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Le Mans Master
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I hear you. In a moment of inattentiveness while parallel parking I ran the front tire up and over the curb. Getting out of the car I thought, that’s an expensive mistake but was shocked there was not a nick or scratch in the chrome wheel.
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Melting Slicks
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On our C6 I slightly curbed one of the painted wheels (in 102k miles of driving), and had a couple with minor scratches from tire machines. The curb job was fixed in a couple of hours for a hundred bucks, and the other dings I touched up myself. I don't want to think what that would all have cost me with chrome.
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The front track isn't wider than the rear. You just weren't perfectly parallel to the curb. That's very difficult to judge.
Last edited by Foosh; Jan 15, 2018 at 11:32 PM.
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Melting Slicks
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61.7 / 1567 (rear)
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