Pothole has more than just damaged my car

DanFraser

Gene, stop trolling please.

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DanFraser wrote: »

Er. Where in the highway code does it say we should go so slow that we might as well go back to the man with a red flag law?

Don't talk rubbish, this has nothing to do with " red flags ", it is all to do with driving at the appropriate speed for the poor road conditions.

DanFraser

Miscomprehension?

Anyway, when at a main road, traffic conditions do force you to maintain some modicum of speed. I wouldn't want to slow down to first gear to safely encounter a trench because I would not want a) road rage b) potential fine c) being rear-ended by a bus or lorry. In an ideal world (with potholes still) it would be perfectly normal to assume that slowing down is a realistic option sometimes, unfortunately it's not is it? So stop acting as if I am the only driver to use this road.

eg-iain

Dan if we make this quite simple you and now the coucil know that there was a hole in the road that you, yourself knew may or could cause damage to your car and you drove through it.

If you had felt the need to contact them three times about a pot hole so much which you knew was still there why not go to the effort of driving round it or another way if it was that much of a bother to you.

eg-iain

DanFraser wrote: »

Miscomprehension?

Anyway, when at a main road, traffic conditions do force you to maintain some modicum of speed. I wouldn't want to slow down to first gear to safely encounter a trench because I would not want a) road rage b) potential fine c) being rear-ended by a bus or lorry. In an ideal world (with potholes still) it would be perfectly normal to assume that slowing down is a realistic option sometimes, unfortunately it's not is it? So stop acting as if I am the only driver to use this road.

So you drove towards the pothole you knew about at speed rather than taking the time to slow down before it. It's not like you didn't know about it.

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DanFraser wrote: »

Miscomprehension?

Anyway, when at a main road, traffic conditions do force you to maintain some modicum of speed. I wouldn't want to slow down to first gear to safely encounter a trench because I would not want a) road rage b) potential fine c) being rear-ended by a bus or lorry. In an ideal world (with potholes still) it would be perfectly normal to assume that slowing down is a realistic option sometimes, unfortunately it's not is it? So stop acting as if I am the only driver to use this road.

Well, I'm sorry, the bad driving of a following driver would not concern me, I would not traverse a pothole at a speed that would damage my vehicle, which it appears, you would.

You cannot be fined for driving at a safe speed for the prevailing road conditions.

DanFraser

Because it's an amazing amount of effort to use another route! Two other candidate routes for avoiding this pothole are just as bad if not worse and likely to damage my car, and the other possible route is much much longer (so much that the £1000 repair costs are cheaper over the course of a year). This route has a few bumps of a not damageable nature and this pothole. Going on the bus hurts my back on the bus route that takes one of the bad routes.

Rossy.

MORPH3US wrote: »

What an absolutely useless and wildly inaccurate post. You obviously know nothing about cars and have made yourself look ridiculous.

what a tw*t

You've never heard of that saying then

Hardly made myself look rediculous have i.

DanFraser

Why are people so intent on making it sound like I drove at 7 billion miles an hour over the grand canyon? Sheesh, I DID slow down for the pothole, obviously all of you wouldn't mind someone forcing you to slow down to first gear for this.

eg-iain

DanFraser wrote: »

Because it's an amazing amount of effort to use another route! Two other candidate routes for avoiding this pothole are just as bad if not worse and likely to damage my car, and the other possible route is much much longer (so much that the £1000 repair costs are cheaper over the course of a year). This route has a few bumps of a not damageable nature and this pothole. Going on the bus hurts my back on the bus route that takes one of the bad routes.

So basicly rather than paying a bit more in petrol over the year you've ended up writing your car off into a hole you knew about.