Time to look into getting a replacement. I mean hey, it might be hard to find one but the kids will understand and one day they will embrace their new step mom.
In my case it definitely isn’t. It just keeps happening, then the car magically gets damaged on the rear left side, then the top glass gets cracked, next thing you know she is sending thousands of dollars to a drug dealer via Venmo. Hopefully he chooses the correct path, unlike me.
Sucks man, sorry. I used to worry so much about rim rash on our teslas but now when it happens, I just go, oh well. At least there’s no other damage. Then I live my life and ignore it.
Lol my cousin did that for his wife's Model 3. She end up hitting the curb and the protective covers kept falling off, and he had to keep buying new ones lol.
>If you can wait, they're even cheaper via Temu/Aliexpress/Ebay
Yeah i [saw these for 63$](https://toali.ru.net/l/4PCSCarWheelRimProtectionRing18till20Inch)
Omg, I asked my roommate to take care of the dishes either the night before (hand wash) or the morning of (emptying the dishwasher) when he’d leave for work (he would leave and sometimes not come back for days at a time). He said I don’t have time in the mornings. I said wake up 5 minutes earlier. He said it’s physically impossible for him to do that and that he would just take care when he’d get home.
I’m just like bro, just do it before work. Oh no I’ll be late. Dude left the house at like 9:15. When he first started a few months prior he was leaving at 6 am. I’m just like bro, you won’t be late, because A) there is no set time or b) you already are.
God the mental gymnastics people would go through. Spend more time arguing over why they shouldn’t do something than just doing it.
My wife certainly has ICE range anxiety and gets uncomfortable when my car is at a quarter tank. I appreciate her though, she'll never be caught without 400 miles of fuel in her car in case of, you know, zombies or something.
Very easy to buy wider tires to get exactly that. Tesla went with the narrow size to get better EPA range ratings and I'm sure pay slightly less per tire.
The OEM Tesla rims are 18x8.5. I bought aftermarket 18x8.5 rims and for some reason the aftermarket ones are a bit narrower and the exact same tires end up protruding a bit more than they did on the stock rims so I am protected from curb rash. I haven't noticed a reduction in range at all. So I think it's pretty stupid how the default Tesla rims stick out like this.
Wife did the same thing to mine. She drove it twice the first 2 years we had it. First time got rear-ended ( ok not her fault). 2nd time she curbed the wheels up.
Oh that sucks. My Tesla actually curbed itself using the self park feature. I hit the brakes and it only did one wheel but I was pretty sad and never used the feature again. I know several people who said their teslas curbed themselves and I doubted them until it happened to me.
If she’s doing that with regular cars too then it’s still hilarious and worth posting here, but I can’t say I relate haha
I expect the design is intentional for improved aerodynamics, but having the wheel sitting proud of the tire is just an invitation to scuff the hell out of it.
I meant, for most, if they were to hit a curb, it would be at low speed in a parking lot, where they may not realize a curb was so close. To rash it all the way around is just... special. And I see it more with Teslas, by far, than with any other vehicle.
Absolutely agreed. Low speed and parking mishaps accumulate over time and can make your car look like sh1t after a few years. You need to concentrate just as much parallel parking as driving down the freeway.
After owning a Model 3 for 3 years, I will testify that the rims are extremely easy to scrape. I was always careful parking, but ended up with one (that cost me about $150 at lease end) because of one parking incident I had backing out of a space next to a curb on the side of the vehicle and accidentally hitting it as I was turning to leave.
But, I will say, if your wife really "thinks" she drove over a curb, that's either B.S. and she's lying to avoid you exploding or she is a really, really bad driver. And all those scrapes in one day? I'm leaning toward "she's a bad driver", but how many curbs did she drive over, more than ten? She had to be bouncing off of curbs like a pinball...
The Model 3 is the 4th car I’ve owned in my lifetime. I had never curbed a wheel before. I’ve curbed every wheel on the Model 3… something about the wheel base throws me off. I haven’t in a while but in the beginning it was rough driving/parking by curbs.
My boyfriend curbed my M3P and he said he's now afraid of driving my tesla because i went "nuclear". Thing is he parks very carefully in his own so frankly I blame it on recklessness.
Today I saw an older woman looking down (texting) while in a corner....in the corner! Her timing was absolutely terrible. The worst part is that my car was the apex. Thankfully she didn't clip me. I swear, FSD is already safer than most of the lunatics out there.
To her defense it's such a shitty design. I'm surprised to see a Tesla M3/MY without them. All the Tesla M3/MY parked in my area have their rims fucked up...
