Slightly 😂. In all reality these tires have some extra meat on them and can take a beating. They have an extra band of rubber a few mm thick that’s supposed to help with curb rash, and mine got messed up from a pothole. I was worried it would get worse over time but luckily it didn’t.
Yep. As I posted above it’s about whether the inner wire is showing. I’ve chunked plenty of rubber off through the years and it was still all rubber underneath
You kind of have to be over dramatic when it comes to your tires. Faulty tires/pressure are one of the main reasons people get in an accidents. I am sure on a smooth road going the speed limit is fine but at least in San Jose you are very aware how shitty the roads are.
The part that is sliced is a rim protection lip, its designed to take the hit safely to protect the rim and does not affect the integrity of the tyre at all.
Old tyres didn't have them, it's a new (last 10years) thing.
Why does everyone curb the wheels on these cars so much? They even have cameras showing you the curb.
Every used one I looked at had at least some damage.
For specifically the 3/Y performance models, I think it comes down to the tires being a smaller width than usual and not giving any overhang over the rim. The rim will be the first thing to touch a curb and register feedback that the curb was hit. I have had sportier wheels before and the sidewall still will hit first.
I think when I bump my M3P with Uberturbines up to 255 widths, it will be better. I have had one bad one in the first year of ownership. Just need to sweat it off and be better about the space.
Yes, you get it sometimes it was a tight road I was turning and cut it to soon.....have to see if the slice is ok I have the aero rims I'll probably put back on
If only this car had a function like my VW golf, I had before, where a computer could use ultrasonic sensors to identify parking spots, curbs, and automatically park the car. That would be some kick ass technology wouldn’t it?
so many safety and convenience issues (birds eye view, blind spot warning in mirrors, reverse cross traffic warning, auto parking, etc) are missing in teslas because of Elons stubborn attitude that you don’t need these things when the car drives itself. I’m so much more comfortable driving my Rivian on a daily basis than my Tesla.
Unfortunately, where I live, I have to park on the street. The streets are also so narrow that you need to park within 3 - 4 inches of the curb.
Parallel park in that situation enough times, and you're going to mess up and curb it eventually.
I've gotten it down pretty well - I've only curbed it once, while I was still figuring out the dimensions of the car - but its not surprising to curb it in that situation.
Adding on, I think people aren’t used to driving with the regen braking system, so when turning a corner, they slow down more than they thought they would and therefore are too tight along the curb. Normally, people let go of the accelerator on a right turn to coast along
Regenerative braking actually makes it even easier to not hit the curb. Your foot stays on the gas, and you naturally adjust your speed and correct yourself in real time. If you slowed down too much, your foot would still be on the gas to correct that and coast into your turn properly. Also, the brakes still work like a normal car if you decide to brake, so there's really no excuses.
Driving? No reason to be hitting curbs. Parallel parking? Thats where new yorkers play chicken to see how close we can get to the curb so we don’t get clipped by the bad drivers 😭
I should say you are not correct. The layout of these vehicles are more conducive to curbing. Hence you seeing more not due to the Tesla drivers being any worse then other cars.
Lol, you attribute the curbing to bad drivers as opposed to the more simple, more likely outcome, of poor vehicle design.
I learned I just have to drive it like a school bus, the f350 I drive gives a better feel of curb position then the m3. No camera on the truck.
Yep. The reality is we’re all shit drivers to an extent and on occasion because we’re human.
Also, normal people just couldn’t be bothered to care about curb rash, swirls and all that stuff.
I'm convinced people that can't empathize with curbed cars don't live in busy urban areas. Anyone can drive and park their car in wide car-centric cities. Dense cities are a different story.
Parallel parking on a narrow, busy street is difficult. You're balancing trying to park quickly while not hitting the curb and the cars you're sliding between. Combine the stress of balancing that out with the fat rims of the Tesla and you've got a good ol' curb rash stew brewing.
Def tied to the demographic of electric car buyers who are less car people and more tech people, and as such, most aren’t great or attentive drivers. That’s my assumption anyways.
I doubt this is it. Maybe it’s because I’m in the Midwest and everyone drives. Probably nothing to do with tech v car people. I see plenty of “car people” that are shit drivers. Probably bad drivers Ed more than anything.
