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Official Curbing Thread
- Thread starter wayanbros
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True, even though I seem to be the culprit lately. Did this 2 weekends ago pulling into a parking spot in Austin. It is really small but my stomach dropped when it happened. My wife immediately said, "Glad you were the first one and not me".
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True, even though I seem to be the culprit lately. Did this 2 weekends ago pulling into a parking spot in Austin. It is really small but my stomach dropped when it happened. My wife immediately said, "Glad you were the first one and not me".
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I love my daughters, but as far as curbing, a few years ago when I was visiting my oldest, I had my supercharged Jaguar XF parked in the driveway. She said she needed to go to the store and asked for the keys. As she backed out of the driveway (fairly steep), I got to hear the front spoiler hit the ground when she hit the street. This spooked her a bit (she had a raised SUV at the time), so she immediately drove up over the curb completely whacking out a very expensive BBS front rim.
I never said a word about it, but she's never driven one of my vehicles since.
I never said a word about it, but she's never driven one of my vehicles since.
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Funny that you say this. I was just saying the same to the Mrs. the other night. There’s a particular spot on a wide main street that I typically take a U-turn on. With the BMW all wheel drive 328 I had to take it slow because I almost touched the curb on the other side while making a U-turn. With the ST, I estimate that I was about 6 feet away from the curb. I thought they widened the street.
Well here it is, curb rash 2.0. I did this one about a month after my wife bounced off a curb. She did enough damage for me to order another wheel. Luckily I didn't install it yet and this is the same wheel she hit a curb with. I may just keep the new wheel in the box to see if we will continue abusing this wheel....lol
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Well here it is, curb rash 2.0. I did this one about a month after my wife bounced off a curb. She did enough damage for me to order another wheel. Luckily I didn't install it yet and this is the same wheel she hit a curb with. I may just keep the new wheel in the box to see if we will continue abusing this wheel....lol
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Strange how much damage resulted from this curb strike... because when you watch police pursuit videos, you see them hopping curbs at similar speeds and still being able to pursue the subject.
I would imagine the control arms between ST and PIU models are similar. The difference has to be in how much a 255/60/18 tire can absorb a curb strike compared to a factory 21" wheel/tire setup in the ST models.
I would imagine the control arms between ST and PIU models are similar. The difference has to be in how much a 255/60/18 tire can absorb a curb strike compared to a factory 21" wheel/tire setup in the ST models.
