Tar spraying and surface dressing
Discussion
So, I managed a lunchtime finish at work today. Weather was lovely around outskirts of Sheffield so went for a run out in the BGTS. I head out towards Baslow and Bakewell and on the way back take a detour onto some smaller country lanes, usually lovely to drive with very few bad patches of road.
To my horror, on approaching one of the bends, I see the road has been totally sprayed and dressed in chippings. I come to a hasty stop and roll about a foot onto the dressed road surface. It's impossible to turn round as its a near blind left hand bend, so I carry on at mega low speed to find a safe place to spin round. Job done, and I come back the way I know is clear of crap. All I could hear for the next 2-3 miles were stones battering around the arches, and I was taking it steady. I looked for any signs of warning about the surface and only seen one.
Now I'm at home with the Autoglym tar remover, behaving like a fretting parent over a new child. Am I being a complete idiot?
Would any of you just carried on?
To my horror, on approaching one of the bends, I see the road has been totally sprayed and dressed in chippings. I come to a hasty stop and roll about a foot onto the dressed road surface. It's impossible to turn round as its a near blind left hand bend, so I carry on at mega low speed to find a safe place to spin round. Job done, and I come back the way I know is clear of crap. All I could hear for the next 2-3 miles were stones battering around the arches, and I was taking it steady. I looked for any signs of warning about the surface and only seen one.
Now I'm at home with the Autoglym tar remover, behaving like a fretting parent over a new child. Am I being a complete idiot?
Would any of you just carried on?
BogglemanGTS said:
So, I managed a lunchtime finish at work today. Weather was lovely around outskirts of Sheffield so went for a run out in the BGTS. I head out towards Baslow and Bakewell and on the way back take a detour onto some smaller country lanes, usually lovely to drive with very few bad patches of road.
To my horror, on approaching one of the bends, I see the road has been totally sprayed and dressed in chippings. I come to a hasty stop and roll about a foot onto the dressed road surface. It's impossible to turn round as its a near blind left hand bend, so I carry on at mega low speed to find a safe place to spin round. Job done, and I come back the way I know is clear of crap. All I could hear for the next 2-3 miles were stones battering around the arches, and I was taking it steady. I looked for any signs of warning about the surface and only seen one.
Now I'm at home with the Autoglym tar remover, behaving like a fretting parent over a new child. Am I being a complete idiot?
Would any of you just carried on?
Makes a change to the craters that usually feature heavily on Sheffield's roads ;-) I recently found out that Sheffield is one of the very few councils to have outsourced road repairs and maintenance to a private company, hence the state of them and no additional funding from central government that other councils have received recently!To my horror, on approaching one of the bends, I see the road has been totally sprayed and dressed in chippings. I come to a hasty stop and roll about a foot onto the dressed road surface. It's impossible to turn round as its a near blind left hand bend, so I carry on at mega low speed to find a safe place to spin round. Job done, and I come back the way I know is clear of crap. All I could hear for the next 2-3 miles were stones battering around the arches, and I was taking it steady. I looked for any signs of warning about the surface and only seen one.
Now I'm at home with the Autoglym tar remover, behaving like a fretting parent over a new child. Am I being a complete idiot?
Would any of you just carried on?
PS, not sure about the 981 but the 987 doesn't have any rear wheel arch liners so it sounds horrendous on loose stones. I just stay well back from any cars in front of me and give cars on the opposite side as much room as possible. It sounds a lot worse than it actually is in my opinion.
mr pg said:
Was in France/Switzerland recently where we had to suffer this for several miles a number of times. Crawled at less than 20kmh and still ended up with stones stuck to the inside of wheel rims. Bodywork fared ok. 981 Cayman S.
We are off to France, Austria and Switzerland in 4 weeks, can't wait for this one. 
That and the endless amount of cyclists to try and dodge on the mountain roads.
