sodding potholes!

[Apache]

claimed a tyre and alloy on my daughters car, does anyone know of a successful way to get reimbursed from the council?

[silverfoxcc]

got the same prob with a hole on the M4

You would think with all those plastic patrols about it would have been spotted! must have been 6in deep

[splitpin]

Someone will be better placed than me to say ........... but meantime, as well as keeping both the damaged items, make sure you take HQ photos to show and prove location, position, size and depth of the pothole. Also make sure that you check that the suspension is OK - decent chance of the tracking having been knocked out of kilter.

All that tax we pay in so many ways and we have holes all over the place more akin to a third world country. Makes you want to spit.

And just be pleased/relieved your daughter isn't/wasn't on a motorbike!

[silverfoxcc]

Yep tracking had to be done,bit impossible to tak a pic on the M4!! although the tyre is still here, but the lump the size of an egg is no more. However have pics of it while still on car. Only saw it two days later!

[daemonoid]

splitpin said:

.All that tax we pay in so many ways and we have holes all over the place more akin to a third world country. Makes you want to spit.

Balls, I lived in india last year and in all the developed parts of town (which was most of it) the roads were much, much better than buckinghamshire and they had to put up with monsoon flooding every year!

[snapdragon69]

Yes, balls! I work in Iran 6 weeks a year, and the roads are simply stunning in magnitude, design and beautification with LED mood lighting of flyovers and underpasses and landscaping.
They even have escalators and travelators for pedestrians over busy 6 lanes roads in Tehran city centre.
These roads are much smoother than the UK, and even old countryside roads have teams fixing the cracks without so much as a cone, they just have petty criminals in orange boiler suits waving red flags.
It's a shame all the cars are 'modern' versions Kia Rios and Peugeot 405s.


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Edited by snapdragon69 on Saturday 2nd June 19:44

[Robb F]

http://www.potholes.co.uk/claims/how_to_claim

[Mr-B]

I seem to vaguely recall that the local council must already have been made aware of the pothole for you to be able to make claim? I could be totally wrong on this but it would be worth checking.

I think there is/was a website where members of the public can let councils know where they have seen a pothole and if the council have been made aware of said pothole and then you damage your car on it then they have liability, if they are not aware of the pothole then they would not have had chance to repair it to prevent damage to vehicles. I believe that is how the logic is supposed to operate anyway.

[1a35]

snapdragon69 said:

Yes, balls! I work in Iran 6 weeks a year, and the roads are simply stunning in magnitude, design and beautification with LED mood lighting of flyovers and underpasses and landscaping.
They even have escalators and travelators for pedestrians over busy 6 lanes roads in Tehran city centre.
These roads are much smoother than the UK, and even old countryside roads have teams fixing the cracks without so much as a cone, they just have petty criminals in orange boiler suits waving red flags.
It's a shame all the cars are 'modern' versions Kia Rios and Peugeot 405s.


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Edited by snapdragon69 on Saturday 2nd June 19:44

Like the photo, but what happened to all the Paykans? 13 years ago when I was there, Tehran had little else. Even then the roads were pretty good though.

[snapdragon69]

Oh yes the Paykans are all still there, just in the smaller cities, towns and villages... in their thousands, mostly clapped out, but there is a healthy trade in restored ones.
I suppose the Paykans (Hillman Hunters) were passed down the chain to people who used to have hand carts.

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[Cemesis]

I remember watching the CNN video of Haiti a few years ago and despite the levels of poverty, their roads were better.

[splitpin]

daemonoid said:

splitpin said:

.All that tax we pay in so many ways and we have holes all over the place more akin to a third world country. Makes you want to spit.

Balls, I lived in india last year and in all the developed parts of town (which was most of it) the roads were much, much better than buckinghamshire and they had to put up with monsoon flooding every year!

Yeah and as you had a year there, you should have got out and about more; as soon as you go out of "the developed parts of town", which is feck-all percentage of their roads in total (it's an immense country), they are truly bloody appalling - in fact, nearly as bad as some of the roads round here

[PumpkinSteve]

http://www.fillthathole.org.uk/

This is a website dedicated to reporting faults in roads, if we all report them on here we can help to improve the roads. I have used it myself and they emailed me when it was sorted.

[Apache]

It gets better, her rear wheel and tyre have been damaged too, anyone got a pair of Megane alloys for sale?

[cslwannabe]

That's not good but can they not be repaired, to maybe reduce the expense a bit?

[mercfunder]

Mr-B said:

I seem to vaguely recall that the local council must already have been made aware of the pothole for you to be able to make claim? I could be totally wrong on this but it would be worth checking.

No, you're right, if it hasn't previously been reported any claim will be unsuccessful.

[Apache]

cslwannabe said:

That's not good but can they not be repaired, to maybe reduce the expense a bit?

dunno, what do you think?

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[Col 666]

I received a cheque for a successful pothole claim last week from Glasgow council.
Document everything, take pictures of the hole with exact location and dimensions if possible. I also included pictures of the damaged tyre and all reciepts for a new tyre and fitting.
It was a 2 week old 19" Continental I destroyed

One word of warning, I lodged the complaint in April 2011! they have a lot to deal with!!

[Trefy5]

Aren't motorways different?
they're not maintained by councils - can't recall who... the government?
so if you were in Berkshire it wouldn't be them you approach
Not sure, to be honest
Good luck, though

[Dan Friel]

Motorways and trunk roads are maintained by the Highways Agency.