Damaged Wheel

[milly143]

Car failed it's MOT today for a few easy to fix to reasons. One of them is stated as 'offside rear road wheel bead rim badly distorted', for which I have had to purchase a new wheel. They asked if I had hit any curbs, which I haven't although a couple of other people occasionally drive my car so one of them could have done it. However, I am thinking it might be my driveway. It's a straight driveway directly in front of the house but it curvs off at the end and depending on how nextdoor have parked I sometimes have no choice but to reverse partially over the grass and bring the wheels back up on the drive, which involved a slight curb. Baring in mind I only do this at a couple of miles an hour, could that be the problem? Can't keep forking out for new wheels.

[ChuckFickens]

You'd feel it if you were hitting a curb (kerb?) hard enough to damage the wheel.

[jake-the-peg]

I got a badly damaged wheel last January after hitting a pothole.

I went to a scrapyard and they had an identical set of wheels to the alloys on mine complete with nearly new tyres £120

I nearly bit their arm off - moral of the story check with scrap yards first for things like this.

I say scrap yards but they're not like they used to be - parts are taken off and sold to you over the counter - a lot operate through ebay too.

I know it's probably a bit late now but have a look there and you'll see what I mean

[gingejbee]

Really don't think this is the cause ,particularly if you have "normal" tyres. Think you would need very low profiles for this to be a possibility.

[milly143]

Ah, kerb!

I never thought of pot holes, I have hit a few of them recently.

Wish I had thought about the scrap dealer too. The garage that did my MOT said they couldn't do it so I would be better off going straight to VW who charged me just under 50 quid for the part. I am taking it somewhere else to be fitted though.

it's a 1.6 Golf and they are just normal tyres, nothing fancy.

[jake-the-peg]

I don't think you did too badly then

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk...M&hash=item45f6520716

for example

[chas2008]

driving up and down kerbs slowly wont do any damage, it needs quite a hard impact to do any real harm.

[milly143]

Well having taken it to a different garage to fit the wheel, they informed me that there is no way the MOT should have been failed for the damaged wheel. They said it just had a small dent which they knocked out and then put on a different side of the car. I took it for the re-test at the original garage and they passed it without mentioning the wheel. Thankfully VW were able to give me a refund on the new wheel I had bought from them.