4x4 Drivers Scared of Speed Bumps

scheming_gypsy

TrickyWicky wrote: »

You've obviously got a good highways department then. Come this way I'll show you some roads in such a state you'll love going over them for some 4x4 experience!

on another thread you said you were going down the M55... I'm only in Preston so not that far from you.
This is in Irlam though and it's proper weird. it's just like they half buried a sewerage pipe and then stuck tarmac on top so it's not just a bump in the road but a small hill.

TrickyWicky

scheming_gypsy wrote: »

on another thread you said you were going down the M55... I'm only in Preston so not that far from you.

Nope, you're miles from me. I don't live there but it was Preston I was driving from! I'd bought a car there and travelled from one part of the country to Preston to get it.

Weird thing is the plod pulled me for no insurance. Let me go after I have him a brain implosion with my charm and warned me I was likely to get pulled a few more times on the way by other forces :eek:. Despite going into another county that features on the TV road wars type programs (you know, where they're heavily fortified with ANPR all over the place) I didn't get tugged once :cool:

Plod, if you're out there reading this: :hello: (You didn't even ring me and confirm the MID showed me as insured you rotten g!t)

Strider590

Meh, lots of clueless idiots have gone out and bought 4x4's to get through the winter snow.

TrickyWicky

I don't see why.. just let the air out of your tyres until you get to a gritted road then pump them up again (Yes its bloody hard work but a darn sight cheaper!)

Strider590

TrickyWicky wrote: »

I don't see why.. just let the air out of your tyres until you get to a gritted road then pump them up again (Yes its bloody hard work but a darn sight cheaper!)

Ummmmm....... I don't think you really want to be doing that.

TrickyWicky

Not for long distances but if you need to get out of your housing estate onto the main road its fine at slow speed.

essthree

likely something to do with hot beverages

photome

Or are they really just sticking to the speed limit and the OP isnt?

cubegame

If the average 4x4 is anything like the Jeep Grand Cherokee we recently hired in America even an inch high bump in the road would send the whole thing shaking from side to side!

Not what you need on an exposed mountain pass on a rough dirt track. Or probably on the speed bumps in front of the primary school.

scheming_gypsy

Strider590 wrote: »

Meh, lots of clueless idiots have gone out and bought 4x4's to get through the winter snow.

I'm one of them. I paid £500 for a gas converted Cherokee which is the same price as a set of wheels and winter tyres. After winter I'll make my money back.
My regular drive is an MR2, if anything happens to it in the snow and i can't do the 70 mile round trip commute, then I'll lose wages and have to buy another car.
So the maths is; £500 on wheels and tyres + possible repairs to / replacement car (highly likely when my estate doesn't get gritted) + lost wages = £xxx. The Jeep has cost me 4 days wages (take home), gives me the benefit of having an extra car to reduce the chances of missing work, a hell of a better chance of getting anywhere in the snow and keeps one of my policies and NCD alive... So if that's being a clueless idiot, I'm more than happy to be one!

cubegame wrote: »

If the average 4x4 is anything like the Jeep Grand Cherokee we recently hired in America even an inch high bump in the road would send the whole thing shaking from side to side!
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but it's fun though.. everytime you go round a corner or over a speed bump it's like shagging a blamonge