Tesla rims are the worst. I've never had a car as prone to rim rash as the times I’ve had a 3. The fact the rim is the most prominent part of the wheel is so dumb.
Be easy on her man.
My ole’ lady would do the same thing, but I know that based on her driving history, love her despite that, and will be quick to comfort her when the day she comes home nervous about having curbed the M3P wheels.
Just a wheel and some money :)
Got in the car and it said 75 miles to empty. Her commute is 15 miles round trip. Also, you can’t pump your own gas in my town, so she doesn’t even need to get out of the vehicle.
I've probably only curbed a rim when I first started driving back in late 2000s. I've been daily driving for all my jobs over the last 20 years and have only curbed the 18 inch aeros. Something about the setup in my opinion is prone to curb rash.
They sell rim protectors, so the protector gets scratched up and not the wheel. They look nice, they’re fairly cheap compared to replacing wheels, etc.
Crazy how there is a whole business selling Tesla drivers wheel covers haha. Every other car i've seen the wheels are recessed in the tire so this doesnt happen
Get some rimetrix or something. Look better and cover the lip.
Of course I also curbed my Rimetrix but hey, it’s my life. I actually prefer scratched and curbed vehicles. So much less anxiety. I’m a basket case when I have to maneuver my Porsche near a curb.
First of all let me tell you how sorry I am brother. A cheap workaround that I use is just to use a black paint stick for rims. It works great (for what it is) and definitely makes it look less bad but if the rims are bent then I would NOT cheap out and replace them.
Edit:
Had a closer look at the pic and those rims are done for sure
Just replace it. Only $25 through Tesla. You’re welcome
https://preview.redd.it/6xy6lsss3avc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d2c8c260d5c81bac24c33f2f0f6d67f4fbcacdad
Don't worry. This way when you do the same thing in a few months, even though you swear you never will let this happen to you, this way she won't be able to hold it against you.
Be nice to her now about it. Trust.
I have a civic and a M3. They are near the same size, how does one curb these cars? They are pretty standard sizing. The thing beeps when you’re close to a curb.
She should have blamed FSD lol
Wife curbed the back wheel on our xc40 EV on day 1 of ownership. Repair was about 100 or 150. It has happened again a time or two since, but not as bad as that first time. Tesla wheels are wider than the Volvo wheels, so even easier to curb.
“She thinks she hit a curb” killed me 💀
She hit it then kept on hittin it
It was either the curb or a homeless person - unsure.
[This is 100% OP's wife.](https://imgur.com/a/L9ML73J)
That was such a great carpool karaoke lol
Aw I wanna know now what happened?
Has anyone seen Sparky around?
“The ___ is acting funny” is my favorite.
Classic
Time to look into getting a replacement. I mean hey, it might be hard to find one but the kids will understand and one day they will embrace their new step mom.
lol
"Had us in the first half"
lol
I think it's cheaper to replace the rim.
No. It. Is. Not.
In my case it definitely isn’t. It just keeps happening, then the car magically gets damaged on the rear left side, then the top glass gets cracked, next thing you know she is sending thousands of dollars to a drug dealer via Venmo. Hopefully he chooses the correct path, unlike me.
You took the words out of my mouth.
Replace the wife... not the car.
r/yourjokebutworse
Sucks man, sorry. I used to worry so much about rim rash on our teslas but now when it happens, I just go, oh well. At least there’s no other damage. Then I live my life and ignore it.
Exactly. As long as the tire isn’t shot, I’ll survive.
Even if the tire is shot, I’m like 99.9% sure you’ll survive!
I'm past wheel damage and onto panek damage with my wife now... I live with it too.
I also use to find rim rash a pain…. But putting some nice ointment on it made all my troubles disappear
Why are you getting them. I have never done this, ever… I really can’t understand how EVERY Tesla driver other than me has them.
Just buy $100 4pc rim covers that cover the rim and pretend like nothing happened
I'll be doing this soon. Send way cheaper than replacing rims or buying the wheels I really wanted.
Lol my cousin did that for his wife's Model 3. She end up hitting the curb and the protective covers kept falling off, and he had to keep buying new ones lol.
Can you get a link for those? I’ve damaged 3 of the 4 🤦♂️🤦♂️
Just search for tesla model 3 hubcaps on amazon and see what you like. If you can wait, they're even cheaper via Temu/Aliexpress/Ebay
>If you can wait, they're even cheaper via Temu/Aliexpress/Ebay Yeah i [saw these for 63$](https://toali.ru.net/l/4PCSCarWheelRimProtectionRing18till20Inch)
Not these, I’m talking about entire hub cap replacement that covers the rim
Thanks for linking these. Didn't even know these existed
Came here to say this. Just bought a set of Uber turbine style covers on Amazon for about $150. They will cover up the scratches on those OEM rims.
