British roads and there diabolical state, absolutely fuming.....

[mini-valver]

Driving home from 5 a side at 8 this evening, doing around 60 on a national speed limit A road listening to music etc take a bend and i hit the biggest f**king pothole ive ever seen, right on the driving lne closest to the middle of the road. Bang goes tht tyre and i veer agross the road trying not to spin/hit the kerb. Get it under control and pull in 100 yards down the road at a JCB.
Wheel is flatspotted and my t1-R is nailed. a month ive had these wheels so as you can imagine, well titsed. Took some pics on my phone which a crap quality but you get the idea. The hole is about a metre long and half a metre wide!
We pay £150 odd a year road tax and 50p a litre tax on fuel and the state of the roads are shocking. Where does the money from the transport industry go? Certainly not where its supposed to, MP's in big mansions, free holidays and all that. Im soooo angry i could cry!

Left a message on the council helpline and will ring them tommorrow and write a letter to accompany it but aside from that is there anything i can do to reclami the money it will cost me for the wheel/tyre and tracking??
Rant over

Dave

 

[Matt_Pleece]

They spend it on Immagrants! and lazy f*****s on the doll that can't be arsed to get a job......u know the really inmportant things!

 

[mini-valver]

Pissed off X 10.
Why does it happen to the good people?? lol

 

[Sy]

Bad things always do mate.

 

[Graham Gooch]

Next week lets watch the road ahead.

 

[Ross M]

know how u feel mate ! blew my whole wheel up on a rather large pothole in my last car. was raging and complained to the council who did f**k all apart from fill it in the same day and deny all knowledge. cost me a new wheel and tyre. although ive just had a letter from them saying its being audited 2 years on ...

 

[mini-valver]

Next week lets watch the road ahead.

It was on a bend so by the time id seen it id hit it!

 

[Rob 182]

I know how you feel. Lost one of my tyres to a pot hole a few days before Christmas. Luckily, the alloy was untouched but I could've done without having to replace what was previously a perfectly good tyre a few days before Christmas.

 

[BrianR]

You can claim against the council, get a quote for the repairs and be prepared for the first round of denials of responsibility. But don't be put off.

They have a legal responsibility to maintain the road surface but they will employ someone for £20k p/a to deny this, rather than spend £1M a year by owning up that the roads are crap.

Tell them you WILL go to the courts for a resolution if they don't deal with it and see how quickly they back down.

Good pics, good evidence. But go back in daylight and measure width and depth to avoid the claim you have used a wide angle lens or other device to misrepresent the size of the hole.

 

[Mells]

They spend it on Immagrants! and lazy f**kers on the doll that can't be arsed to get a job......u know the really inmportant things!

wondered how long it would take.

you sir, get a medal!

 

[Sy]

They spend it on Immagrants! and lazy f**kers on the doll that can't be arsed to get a job......u know the really inmportant things!

wondered how long it would take.

you sir, get a medal!

The roads were sh**e long before the immigrants got here!!!!!!

 

[TomTom]

Gutted, some of the roads round here haven't been touched for years its like going down a gravel track

 

[mini-valver]

You can claim against the council, get a quote for the repairs and be prepared for the first round of denials of responsibility. But don't be put off.

They have a legal responsibility to maintain the road surface but they will employ someone for £20k p/a to deny this, rather than spend £1M a year by owning up that the roads are crap.

Tell them you WILL go to the courts for a resolution if they don't deal with it and see how quickly they back down.

Good pics, good evidence. But go back in daylight and measure width and depth to avoid the claim you have used a wide angle lens or other device to misrepresent the size of the hole.

Cheers mate, ill gt one on the way to work tommorrow, put my shoe next to it or something. Ill push as much as i have to in order to get back what i have to spend as like you say, its waht taxes are paid for and there repsonsibilty to 'keep' the roads.
Absolutely gutted. It was a brand new tyre and wheel FFS!!!!

I think the problem is instead of dig a road up and relay it they just patch it and put the manholes 2 inches below the surface. It will cost them in the long run as theyll have to realy it eventually anyway, Anything to save money!

 

[DH_GTI]

shame mate, just claim of local council thats what every one does round here lol

 

[DAVE_RSi]

why a shoe?

