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Just curb-rashed my wheel, tire, and plastic under-guard panel. 
Big bummer as my Si is just a few weeks old. I just screwed up backing out of a dark and narrow driveway, front right wheel scraped against a small cmu brick I didn't see. The driveway was curved and sloped, I should have been more careful but for some reason, I just kept my eyes on the backup display and didn't pay enough attention to the side as I angled out. Anyways, shit happens, on to figuring out the repairs. Any advice will be appreciated. Here are my plans so far...
Rim: I'll be making an appointment with a well-reviewed place I found on Yelp in Beverly Hills LA called Ace Auto Recon Mobile Repair. Apparently a guy comes to you with his van and does it all on the spot. It was the best I could find on Yelp with 5 stars 380 reviews. I'm really hoping he'll be able to live up to the reviews, people were really raving about their experience but I can't help but still feel a bit skeptical about a flawless and totally unnoticeable repair. If anyone else has any recommendations for rim and wheel repair in the greater LA area, please let me know. The rim is the only thing that really bothers me whereas the plastic and tire are whatever, they're there to wear. Never had to repair a curb-rashed rim before so I'm just hoping this repair works out and is priced well.
Tire: Seems the sharp edge of the cmu brick peeled off a small patch like 3 or 4mm off the thickest part of the tire closest to the edge of the rim, pretty much on the sidewall where the tire meets the rim. It's still hanging on by a thinner piece and didn't tear off completely. Sorry for the poor image, I'll try to post a couple better close-ups tomorrow. I want you guys to see if you think it might affect the longevity of my tire especially under the more extreme driving condition like int he canyons or something, if so I might just have to replace the tire too, especially considering there's no spare, but I honestly think it's fine and won't really affect the tire. I'm legit thinking of just super-gluing it back on there so it's not just hanging off or flailing around.
Plastic under-guard: Just bought a $30 heat gun off Amazon, think so far plans are to raise the front of the car on a couple of ramps to completely remove it from underneath, the OEM lip seems to be a whole front-end piece right? Is it pretty straight-forward to remove? I'm assuming 8 screws or something of the like. I'm going to just try to heat it up and push it back to the correct position as best as possible. I'm ok with it not being perfect, just don't want it to stick out so much. I don't know how, but I'm thankful the brick just missed the body/paint, that would have been horrible. I guess this gives me a good reason to replace the plastic with a different lip entirely. Keep seeing some aero-dynamics ones on here that look pretty sweet.
[UPDATE]
I took the car to a tire shop to get the rubber checked out, they confirmed there was no metal showing and it was just cosmetic, performance of the tire should not be affected. I ended up purchasing some slime rubber cement and just stuck it back on there. Saw today theres another small piece, I'll cement that back as well, it sticks on strong and it unnoticeable afterwards.
GOT THE RIM REPAIRED! Cost me $150. Here's the pics of it after. The guy who I called was indeed really kind and I think he did a great job for what he had to work with, the rash is completely gone and you would never tell it was scratched, you can only find where the work was done if you're aware of it and you kneel down in front of the rim to take a close look. I'm very happy with the result and don't mind having payed $150 at all due to the quality work that was done on it.
Now I just need to repair the dented plastic guard but that'll be another day as it's 115 degrees out today, no way I'm firing up the heat gun in this weather.
Big bummer as my Si is just a few weeks old. I just screwed up backing out of a dark and narrow driveway, front right wheel scraped against a small cmu brick I didn't see. The driveway was curved and sloped, I should have been more careful but for some reason, I just kept my eyes on the backup display and didn't pay enough attention to the side as I angled out. Anyways, shit happens, on to figuring out the repairs. Any advice will be appreciated. Here are my plans so far...
Rim: I'll be making an appointment with a well-reviewed place I found on Yelp in Beverly Hills LA called Ace Auto Recon Mobile Repair. Apparently a guy comes to you with his van and does it all on the spot. It was the best I could find on Yelp with 5 stars 380 reviews. I'm really hoping he'll be able to live up to the reviews, people were really raving about their experience but I can't help but still feel a bit skeptical about a flawless and totally unnoticeable repair. If anyone else has any recommendations for rim and wheel repair in the greater LA area, please let me know. The rim is the only thing that really bothers me whereas the plastic and tire are whatever, they're there to wear. Never had to repair a curb-rashed rim before so I'm just hoping this repair works out and is priced well.
Tire: Seems the sharp edge of the cmu brick peeled off a small patch like 3 or 4mm off the thickest part of the tire closest to the edge of the rim, pretty much on the sidewall where the tire meets the rim. It's still hanging on by a thinner piece and didn't tear off completely. Sorry for the poor image, I'll try to post a couple better close-ups tomorrow. I want you guys to see if you think it might affect the longevity of my tire especially under the more extreme driving condition like int he canyons or something, if so I might just have to replace the tire too, especially considering there's no spare, but I honestly think it's fine and won't really affect the tire. I'm legit thinking of just super-gluing it back on there so it's not just hanging off or flailing around.
Plastic under-guard: Just bought a $30 heat gun off Amazon, think so far plans are to raise the front of the car on a couple of ramps to completely remove it from underneath, the OEM lip seems to be a whole front-end piece right? Is it pretty straight-forward to remove? I'm assuming 8 screws or something of the like. I'm going to just try to heat it up and push it back to the correct position as best as possible. I'm ok with it not being perfect, just don't want it to stick out so much. I don't know how, but I'm thankful the brick just missed the body/paint, that would have been horrible. I guess this gives me a good reason to replace the plastic with a different lip entirely. Keep seeing some aero-dynamics ones on here that look pretty sweet.
[UPDATE]
I took the car to a tire shop to get the rubber checked out, they confirmed there was no metal showing and it was just cosmetic, performance of the tire should not be affected. I ended up purchasing some slime rubber cement and just stuck it back on there. Saw today theres another small piece, I'll cement that back as well, it sticks on strong and it unnoticeable afterwards.
GOT THE RIM REPAIRED! Cost me $150. Here's the pics of it after. The guy who I called was indeed really kind and I think he did a great job for what he had to work with, the rash is completely gone and you would never tell it was scratched, you can only find where the work was done if you're aware of it and you kneel down in front of the rim to take a close look. I'm very happy with the result and don't mind having payed $150 at all due to the quality work that was done on it.
Now I just need to repair the dented plastic guard but that'll be another day as it's 115 degrees out today, no way I'm firing up the heat gun in this weather.
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