I was literally pulling into a parking spot, barely moving, when I felt the car bump the curb and suddenly the tire completely ripped open like this.
I’m talking about a normal parking curb, not some massive rock or construction debris. I was going maybe 2–3 mph. Now the sidewall is shredded and the tire is basically destroyed. When I called the tire shop they immediately started telling me I must have “hit something hard.” Hard?? It was a parking lot curb that every car in the lot drives next to all day.
What really makes me angry is I paid almost $900 for these tires because they told me they were “high quality” and built to last. Now they’re telling me it’s “driver damage” and refusing to replace it. If a tire can’t survive lightly touching a curb while parking, how is that even considered a reliable product?
