Turbo2

Gentlemen, do all your better halves like driving over potholes or is it just mine? We've just got back from the supermarket and it was like an automotive game of "join-the-dots" as she crashed the suspension over one manhole cover after another.

I like to look well ahead and try and avoid such obstacles if reasonably possible on today's urban minefield roads. I don't advocate swerving wildly as if avoiding a child, but I am sure it is better for the car, passengers and ironworks if you can do your best to avoid such impacts.

Foofighter

hahahaha,no its not just yours mate.I said exactly the same thing to my missus last week She loves driving really close to the kerb as well,many an arguement has ensued because of this

AdamMole

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I live in Sheffield pot hole central. My girlfriend is not to bad to be honest. But then again I do go crazy if I drive over them if I don't see them soon enough.

I live a new house estate and it took them ages to finish the road. In the end my girlfriends offside shocker cracked causing it not to allow any damping. I put in a claim against the housing company and won an out of court settlement of just under £400.00. Good times. Took less than a month to so I was quite surpriced. Ended up getting a service on the car for nothing.

Apparently you can do the same on the council roads and they are happy to pay out if you can prove damages etc. Just took me a few stern letters threatening legal action along with photo's of the raised manholes and pot holes.

sarasquares

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I have driven into every pot hole in my area unwittingly, so the Highways Agency have paid for me to replace all of my wheels for a new set

I actively avoid those i can see, even killing pedestrians in the process if i have to. I will not damage my new wheels

Hysteria1983

Im sure it's not like they think '**** it they're only wheels'. Unless all your missus just drive 'the car' regardless of what it actually is, and how much the tyres/wheels cost to replace.
Personally I will avoid them every time I see one if possible, there are some huge ones by me, that would not only damage the wheels, but if not avoided they could possibly rip the bumper off the car.

ALi-B

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Its impossible to avoid them by me its that bad.

Lower arm bushings are loooking worse for wear because of it too

TurboKitty

ALi-B

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TurboKitty

Ali, at the thread in general, not at your post.

sarasquares

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Bladdy men, they are to blame for the bad roads

I have never seen a woman doing any repairs but i bet if a women did, then the roads would be in a much better condition

kingofturds

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A womans place is in the kitchen not behind the wheel Turbo and sara stop whining and bake me some cookies

Hysteria1983

Men! lol

TurboKitty

Go moderate yourself!! I don't do baking.

kingofturds

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Steve vRS

WTF?

jonc

Its frickin' anoying, she's like a moth to a candle flame when it comes to pot holes and its not like she slows down much for speed bumps either!

AdamMole

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Buy her a cheap jeep and let her go nuts.

J4CKO

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dont forget kerbing alloys, treating the car like a dustbin, now I am no all **** about my car, it gets dirty, I clean it, well but my wifes car just gets fifthier, ok hers gets used for transporting animals, or kids as people call them but even so half an hour every couple of weeks to remove the parking stickers, empty water bottles, crisp bags etc isnt such a problem is it ?

SwissTony

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To the OP and wimmin in general. I think the regular bouncing as they go over potholes, ruts etc is just them 'getting off' on the vibrations
Bet they like the hashed lines and rumble strips on the motorway


My ex-wife used to drive her once nice honda civic like a complete bellend, reguarly whacking it into kerbs, pavements etc and just didnt care

SwissTony

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you are lucky, the ex used to treat her car like a friggin extension to the house When she outwaited me, I would have to go and clean it and find the normal crap littered all over the place but half eaten burgers in wrappers, sweets stuck down between the sweets, curdled milky drinks, enough hair stuck in hairbrushes and on sweets to create a new toupe for me

oldsplice

Actually, it's Mr OS who's ALWAYS kerbing the alloys! Drives me mad!

And I avoid pot-holes (unless it means killing a cyclist)

Hysteria1983

Looks like all your ladies need to go and have a re-test. Either you are all taking the ****, or all your ladies are crappy drivers! I am certain which is true. lol.

If I were to hit a curb i'd feel really disappointed in myself, not because I had curbed my lovely gold speedlines, but because I would have proved myself an un roadworthy driver or ANY car. Not just because it's my beloved scoob!

Come on lads, get a grip..... we aint that bad.

motorola222

lol women filling in pot holes

oh please it would take u months to decided if the colour was the right shade for the curtains over the road and even then ur probs make us men do the dirty work!

tbf im lucky all the women in my family are rally or policed trained lmao.

sarasquares

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Nothing wrong with my driving you fat gimp

Wurzel

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Yep there is nothing wrong with Sarah's driving, her wheels, bumpers and all the other body panels she has bent can vouch for that

sarasquares

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You are so wrong, my car has been re-born

I have ordered a new front bumper, original, and i am wearing a brand spanking new set of wheels

foofing liar