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[Stinger Girl]

Stinger vs concrete curb with concrete culvert next to it. The curb won for the most part. I smacked it at 40-45 mph on the passenger side . I guess I'm lucky I didn't jump the curb and put half the car into the culvert. I'm also amazed at the minimal damage to the skirt. The tires are holding air and so far the only thing I can tell is the car is pulling to the left pretty aggressively. Going to Kia Tuesday.

Do we think these wheels are repairable?

 

[nhcowboy28]

Do we think these wheels are repairable?

Oh Merlin, I mean stinger girl... those pesky curbs.

yes. Repairable (find a local wheel repair place... or do it yourself... many lists on how here).

alignment to fix the tracking.

don’t pay more than $100 for an Alignment. Should be $50-100 depending on dealer.

 

[Stinger Girl]

Oh Merlin, I mean stinger girl... those pesky curbs.

yes. Repairable (find a local wheel repair place... or do it yourself... many lists on how here).

alignment to fix the tracking.

don’t pay more than $100 for an Alignment. Should be $50-100 depending on dealer.

That's good to know. My dealer has been fine up to this point but if they tell me to replace the wheels it's good to have some knowledge.

The true pesk is the arse coming the other way that went so far left of center I had no choice. Grrrrr.

 

[CKeeler]

Oh Merlin, I mean stinger girl... those pesky curbs.

yes. Repairable (find a local wheel repair place... or do it yourself... many lists on how here).

alignment to fix the tracking.

don’t pay more than $100 for an Alignment. Should be $50-100 depending on dealer.

Geez. The dealers near me charge $150. I paid that at Firestone for a lifetime alignment

 

[CKeeler]

Yes. Your wheels should be repairable. Find a local wheel shop

 

[Dodger Blue]

I'm glad it wasn't more serious! Hopefully the damage is just superficial and repairable.

 

[namja]

Yikes that first pic. Yeah hopefully that's sandpaperable

 

[MerlintheMad]

Ouch! is right.

That front rim is major labor for sandpaper. And you'll still have some of the deepest gouges left by the valve stem and permanently into the gun metal color, that's the really bad part. The rocker panel looks only lightly abraded in the pic; the scrape didn't even reach through to the black plastic. Hand buffing followed up with several layers of wax should hide it (judging by the pic, of course).

I'm glad that you didn't do this to yourself; but sad that some jacks ass nearly destroyed your car!? I echo the majority opinion: the damage is entirely repairable and should not run more than the cost of an alignment and maybe three hundred max for the wheels. When I saw how extensively my LR rim got rashed last winter, I threw my hands in the air (and "threw away" my sandpaper) and had my wheels powder coated instead.

Let's imagine that my powder coated wheels suffer the same amount of scraping that is in your pics: my battle plan has me using touchup paint to make them look okay from middling distance (so they at least don't look so sad and disreputable driving and parking around, heh). Then at some point I'd take them in and get the powder coating redone: lots less headache and expense over the long haul.

 

[M'Kehyah]

Me? I would simply sand and put on RimBlades (plastic covers that glue on). The area by stem will be the only reminder of your Very Bad Day.

 

[westcoastGT]

Sand them out and Plasti Dip them , you'll never see it ! Lots of colors available ,or get them repaired either way you'll be fine , it can be repaired ( maybe 175- 225 )