hit one today (on a lesson, I wasn't driving) very wet and raining, didn't see it comming, bust then tyre :thumbdwn: lucky the car didn't go off track... took it for a new tyre (205/45/17) and then to the dealers for a check to make sure everything was ok (which it was thank god) then got onto the council to complain, reported it as dangerous (a car could go off the road easy after hitting this at speed, we were going slow (and have ESP) but someone could easily loose control hitting this,) and gave the highways department directions on where to find it, requesting at the same time a claim for for compensation

NOTE: do you all know, councils spend TWICE as much on compensation to motorists for damage caused by our crap roads, than they do repairing them?!

I went back (after I got the car checked out) and got pics, it had stopped the monsoon, so the pothole is now visible, it was hidden under water!

just you all be careful out there, you never know whats hidden under the water!

A wise man once told me a good way of deciding whether it was safe to drive through......

" Puddles don't have stones around their edge; potholes normally do. Not infallible, of course - what is? But it makes you look......"

Chris

A wise man once told me a good way of deciding whether it was safe to drive through......

" Puddles don't have stones around their edge; potholes normally do. Not infallible, of course - what is? But it makes you look......"

Chris

wise indeed, unfortunately he was quite new, and my attention, was on his steering, and keeping him in the road :(

Council around here seem to have had a blitz on resufacing roads, and filling pot holes. Reminds me of a road local to us - of course all the council have done is put rumble strips at nearly every junction, even though the road is crumbling to bits.

It's not good when you hit a pothole, we live dwn a private road which is like that the whole way (just under 2 tenths of a mile) and in this weather it makes the road worse. I have to drive it twice a-day and it regulaly damages the car:thumbdwn:

Our council seem to employ shall we say "dirty Irishmen of no fixed abode" (no offence to any dirty Irishmen of a fixed abode) to fix our potholes, within a month they have sunk again.

It's not good when you hit a pothole, we live dwn a private road which is like that the whole way (just under 2 tenths of a mile) and in this weather it makes the road worse. I have to drive it twice a-day and it regulaly damages the car:thumbdwn:

Private roads are sometimes kept deliberately overly potholed to avoid rat run traffic. It might be worth having a chat with other residents to learn what's intended.

Sharkrider: Dunno what to say. You could sit on a shooting stick with a fishing rod. Some potholes are very very bad. IIRC there was a plan about 10 years ago(?) that it would be cheaper to mend roads rather than resurface them. Then they realised it wasn't cheaper(failure/repeat rate) but still easier to budget for identifying, yellow-marking and mending individual potholes.

Regards

Mo

i've got a nice new pot hole appearing on the road near my house , plus there is a large amount of heavy vehicles turning at the junction where the pot hole is , calling the road rough would be an understatement , i have already previously complained to my local councillor who had the junction repaired , but 44 ton wagons going over the road have destroyed the surface in no time at all

Blooming things. I hit one on a very dark lane outside Sittingbourne a few months back. Front nearside wheel went in and BANG!!!!

Stopped to check all was okay, no damage, car felt fine. A tribute to Skoda strength and build quality.

Stopped to check all was okay, no damage, car felt fine. A tribute to Skoda strength and build quality.

Surely it's a tribute to the tyre manufacturer and nothing to do with Skoda?! :P

Chris

Not sure Chris. Lost my rear suspension (struts?) on an erstwhile ickle Polo.

Mo

the private road i have togo down is a no through road, it just leads to a farm thats converted into houses. The local residents have no interest in fixing the road as they say it slows people down, which isn't true as we live in 4x4 land and they drive like lunatics up and down the road.