Noooooooooooooooooooooo!

Passenger side front alloy is goosed as is the tyre. I could cry as I need the extra expense right now like I need a hole in the head.:(

Letter writing time to the Council for sure this time.

So between now and Saturday morning when the replacement comes in I'll have to gently potter around at 50mph max on my full size steel wheel spare so as not to knacker the 4wd (I'm guessing at any rate as the full size spare on my last Octy didn't have a massive sticker on it telling you not to go over 50 mph!)

Great.

Niall

Letter writing time to the Council for sure this time.

Nasty :thumbdwn:

Make sure you get a picture of the offending pot hole

Make sure you get a picture of the offending pot hole

Fear not, I went back after changing the wheel and took several!

Niall

Feel for you man,

Im having to be extra carefull, been driving a Navara with 17" BFG All terrains on for 18 months before the Octy. You could go over the largest pot holes ever at 60mph and not do any damage to them tyres. Now im almost swerving to miss hairline cracks just in case!!

Steve

Nasty ding. that'll cost!!

What part of Scotland is this pothole in?

(So that I can steer clear!!)

Good luck with the council....

I sympathise and commiserate having done something similar to one of my 18" B14s and tyre last summer. I couldn't go after the local Council as the pothole I dropped the wheel into was on the verge, that I had to escape to to avoid an oncoming coach using too much road. :eek:

Cost me around £325 for a new wheel and tyre! Ouch!

I thought the Scout's spare wheel was a space saver jobby, not full size... ???

Jeees! That's a big'un!

You want to come to Southampton one day - THEN you'll see some huge ones!

I thought the Scout's spare wheel was a space saver jobby, not full size... ???

Brochure/handbook says 'space saver spare' for Scout, vRS, L&K et al but in reality they mean a 16" Steelie with 205/55 tyre (not some wafer thin jobbie).

Cost me around £325 for a new wheel and tyre! Ouch!

Not disimilar to what I'm expecting to pay come Saturday having visited the local dealer.:(

This pothole was on the edge of the road on the inside of a left hander, couldn't see it as I was going into the bend and I figured that altering trajectory mid corner at the last moment could potentially be a lot worse.......

For those up north it was the A70 from Edinburgh to Carnwath, heading south- a pot holed ridden ribbon of Tarmac if there ever was one. Surprisingly the hole I hit was in the West Lothian section rather than the South Lanarkshire bit (every road in the entire county here is atrocious). I've hit potholes before but not done anything like this.

Niall

Fear not, I went back after changing the wheel and took several!

Niall

Personally I would look at legal action against your local council. At least to recover the damages and costs you incurred for new tyre and alloy. Councils seem to get away with murder from a point of view of Roads, Its about time someone took them to task.

Suggest you pop to a solicitor with the pictures + pictures of damages, I feel the council havnt been following their duty of care to maintain the roads round you.

Chances are they will settle out of court in this case as they (and any judge) will see they are in the wrong.

Not disimilar to what I'm expecting to pay come Saturday having visited the local dealer.:(

This pothole was on the edge of the road on the inside of a left hander, couldn't see it as I was going into the bend and I figured that altering trajectory mid corner at the last moment could potentially be a lot worse.......

For those up north it was the A70 from Edinburgh to Carnwath, heading south- a pot holed ridden ribbon of Tarmac if there ever was one. Surprisingly the hole I hit was in the West Lothian section rather than the South Lanarkshire bit (every road in the entire county here is atrocious). I've hit potholes before but not done anything like this.

Niall

You should see our front street (Prehaps I will take a pic one day) its nothing short of a cobbled version of tarmac. hundreds of patchs, all of which are lifting. The main road round the corner from us is actually subsiding as a crack is starting to appear across the road from all the buses that use it. Council arent interested in repairing it

Most councils definition of a pot hole repair is to chuck some instarmac in the hole and whack the **** out of it with a shovel for a few minutes, this lasts approximately 3 and a half days :thumbdwn:

I read somewhere about a crazy statistic that councils pay out more in compo than it would cost to actually repair the holes properly - whether this is actually true or not is another matter..........

Jeees! That's a big'un!

You want to come to Southampton one day - THEN you'll see some huge ones!

That isn't fair, there are no pot holes in Southampton, Just lumps of road surface protruding up from the hardcore layer.

Shame since IIRC Southampton keep putting their council tax up a stupid amount.

I had a nasty moment in some roadworks on state highway 1 (in NZ of course ). This is our main North-South road and it would barely qualify as a A-road in some places!

Anyway they had the road scraped for resurfacing but trucks had worn grooves in the hardcore - twice, chunks of hardcore caught the underside of my car :(

Grr.

Nasty.

Same thing happened to me. I tried to claim off the council, but they said that because they were not aware of the pothole, they were not repsonsible for it!!!!

My local council (Northants) have a road defect reporting facility on their website. I suggest that if yours does, report it on that first (not giving your name) THEN claim you hit the pothole say 45mins later otherwise you will get the same response as I did.. Make sure you make a note of the fault reference too.

Make sure the letter you write to the council is on solicitors headed paper and it mentions duty of care, etc.

(I work for a county council)

Billy