Author Topic: POTHOLE!!!  (Read 2349 times)

Offline SteveS

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Re: POTHOLE!!!
« Reply #10 on: 07 December 2007, 17:13 »
i cought a curb sticking out scrapped my rim. informed the councel. they took months about it and passed me around, but i researched. they are liable for anything to do with the road. dont let them pass u around, its down to them no contractors or nothing!
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Offline Mr Lees

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Re: POTHOLE!!!
« Reply #11 on: 08 December 2007, 10:26 »
Car been into Haysledens Barnsley, checked all suspension, alignment ect no problems, only the scrape on the alloy .
The tyre monitor probably  came on as different tread on new tyre and slightly different Psi, not been on since.
wife dropped car off at mid-day, VW phoned at 3 pm car ready, been washed and vacced out , and there was no charge for looking at it ... free car wash  :grin:

Nice one VW Barnsley!

just waiting for claim form from council  :angry:
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Offline indublin

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Re: POTHOLE!!!
« Reply #12 on: 08 December 2007, 11:01 »
You want to try driving here in Ireland.... roads are really bad! Sory to hear bout yur boots too!

Think I read somewhere that the tire pressure system doesn’t physically measure the tire pressures but in fact measures the rotational speed of each wheel. If a tire starts to deflate then the rotational speed of the wheel changes and hey presto your darling GTi tells you your tire is going down. This is what may be happening when you put the motorbike wheel on the car!

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Offline 08micsta

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Re: POTHOLE!!!
« Reply #13 on: 09 December 2007, 09:09 »
Sorry to hear about the wheel, we are very lucky here in South Africa at the moment.

With the Soccer world Cup coming up in 2010 they have resurfaced all the mountain passes and really nice roads so everyone is smiling. NO MORE POTHOLES for us. We have also had our fair share of Rim damage and had a rim refurbed and they did a Great job.

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