General How Kerbable are the standard Lounge alloys?

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General How Kerbable are the standard Lounge alloys?

Vic20

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Just a question about whether the tyre affords any protection to the standard 15" alloys on a Lounge. The Cinq Sporting is deadful in that the alloy rim is virtually flush with the tyre wall so first contact felt on a kerb edge is always including metal. My Audi A3 has a good inch of tyre protruding outwards thus protecting the rim and I havent (touch wood, paraniod:eek:) marked the wheels once in 50k of driving.

You know the moment when making a rushed parking manouevre :yuck:

Pictures I have looked at of the Lounge wheels make it difficult to tell either way, I saw a 500 with 5 Spoke 16" alloys on today and they looked truly scary in the kerb scrape stakes.

Vic
 
Mine are the 16" multi-spokes and as of yet, I've not kerbed them :D The tyre does come out a bit more than the alloy when you look closely. Then again a few people have different tyres, my alloys were supplied with Continental tyres.

Si
 
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