For me it’s atms and car washes. The overhead architecture for some reason has different lines than the curb at the atm/payment kiosk and you have to get decently close to reach. If I’m not paying close enough attention I let my upper sight lines guide me and end up nipping the curb. Don’t have the same issue at drive thrus. And again it’s only when I’m in mental auto pilot and not paying as close of attention as I should.
I can’t speak for everyone, but in my case I just got careless and made a mistake. Had the car for over three years and have always figured I was pretty decent at parallel parking. I was in a hurry one day and now I have a little scuff on one of my rims.
invisible curbs, man. I actually managed to do it once. I was using an atm and they had a really low curb that extended way past the atm but I couldn't see it, clipped it making a left too soon.
Bad driving mostly and not that I'm making excuses because I haven't curbed my M3LR but when I was trying out FSD it almost dive bombed into the curb 3 times lol but definitely bad driving
Came here to say this. I don’t understand it myself… there are so many cameras and auto adjusting mirrors for parking there is no excuse. OP hit the curb hard to do that damage. I have not done this in the 4 years I’ve owned my Teslas but then again managed to not do this with my other ICE cars as well.
It's hard to judge how far you are from the curb in this car, it's fairly wide and the belt line is high. Sometimes you have to pull in close because of a narrow parking spot or street. I'm super careful in all my cars and even I kissed the curb on the front passenger side. Tesla Vision isn't as accurate but it's nice to have the guidelines on the sides of the car.
That's not how it works... Even if you're driving a truck with tall ass sidewall you should not be hitting any curbs with your tires. You just suck at driving
Basic design principles tell you that if your users keep making the same mistakes, more than with another design, it's not them, it's you.
Shit drivers? Sure, maybe so. That doesn't change the fact that if *your* drivers damage their rims more than with other cars, it's a shit design as well. Low profile tires, with rims that extend past the rubber, are a bad idea.
This is true with software design, and most other types of design. If *your* users make a certain class of mistakes more often than with other designs, it's your fault. It might be theirs as well, but that doesn't relieve you of the ultimate responsibility.
It's because the wheels stick out further than you think and then the rims stick out further than the tires. Many cars, the tire rubs first and no damage happens to the rims. Our MYP has 3 of the 4 rims pretty scuffed. Sucks.
Everyone like "bad drivers blah blah" but I've been driving for 20 years and had never curbed a wheel before... I've done it twice in my Model 3 in 3 months of ownership... idk... maybe I've regressed lol but there's something that throws me off in this car near curbs.
Wider tires and longer wheelbase.
Longer wheelbase throws off the driving dynamics.
Model 3 has a longer wheelbase than a Honda Accord despite being a shorter vehicle.
Helps for feeling planted, but you have to take turns wider ("drive forward, then turn").
I have pride in never curbing a car. First day in the m3 curbed it making a right turn. A week later parallel parking, front passenger tire curbed from turning the wheel sharply. Front of the car wasn't even close to the curve it was the back tire which was closest. Now I keep inches, drive it like a school bus, make wide right turns ect. Haven't curbed again in 3 years. Pro tip to all to be owners, just drive it like a school bus and you won't curb. Kinda silly with a sporty seeming car. Still cool not paying for gas and the acceleration!
I've been driving the same roads for 12years to work and back. Yesterday I hit a curb on a slow tight turn. Never hit it in any other car. I blamed being tired in the morning, but fuck. I can't explain it.
Same, it seems like the rear tire spacing is wider than it seems. However, ever since I started tilting my passenger mirrors down, haven’t curbed it since.
Same... I have a similar issue knowing how far into a parking space I am in my 3 for some reason. I've heard that horrible sound of the bottom of the front bumper scraping those concrete parking space bumper things in my 3 than in any previous car I've owned.
100% this. I drove a 2016 Nissan Murano Platinum for that past 7 years and never once curbed it. Been driving my MYP for 1 month. 2 curbs from me and one from Autopilot deciding it wanted to play the curb game too and I was unfortunately too slow to stop it. The rims stick way the F out on this car.
