Worst roads
23 June 2014, 08:43 AM
#1
Worst roads
I'm nominating the B4001 Wantage road from Lambourne to Wantage in Oxfordshire as the worst stretch of road I ever have to drive on. It has gradually deteriorated over the years, full of potholes, dips and lumps and is no place to drive a car with firm suspension, it's awful. 
23 June 2014, 08:55 AM
#2
There are some good'uns round here, especially out on the "Isle of Axholme", where roads often run between two deep drainage dykes.
They are pot-holed, lumpy and prone to grounding a car doing any more than 30mph.
About 10 years ago a police officer on training wrote a Volvo V70 patrol car off on one...grounded it so hard he ended up in a dyke.
Quite why our roads are so poor, compared with, say, French roads, I don't know. They are supposed to be in a worse financial state than us.
Some of their towns and villages have poor roads, but the local maire told me it was to keep traffic speeds down.
They are pot-holed, lumpy and prone to grounding a car doing any more than 30mph.
About 10 years ago a police officer on training wrote a Volvo V70 patrol car off on one...grounded it so hard he ended up in a dyke.
Quite why our roads are so poor, compared with, say, French roads, I don't know. They are supposed to be in a worse financial state than us.
Some of their towns and villages have poor roads, but the local maire told me it was to keep traffic speeds down.
23 June 2014, 02:00 PM
#5
They've actually shut some of the roads here in Cornwall because they are so bad and they have no money to repair them.
I hit a pothole in St Keyne at the weekend and blew out a trye on the scoob.
It's funny because they have no money to fix potholes, yet they are still planting speed humps at a rate of knots.
I hit a pothole in St Keyne at the weekend and blew out a trye on the scoob.
It's funny because they have no money to fix potholes, yet they are still planting speed humps at a rate of knots.
23 June 2014, 04:37 PM
#6
Well, the roads by me have managed to moved the front subframe on my golf.
So the camber and caster are out of kilter. Its using later Audi spec stretch bolts to hold it in place which is supposed to prevent this happening... But it has, that'll be another set of new stretch bolts required
I suspect it was the sunken manhole cover I hit on a hump back bridge, boy did it make a bang.
Meanwhile I checked out the BM for wheel wobble at 70-80mph to find three wheels are bent. Rears worse. Balanced them to as accurate as the wheel banancer can achieve, but it will still intermittently vibrate at 70mph when the flat spots on the rear wheels line up when going round slight motorway bends. I dread the cost of a set of new 20" alloys.
Thankfully it's ok at 130kmh so driving in France is fine
So the camber and caster are out of kilter. Its using later Audi spec stretch bolts to hold it in place which is supposed to prevent this happening... But it has, that'll be another set of new stretch bolts required
I suspect it was the sunken manhole cover I hit on a hump back bridge, boy did it make a bang.
Meanwhile I checked out the BM for wheel wobble at 70-80mph to find three wheels are bent. Rears worse. Balanced them to as accurate as the wheel banancer can achieve, but it will still intermittently vibrate at 70mph when the flat spots on the rear wheels line up when going round slight motorway bends. I dread the cost of a set of new 20" alloys.
Thankfully it's ok at 130kmh so driving in France is fine
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24 June 2014, 04:09 PM
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As far as I'm concerned the roads are no longer suitable for normal cars, and a 4WD/SUV is the only vehicle of choice. I don't know what sports car drivers do - they must be unusable on our roads.
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