No sooner that I go and post on how much I like my 18" rims, than my wife goes and road-rashes 1/2 of a my right rear rim. I absolutely, want to flip out. :

I know it was her, because I washed my car on Sunday, and had my tonsils out on Monday. I haven't driven my car but once all week to the local coffee shop parking lot.

Being a nice day, I thought I would go out and detail my car. So I break out the chrome polish.....get through 3 tires until I found the last one had been trashed.

Maybe someone should post a picture of a rim their wife/gf toasted that is worse to make me feel better.

How can I deal with this as a rational adult?

http://www.muppetlabs.com/~simple/toastsmall.JPG

 

This is my biggest nightmare.... I get new 19's and she does this to them... My heart goes out to your chrome !

 

You can send it to one of those rim repair guys and gor $120 you will never know.

 

 

DONT FEEL TOO BAD SAME **** HAPPENED TO ME BUT EXCEPT IT WAS 2 RIMS. THEY DONT LOOK BAD I MEAN YOU CANT REALLY TELL BUT OF COURSE YOU DONT FEEL COMFORTABLE, THEIR IS SOME CHROME TOUCH-UP THAT YOU CAN BUY WHICH SHOULD DO THE JOB OR YOU CAN GO GET YOUR RIMS RE-DIPED WHICH OF COURSE WILL COST ALOT MORE. GOOD LUCK

 

No need to yell...(caps)

 

My wife and I went out of town in the Volvo to clear up a ticket I had (reason I wasn't driving). Well, we are in the parking lot of the courthouse and she parked on the end, with an island on the drivers side. We leave the courthouse to go to the DMV and she backs out.

But she turned the wheel to the right before backing out.

I had a feeling that she was going to hit, but I thought, "she's got it, she knows the about the wheels". Then I felt the tire rub. And before I could inhale to yell, I felt the wheel grind the curb.

She stopped and checked the damage all the while saying "Oh ****, oh no". "Don't you want to look at it?" she asked. "No, what can I do about it now? Just drive."

A few minutes later, she was crying. I think my unusual calmness scared the crap out of her.

To this day, she says she is so sorry for doing that. She also added, "Didn't you want to get them dipped anyway?"

 

Wife no drivey my car.

 

I'm sorry to hear about your rims. That's one of the reasons that I don't get chrome rims, that and I live in NYC and besides, I need alloys to race. My girlfriend always wants to drive the Bimmer but I hardly let her, especially now that I finally got rims on the car. But you can send your rims to places like aaarims.com or something like that.

 

i feel your pain but mine wasnt a rim.... my max was about 2 weeks old not even broken in good then one night it happened... my gf backed into a firehydrant and however the back bumper wasnt dammaged that bad but there was a hole and a few scratches in the bumper

 

Oh, I with you here too.

My Max was about 2 wks old as well, when my wife parked in the garage and came in the house.

Well, we were ready to go to bed and I noticed that the garage door was open. I said, "didn't you close the garage door when you got home?" realizing what had happened as the sentence was coming out of my mouth.

Go out to the garage, and sure enough. The garage door was open because of the safety feature. It had closed on the rear bumper of the Max.

I wasn't so calm about that one, though. Funny thing, my garage door weatherstripping must be pretty clean, because I got away with minimal scratches that I buffed out.

So, she got away with that one, too.

And your damn skippy, I have the Park-Stops in the garage, so she doesn't run into the friggin' wall. Maybe I should buy a Pinto for her to drive.

 

yeah my gf about to be wife in aug. still hears about it i wont even let her move it when im cuttin grass...hehe, she doesnt exactly have the best parking record in the world.... just by parking her car(93 coguar) she hit a car in the parking lot( no damage on that on thank god) and i think she hit the wall turning into the garage one day

maby one day ill show her how to park a car...lol

 

Time to toss her to the curb.

 

I still am recovering. She said "why don't you just go buy a new one?" yeah...rigth....S#$)(*#&$(#@*&$#&*#$!!!!!!

Oh well....time to go take my medication.

 

I like those rims, $$? Sounds like she knows that she made a mistake, she'll make it somehow/someday

 

my wife did the same thing only it was in an altima during a test drive!!!

We didn't even buy the max from that dealer...heheeee

 

THAT'S RIGHT BUDDY!

 

Man, do I know how you feel, samething happen to me before and boy was I upset...but I always try to handle things in a positive way. My wife felt so bad about she went out that evening and replace it...

 

I have manual...she cant drive a manual...But she has even admitted she would be scared to death to drive my car. SO I am good to go. Only damamge that can happen is my own stupidity!

 

My wife received a 1 hour instructional class on how not to destroy my Mille's and our marraige !