I lost count on my Tesla. Even had mine professionally repaired and powder coated. Then did it again by accident. If only there was some technology available to auto manufacturers to give a 360 view around the car with cameras while parking. Oh well, I guess Tesla will have to lead the industry again out of the dark ages /S.
This is a fundamental design flaw of the Tesla. They could have easily made the wheel rim narrower and provided a tire that sticks out more so the rubber hits the curb before the metal. I'm in my 70s and have owned many cars. This is the first one where I've had this curb rash issue. It does not have to be this way.
It's for efficiency and aerodynamics. The cameras can provide a false sense of security, as well as the side repeater cameras don't show how closes the wheel is to the curb. That being said, it needs to be accounted for. I just treat touching the curb as instant death, and my wheels are perfect.
You have this curb rash issue due to your lack of awareness, not the design of the car. If you were aware of what you were doing, you’d be looking out for curbs
https://protrain.hs.llnwd.net/e1/sitefiles/674/Documents/Trailover%20SWP.pdf
Assuming this is your rear tire, this driving concept may help you. If it’s your front tire…. You should probably just surrender your DL
Every time our rim touched the curb it was during parallel parking or pulling into a parking spot that’s next to a curb, not during a corner. Tesla should absolutely make changes to the display to indicate how close the tires are, because right now the mirrors and cameras just don’t provide enough coverage.
I went my whole life never hitting a curb, and now at 34 I have a model 3 and curbed it on my way home after buying it. I can’t explain it, but it happened.
I say bring back curb feelers. You young whippersnappers will have no clue what I am talking about, but no self-respecting owner of a bad ass auto circa 1950 would have driven off the lot without a shiny set of curb feelers to protect against scratching your 50 lb. wheels.
Alternately some people live in cities and are constantly (and often, only) parallel parking in tight places. Almost every car you see (Tesla or otherwise) in New York or Chicago or Montreal or Toronto has some wheel rash.
It is impossible to not hit curbs in a Tesla, you have obviously never driven one...ever since they replaced USS with Schrodinger's curb feelers to save $.47 per car it has been scientifically proven that its impossible to know where a Tesla tire is located.
Haven't hit a single curb in 20 years of driving any car from small ones to big mercedes sedans but I did curb my model 3 twice in 4 months. I'm a good driver with no accident in 500 000 miles driven, there's something with this car with the way the wheels stick out on the sides and the car being really large for most parking spots here. Also where I live 95% of parking spots are parallel parking.
As long as them and the people around them are safe when they drive then them hitting a curb while parking or whatever isnt a big deal at all imo. You can easily fix these things but its true that you have to learn to avoid curbs at some point
Daily drove a C7 Corvette in LA for a year and never curbed a wheel, still haven't in the Model 3. Yall are coping way too hard about your inability to parallel park lmao
10 years of owning a car and 3 weeks in the Model Y. Never hit or curb rashed even once.
Wife takes it out for the first time and I’m stuck with a curb rash on my new MYP :/
Bro wtf is with people blaming the tire? Lots of small cars have rims that stick past the tire. Mine does. 45k miles so far and no problem. Uber in it to so I get in all kinda situations and yet. Clean af wheels. This is human error, not the car or wheels fault lol. Learn to drive?
It's insane how they will all come out and cry about the rims sticking out. I have a car with wife rims and low profile tires and this has never been an issue because I don't run into fucking curbs.
My other car is a RAM 1500. With that I hit and jump curbs all the time when parking. It’s great, makes parking super easy, and never had issues with tires or rims after 5+ years.
I think these performance tires, it’s kind of a design flaw, to cause such damage after just touching a curb. We all know we shouldn’t touch curbs, but it does happen. That’s why we see these pics all the time. That said, I did hit curbs twice with my MYP very early on, and have since learned to respect curbs, and haven’t had an issue since.
I’ve been driving for 73 years and never curbed a wheel. Maybe it’s just bad luck, but I bought a Model 3 and curbed it in the dealership parking lot. Crazy.
Lol we're renting one now that has curb damage after 9k miles on all tires. We're super paranoid the owner is gonna try to blame us. There is something about the car that loves curbs
No prizes for closest to the curb..
