Speedbumps! GRrrrrr!
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I was wondering what the recieved wisdom out there was about damaging your car on one, in spite of your car being perfectly legal, and driving within the speed limit, there seems to be something terribly wrong about having to shell out ££££s to repair damage to your car for merely driving it down the road.
I have a Boxster, with stock ride height, and twice this year I have had that crappy graunching expensive sound, where you know bits of your paintwork/bodywork are dragging on the speedbump in the road.
I want to know what the legal requirements are for the dimensions of a speedbump, and what a local authorities oblgations are once you go to them for compensation for damage.
The first time this happened to me, I went to a bodyshop, got a quote and took some photos of the damage, then mailed the lot off to the highways depearment of the council, who dispatched an 'engineer' to go and look at the road. Unsurprisingly, they didn't find anything actually wrong with the road, so the case was deemed to be closed.
Sorry for such a long rant for my first post on here, but these things do tend to boil ones piss!
I have a Boxster, with stock ride height, and twice this year I have had that crappy graunching expensive sound, where you know bits of your paintwork/bodywork are dragging on the speedbump in the road.
I want to know what the legal requirements are for the dimensions of a speedbump, and what a local authorities oblgations are once you go to them for compensation for damage.
The first time this happened to me, I went to a bodyshop, got a quote and took some photos of the damage, then mailed the lot off to the highways depearment of the council, who dispatched an 'engineer' to go and look at the road. Unsurprisingly, they didn't find anything actually wrong with the road, so the case was deemed to be closed.
Sorry for such a long rant for my first post on here, but these things do tend to boil ones piss!
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