Can you guess what I did the other day?

[FLYING BANANA]

Originally Posted by Teflon

Spot on!

20 yards from home on a road I've driven for best part of 40 years, I suddenly decided to hit the kerb . Nice big scuff all around the wheel .

I've got a nice Serpent in the boot for just such occasions, but it's never been on the car since being refurbed 3 or 4 years back, and the tyre is also brand new. When I got it out of the boot, I just couldn't bring myself to put it on the car, so one of the Meteors went on instead .

The Serpent should be back next week, when I shall be £90 poorer.

Cliff

I expect the council will remove the kerb for you if you ask..............

[Teflon]

Originally Posted by Dallas

Dam, fancy doing that Cliff I bet your heart sunk.

There might just have been a teeny amount of swearing at the time .

Originally Posted by FLYING BANANA

I expect the council will remove the kerb for you if you ask..............

Now that's a thought. I shall get on to them first thing .

Cliff

[Teflon]

So, today I popped over to The Wheel Specialist in Farnborough to collect my newly re-furbished wheel.

As per usual, they did a first rate job and the wheel looks factory fresh. Yayy! As I'm loading it into the Rover, I managed to let it slip and it falls face down onto concrete. Not Yayy!

I quickly checked the rim, and luckily no marks, so I say a silent thank you and drive home. When I open the boot to take the wheel out, I notice 3 big chunks taken out near the centre . I guess I was so focussed on the edges of the wheel I didn't notice the marks in the centre. Gutted isn't the word.

I'll be paying them another visit on Thursday then, and hoping that their guarantee covers rank stupidity. I somehow doubt it though .

This is likely to become one very expensive wheel.

Honestly, in the 13+ years that I've owned the Rover, I have never once let an alloy wheel fall face down, so why, when it finally does happen, does it have to be a freshly re-finished one, not even 5 minutes old.

Cliff