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Title: Want to help them fix the roads?
Post by: Ant1981 on 07 October 2012, 20:59

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19833237

Yeah...... :undecided:

Title: Re: Want to help them fix the roads?
Post by: kempie on 07 October 2012, 22:28

f**k off that's what road tax is for, and the front bottoms don't even use that where is bloody needed!

Title: Re: Want to help them fix the roads?
Post by: MS1COYS on 08 October 2012, 02:00

W ankers

Title: Re: Want to help them fix the roads?
Post by: VeeDubGTI16v on 08 October 2012, 06:57

I was in an accident years ago where a car slid on some diesel/oil on the other side of the road and skidded into me, the council tried to charge me for the clear up of the oil that had been the cause of the accident! they got told politely to jog on

Title: Re: Want to help them fix the roads?
Post by: AudiA8Quattro on 08 October 2012, 11:11

So what happens if you refuse to pay?

Title: Re: Want to help them fix the roads?
Post by: scarr89 on 08 October 2012, 12:29

Quote from: AudiA8Quattro on 08 October 2012, 11:11

So what happens if you refuse to pay?

I would like to know...

I can see this having a knock on affect with insurance premiums  :angry:

Title: Re: Want to help them fix the roads?
Post by: Khare on 08 October 2012, 12:34

Yeah I'd like to know too.

Title: Re: Want to help them fix the roads?
Post by: dan_apps on 08 October 2012, 12:36

It should be down to individual circumstances, e.g. Drink driving and plough through someone's garden wall/ damage street furniture yes you should be charged the repair but a collision with an oil spill of the like shouldn't.

Title: Re: Want to help them fix the roads?
Post by: Khare on 08 October 2012, 12:39

Personally I think insurance should pay for it. After all, why do we have it?  :huh:

Title: Re: Want to help them fix the roads?
Post by: AudiA8Quattro on 08 October 2012, 14:41

Quote from: Khare on 08 October 2012, 12:39

Personally I think insurance should pay for it. After all, why do we have it?  :huh:

This.
Otherwise what is the point of insurance?

Title: Re: Want to help them fix the roads?
Post by: dan_apps on 08 October 2012, 17:48

Again I think look at the cases individually.

Title: Re: Want to help them fix the roads?
Post by: J_V_Dub on 08 October 2012, 20:42

I wonder if i'd work in reverse. ie you charging them for damage to a tyre caused by a pothole?

Title: Re: Want to help them fix the roads?
Post by: Khare on 08 October 2012, 20:55

Quote from: J_V_Dub on 08 October 2012, 20:42

I wonder if i'd work in reverse. ie you charging them for damage to a tyre caused by a pothole?

Don't be silly, of course not!

Title: Re: Want to help them fix the roads?
Post by: stealthwolf on 08 October 2012, 22:21

If the highways agency had been doing their job, there shouldn't have been oil on the road in the first place. Since it was their fault, that's where the claim should come from.

Title: Re: Want to help them fix the roads?
Post by: danny_p on 08 October 2012, 22:50

i should be abel to claim thousands for tyers

Title: Re: Want to help them fix the roads?
Post by: kempie on 09 October 2012, 11:26

Quote from: J_V_Dub on 08 October 2012, 20:42

I wonder if i'd work in reverse. ie you charging them for damage to a tyre caused by a pothole?

You can! If you can directly prove that it was the sh!tty road that damaged your car then you can claim, but don't expect anything quick
There was a thread over on Driftworks not long ago about claiming for buckled wheels, people did it but took awhile

Title: Re: Want to help them fix the roads?
Post by: J_V_Dub on 09 October 2012, 15:11

Quote from: kempie on 09 October 2012, 11:26

Quote from: J_V_Dub on 08 October 2012, 20:42

I wonder if i'd work in reverse. ie you charging them for damage to a tyre caused by a pothole?

You can! If you can directly prove that it was the sh!tty road that damaged your car then you can claim, but don't expect anything quick
There was a thread over on Driftworks not long ago about claiming for buckled wheels, people did it but took awhile

Got a link ?