 is down, waiting on a new belt and tensioner, and she is driving my truck again, and periodically she mentions that it is getting "good gas mileage" and I always yell back at her "DIESEL! OR FUEL MILEAGE! MY TRUCK DOESN'T GET GAS MILEAGE!" Funny thing about wives, when their car breaks you lose yours. When your car breaks you lose yours. I'm not saying I'm perfect by any means, but it's hard for me to accept that women are somehow worthy of lower overall insurance rates than men. Maybe it's because a woman can somehow have a slow-motion accident at 2.7 miles per hour in a Safeway parking lot, but a man is more likely to collide fatally with a semi while going 93 miles per hour through a school zone in reverse with his windows down, hood open, and Tesla blaring on the stereo.

[DrumAdrian]

slowlanemcvane, I laughed so hard at the post that I almost fell out of my chair :busting up

I feel ya though. Stuff happens.

I'm liking TiAgX5 's signature a lot today.

"I believe in deadication to craftmanship in a world of mediocrity!"