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Originally Posted by RBurke83
Strangely enough, most modern ‘high performance’ tires have an aero lip which appears to be designed to deflect air away from the wheel. At this point, the lip-which is roughly shaped like a breaking wave from the ocean side-is probably doing more harm than good but I’m hesitant to try to lathe it off. When I get everything finished I will fully tuft the side of the car and record without covers, with just the front and then with both. I also just ordered some epoxy coated stainless steel ‘zip ties’ as well as a ratcheting installer tool.
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That lip in the tires is mainly there to protect the wheels. Too big wheel and too little rubber is a recipe for curb rash. No one who buy these big wheels says its not their problem as they are good careful drivers. But every week 1-5 posts for example in Tesla forums how to fix 20" turbine wheels as "wife" has curb rashed them. Thats the price you pay for looks. One new wheel costs like 600e per piece from Tesla.
But ofcourse if designed correct they can be totally flush and there is little to none extra protection for the wheel. You could try to bring your cover that much outward that they are flush. Normally is achieved with around 3mm thick wheelcover. In your case I would put thin (correct thickness to bring it flush) 2 sided sticky tape there. it would solve 2 problems...
Or install wheel lip protector that you hit between the wheel and tire. It would lock your carbon cover in place as well nicely and fill thatpocket you have there.
In normal 60 profile tires and normal assemblies the tire is bulged that much out that it already protect the wheel.