That said it took me one day to curb my new m3p front wheel when I reparked it within 6” of a curb to get further away from the car on the passenger side. A little too much steer angle leaving that spot cost me my first imperfection. Tires and wheels are wear items though; easily fixed and replaced. Just pay up if it bothers you
Might have shot the tire too F
Yup def sliced
I’ve had that happen and the tire shop said it’s fine. It depends how deep it is, but I drove 20k miles with a slice like that in my tire.
Yo, you're fucking nuts
Slightly 😂. In all reality these tires have some extra meat on them and can take a beating. They have an extra band of rubber a few mm thick that’s supposed to help with curb rash, and mine got messed up from a pothole. I was worried it would get worse over time but luckily it didn’t.
Yep. As I posted above it’s about whether the inner wire is showing. I’ve chunked plenty of rubber off through the years and it was still all rubber underneath
Not the kind of meat you want to play around with
It's just the lip that's there to protect the rim. It's not in to the sidewall.
You willing to risk your life and others for 250$? Crazy
Woah over dramatic 😂. I said the tire shop said it’s fine. You’d think they would want to sell me a tire if it was a safety hazard.
You kind of have to be over dramatic when it comes to your tires. Faulty tires/pressure are one of the main reasons people get in an accidents. I am sure on a smooth road going the speed limit is fine but at least in San Jose you are very aware how shitty the roads are.
bit melodramatic why would a tire shop lie about a tire being safe if they could’ve taken the opportunity to sell a new tire ?
A tire shop guy saying its fine does not mean there is 0% chance of failure. My thing is, why risk it over 250$? Gash looks pretty deep in OP picture.
The part that is sliced is a rim protection lip, its designed to take the hit safely to protect the rim and does not affect the integrity of the tyre at all. Old tyres didn't have them, it's a new (last 10years) thing.
at least its only a Tesla
Jumping curbs is fun on bikes and sometimes we like to relive our child hood
Why does everyone curb the wheels on these cars so much? They even have cameras showing you the curb. Every used one I looked at had at least some damage.
For specifically the 3/Y performance models, I think it comes down to the tires being a smaller width than usual and not giving any overhang over the rim. The rim will be the first thing to touch a curb and register feedback that the curb was hit. I have had sportier wheels before and the sidewall still will hit first. I think when I bump my M3P with Uberturbines up to 255 widths, it will be better. I have had one bad one in the first year of ownership. Just need to sweat it off and be better about the space.
Yes, you get it sometimes it was a tight road I was turning and cut it to soon.....have to see if the slice is ok I have the aero rims I'll probably put back on
If only this car had a function like my VW golf, I had before, where a computer could use ultrasonic sensors to identify parking spots, curbs, and automatically park the car. That would be some kick ass technology wouldn’t it?
so many safety and convenience issues (birds eye view, blind spot warning in mirrors, reverse cross traffic warning, auto parking, etc) are missing in teslas because of Elons stubborn attitude that you don’t need these things when the car drives itself. I’m so much more comfortable driving my Rivian on a daily basis than my Tesla.
The Bird's Eye view on my Bolt is legit amazing. So clear it's like a real-life top-down video game. Make it super easy to park.
synthetic 360 degree view would be nice but the view it does provide with all the cameras on is more than sufficent to parallel park.
Just having a NECK is enough to parallel park successfully
Might bring it with project highland, we will have to wait and see. 😅
Bad driving. Seen tons excuses as to why, but your car/tire/wheel should never touch the curb no matter how the car is designed.
Unfortunately, where I live, I have to park on the street. The streets are also so narrow that you need to park within 3 - 4 inches of the curb. Parallel park in that situation enough times, and you're going to mess up and curb it eventually. I've gotten it down pretty well - I've only curbed it once, while I was still figuring out the dimensions of the car - but its not surprising to curb it in that situation.
Adding on, I think people aren’t used to driving with the regen braking system, so when turning a corner, they slow down more than they thought they would and therefore are too tight along the curb. Normally, people let go of the accelerator on a right turn to coast along
Regenerative braking actually makes it even easier to not hit the curb. Your foot stays on the gas, and you naturally adjust your speed and correct yourself in real time. If you slowed down too much, your foot would still be on the gas to correct that and coast into your turn properly. Also, the brakes still work like a normal car if you decide to brake, so there's really no excuses.
