Ooops - blended-in tarmac repair suggestions please?

[ChemicalChaos]

I'm currently not at all popular with the parents.

It turns out that parking 2.5 tonnes of Solihull's finest on axle ramps, on a tarmac driveway, on a hot day, results in 4 very large footprints in the drive.
Cant anyone recommend a way of repairing this please? as you can see, the tarmac is well-weathered so a fresh blob of the stuff would look totally incongruous. My current line of thinking is to use some of the light grey chipping stuff the council throw down when doing half-arsed road "resurfacing" - a handful of colour matched chippings in each hole, with a bit of tar on the bottom to stick them down, might just work?
If not, is there anything else I can do?

[Blakeatron]

Wow - schoolboy error there!

For a real bodge you could use chippings and some black silicone, I would worry about the first frost though

[jules_s]

Sweep drive

Pick up loose bits, mix with resin and cover with dust

[Gingerbread Man]

I think my ramps have flatish bottoms. The bottom edge of the triangle is angle. Designing ramps with sharp digging in feet seems a little dim.

But the above post about brushing an area to get some chippings is sound.

[B17NNS]

jules_s said:

Sweep drive

He's right. You have perfectly colour matched aggregate all around you. A sweep with a stiff broom should harvest enough to fill the holes. What you mix it with to bind it together and to the existing though I don't know.

[softtop]

wait for some warm weather and push the sides in to fill the hole

[Accelebrate]

My trolley jack did something similar whilst helping a friend swap the wheels around on his MK6 Golf. It looked quite bad initially, but over time the dents seem to have lifted, or filled up with muck. I can't really see them unless I go looking for them.

Probably not the solution your parents are after though!

[andy43]

A few of these should do it...


eta - if it's a Land Rover on their drive, it's the oil leaks they want to be worrying about...

[Renovation]

As above - get some existing chippings but just bash them into the holes.

I'd use a tamp but a big hammer and a block of wood will probably do the job.

[ManFromDelmonte]

What did you end up doing?

[ChemicalChaos]

Thanks chaps, my apologies as I thought I'd replied.

As a temporary measure I swept up and deposited a load of loose matching stones in the holes. When I have the time, I'm going to take them out again, mix them with some spare fibreglass resin, then stick them in permanently

Oh, and I've also cut some 1" ply boards to go under the ramps in future!

[ManFromDelmonte]

ChemicalChaos said:

Thanks chaps, my apologies as I thought I'd replied.

As a temporary measure I swept up and deposited a load of loose matching stones in the holes. When I have the time, I'm going to take them out again, mix them with some spare fibreglass resin, then stick them in permanently

Oh, and I've also cut some 1" ply boards to go under the ramps in future!

Sounds good. I always like a thread with a bit of closure.