Wheels are easily buckled, it would appear. On my previous (company) car - Focus estate TDCi - a routine service revealed three buckled alloy wheels, which had to be replaced: there was absolutely no visible damage, it was all inside out of sight. I never crash over potholes and take speed humps as gently as I can and I always check tyre pressures regularly. The luggage area tended to be fairly full, but there isn't much I can do about that! Also, none of the damaged wheels showed any signs of kerbing, they were simply buckled out of shape by regular wear and tear, thanks in no small part to the proliferation of speed humps, an infernal idea imported from the UK and now blighting streets all over Spain like a plague. The humps are all different sizes and specifications, and road signs, if erected, advise us to lower our speed to 40 30 or 20 km/h. There are many large, chamfered square ones, the bane of my life, supposedly to make life easier for drivers of HGVs and buses, since a wider wheelbase can avoid contact, but which are all but impossible to cross in a car on "one side only" (lane widths preclude this) and the consequent inevitable "straddling" will no doubt take its toll on the tyres as well.
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