Can you curb the INSIDE of a rim?
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Can you curb the INSIDE of a rim?
From your pic, the answer is obviously yes. I'm going with car wash although I haven't been in one in over 35 years so I'm not that familiar with them.
From your pic, the answer is obviously yes. I'm going with car wash although I haven't been in one in over 35 years so I'm not that familiar with them.
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The immediate cause is unknown.
The root cause is many, many beers.
The root cause is many, many beers.
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Looks like it was dragged on a concrete floor without the tire installed!
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Probably not. If it were dragged across a cement floor all the "scratch" marks would be parallel to each other or in other words all in the same direction. These marks are "radial" meaning they all point to the center of the wheel as would happen when rolling. I'm thinking, backed into the side of a shorter than normal parking lot cement curb.
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Possibly by driving up on someones lawn, over but parallel to the curb? I have had to park like that at times, but not with my Vette and its low clearance.
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Well, looks like a concrete scrape, not a tire machine to me anyway.
OP needs to add more info.
Parking lot curb, deep pot hole, car wash, lift drive on error are all good possibilities.
OP needs to add more info.
Parking lot curb, deep pot hole, car wash, lift drive on error are all good possibilities.
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It's a rolling scrape against a vertical surface. The scrape marks point vertically to the center of the wheel. Curb, ramp, or lift are my guesses. I'd go curb, as it looks like the mark concrete would make.
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Probably not. If it were dragged across a cement floor all the "scratch" marks would be parallel to each other or in other words all in the same direction. These marks are "radial" meaning they all point to the center of the wheel as would happen when rolling. I'm thinking, backed into the side of a shorter than normal parking lot cement curb.
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I don't think bad tire mounting works either. There is no way that any tire machine could make marks like that. Because the way a tire "rotates" in all tire machines any marks would be "circular" or gong around the rim parallel to the rim edge. The gouging looks like contact with a rough surface like concrete.
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Someone went over an actual curb, straddled it and tried to get back on paving. In the time it took to a) notice where the car was, and b) correct the situation, the damage was done all the way around the inner rim/lip. It happens. I don't think it was a tire changer or car wash rail---too scraped for that and looks like the type of concrete scrape maybe all of us have seen.