Hi, everyone,

Has anyone used this product or anything similar before? I only installed one on my wheel yesterday, just a bit worried about whether my tyre will leak air or the pretector itself would come loose. So far, I have done 100km, everything is fine.

It requires to deflate the tyre completely, and use a hammer to push it in between the rim and tyre. Will it damage the sidewall during fast cornering?

Thanks in advance.

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MY08 STI 422whp at 1.5bar on E85, built by Diversion Garage, assembled and tuned by EvoR

Update from new owner: 375whp at 1.4bar on 98, at Tokyo Motorsport

I have no idea whether it would damage anything, but I personally wouldn't use anything that alters the seating of the tire. They just look like a bit of ricey dress up (bit rich coming from someone who just vinyl-wrapped his roof). In all seriousness though, you curb those and they could crack or scuff and it's still going to be as visible as scuffing rims. I don't see the point of them at all.

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[I]trolololol[/I]

there was a guy on onfoz who had one come off at 100 and stuffed all the paintwork on his rear quarter panel

EDIT: Just realised I mis-interpreted the side-on pic of it. It's sitting as deep as the seal goes. Still, probably not an issue if it was just a daily, but low profile tyres & the fact it's a car more likely to see some more serious tyre distortion under braking/hard cornering is making me think twice about these.

teejay - here's another reason to add to your mud flap reason list

"protection from flying Alloygator rim protectors"

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[I]trolololol[/I]

Here's an idea.

Learn how to drive properly and not kerb your rims.

THANKS, you are right, I will take them off tomorrow.

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MY08 STI 422whp at 1.5bar on E85, built by Diversion Garage, assembled and tuned by EvoR

Update from new owner: 375whp at 1.4bar on 98, at Tokyo Motorsport

Not everyone can garantee they will never make a mistake. That's why I buy insurance...

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MY08 STI 422whp at 1.5bar on E85, built by Diversion Garage, assembled and tuned by EvoR

Update from new owner: 375whp at 1.4bar on 98, at Tokyo Motorsport

I will remove it from my rim tomorrow, but fyi, it comes with a triming knife to repair the protector.

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MY08 STI 422whp at 1.5bar on E85, built by Diversion Garage, assembled and tuned by EvoR

Update from new owner: 375whp at 1.4bar on 98, at Tokyo Motorsport

gay as aids..they may as well have painted them pink

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