What kind of engineer would design an expensive wheel that has it's edge on the same plane as the tire's sidewall? With these wheels, if you touch a cement curb even for one second while barely moving during parking, your wheel's finish is toast. Tires should prevent this. Vey poor design. Very unhappy. Rant over.
Yup that's why I saved the $2000 dollars and spent $400 to powder coat the geminis. I scratched them last night at a super charger but didn't hurt as bad, nothing a little sharpie cant fix.
I did the same thing besides the super charger scratch. Figured I could save the money for now and always upgrade to better looking wheels and much better riding tires once they wear out and use the Geminis as spares (or keep one as a spare and sale the remainders as spares for others!)
LOL, I don't pay attention until I read this thread. Ran out and checked, omg, 1 wheel is heavily damaged, 1 wheel has all scratches
It's for aerodynamics and for getting better range out of your EV. If you want to add more protection to the rims, just get wider tires. Me personally, I'd rather get wider tires and lose 1-3% driving efficiency than to get a curb rash.
I'd rather keep the same tire size and get narrower rims. My "Model 3 only" TSV rims from Tsportline work perfectly well on my Model Y PUP. No more confused speedo with the same tire sidewall protection.
A lot of wheels are like this, not just Tesla's. That's why people invented these things: https://www.amazon.com/Set-ORIGINAL-AlloyGator-Wheel-Protectors/dp/B074KFXF4V/
I've erred before on my Model S. It only took one time to teach me a lesson and that's since 2012. Perfectly fine paying more attention to curbs.
Has anyone else had issues with tire shops and inductions? I just had a tire repaired and they scratched all of the spokes when they were mounting or unmounting the tire
It’s not just curb rash it’s snow chains too. Will be super expensive to find chains that won’t damage your Induction wheels. People damaged their 20” I wheels after using chains sold on the Tesla website. I might have to get those hideous Geminis and power coat them instead