Potholes

[SuperZ]

My car doesn't really have much of a suspension. WIth all the potholes I keep driving over (even while still trying to avoid them), it'll soon have square wheels also.

A lot of the potholes I notice on my way to client coe are where the previous crap repair attempts have just broke up due to the cold temps.

I now have to take a different route home (2 miles longer) as some stretches of road have been getting worse over recent weeks and it's worse than driving the Paris - Dakar. I think my car now has a broken rear spring also .

One day I'm going to be breathalised due to weaving around everywhere trying to avoid the damn things,.

[Sysman]

One day I'm going to be breathalised due to weaving around everywhere trying to avoid the damn things,.

I heard about a chap who got stopped by the police for weaving around pot holes. He hadn't had a drop to drink and explained that he lived in Africa where spare parts were hard to get hold of and cars ancient so avoiding pot holes was standard practice.

[SantaClaus]

Try driving through Islington. I can't tell the potholes from the speed-bumps.

The communist republic of Islington really would like people to use public transport so the Mayor and councillors can drive around unhindered by traffic.

Of course, if you are an Islington Luvvie, you will already be driving your kids around on a wobbly 2 seater bicycle.

[conned tractor]

Coincidently I moved a dining table and chairs across town last night, the table being on th roof rack with some padding stopping it from getting scratched. It really does highlight the bumps when you are clenching your arse every time you go over one for fear of damaging the table and when I got out of the car the air was slightly blue over the pot holes. Hundreds, or at least tens of them over about a ten mile period. Its not the ones taken slowly I was bothered about but the huge ones that jump out on you when travelling at 40.

Also, had a front spring break over the winter period, luckily it happened at low speed, i.e. crawling. I am thinking of upgrading to a 4x4 this year due to the potholes and speed bumps.

[Paddy]

Is a good source regarding various types of suspension.

http://www.carbibles.com/suspension_bible.html

In the 50s, 60s, and seventies the majority of cars has really crap suspension however it would be unusual to find patched up roads. British roads were very good.

Today cars have much superior suspension but the roads are bumpy and full of potholes. I used to regularly drive through France that had appalling roads. Now it is reversed. The British roads are crap. Although the recent cold weather opened up potholes; the potholes were already there or had not been repaired properly in the first place. Local government has been diverted money allocated for road to other schemes.

[Jeebo72]

Try the Isle of Mull if you want to see serious potholeage!

[EternalOptimist]

Try the Isle of Mull if you want to see serious potholeage!

I had to swerve sharply the other night, as some bloke wearing a helmet with a torch strapped on it climbed out of a pothole in our road. He asked for directions to the BlueJohn mine before diving back down again

[Clippy]

Is a good source regarding various types of suspension.

http://www.carbibles.com/suspension_bible.html

In the 50s, 60s, and seventies the majority of cars has really crap suspension however it would be unusual to find patched up roads. British roads were very good.

Today cars have much superior suspension but the roads are bumpy and full of potholes. I used to regularly drive through France that had appalling roads. Now it is reversed. The British roads are crap. Although the recent cold weather opened up potholes; the potholes were already there or had not been repaired properly in the first place. Local government has been diverted money allocated for road to other schemes.

Clarkson, in reviews, always goes on about how car manufacturers have to design more robust suspension just to cope with UK roads.