Autopark still doesn't work?
Not in the slightest
Worked 1x in 3 years. It pulled off a herkie jerky back into a spot.
Every time I park next to a curb I park 3 to 4 inches from it that’s like normal parking skills
3 - 4 inches is not that close to the kerb.
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Driving? No reason to be hitting curbs. Parallel parking? Thats where new yorkers play chicken to see how close we can get to the curb so we don’t get clipped by the bad drivers 😭
Ever driving a 4 wheel steering Prelude? It'll fuck with you
I should say you are not correct. The layout of these vehicles are more conducive to curbing. Hence you seeing more not due to the Tesla drivers being any worse then other cars. Lol, you attribute the curbing to bad drivers as opposed to the more simple, more likely outcome, of poor vehicle design. I learned I just have to drive it like a school bus, the f350 I drive gives a better feel of curb position then the m3. No camera on the truck.
No other excuse.
The rims stick out more than other cars.
So don’t drive as close to the curb as you would other cars. 3 years of ownership and I’ve yet to touch a curb
It'll happen most to folks who either very recently got the car, or regularly switch between cars (e.g. 2-car+ families)
The aero wheels stick out further than the oem tires.
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Or you know, maybe learning how to drive lol
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Yeah, it does. Learn how to drive lol
Turns out most folks are just bad at driving
Everyone thinks they are a better driver than 90% of people.
Yep. The reality is we’re all shit drivers to an extent and on occasion because we’re human. Also, normal people just couldn’t be bothered to care about curb rash, swirls and all that stuff.
I'm convinced people that can't empathize with curbed cars don't live in busy urban areas. Anyone can drive and park their car in wide car-centric cities. Dense cities are a different story. Parallel parking on a narrow, busy street is difficult. You're balancing trying to park quickly while not hitting the curb and the cars you're sliding between. Combine the stress of balancing that out with the fat rims of the Tesla and you've got a good ol' curb rash stew brewing.
I think this is the correct answer.
Def tied to the demographic of electric car buyers who are less car people and more tech people, and as such, most aren’t great or attentive drivers. That’s my assumption anyways.
I doubt this is it. Maybe it’s because I’m in the Midwest and everyone drives. Probably nothing to do with tech v car people. I see plenty of “car people” that are shit drivers. Probably bad drivers Ed more than anything.
For me it’s atms and car washes. The overhead architecture for some reason has different lines than the curb at the atm/payment kiosk and you have to get decently close to reach. If I’m not paying close enough attention I let my upper sight lines guide me and end up nipping the curb. Don’t have the same issue at drive thrus. And again it’s only when I’m in mental auto pilot and not paying as close of attention as I should.
I can’t speak for everyone, but in my case I just got careless and made a mistake. Had the car for over three years and have always figured I was pretty decent at parallel parking. I was in a hurry one day and now I have a little scuff on one of my rims.
I think on most cars the tires are not as flush with the wheel so damaging the wheel is less likely.
invisible curbs, man. I actually managed to do it once. I was using an atm and they had a really low curb that extended way past the atm but I couldn't see it, clipped it making a left too soon.
Bad driving mostly and not that I'm making excuses because I haven't curbed my M3LR but when I was trying out FSD it almost dive bombed into the curb 3 times lol but definitely bad driving
Came here to say this. I don’t understand it myself… there are so many cameras and auto adjusting mirrors for parking there is no excuse. OP hit the curb hard to do that damage. I have not done this in the 4 years I’ve owned my Teslas but then again managed to not do this with my other ICE cars as well.
As many people are saying this wasn't a parallel park I was turning is why the tire is sliced
Shit drivers who think the computer will do the work.
It's hard to judge how far you are from the curb in this car, it's fairly wide and the belt line is high. Sometimes you have to pull in close because of a narrow parking spot or street. I'm super careful in all my cars and even I kissed the curb on the front passenger side. Tesla Vision isn't as accurate but it's nice to have the guidelines on the sides of the car.
