We are not into Winter yet and the holes are already opening up, even previously filled ones that have been filled year-on-year for the last 3 years. I've been caught out twice already and my nearside alloys are slightly dinged, luckily I swapped to my cheap Winter alloys and 16inch wheels (with Winter tyres). If I was on the Summer 18's then I reckon I might need to replace both alloys and the tyres, if ever there was a reason to get steel wheels next time around, then this must be it!

We are not into Winter yet and the holes are already opening up, even previously filled ones that have been filled year-on-year for the last 3 years. I've been caught out twice already and my nearside alloys are slightly dinged, luckily I swapped to my cheap Winter alloys and 16inch wheels (with Winter tyres). If I was on the Summer 18's then I reckon I might need to replace both alloys and the tyres, if ever there was a reason to get steel wheels next time around, then this must be it!

Feel your pain! Things have got worse since councils stopped using magic yellow pothole spray. This was the spray that they used to use to mark the boundary of a pot-hole. Once marked, it could remain in that condition for up to 3 months.

However, most council legal departments have now banned the use of such sprays by their roads departments. You see, once they've marked it, they can't argue "It hasn't been reported"!

Feel your pain, i hate our roads! You spend your hard earned getting something nice and try to look after it but the pot holes destroy your tyres, wheels and suspension- just wish they would make roads properly like they do in Germany. I hear they use a more expensive tamac that allows less water ingress- anyone have more knowledge?

I was in Germany when I saw them re-doing the surface of a road. They were doing one lane and had setup traffic lights to alternative traffic on the other. As we drove down, I could see that the tarmac top layer was about 4 inches thick compared to ours is that is about half an inch in places. This was not a major road, it was just being done properly.

The roads in the UK are so bad that it was one of the contributing factors of buying the Superb and I wanted the 16" wheels with the squishy tyres rather than the 18's.

This country isn't as bad as many eastern European roads though. This is a typical road in Klaipeda, Lithuania when I drove there in the summer.

I didn't take a picture of a much worse one around the corner where they'd recently added a filter lane. The drains that were in the gutter are now in the centre of the road with a hugh drop into them that could rip off a wheel if you hit it!

This is the road to the border with Belarus that they were rebuilding. They rip the whole lot up and you drive like this for miles. It doesn't look too bad in the photo, but you couldn't go more than about 20mph without shaking the car to bits!