Hi everyone, I've just hit a pothole in the road and the car slipped out ov gear then I put it back in gear all was fine then 100m down the road the engine got a lot louder turbo stopped working and there was lots of black smoke . When I try drive now it goes but it keeps making a wierd noise and loosing drive , any ideas what this could be ? Thanks.

Smashed the sump and lost all oil perhaps?

Or somehow dislodged a boost pipe?

Popped a boost pipe? Black smoke means not enough air going into engine, losing drive sounds serious though. Must've been some pothole! Take a pic of it and claim damages from whoever maintains the road in your area.

+1 on a boost pipe

Thanks for your replys ppl, just been on phone to a mechanic he says boost pipe aswell , well he said intercooler pipe not sure if that's same thing as I don't really know about these things.

Time to take a pic of the hole...

which wheel hit the pothole driver or passenger side?

Sounds more like a crater than a pot hole!

Wow!

Never heard of this happening before. ;o

Time to take a pic of the hole...

+1.

Nail 'em. :(

If it was drivers side it's probably the lower boost pipe has popped off

Could be the small pipe coming off the bottom of the egr valve, does ur car sound like a tractor?

Yes it's drivers side, yeah it sounds like a tractor thought it was exhaust at first but it's just the engine gone loud .

Like Chris says, photograph the hole and enclose it and a copy of the receipt

for the repair work with a strongly worded letter to the relevant local authority

about how you'll pursue them till hell freezes over for full compensation.

Particularly if it was in a fairly unavoidable place. It sounds like

it would cause someone on two wheels to suddenly find themself

polishing the road surface with their face sooner or later.

Make sure you show a tape measure in the picture

showing depth and width because if you just complain about the hole it will

most likely disappear as if by magic.

And you'll have no proof of how bad it was.

They'd probly just laugh and go "what...? You hit a pothole and now your engines broken?"

I put a claim in for 2 of my wheels on my old fiesta st, sent pics etc but they filled it im and said there wasnt a pothole there, so went back to the pothole and dug it back out, took loads more pics and got £500 out of them lol

Your best way to do it is buy a paper for the day you had the accident, with the date clearly visible.

Lay the paper down next to the hole, get a tape measure... Take lots of pictures with the paper in-situ. That way they can't argue that the hole never existed at X date.

And like people said - strongly worded letter with receipts for repair.

Gloucestershire redefined what a pothole is - it used to be 25mm deep - it's now 100mm!

Your best way to do it is buy a paper for the day you had the accident, with the date clearly visible.

Lay the paper down next to the hole, get a tape measure... Take lots of pictures with the paper in-situ. That way they can't argue that the hole never existed at X date.

And like people said - strongly worded letter with receipts for repair.

Better still kidnap your local Councillor and take a picture of them in the pothole holding the paper.

I put a claim in for 2 of my wheels on my old fiesta st, sent pics etc but they filled it im and said there wasnt a pothole there, so went back to the pothole and dug it back out, took loads more pics and got £500 out of them lol

Cheers turns out it was the boost pipe and it was rubbing on the alternator causing it to jerk and make wierd noises lol . All sorted for £70

Better still kidnap your local Councillor and take a picture of them in the pothole holding the paper.

This! Or shove his head in the hole and take a picture.

http://www.fixmystreet.com/ for the future this should help