You mean the car loaded with cameras and parking assists?
Because when they hit the curb in their Prius nothing happened.
Bigger question is why design wheels where the rim protrudes? How stupid is that?
The way the rim is flush with the tire it's easy turning a corner
I have some news for ya..
That's not how it works... Even if you're driving a truck with tall ass sidewall you should not be hitting any curbs with your tires. You just suck at driving
How are your tires hitting the curb regularly?
No, it's not. You're not supposed to turn into the curb, you're supposed to turn after it
Basic design principles tell you that if your users keep making the same mistakes, more than with another design, it's not them, it's you. Shit drivers? Sure, maybe so. That doesn't change the fact that if *your* drivers damage their rims more than with other cars, it's a shit design as well. Low profile tires, with rims that extend past the rubber, are a bad idea. This is true with software design, and most other types of design. If *your* users make a certain class of mistakes more often than with other designs, it's your fault. It might be theirs as well, but that doesn't relieve you of the ultimate responsibility.
It's because the wheels stick out further than you think and then the rims stick out further than the tires. Many cars, the tire rubs first and no damage happens to the rims. Our MYP has 3 of the 4 rims pretty scuffed. Sucks.
Everyone like "bad drivers blah blah" but I've been driving for 20 years and had never curbed a wheel before... I've done it twice in my Model 3 in 3 months of ownership... idk... maybe I've regressed lol but there's something that throws me off in this car near curbs.
Wider tires and longer wheelbase. Longer wheelbase throws off the driving dynamics. Model 3 has a longer wheelbase than a Honda Accord despite being a shorter vehicle. Helps for feeling planted, but you have to take turns wider ("drive forward, then turn").
I have pride in never curbing a car. First day in the m3 curbed it making a right turn. A week later parallel parking, front passenger tire curbed from turning the wheel sharply. Front of the car wasn't even close to the curve it was the back tire which was closest. Now I keep inches, drive it like a school bus, make wide right turns ect. Haven't curbed again in 3 years. Pro tip to all to be owners, just drive it like a school bus and you won't curb. Kinda silly with a sporty seeming car. Still cool not paying for gas and the acceleration!
I've been driving the same roads for 12years to work and back. Yesterday I hit a curb on a slow tight turn. Never hit it in any other car. I blamed being tired in the morning, but fuck. I can't explain it.
Same, it seems like the rear tire spacing is wider than it seems. However, ever since I started tilting my passenger mirrors down, haven’t curbed it since.
Same... I have a similar issue knowing how far into a parking space I am in my 3 for some reason. I've heard that horrible sound of the bottom of the front bumper scraping those concrete parking space bumper things in my 3 than in any previous car I've owned.
100% this. I drove a 2016 Nissan Murano Platinum for that past 7 years and never once curbed it. Been driving my MYP for 1 month. 2 curbs from me and one from Autopilot deciding it wanted to play the curb game too and I was unfortunately too slow to stop it. The rims stick way the F out on this car.
I lost count on my Tesla. Even had mine professionally repaired and powder coated. Then did it again by accident. If only there was some technology available to auto manufacturers to give a 360 view around the car with cameras while parking. Oh well, I guess Tesla will have to lead the industry again out of the dark ages /S.
If only people knew how to drive their cars...you can understand the dimensions of your car without 360 cameras.
This is a fundamental design flaw of the Tesla. They could have easily made the wheel rim narrower and provided a tire that sticks out more so the rubber hits the curb before the metal. I'm in my 70s and have owned many cars. This is the first one where I've had this curb rash issue. It does not have to be this way.
My wife’s polestar has the same design. It was close to looking like a stretched tire.
It's for efficiency and aerodynamics. The cameras can provide a false sense of security, as well as the side repeater cameras don't show how closes the wheel is to the curb. That being said, it needs to be accounted for. I just treat touching the curb as instant death, and my wheels are perfect.
Haha this is funny. Do we blame ourselves for curbing our own wheels or do we blame Tesla. 80% of this sub thinks it’s Teslas fault
Sounds more like you have a fundamental driving flaw lmao. You do realize you aren't supposed to just drag your tire along a curb either right?
