After 5 months...

In non parallel parking situations, the technique I was taught is get near the curb, then turn the wheel half a turn into the curb so I contact it with the front of the tire, then straighten the wheel. Then I know I'm close.
 
Mesa said:
Wife put wheel rash on all four rims within a couple months. After 35 years I don't get upset because I expect it. She can also testify that the old VW bugs don't float.
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Your wife is a woman after my own heart. We should form the Curb Rash Club. I always thought wheels were there to protect the innerds from the curbs. Also, the wheels protect your tires from slashing by the very sharp Barre Gray granite curbs.
 
Tailwind said:
Any thought given to protecting the tires and wheels by not hitting the curb? Going back 5 cars I've owned over the past 30 years, I've never hit a curb with a tire and can get to within 6-12 inches of a curb no problem. And my Clarity is no different. Why all the "curb rash"?
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I think that's our problem right there, we aim for 0-6 inches.
 
I have never put rim rash on any of my last four cars except the Clarity. Yesterday, turned near a red marked curb and scrapped it (actually I bumped the curb). While I hooked up to fast charger, I walked over to the passenger side rear tire and noticed a 2 inch scratch on the edge of the rim. Crazy and sucks!
 
Thank you all so much for your commiserations. I have curbed this darned car more than I’ve curbed every other thing I’ve ever driven, and I used to drive busses! At first I felt like an idiot. Since then every member of my family has curbed the thing at least once. It’s just some weird characteristics of the shape/size of the car. I’ve given up being worried about it and will just get them fixed if I ever trade it in. There’s a guy up in Seattle that has a mobile wheel repair service. No sense in getting them fixed now, I’ll just mess it up again.
 
I went for years with never rashing any of my cars, and in one year of owning the Clarity, I have scratched 3 out of 4 wheels. One just as soon as I bought it last April, and the other two in two separate incidents last week. (When it rains, it pours sometimes I guess.)

The problem with fixing it is that as soon as I fix it/get it fixed, I'll know that I'll ruin it again. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
This week's Motorweek tested the Range Rover Evoque. The Evoque has an interesting display that shows where the front wheels are going. Here's a photo of ghost wheels superimposed on video from a front camera as the Evoque traverses a railroad trestle (the lower part of this montage shows the Evoque on the trestle as photographed by a drone, not from the Evoque). How did Honda forget to include a front-camera/back-camera/ghost-wheel anti-curb-contact parking aid for our Claritys?!?

Motorweek didn't say if the Evoque includes a satellite link to the railroad schedule for that trestle, but that would be another good idea.

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