Bl**dy Pothole!

[S800VXR]

Driving to work and hit a bloody great hole in the road, damaged a front tire and most likely the alloy! Couldn't see it as it was full of water. Why do I pay over £600 tax for my 2 cars! certainly does not go on maintaining the roads! About 8 other cars were pulled over just up the road as well so I was not the only one by the look of it. Local council informed but not that interested. Will be taking pictures on the way home with a tape measure.

[madmunky]

S800VXR said:

Driving to work and hit a bloody great hole in the road, damaged a front tire and most likely the alloy! Couldn't see it as it was full of water. Why do I pay over £600 tax for my 2 cars! certainly does not go on maintaining the roads! About 8 other cars were pulled over just up the road as well so I was not the only one by the look of it. Local council informed but not that interested. Will be taking pictures on the way home with a tape measure.

Go back take pictures of the hole and of the damage to your wheel, I've heard stories where people can normally get a full set of wheels claimed back if you cant get a single replacement wheel

[rocklandboy]

Check out the TV channel "DAVE", they re-ran a program only yesterday about claiming from the highways department for damage to cars done by potholes, if you document it correctly you should be able to get a claim going... Apparently the highways department put aside a wedge of money each year for claims but funnily enough don't advertise the fact... and good luck

[Glyn84]

The most annoying thing is I recall reading that pot of money they put aside is bigger than the bill would be to fix said holes! Grrr!

But yeah take some photos and measure it. If you can, take some photos with your tape measure in the hole with the markings visible.

[S800VXR]

Leavin early to get some tires so will take a picture on the way home, have a tape measure already packed. Knowing my luck they will for once get their finger out and fill the hole before I get to it.

[m500hsv]

I have done three tires this year so far! Two in one go!!!

Good news is that if you call up the council and ask for a claim form they get replaced.

[Bonnie and Clyde]

Roger was that in the Monaro or Clio???

[tattooboy]

Prob stating the obvious but take all measurements inc the depth etc, may also be worth while putting a little notice up somewhere for anyone else who hit it, the more that claim for the one hole the better chance you may have of getting some cash. Good luck

[Magic919]

Bonnie and Clyde said:

Roger was that in the Monaro or Clio???

Rhetorical?

[Bonnie and Clyde]

Magic919 said:

Bonnie and Clyde said:

Roger was that in the Monaro or Clio???

Rhetorical?

Well i was wondering as if it was the Monaro i'd be evil. I know how Rog is with his cars. I'm the same. Plus i was wondering how the beast was coming along.

[vr6man]

i did similar last year. valentines day in fact.hit something in the dark (a pothole i later discovered) and ripped a hole in the tyre. managed to limp to a petrol station i.e somewhere with lights so i could see what i'd done. any ideas i might have had of a romantic night in with the missus were dampened slightly by having to change a wheel especially as the bolts seem to have been welded onto the wheels as opposed to being done up using any kind of tool available to human beings.

anyway... i went back next day, took pictures and measurements and rang the council first thing monday morning (i hit the pothole on a sat night) and got a reference number. sent a covering letter asking for £184 for my new tyre please (invoice from tyre place included obviously) and pointing out that if it had been a motorbike that had hit it, they would be dealing with a dead or seriously injured person as opposed to a seriously pissed off person !

took about 4 weeks but i got a letter back saying they were willing to pay £145 (or something like this) and if i didn't feel this was adequate then please provide evidence of age and condition of tyre (which by now i couldn't as it had been binned obviously) not worth arguing about as it probably needed replacing anyway so got "most" of the money back. so well worth trying. my main problem was finding out which bloody council was in charge of that bit of road and the pothole as it wasn't the local council for the area which the road runs through !

[snowwolf]

After hitting a hole big enough to ruin the tyre, I would have def had a wheel alignment check done and added that to the cost, just a little bump can knock the tracking out, so when you claim add the tracking check to the bill too.

[Magic919]

Tracking? Who still does that? Surely geometry these days?

[snowwolf]

I am old school, even got saga insurance! your right it's now called geometry and now costs the earth

Edited by snowwolf on Monday 30th November 20:44

[S800VXR]

They had put up road work traffic lights when I stopped on the way home, no work had started though so Ive taken pictures along with a tape measure, pictures of the tire and alloy and have receipt for the tire now. Will wait for the claim form to come through then write it all up and post of recorded delivery.

Bonnie - car still being re-built so it was the Clio, if it was the Ro Id have ripped someones head off from the council!

[snowwolf]

I am glad to hear it was not the Ro but still not good to have any car ruined.

[v9 ogre]

Just to embelish any type of measurement of potholes etc, not that I advocate this mind.... Get a party can of cola like the ones you get on planes and use that as scale when you take a photo, as you obviously do no carry a 6" rule but a everyone has a "standard size" coke can to hand. Hey presto look at the size of that pot hole!

[J. J.]

And when the go out to check it???

[after_shock]

J. J. said:

And when the go out to check it???

Just say tesco only had the small cans left lol

[J. J.]

L.o.l.