synthetic

Pretty embarassing for someone with 12 years of driving experience, but while having an arguement with the lady, I took my eyes off the road and hit a curb at about 10mph. It was a pretty high curb and it sounded very bad.

Immediately the front-driver side tire went flat, so I had to get out and put the donut spare on( ) in freezing cold weather.

The rim doesn't look bad, but I took the flat wheel to a gas station and pumped air into it to see where the air was escaping.

Well it's escaping from everywhere, so I can't tell if the rim is bent or cracked.

I'm not going to take it to Acura as they will try to sell me a new rim and tire without hesitation.

I'm taking it to a tire-shop to see what they find.

My question is, what sort of price am I looking at for a single OEM rim if god forbid it's bent?

Also, since the shitty OEM tire is so expensive, is it okay if I went with another brand just for one of my wheels? Or should I replace both fronts with better tires?

I don't have money!

Thanks.

dom

How many miles on the car?

synthetic

13000

dom

Probably too many to only change the one, at least from what I've heard. At the very worst you will have to change both, although most will recommend you change all 4.

I'd also search ebay for a single wheel. You can probably pick one up for $100 to 125 as I'm guessing getting it fixed will cost at least $50 to 75.

LoveMyTL-S

Basically the same thing happened to me, except the wife was driving and I have Volk GT-C rims. She hit the curb probably doing about 30 or so. The front drivers side tire went flat immediately and the driver rear seemed to look fine. The rim was bent big time on the inside edge. I went to put the donut on and called the Wheel Doctor (local). It was $160.00 to repair the one rim. About a week later the rear got low. Turns out it was also bent but not as bad. Another $160.00, OUCH! But they are as good as new.

Since yours are OEM I'd look around in the Black Market section. Seems I've seen some for sale and they may be cheaper than a rim repair.

As far as tires, it's a good idea to at least replace them in pairs.

xizor

You've been driving since you were 13

VegaTSX

^ more like 9 years or 8 years since some people are able to get permit at 16. Unless you start out boosting cars at 13?

synthetic

Yes. Where I come from kids learn to drive pretty early. I learned to drive on mountain dirt roads in a manual Jeep from the WWII era!


BTW, thanks guys for the replies. I took the car to the tire shop and thankfully my rim was in good shape. I ended up buying a used OEM tire(they had a set of 4, but I didn't want to spend that kind of money on these shitty tires).

My original tire had a big cut on the sidewall as I had expected.

$70 spent in total(got my tires rotated and balanced too)