Ah man. No gas stations on the way to work?
There’s one 0.5 mile away but would make her late for work. TLDR; I guess she has ICE range anxiety.
I feel like the obvious solution would be to leave earlier lol
But the less obvious solution was to wreck hubbies hubcaps 😂
That barely the hubcap.. that’s 98% rim.
Hubcap? That’s the metal rim lol
No the obvious solution was to fill the gas tank on the way home from work....or any of the previous 2 days
Omg, I asked my roommate to take care of the dishes either the night before (hand wash) or the morning of (emptying the dishwasher) when he’d leave for work (he would leave and sometimes not come back for days at a time). He said I don’t have time in the mornings. I said wake up 5 minutes earlier. He said it’s physically impossible for him to do that and that he would just take care when he’d get home. I’m just like bro, just do it before work. Oh no I’ll be late. Dude left the house at like 9:15. When he first started a few months prior he was leaving at 6 am. I’m just like bro, you won’t be late, because A) there is no set time or b) you already are. God the mental gymnastics people would go through. Spend more time arguing over why they shouldn’t do something than just doing it.
My wife certainly has ICE range anxiety and gets uncomfortable when my car is at a quarter tank. I appreciate her though, she'll never be caught without 400 miles of fuel in her car in case of, you know, zombies or something.
Apparently gas stations are hard to find ;-)
At this point I'd prefer if the rubber were protruding farther than the rims. Would prevent so much curb rash.
Very easy to buy wider tires to get exactly that. Tesla went with the narrow size to get better EPA range ratings and I'm sure pay slightly less per tire.
The OEM Tesla rims are 18x8.5. I bought aftermarket 18x8.5 rims and for some reason the aftermarket ones are a bit narrower and the exact same tires end up protruding a bit more than they did on the stock rims so I am protected from curb rash. I haven't noticed a reduction in range at all. So I think it's pretty stupid how the default Tesla rims stick out like this.
Totaled
This was really low down in the comments. What’s happened to this sub!?!
People had to make the oh so predictable “gotta replace the wife” comment that we’ve only heard 1,993,275 times.
No wonder FSD keeps hitting curbs if this is the training data it’s getting
lol
I think this is the best time to exercise your prenup agreement
Wife did the same thing to mine. She drove it twice the first 2 years we had it. First time got rear-ended ( ok not her fault). 2nd time she curbed the wheels up.
How is it going with your new wife?
Wonder what her rims looks like lol
SUV tires marked up with scuffed sidewalls. Just a matter of time before a curb slices the tire.
Oh that sucks. My Tesla actually curbed itself using the self park feature. I hit the brakes and it only did one wheel but I was pretty sad and never used the feature again. I know several people who said their teslas curbed themselves and I doubted them until it happened to me. If she’s doing that with regular cars too then it’s still hilarious and worth posting here, but I can’t say I relate haha
Straight to jail
dont have wife
The best prenup is no nup.
I was looking for this comment. I’m literally never getting married.
I expect the design is intentional for improved aerodynamics, but having the wheel sitting proud of the tire is just an invitation to scuff the hell out of it.
It is but if you hit a curb, you hit a curb. You shouldn’t rely on a thick tire to make up for a wife’s bad driving.
Most people hit curbs in parking lots, scratching an inch or two. But tesla drivers do it at speed, to get marks all the way around. It's impressive.
Most people? I’ve only been driving like 16 years but I’ve never damaged a wheel. I been in Tesla vehicles.
I meant, for most, if they were to hit a curb, it would be at low speed in a parking lot, where they may not realize a curb was so close. To rash it all the way around is just... special. And I see it more with Teslas, by far, than with any other vehicle.
Absolutely agreed. Low speed and parking mishaps accumulate over time and can make your car look like sh1t after a few years. You need to concentrate just as much parallel parking as driving down the freeway.
That’s some really expensive gas she’s going to have to pay for…
Sadly gas would have been cheaper
I spent $79 to fill her tank too!
Happened to me too. Was told "its just a car" "who cares". After initially denying the deed.
Perfect reason to order new rims. Turn a negative to an awesome positive.
Would be a nice fathers day present.
Heck, go for new wheels completely!
Unless she gets to drive the car again...
