Any issues with tire dealers damaging/breaking plastic wheel covers?

[BrianRC]

I don’t know how unusual the plastic wheel covers on the Clarity are, but has anyone had an issue with a tire dealer damaging or breaking them when swapping out tires? I’m considering removing them myself (carefully) before I go in for my next tire change due in a couple of months. Just in case.

 

[insightman]

I don’t know how unusual the plastic wheel covers on the Clarity are, but has anyone had an issue with a tire dealer damaging or breaking them when swapping out tires? I’m considering removing them myself (carefully) before I go in for my next tire change due in a couple of months. Just in case.

The tire jockeys are more likely to break the wheel resonators because the resonators are inside the tire and aren't something they normally encounter.

 

[BrianRC]

Thanks. I'll bring along this picture when I pre-brief the tire jockeys.

 

[insightman]

Thanks. I'll bring along this picture when I pre-brief the tire jockeys.

At least one forum member had problems getting the tire store to pay for the resonator damage they caused. Check out this thread.

 

[Landshark]

I don’t know how unusual the plastic wheel covers on the Clarity are,

In my opinion, they are quite unusual.

 

[turtleturtle]

I don’t know how unusual the plastic wheel covers on the Clarity are, but has anyone had an issue with a tire dealer damaging or breaking them when swapping out tires? I’m considering removing them myself (carefully) before I go in for my next tire change due in a couple of months. Just in case.

Yes. They don’t notice the covers need to be put on in a specific orientation and covered up the valve stem. I live an hour from the nearest tire place, so I had to put the car up on a jack and take all the tires off one at a time, pull off the covers, put them back on correctly. AND because the Clarity has no spare tire, there’s no tire iron. Had to use a ratchet set. It was a PITA.

Make sure you check before you leave the tire shop.