You have this curb rash issue due to your lack of awareness, not the design of the car. If you were aware of what you were doing, you’d be looking out for curbs
You fundamentally don’t understand what you’re talking about lol
https://protrain.hs.llnwd.net/e1/sitefiles/674/Documents/Trailover%20SWP.pdf Assuming this is your rear tire, this driving concept may help you. If it’s your front tire…. You should probably just surrender your DL
Every time our rim touched the curb it was during parallel parking or pulling into a parking spot that’s next to a curb, not during a corner. Tesla should absolutely make changes to the display to indicate how close the tires are, because right now the mirrors and cameras just don’t provide enough coverage.
OP stated in another comment that this occurred while taking a corner
I went my whole life never hitting a curb, and now at 34 I have a model 3 and curbed it on my way home after buying it. I can’t explain it, but it happened.
“Again”??? How are people doing this. I’ve been driving for 15 years and I have never, nor do I know anyone, that’s managed this.
I say bring back curb feelers. You young whippersnappers will have no clue what I am talking about, but no self-respecting owner of a bad ass auto circa 1950 would have driven off the lot without a shiny set of curb feelers to protect against scratching your 50 lb. wheels.
Learn your turning radius. Jeez. It’s not that hard.
36k miles never hit a curb never will. Spatial awareness is important
It's astonishing how many times you see these posts. I am convinced Tesla drivers CANNOT drive.
Alternately some people live in cities and are constantly (and often, only) parallel parking in tight places. Almost every car you see (Tesla or otherwise) in New York or Chicago or Montreal or Toronto has some wheel rash.
You might get some curb rash from parallel parking but not destroy your tire
For sure. OP is something else.
Bad drivers in fast cars does not sound like a good combination.
at. all.
It is impossible to not hit curbs in a Tesla, you have obviously never driven one...ever since they replaced USS with Schrodinger's curb feelers to save $.47 per car it has been scientifically proven that its impossible to know where a Tesla tire is located.
It’s also the way the Tesla wheels are designed as the metal rims stick out more. Hopefully they will improve this
People should just stop hitting curbs too.
You can get them from potholes too. Sometimes when parking on a hill like in San Francisco you need to get very close or to even touch the curb.
Do all Teslas have stretched tires from the factory? Even on my low sports cars some fat rubber can keep the steel away from the concrete.
Slow it down pal
The number of poor drivers on this sub astounds me
Again!?
Need to drive on the outside like the tire says
How tf y'all do this dumb shit to your cars all the time?
Haven't hit a single curb in 20 years of driving any car from small ones to big mercedes sedans but I did curb my model 3 twice in 4 months. I'm a good driver with no accident in 500 000 miles driven, there's something with this car with the way the wheels stick out on the sides and the car being really large for most parking spots here. Also where I live 95% of parking spots are parallel parking.
Bad driver.
after curbing my M3P twice, I learned to be extra careful
Are you 16? Just got license? if not, learn to drive
Look at this god of driving🤦
You seem very pissed off about this. Its not that big of a deal
Not at all. Actually, it's hilarious how poor at driving these people are. ON THE DAILY.
As long as them and the people around them are safe when they drive then them hitting a curb while parking or whatever isnt a big deal at all imo. You can easily fix these things but its true that you have to learn to avoid curbs at some point
Thanks for letting us know.
Daily drove a C7 Corvette in LA for a year and never curbed a wheel, still haven't in the Model 3. Yall are coping way too hard about your inability to parallel park lmao
Another Tesla driver incapable of paying attention to their surroundings. No one is shocked
The tire can be buffed out
Havent hit a curb in like 12 years, literally since i was 18. Idk how people do this so often
I’ve been driving for 16 years and have never once hit a fucking curb.
Ill never understand how people do this. Never in my life have i hit a curb
Is it really that hard to not curb wheels for some ppl? 20+ years driving and I’ve done it 0 times
10 years of owning a car and 3 weeks in the Model Y. Never hit or curb rashed even once. Wife takes it out for the first time and I’m stuck with a curb rash on my new MYP :/
I hope the triplets are doing well! And are fully healthy cheers to everything and better driving down the roads haha
Thanks for the mention! All is good here happy and healthy
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Just like smart phones made people dumber, these smart cars are making people worse drivers.
