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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.
Looks like it was dragged on a concrete floor without the tire installed!
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.
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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Last edited by eboggs_jkvl; 01-18-2017 at 10:25 AM.
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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Agreed. The scratch lines arnt consistent with being dragged on a floor. I'm going with bad tire mounting.
Agreed. The scratch lines arnt consistent with being dragged on a floor. I'm going with bad tire mounting.
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.
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.
01-18-2017, 07:37 AM
