Comment on $440 Charge For A Wheel Scuff Raises Questions About Hertz's AI Rental Car Damage Scanner

• Tiger666@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A tire can be scuffed just like a rim can be scuffed just like a wheel can be scuffed.

  They are all equally valid to be scuffed.

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  • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m not saying it can’t be scuffed, I’m saying that personally I wouldn’t use it in that way because like you say I’m from an island that spells tyre with a y :p

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• Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Could be, but that’s a very strange choice of language by the author. You scuff a tyre, you scratch or gouge a rim typically.

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  • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean I disagree. A gouge would be a big chuck taken out, a scratch would be a more surface level line where as a scuff would be a patch of surface level damage. I doubt I would ever use scuff in terms of a tyre either.

    That is the wonders of language though, everyone uses it differently :D

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    • Tiger666@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Language is wonderful when you know how to use it. Rims are rims, tires are tires and both together are wheels.

      I’ll give you scuffs; you certainly understand what a scuff is though.

      Easy easy, lemon squeezy.

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      • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I mean if you want to be pedantic then;

        Wheel: “a circular object connected at the centre to a bar, used for making vehicles or parts of machines move”

        So a rim or alloy can and is a wheel with or without a tyre ;)

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