No Access to Home without Several Speed Humps

Strider590

Inactive wrote: »

So that's OK then?

It's not OK, not OK at all....

Speed limits are legal and binding whether we agree that a wide, straight country B road should be a 30 limit or not.

The folks who speed down these roads are more often than not, driving company vehicles or big huge posh 4x4's.... They don't let speed bumps slow them down, making them almost pointless anyway.

casper_g

Anyone who thinks British speed bumps are a problem should try Mexican ones for size. Try driving over those at anything over 5 mph and you won't have a car to continue your journey in. They like to install them with very little warning on anything up to a dual carriageway freeway, sometimes because you're entering a village but sometimes seemingly completely at random....

almillar

Poster saying that speed bumps that can be taken at 30 should be installed - in which car?
Yours?
Mine?
A lorry or van? An MR2 or a Discovery?
I can do different speeds in different cars I've owned over the same speed bumps, and would advise that soft cars with high profile tyres are definately the fastest way to make your way round urban roads (as in 30mph all the time instead of having to drop to 15 for bumps!).

Of course you can't put a policeman on every street corner, I never suggested that, but nor can you stick lumps of tarmac everywhere either. They can concentrate on reacting to complaints (the complaints that Strider mentions) and goto those areas, instead of catching people doing 80 on a motorway. 80 on a motorway is infinately safer than 40 in a 30 given the same conditions of course.
My idea is to get the speeders off the road, and let the rest of us drive in peace!

Rossy.

almillar wrote: »

Poster saying that speed bumps that can be taken at 30 should be installed - in which car?
Yours?
Mine?
A lorry or van? An MR2 or a Discovery?
I can do different speeds in different cars I've owned over the same speed bumps, and would advise that soft cars with high profile tyres are definately the fastest way to make your way round urban roads (as in 30mph all the time instead of having to drop to 15 for bumps!).

Of course you can't put a policeman on every street corner, I never suggested that, but nor can you stick lumps of tarmac everywhere either. They can concentrate on reacting to complaints (the complaints that Strider mentions) and goto those areas, instead of catching people doing 80 on a motorway. 80 on a motorway is infinately safer than 40 in a 30 given the same conditions of course.
My idea is to get the speeders off the road, and let the rest of us drive in peace!

At no point has anyone said that if you can do 30mph bumps should be installed

I don't know what car you drive but i've got a RenaultSport clio 197

It's lowered from standard and has extremely stiff suspension. Speed bumps however do not cause me any issues as i use caution when negotiating them.

Funnily enough whilst in traffic this morning on my way to work i observed a 59 plate ford focus go over a speed hump without braking and he hit it at about 30-35 , He bounced straight over it. The front splitter hit the floor with a scrape and i actually thought about this thread.

That IMO is why they should be installed especially in residential roads

bosseyed

misssarahleigh wrote: »

Ah, but have any of you owned a 96 Corsa or are you all driving relativly new cars which are ultimatly better equiped and more durable?

I've driven cars older and crappier than a 96 Corsa over for a period of years on some terrible roads and I've never ever damaged a car going over a speed bump.

In fact I can't really see how you would unless you crash over them at speed.

Strider590

Rossy. wrote: »

It's lowered from standard and has extremely stiff suspension. Speed bumps however do not cause me any issues as i use caution when negotiating them.

I have a VX Vectra at SRI ride height and because of the large overhang at the front, it scrapes on large speed bumps (mostly the illegal one's on retail parks, theme parks, zoo's and forestry commission/woodland carparks)

Your Clio has no overhang, it's got a wheel on each corner..... This will make a HUGE difference.

Rossy.

Strider590 wrote: »

I have a VX Vectra at SRI ride height and because of the large overhang at the front, it scrapes on large speed bumps (mostly the illegal one's on retail parks, theme parks, zoo's and forestry commission/woodland carparks)

Your Clio has no overhang, it's got a wheel on each corner..... This will make a HUGE difference.

It does have overhang and has an extra RS splitter installed to beef the front up which comes out about 2 inches from the bottom of the bumper.

My best mates GF has a Vectra, X reg 2.0, and there is little difference between my overhang and her cars overhang

My best mate infact drives a jap import Skyline R33 GTR. Thats got a much bigger overhang than the veccy and my clio, its lowered 60mm and still negotiates the bumps fine. He just takes them slow

johnson293

Strider590 wrote: »

I have a VX Vectra at SRI ride height and because of the large overhang at the front, it scrapes on large speed bumps (mostly the illegal one's on retail parks, theme parks, zoo's and forestry commission/woodland carparks)

Your Clio has no overhang, it's got a wheel on each corner..... This will make a HUGE difference.

In that caes, does this not also apply to the OP who has a Corsa, which is a very similar sized car as a Clio, with very similar front lower overhang (or lack of)?

Strider590

All cars are different? why are we having such a petty discussion? should we all go out and buy a 4x4 so that speed bumps are not a problem?

No..... Local councils should take into consideration all vehicles that use these roads!

johnson293

Strider590 wrote: »

All cars are different? why are we having such a petty discussion? should we all go out and buy a 4x4 so that speed bumps are not a problem?

No..... Local councils should take into consideration all vehicles that use these roads!

/opens can/

Or alternatively, car owners could think about potential road conditions and speed bumps when deciding whether to lower their cars and/or fit low slung bodykits and exhausts...... or long flaps.

/worms everywhere/