Beware of Potholes!

[Unit504]

I thought id just point this out as my dealing with a pothole ended up causing a bit of a pain in the ****!

Went down a pothole on the way home one night while driving down the lanes round my way, it was a large enough hole to make the car unlock the doors!

Result for it was:

x2 new tyres and one front anti roll bar.

Just look at the state of the rear tyre!

Front Tyre:

Rear Tyre:

 

[Bensonrad]

Jesus that is bad, write to you council and use these pictures as evidence to try and get the money out of them for it.

 

[trm]

Jeebus! I'm surprised you didn't trash a wheel! Can't imagine the torque that went through the front roll bar either.

You know it's good when the car CPU thinks you've had an accident and goes into recovery mode, but it's a good job it didn't fire the airbags off Talking of which (and sorry for taking this even further OT) but anybody have an idea where I can buy some unused airbags in bulk? Have tried a couple of scrappers I know but they want proper money, whereas I just want a crap-load of them as cheap as poss. It's for an 'art' project you see

 

[DanP]

That looks horrendous to me, the roads round here are definatley getting worse, what part of the county did that happen in?

Dan

 

[Unit504]

this happen on the country lane from romford to aveley (romford road).

That looks horrendous to me, the roads round here are definatley getting worse, what part of the county did that happen in?

Dan

 

[paulcan69]

I've worked in the motor trade for a good 10 years now and I've seen "blown-out" tyres look in better condition than that.

Dude you drove to mine and back on that! Your so lucky that didn't pop!

 

[Unit504]

yeah the very same thing crossed my mind!! think woah i drove all that way with a tyre like that!

but not only driving to yours id been driving round all week with it

the garage basically said if that had gone i would have known about it!

I've worked in the motor trade for a good 10 years now and I've seen "blown-out" tyres look in better condition than that.

Dude you drove to mine and back on that! Your so lucky that didn't pop!

 

[karlcdoe]

The roads in Sussex and Surrey pretty much suck with potholes. The joke is as soon as they put a decent smooth road surface down some plonker lobbies for speed ramps. In the last couple of years I have buckled an alloy rim going through the carpark of the pease pottage motorway services and ripped a hole straight through the sidewall of a tyre down a country lane. Low profile tyres seem a lot more prone to self destructing over potholes. But it doesn't avoid the fact motorists pay a lot in road fund licence and seem to get precious little in the way of maintenance; unless you count mickey mouse speed limits, bus lanes, traffic calming and cycle lanes

Anyhow, those bulges in the rear tyre are pretty outstanding, I take it that's not a run flat tyre?

 

[Unit504]

they do say lo profiles are more likely to suffer for a pothole on the road, they should be a better at fixing the hole when they appear!

nope it deffo not a run flat, just a flat flat lol

The roads in Sussex and Surrey pretty much suck with potholes. The joke is as soon as they put a decent smooth road surface down some plonker lobbies for speed ramps. In the last couple of years I have buckled an alloy rim going through the carpark of the pease pottage motorway services and ripped a hole straight through the sidewall of a tyre down a country lane. Low profile tyres seem a lot more prone to self destructing over potholes. But it doesn't avoid the fact motorists pay a lot in road fund licence and seem to get precious little in the way of maintenance; unless you count mickey mouse speed limits, bus lanes, traffic calming and cycle lanes

Anyhow, those bulges in the rear tyre are pretty outstanding, I take it that's not a run flat tyre?