BogglemanGTS said:
So, I managed a lunchtime finish at work today. Weather was lovely around outskirts of Sheffield so went for a run out in the BGTS. I head out towards Baslow and Bakewell and on the way back take a detour onto some smaller country lanes, usually lovely to drive with very few bad patches of road.
To my horror, on approaching one of the bends, I see the road has been totally sprayed and dressed in chippings. I come to a hasty stop and roll about a foot onto the dressed road surface. It's impossible to turn round as its a near blind left hand bend, so I carry on at mega low speed to find a safe place to spin round. Job done, and I come back the way I know is clear of crap. All I could hear for the next 2-3 miles were stones battering around the arches, and I was taking it steady. I looked for any signs of warning about the surface and only seen one.
Now I'm at home with the Autoglym tar remover, behaving like a fretting parent over a new child. Am I being a complete idiot?
Would any of you just carried on?
I generally buy black cars and consider it one of the advantages! To my horror, on approaching one of the bends, I see the road has been totally sprayed and dressed in chippings. I come to a hasty stop and roll about a foot onto the dressed road surface. It's impossible to turn round as its a near blind left hand bend, so I carry on at mega low speed to find a safe place to spin round. Job done, and I come back the way I know is clear of crap. All I could hear for the next 2-3 miles were stones battering around the arches, and I was taking it steady. I looked for any signs of warning about the surface and only seen one.
Now I'm at home with the Autoglym tar remover, behaving like a fretting parent over a new child. Am I being a complete idiot?
Would any of you just carried on?
I'd have removed the stuff just like you!
It's all off now, but was a total pain in the arse.
Sheffield roads are terrible, but some changes do seem to be occurring.
Amey are the contractor in charge of the major road refurbishment. The council has asked them to address the less better off areas first, and tackle the more affluent areas later. I know this for fact, as one of my friends is working the project.
I wonder if they will run out of funds before finishing, it seems highly likely to me.
Sheffield roads are terrible, but some changes do seem to be occurring.
Amey are the contractor in charge of the major road refurbishment. The council has asked them to address the less better off areas first, and tackle the more affluent areas later. I know this for fact, as one of my friends is working the project.
I wonder if they will run out of funds before finishing, it seems highly likely to me.
BogglemanGTS said:
So, I managed a lunchtime finish at work today. Weather was lovely around outskirts of Sheffield so went for a run out in the BGTS. I head out towards Baslow and Bakewell and on the way back take a detour onto some smaller country lanes, usually lovely to drive with very few bad patches of road.
To my horror, on approaching one of the bends, I see the road has been totally sprayed and dressed in chippings. I come to a hasty stop and roll about a foot onto the dressed road surface. It's impossible to turn round as its a near blind left hand bend, so I carry on at mega low speed to find a safe place to spin round. Job done, and I come back the way I know is clear of crap. All I could hear for the next 2-3 miles were stones battering around the arches, and I was taking it steady. I looked for any signs of warning about the surface and only seen one.
Now I'm at home with the Autoglym tar remover, behaving like a fretting parent over a new child. Am I being a complete idiot?
Would any of you just carried on?
To my horror, on approaching one of the bends, I see the road has been totally sprayed and dressed in chippings. I come to a hasty stop and roll about a foot onto the dressed road surface. It's impossible to turn round as its a near blind left hand bend, so I carry on at mega low speed to find a safe place to spin round. Job done, and I come back the way I know is clear of crap. All I could hear for the next 2-3 miles were stones battering around the arches, and I was taking it steady. I looked for any signs of warning about the surface and only seen one.
Now I'm at home with the Autoglym tar remover, behaving like a fretting parent over a new child. Am I being a complete idiot?
Would any of you just carried on?
Ha well done, i would have done exactly the same thing, and i hate this time of year where the councils are doing their surface dressing, often making a perfectly good surface much worse. Its not as if its even sorting pot holes or poor quality surfaces, its often just thrown on top of very good proper tarmac. very annoying indeed.
Auto Glym tar remover is one of the very best.
Top job hope its back to shining health!
Andy
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