I claimed against the highways agency not long ago

Hit a pothole, woke up new years with a flat tyre, great, alloy was bent

I went back, took digital photos, with measuring tape in the hole, measured depth, width, everything, photos of up the road and with tape measure in the hole etc, just anything so they couldnt argue it

rang up council as someone else and reported the hole

then rang up and asked to make a claim, turned out it wasnt a council road, was highways agency, i sent a claim form to them, they said its subtracted to amey mouchel, they said they had checked the road and did their job and it was fine and claim is finished with

I didnt back down, argued it, said i wasn't happy and wanted answers, went back to highways agency and kept kicking up a fuss every week, eventually i ended up with a cheque for £400 , I'd sent them emails from garages saying that I could no longer get a single alloy and so needed a whole new set

took over 7 months to get the money, but was worth it in the end, wasn't easy

 

[Andy_con]

i feel bad posting, but well i work for the highway authority and we are "suppose" to fix pot holes!!! lol

 

[Beef-Mc]

Just heard today on the radio that Fife council have cut down the amount of potholes from 29,000 las year to 27,000 this year. They were banging on like this was a huge acheivement!!

 

[Sy]

i feel bad posting, but well i work for the highway authority and we are "suppose" to fix pot holes!!! lol

What you mean "supposed to"? lol:S

 

[kiza1986]

Had a couple of pot holes around my way and the council filled them in... they sagged back down again so they filled them in again and like the first time the sagged back in again so theyve filed them in for the third time!!

When will they learn??

 

[Spiezels]

fuckin hell pal real shitter, happened to my mum few weeks ago, needed new tyre and alloy both were fucked, she got money off them though.

 

[tommyboy]

My next car would be a 4x4 if I could afford one with the shocking state of our roads now.

 

[mini-valver]

Is it worth getting a quote from a garage to back it up then? It's gonna cost at least £150 and i really dont want to pay it. Feel cheated....

 

[vavazoom]

since having my apex 40mm back breakers ive noticed how bad uk roads are!lol u just dnt notice it normally with marshmellow springs!

 

[KDF]

Im sorry to hear what happend.. but all I can say is try living in edinburgh.. voted worst roads in the UK.

The amount of damage done to my car through potholes and speed bumps has litterally cost me 4 figures in repairs.

 

[Evil Ally]

My uncle is the manager for the council roads department. He hates his job. The tossers higher up make him spend money on "Twentie's plenty" signs instead of resurfacing roads. Some of the stories he tells me about how the council is run would make you weep as a tax payer....

 

[Spiezels]

the new way they reserface roads is s**t just wet tar then stone chippings, in summer u can feel the road is well soft, its s**t. Yeah get some quotes. Its a long process but they will pay, think it happens alot so just phone them they wil send forms through

 

[OLLZIE]

why dont they just do the whole road instead of filling it up and be done with it.

 

[Neil G]

I feel for you mate...you must be f**king livid!

Sometimes I ask myself the same question as I'm crashing/skittering across all the uneven road surfaces and potholes.....where the f**k is my road tax going?:S

 

[Mark J]

that looks a pretty big pothole! I would be fuming at that too, luckily the roads round here arent too bad, they resurfaced the worse road a couple of months back thank god!

 

[Middo]

where is said pothole, i'll watchout for it

seriously mate, the roads are stoke are 10x worse than anywhere else i've been, i went to dorset on a holiday and the roads were in a different league, whereas stoke council patch fills pot holes, they actually replaced a whole section of road down there to stop it sagging and making another pot hole. There was one at the top of the g/fs road on a nasty bend and was huge, they patch filled it after about 2 months, and within a week, its sagged again.

 

[Jonaldinho]

The worst roads in the UK in view are in South Lanarkshire, fookin terrible even on standard suspension. As soon as you cross the county line, smooth......

 

[Ollie82.]

Next week lets watch the road ahead.

Next week, lets put you in the same situation and see you clobber the same crater.
And then the week after that we'll teach you the meaning of not being a CSD...a Computer Seat Driver. Same as a back seat driver but without being there in the situation and will still preach.

 

[Middo]

lmao^ classic

 

[mini-valver]

Spoke to the council today and they are going to send me an insurance claim form through. Hopefully this will mean ill be refunded what i spend but in the meantime clench my arse cheeks and get it paid. Next time i go to pay car tax ill be reluctant to part with my money, what happenned to the phrase "you get what you pay for".
My arse i say!

Thanks for the comments and sympathy, needed it.
:dapprove:

 

[Middo]

make the most of it cos your not gonna get any sympathy on saturday after your lampost comments

 

[mini-valver]

LOL, oops. Knew thatd come back to kick me in the balls ordering a wheel now. Still gutted!!

 

[Jonaldinho]

Thats fookin HUGE!! Both the fronts (TSW Razors) on mine were buckled last year and im puting it down to the roads.