I'm stumped, and I really need your help, guys.

Today I got my new tires and spacers mounted. I went from the Dunlop stockies (225/40/R18) to Hankook Ventus EVO K12 (245/40/18).

It hasn't even been a full 24 hours, and my wheels have suffered from slight (but multiple) cases of what appears to be curb rash.

I'm beyond furious. I have no idea why this is happening. The most rage-inducing part of it is, my crappy Dunlops were stretched about an inch and a half, which left my lip even more prone to damage, yet, I went an entire two months without a SINGLE knick on the rim of the wheel.

Yet, here I am, with brand new top-quality Hankooks, and I'm honestly hesitant to drive my car ANYWHERE without fear that I'll get another rash. Since I received the car at about 5:00 PM this afternoon, I've driven about 20 miles, on nothing but smooth roads with very slight bumps along the way, that I've gone over every single day for months and months now. Why is this happening? I can't imagine how going from 225s to 245s would put my lip in jeopardy. I was also thinking that perhaps they didn't put enough air in the tires, and that when I'm making sharper turns, the lip is close enough to the ground to actually make contact with it. Could that be it?

Tomorrow I'm going back to the autoshop to start trying to sort this out. I don't think they're going to buy into the whole "Your tire is ruining my ******* wheels, you ********" approach that I'll be bringing to them, but oh well. My wheels were fine with the garbage Dunlops. There's absolutely no reason for them to suffer when riding inside of brand new Hankooks.

Any ideas? Has anyone else had a problem like this when switching tires? I know it might look like I'm trying to handle this calmly, but I'm emotionally disturbed over my wheels, not even two months old, being damage from this. I'm going to make sure that they either repair the lip or replace them altogether.

 

Pics?

Are you sure the shop didn't do this when they put the new tires on?

I'm confused........and this may be a stupid question....why the spacers?

 

I originally thought that they messed it up while taking the wheels off/putting them on, but I could have sworn that after driving to and from my house multiple times today, that I saw more damage appear. There's damage on at least 3 of the wheels, with the most noticeable damage being on two of them.

I'm running on spacers I wanted to achieve a +30 offset with my S-techs. The wheel that I was interested in was only available in extremely aggressive offsets (below 25), with the only offset that would fit my car being +41. I decided to go with the +41 and throw in a 10mm spacer to make it close enough to 30.

And it looks terrific. I love it. Unfortunately, this lip situation has got me so flustered that I haven't even been thinking about how awesome my wheels look since they've got knicks on them now, so they look... imperfect and not good.

I'll try to provide pics later tonight.

 

Okay, I'm at +38 offset with no spacers on same size tires as you now have in the front(245/40/18)............ and 255/40/18's on 9 inch in the rear(again no spacers and +38 offset).
Was just curious.

I can't help but wonder if it wasn't the shop and you just didn't notice? If you've done no extreme cornering or just can't drive(and smacking curbs), I really don't see how it could be happening???????

 

Me neither. I inspect my wheels religiously, and since I've gotten my drop and these wheels, I've gone out of my way to drive like a grandma to make sure everything is kept is perfect shape.

Maybe the shop did all of it and I only noticed one of their **** ups when inspecting the wheels earlier today. Is there any way a tire can mess up a wheel's lip?

 

theres no way a tire can mess up wheel
its either you hitting the curb or the guy scratched it but they look different. pic?

 

I know it isn't necessarily uncommon for autoshops to scuff and knick wheels when changing the tires, but seriously, there's like 5 or 6 different knicks and scuffs...

Here's a picture of what my car looks like after new spacers/tires, and I also managed to get two decent pictures of two of the knicks. It's nearly 11 PM down here so I don't really have much light other than my garage light, which sucks, so I'll try to upload more tomorrow.

 

im pretty sure you would have noticed hitting a curb but maybe not. The tires themselves arent going to cause this. Either it was there before, or it happened during the install. You wont get curb damage from an install but I will have to wait till im off work to see the pics.

 

thats the guy who installed the tires scratched up by using the machine.

curb rash usually on the outside of the lip towards the tire side

 

^.....yep, that's what it looks like to me! Especially that 2nd pic.