After owning a Model 3 for 3 years, I will testify that the rims are extremely easy to scrape. I was always careful parking, but ended up with one (that cost me about $150 at lease end) because of one parking incident I had backing out of a space next to a curb on the side of the vehicle and accidentally hitting it as I was turning to leave. But, I will say, if your wife really "thinks" she drove over a curb, that's either B.S. and she's lying to avoid you exploding or she is a really, really bad driver. And all those scrapes in one day? I'm leaning toward "she's a bad driver", but how many curbs did she drive over, more than ten? She had to be bouncing off of curbs like a pinball...
Yep going around the corner of the Starbucks drive through it was a total scrape.
How is the "end of the lease" with Tesla? Mine is almost up I just hear horror stories Since I moved to US, I had no issues returning Mercedes leases
She should have blamed it on FSD!
That would take planning, but with planning she wouldn't have been 'out of gas' in the first place.
This is my story! Except I have the 19” sport wheels. My wife has curbed every damn wheel.
The curb tends to move towards the car when we let them drive 😂😂😂😂 it’s an international thing I think.
wife: It wasn't me, it was like this before.
“Oopsies ☺️🙃🤪”
Divorce.
The Model 3 is the 4th car I’ve owned in my lifetime. I had never curbed a wheel before. I’ve curbed every wheel on the Model 3… something about the wheel base throws me off. I haven’t in a while but in the beginning it was rough driving/parking by curbs.
She was probably like "oopsie :)"
“I think it was already like that”
The only thing more annoying that a person who made a mistake is a person who “thinks” they know they made a mistake.
My boyfriend curbed my M3P and he said he's now afraid of driving my tesla because i went "nuclear". Thing is he parks very carefully in his own so frankly I blame it on recklessness.
Now you can buy the wheels you couldn’t justify to her before!
Wife: you worried more about the wheels than me… 😕
Being a Tesla, people will definitely think you did them
Sigh, being married myself I have learned sometimes you can either be happy or right. I usually just choose to be happy, good luck.
What do the rims look like on her gasser?
My wife did the same…but I tore the mirror off a week later so I guess I got the high score 😅
Driving by feel.
Texting and driving....
Today I saw an older woman looking down (texting) while in a corner....in the corner! Her timing was absolutely terrible. The worst part is that my car was the apex. Thankfully she didn't clip me. I swear, FSD is already safer than most of the lunatics out there.
the old, I'm outta gas trick... works every time
No dear, I’m outta gas also. Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
Unfortunately, her response to that would have become an emergency for you.
Ex wife?
Anyone criticizing FSD Supervised for sometimes getting curb rash, just remember that humans do this all the time too ;)
R/teslawifedamage
Looks like she never met a curb she didn't like
Wow, Looks like when she hit the curb, she hit it several more times just to be sure.
It’s not bad that’s easily replaceable with a new one. Then you can fix ur wheel too
Wrong kind of rim job.
oh ....... guess she'll be sleeping on the couch.
The real story here is the ICE owner who borrows an EV because she has range anxiety in her ICE.
Exactly. She took my EV which has 250 miles of charge on it to start every day.
To her defense it's such a shitty design. I'm surprised to see a Tesla M3/MY without them. All the Tesla M3/MY parked in my area have their rims fucked up...
Tesla rims are the worst. I've never had a car as prone to rim rash as the times I’ve had a 3. The fact the rim is the most prominent part of the wheel is so dumb.
I also tell the guys in the tire shop my wife did it
Be easy on her man. My ole’ lady would do the same thing, but I know that based on her driving history, love her despite that, and will be quick to comfort her when the day she comes home nervous about having curbed the M3P wheels. Just a wheel and some money :)
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Dude welcome to the club. Only the elite women of the world aren’t lazy enough to spend 3.75 minutes pumping just enough gas to cover their drive.
Got in the car and it said 75 miles to empty. Her commute is 15 miles round trip. Also, you can’t pump your own gas in my town, so she doesn’t even need to get out of the vehicle.
Sounds like she really just wanted to curb your wheels then. What did you do to piss her off?
Dude I got through this all the time. And I enable it. Yes dear. Sure dear. God forbid we teach a lesson.
I've probably only curbed a rim when I first started driving back in late 2000s. I've been daily driving for all my jobs over the last 20 years and have only curbed the 18 inch aeros. Something about the setup in my opinion is prone to curb rash.
Go fill up her Altima already
Wife just doing wife things is all :)
time to find an new wife 🙂
OUCH!!!!!
😬
🤨🫣😲😭😭😭😭😭
🙂↕️
Did it get hijacked??
Good point. I should report it stolen. Dirty Mike and the Boys would have been gentler with it.
When the car literally parks itself this is hard to look at and grasp.
