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Hard to say exactly bud, they're far from a comfortable height. Used to really hurt going over them with a set of coilies.
Speedbump @ about 40mph
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Drove the thing a bit this midday and it seems fine, i guess he must have really been doing under 30 as he did say he braked hard, or hes really lucky. The civic had to be towed off and the fellow who owns it told my cousin it looks like the cv joints are busted + front pax wheel alloy bent, god knows what else.
I actually made him tell my uncle about it as he'd likely want it booked it for a look over. Hes also lost use of the car until he grows up and won't have use of his own car (Clio 197) as its technically his dads too as he financed it though my cousin is the keeper and policy holder, keys are in my posession and he dosen't know it, so its the bus for junior until further notice (hes 19 so it might take a while). Lucky it was a quiet residental that late in the night where people actually knew the drivers involved, so no BiB involved.
I actually made him tell my uncle about it as he'd likely want it booked it for a look over. Hes also lost use of the car until he grows up and won't have use of his own car (Clio 197) as its technically his dads too as he financed it though my cousin is the keeper and policy holder, keys are in my posession and he dosen't know it, so its the bus for junior until further notice (hes 19 so it might take a while). Lucky it was a quiet residental that late in the night where people actually knew the drivers involved, so no BiB involved.
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No, these are the worst.
They can be quite harsh those ones.
I saw some really strange ones in Redcar - square in shape, smaller than those in the picture, but with flat edges so they come up to a sharp point. You can easily straddle them fine (which kinda defeats the object of them in the first place) but they scraped my exhaust from front to back... wasn't a pretty noise.
No, these are the worst.
They seem to be specifically designed to smash my aluminium sump.
Unless they're quite small I have to wait for traffic coming the other way to pass and mount both at once to get clearance.
I have been aggressively tail-gated and overtaken in these areas. EPIC objective defying.
Bashed my sump a couple of times on these when I have a 145 Cloverleaf, really low sump on the TS can be a real pain!
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I love those, I can drive over them as if they are not there.
I think the op is actually talking about one of these speed bumps, I used Google Maps to actually show one outside a school near my house, it's quite nasty, you wouldn't want to hit it at speed ...there is actually a similar but higher one further down the same road.
Fixed.
Fixed.
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No, these are the worst.
Designed for emergency vehicles (ambulance and fire engine) as the slightly wide wheelbase means they can still maintain a high speed and they dont actually hit the bump....
Those are lovely, hardly feel them at all if you get right over the middle
If you are on a bike they turn the road in to a fun weaving exercise rather than have an impact on speed.
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Closest i can find near me, its even nastier than this and this is even nastier than it looks. See theres even another beemer ready to launch over it
Edit: it just dawned on me the roads here look like it was in a 3rd world country
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Not that it would have been a clever idea in either.Edit: it just dawned on me the roads here look like it was in a 3rd world country
Welcome to Tony & Gordon's Britain!
Edit: it just dawned on me the roads here look like it was in a 3rd world country
Not been to many other countries if you think those roads make it look like a 3rd world country...
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Why the hell was he racing in the 330D when he has is own 197
Probably just as well as he'd probably have done a lot more damage to it.
He borrowed it apparently to move some mates stuff from a flat, then got up to no good on his way home. Hes an ok kid, just full of teenage hormones and a bit dumb at times.
Ok kid? Sounds like a complete prat, is lucky enough to be loaned a car like that and then trashes it racing around residential streets.
He doesnt deserve to be on the road.
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[TW]Fox;15966895 said:
Many caribbean islands, Canada, Texas, New york, Detroit, Guyana (South America) Spain, France and Belgium this last decade
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I agree about his driving, however hes actually a kind person whos generally and always was well behaved.
To be fair they look ok compared to the roads in some of the places I have been, Tanzania, Burma (Myanmar) ...Laos and much of Thailand. But compared to places like Germany, a lot of the Dutch roads, France, the bits of the USA I have been to ...not so good at all. Belgium and Ireland have worse roads than us though, driving over the border from the Netherlands into Belgium is interesting, the Dutch roads are ok, reasonable quality and reasonably well maintained on the whole, the roads in Belgium are like driving onto a tank proving ground.