When I was leaving the "ever delicious Taco Bell" I wasn't paying attention and turned too sharp and scraped the hell out of my rims. 1100 miles on the car. They were scraped up bad, bad, bad. Anyone interested in selling me an 18" or have any ideas on replacement or repair?

 

I just sold two 18" fronts to a wheel place nearby - do you need fronts or just rears?

And don't worry, did the same thing with just a few more miles

 

Rears. I thought the tire lip would be enough to save me, but obviously it didn't.

 

Nope, there is no freakin' tire lip on the rears. Okay, then have some different advice since I've just been through it.

First, I've been told that PPG etc. won't sell hyper-silver paint here in the US, so there's really no place that can do a good repair. Reportedly the paint will look different, and/or come off quickly. The wheel place fixed mine by polishing the lips down, which actually looked kinda cool - but was def noticeable.

If you want new wheels, try this:

• Long story short, by monitoring eBay
• watching a wheel and tire set continue to go down in price,
• then calling them to offer $1,100 (brand-new wheels and tires)
• selling the other three wheels I didn't need

I ended up with four brand-new tires, with about $100 in savings. It took me a few months, but is possible. Good luck!!

 

Thanks. The rears do have a tire lip just like the fronts.

 

where r u located?? im thinking of selling mine.

 

Northern Virginia (near DC)

 

im in CA, i was thinking about selling all 4 of mine but shipping to virginia would cost A LOT!

 

Time for some 19" or 20"

 

WTF, sounds like a ROAD TRIP! Southern CA to Virginia in a G, whadda think, maybe 12 hours???

 

You misunderstood, or perhaps I stated it incorrectly - because the rear tires aren't very wide for the wheel, the wheel actually sticks out farther. On the fronts, the tire sticks out, which could save the wheel.

 

Another option ... there are places around that will sell you a set of polished stockers plus core charge. Send in your wheels and they refund the core charge.

 

Definitely not 12 hours!! How about 3 days and that's if you really don't stop.

 

I remember seeing tires (the brand name escapes me right now) with a highly pronounced rubber bumper strip molded into the sidewall of the tire. If the particular size is selected properly in relation to the rim, there would be little chance the rim itself would ever make contact with anything other than that tire's rubber.

Now - what was the name of it? If I recall correctly it was definitely not an American/European brand. Perhaps someone here knows which tire I am talking about?

 

I had a pair of Falken Ziex 512's that had a huge lip.