Circular parking sensors. True story my friend got his wheels refurbed on his partners car, it went 30m before they were used for parking practise.
They sell rim protectors, so the protector gets scratched up and not the wheel. They look nice, they’re fairly cheap compared to replacing wheels, etc.
Say something and you’re not getting any for a week. :) wheel covers and move on. Sucks though and this is def the place to vent.
Same thing happened to my car when my partner borrowed it right after I got it 😭
Classic meme material right here.
Happened to me last week. You don’t want to know what happened to my rear bumper….
easiest car ever to curb…
Thats why Im always adamant whenever she asks me if she can drive it 🤣🤣
Just happened to me 2 days ago! But not near as bad thankfully she gave me $200 to order a new one on ebay.
I'm lucky, scratched the rims myself. Applied some paint on top of the damage and stopped cared after a while.
Crazy how there is a whole business selling Tesla drivers wheel covers haha. Every other car i've seen the wheels are recessed in the tire so this doesnt happen
So sorry brotha
Get a spray can of rust-oleum. 😁
Ouch. Refer to my recent post on fixing this same rim: https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaModel3/s/dsYrl8rv9P
I did the same thing within 3 days of owning mine. I've owned over 35 cars, the M3 was the first one I had ever rashed the rims on.
did she hit the curbs just once? If so, impressive nearly full destruction!
Been there
https://rimetrix.com I have had good luck with these and they take a hit pretty well.
Get some rimetrix or something. Look better and cover the lip. Of course I also curbed my Rimetrix but hey, it’s my life. I actually prefer scratched and curbed vehicles. So much less anxiety. I’m a basket case when I have to maneuver my Porsche near a curb.
Tesla has an option for service on curb rash. Anyone have any experience with it?
First of all let me tell you how sorry I am brother. A cheap workaround that I use is just to use a black paint stick for rims. It works great (for what it is) and definitely makes it look less bad but if the rims are bent then I would NOT cheap out and replace them. Edit: Had a closer look at the pic and those rims are done for sure
Just replace it. Only $25 through Tesla. You’re welcome https://preview.redd.it/6xy6lsss3avc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d2c8c260d5c81bac24c33f2f0f6d67f4fbcacdad
Look for Powder Coating Service in your area. Cheaper than buying new rims.
I bought rim touch up paint, and with some sanding it looks acceptable. Not perfect, but quite hard to see.
Lowkey that tire is pretty dirty too
I’d file for divorce too, but I also know all the divorce lawyers and judges near me from working for a 4 lawyer family law firm. 😂😂
Just embrace the new look
Just blame it on FSD 😂
Female Self Driving? /s
What'd she do, try out the autopilot?
she prolly went to her boyfriends house too
Aren’t tyre sizes weird? 235mm x 45mm x 18” 😂😂😂
OUCH
Dont stress, it's not the panels.... Yet.... It's coming. But don't worry about it. It's a car. If you fix it it will happen again.
It’s always the “wife”
That's bad but you need to get some conditioner on them tires. Them mofos look camo
They were good before. She must have somehow taken it off-road. 🤣
Theres this thing newer inexperienced drivers do they rather hit the curb while parking instead of just be further away from it
One word - AlloyGators
IM SO SORRY
I mean, it's not a tesla without the scratched rims, so I'd just celebrate it
Worst part is, you’ll never unsee it 😮💨
I stopped caring what my wife did to the wheels after 2 replacements
Your response should of been “Sounds like being out of gas is a you problem”
Don't blame your wife 😄
As a women, I take pride in knowing i’ve never curb rashed my wheels. I’ll take my trophy now, thanks.
Ugly rims anyway🙃
That cup of Starbucks now costs $300. No more drive thru for you!
I feel like most of these posts are the wives driving the husbands car into the curb… what are we doin ladies
All of that happened in one day?????
Don't worry. This way when you do the same thing in a few months, even though you swear you never will let this happen to you, this way she won't be able to hold it against you. Be nice to her now about it. Trust.
Marking the beast
Sue the curb
I damaged both right side wheel covers in the first week of driving my '23 Y. No one to blame but myself and a poor wheel/cover design.
I have a civic and a M3. They are near the same size, how does one curb these cars? They are pretty standard sizing. The thing beeps when you’re close to a curb. She should have blamed FSD lol
Wife curbed the back wheel on our xc40 EV on day 1 of ownership. Repair was about 100 or 150. It has happened again a time or two since, but not as bad as that first time. Tesla wheels are wider than the Volvo wheels, so even easier to curb.
Time for a new wife. /s
For better or worse….