The weathers been absolutly blinding down here in Kent, so out came the RS for a blatting.But fuck me!!! I was swinging about all over the road trying to dodge the potholes, i mean some of them were huge and with the escort sporting 17's, low profiles, polybushes and lowered it don't take a lot to jar your spine!!! What are the roads like in your areas?

 

shit, but not so bad that i cant avoid them.

I go to Walsall once a week and the roads there are shit aswell.

Like you said it doesnt help if you car is decked and on low profile tyres

 

i no what you mean there lol, the roads are rubbish round our way now lol
even worse on a motorbike

 

I'm fearing for the life of my rims. Looks like i've scuffed one already. Had to get the tracking done today as that was way out. I was even down the local tyre shop this morning and a bloke come in with a split BMW rim. Its beyond a joke round our way. Even if i hit a small one it feels as if the struts gonna come through the turret!!!! Got to make sure I don't hit a big one coz thats gonna cause havoc!!!!

 

yeah round here is really bad main roads are bearable but no way for the back roads bin using my daily drive a astra mk5 and ive gone through all the shocks now and one spring.and not one sign of any sort of repair.

 

its about time our govement spent the road tax money on fixing the roads like they used to do in the good old days, its getting beyond a joke now

 

TELL ME ABOUT IT I WORK FOR THE HIGHWAY AGENCIES AND WE HAVE HAD OUR BUDGET CUT BY 50 PERCENT so the main blood line roads aint going to be repaired just patched up here and there!!!!

it sucks so there gonna get worse cheers government think i might claim for my dirty pond to be cleaned,or my grans roof to be fixed , or my pants to be washed just like those blood sucking mothers do ......

 

In Margate, Kent. Its like a old battle field there evry where!

 

People will start putting huge wall tyres on there sports cars soon like 60 profile or 65s will go the opposite way to rubber bands lol

 

The A20 from ashford to maidstones a fucking minefield. Its a real shame coz its a great road for having a blat on, but your constantly peering over the bonnet looking at the road for the next crater!!! I was really looking forward to taking the car out today but within about 5 minutes wanted to put it back in the garage!

 

I was doing 50 on the M25 and fast lane is fucked scratch up the rims
Anyone got a good claim letter link !

 

The roads here in devon are full of potholes and the council keep on wasting money bodging the repairs and they spread even further after a few weeks

Went to south wales for a blat last month and all the roads I drove were spot on and you could really tell the difference once you got back into england.

 

Fucking shit round here too, constantly swerving all over the road to avoid them, people must think I'm pissed

 

Isle of Sheppey kent is no better i fill sorry for my spine when i get 18" wheels for my escort just have to soften the shocks a wee bit. why do i pay road tax

 

Fucking awful in Northants. Road tax goes up, petrol tax goes up, road standards goes down. Makes you wonder what the tax raised from motorists gets spent on, it certainly aint to benefit the motorists.

 

More fucking speed cameras probably. I wanna see a cop car disappear down one. lol

 

already bent one of me alloys on me transit a the other week, hitting a pothole

 

It was worse a few weeks ago in Norwich/Norfolk, however recently it seems to have patched up a lot. Plus the council has received an extra Ł2 million fundings just for fixing potholes!

 

i am fed up of it. i hit a pot hole a few weeks back and now need 2 new wheels

 

i'm traveling round quite alot atm and i have to admit some of the pot holes i'v come across have been absoloutly massive, i'v seen some coming onto 10-12" deep now that can't even be classed as a pot hole anymore it's just a hole, alot of the london back roads are unbelievably shite, and birmingham is just as badi have noticed they have been doing alot of work on the motorways at night but they are still shite some of the surfaces on the m40 and m1 are terrible

 

there the same here in sheffield there massive.

 

proper crappy here in plymouth, glad im not driving at the moment used to hate hitting them when i had the rs, or any other vehicals inc the fourtrak

my mates got a tax disk holder which i want one when i got my next car....it says something like. you can see ive paid my road tax now fix the fucking pot holes

 

Crap.... in fact, after the frost, there weren't many roads in West Yorkshire that didn't show how badly they'd been layed in the first place....

Best thing to do is complain about them. I complained about one just going out of Leeds City Centre once and less than a week later they'd been and filled it! It wasn't a pothole as such either, it was like the road had just sunk and there used to be a time when I could fit the fez between the sunken bit and the kerb and all would be fine... then it got to the stage where I had to drive on the other side of the road as I approached it cos the noise the car made when I hit it wasn't nice......

There's another one starting to appear just down from it... when it gets as bad, I'll ring them again.... It's probably just Leeds sinking into a gigantic hole.... it will be no loss.

 

I'm not saying they're big round here but i looked in a pot hole yesterday and noticed it was full of sand and Tiger Woods was just about to hit a little white ball out of it.

 

HaHaHa

 

There shit in manchester too

 

Tell your council to fix it via http://www.fixmystreet.co.uk - works great for me.

 

we pay road tax for crap roads, there terrible round our way

 

You should try driving around Stoke On Trent the roads are and always have been shit !.
Its even worse the car being polybushed and on coilovers
How I don't get pulled over for them thinking I am pissed,swerving all over the road avoiding p/holes is beyond me.
Some people live their lives a quarter mile at a time,I live mine avoiding potholes

 

I think we should all send our local authorities an invoice for replacment of rims; tyres; lower arms / bushes, shocks, ball joints; track rods; and arb drop links - that might jolt them into action. As someone mentioned the other day, why not get all the 'jobseekers' out there with a shovel? It's not like the contractors ever do it properly anyway - it's not in their interest - do it badly and they get called back next year!

 

I have bent a rim from them in my area gona cost 150 to put ryt :0.

Joe

 

Roads in Carlisle are Horrific

All 4 of my wheels are ruined due to pot holes

 

road tax doesnt pay for local road repairs, the local councils do it. and the highways agency does the motorways and main dual carriageways. road tax is more for income to top up the treasury.

i recently reported a road with severe pot-holes to cambridge county council and they fixed all of them (properly) within a few days.

also reported a huge trench dug in the a14 at ipswich (during road works) which fucked 2 of my tyres (dont know if wheels are damaged yet) and they rung me straight up and fixed the trench the next day.

and i reported a knackered jet garage forecourt to Jet head office, who replied saying they have placed the order to resurface it.

moral of the story is, report the probs and then there is more chance of them getting fixed.

some of the roads i've seen will need totally resurfacing and when they eventually start doing all the works, traffic delays are going to be pretty bad (and knowing the authorities they'll do them all at the same time to maximise disruption).

 

surely you mean a scooter and not a motorbike

roads are crap down here - ben avoiding the same potholes on my way to work everyday for the past 6 months

 

So why don't you report it then?

 

fucked in glasgow too.

 

yes i can agree roads in walsall are real bad for potholes . especailly chesso and great wryley . took chunks outta my 17 un marked alloys and broke seal on ma tyre to .alloys looking shit now think i went down a crater not a pothole !!!!

 

report them other wise they wont get done saying that tho there's one right outside my house which ive reported 3 times now and they still aint sorted it the next road they completly re layed tho lol this is the website i used http://www.potholes.co.uk/potholes/reported/

 

Broadstairs is as bad, I damaged my old golf down the road from wwx