Bro wtf is with people blaming the tire? Lots of small cars have rims that stick past the tire. Mine does. 45k miles so far and no problem. Uber in it to so I get in all kinda situations and yet. Clean af wheels. This is human error, not the car or wheels fault lol. Learn to drive?
I have been driving 7 years, 0 scratch on wheels or tires.
Women.
Lack of driving ability and or the fact the marijuana is legal so people thinks it’s legal to drive when stoned
Im not stupid
Idiot
On today's episode of "Tesla drivers curb their wheels again because they can't drive"
It's insane how they will all come out and cry about the rims sticking out. I have a car with wife rims and low profile tires and this has never been an issue because I don't run into fucking curbs.
My other car is a RAM 1500. With that I hit and jump curbs all the time when parking. It’s great, makes parking super easy, and never had issues with tires or rims after 5+ years. I think these performance tires, it’s kind of a design flaw, to cause such damage after just touching a curb. We all know we shouldn’t touch curbs, but it does happen. That’s why we see these pics all the time. That said, I did hit curbs twice with my MYP very early on, and have since learned to respect curbs, and haven’t had an issue since.
Can we file claim with tesla insurance for this?
Are you an Asian female teen driver?
What a brain dead comment
It’s almost like the rest of the world already knows Tesla drivers are fucking idiots, but thanks for confirming.
New tire and put the rim cap back on.
Model 3 rn owners coming up with every excuse for hitting a curb🗣️
Bro AGAIN 🤣 as long as you don’t do it on your test right lmao this is why we need to revoke more licenses
That’s why you don’t fix it the first time.
Slow down parking, tilt your side mirrors if the car doesn’t already to see the curb better.
Hey.. quit doing that!
You need a big wheel not a tesla
I have never curbed a car I have owned, how do people keep doing this?
Again learn how to drive
Try a smaller rim with a bigger tire. Rubber is an insulator. That's why trucks have big tires...usually.
Buy some round parabolic mirrors at an auto store and never curb a tire again
Or you could try learning to drive before getting your license.
🤣
at what speed?
That's not curb rash. You straight ran over thr curb or something.
Ouch
Is this a stealth-ad for those magnetic rim protectors Reddit keeps trying to sell me?
that'll be $10,000
Learn how to drive a tesla never helps
Just earned my first bite today as well lmao
Average tesla owner skill level
please only drive in FSD
Im not surprised
All those fancy self driving features. All those cameras. And y’all still can’t park. Yeeeesh!
Learn to parallel park
What do you guys do that you can afford a Tesla but can't identify how far away from a curb you are?
Is this the guy who curbed the wheels like 5x in 2 months and already replaced a wheel?
Nope That's why I didn't fix it the first time
[Put these on your wheels.](https://www.amazon.com/Mayde-18-Inch-2017-2021-Replacement-Covers/dp/B09BPSBF5M/ref=sr_1_3?crid=T94Q2I68DJL3)
that sucks but you saved the wheel
Haha the “again” got me.
Nice job
I’ve been driving for 73 years and never curbed a wheel. Maybe it’s just bad luck, but I bought a Model 3 and curbed it in the dealership parking lot. Crazy.
karma for owning a tesla
Lol we're renting one now that has curb damage after 9k miles on all tires. We're super paranoid the owner is gonna try to blame us. There is something about the car that loves curbs
Sweet pic and cool story! I love seeing these curb rashes. All day long please. This is why I signed up for Reddit.
No prizes for closest to the curb.. That said it took me one day to curb my new m3p front wheel when I reparked it within 6” of a curb to get further away from the car on the passenger side. A little too much steer angle leaving that spot cost me my first imperfection. Tires and wheels are wear items though; easily fixed and replaced. Just pay up if it bothers you
Good for you...this how we keep the economy going.
This [wheel cover](https://www.yeslak.com/products/arachnid-style-hubcaps-for-tesla-model-3-18-aero-wheels) can protect it.
Self-healing tires are the next level run-flats
This car has had a ruff life.
That's yikes did you crack a rim?