Tar damage to car - compensation?

I'm not sure I like the entitled asshattery of society that seems to be getting worse by the day.
People don't seem to understand that the world owes you nothing. Rip it out the ground with your own blood, sweat and tears and then you've earned it. Otherwise tough.
 
Pour brake fluid on affected paintwork and leave 15mins to soften the tar, then simply wipe off with dampened cloth. Old valeting trick.
 
As an ex car valet removing tar is not really a problem and you will find suitable products at your local Halfords ETC.
 
Id take tar over whatever they use to paint the road markings on, ever tried getting that stuff off? (Yes it was an accident that was the council workers fault but having it splashed across our entire drivers side is not exactly ignorable).

In the end the council agreed to cover the cost of having it ground off and resprayed.
 
Never mind getting tar on your paintwork, ever tried riding a bike on that muck.
It's like riding on ice.

They used it on one of the little country roads which joins the A road I commute on, would have been fine had that road not joined the A road directly after a tight blind bend where all the "dressing" had been washed/carried into the middle of the road by traffic.

Serious squeaky bum time on that journey!
 
estebanrey said:
80% of all household waste is recyclable. If you need more than a 240L landfill bin for four people over 14 days you're doing something wrong.

We have 3 adults sharing our 180L bin which is collected fortnightly, it's half full at best on bin days.

But even so your comment is still false, recycling targets and landfill taxes are set by the EU not the councils.
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This is totally off topic now, but if we are to recycle 80% of our waste then why do my council provide us with the same size recycling and black bins, and collect both fortnightly?

Shouldn't they collect the green bin more often, or give bigger green bins out? :p
 
Daftbrown said:
Me too. I feel you bro :p

Wouldn't want this one on my desk.
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Cheers,

I've worked in customer services for both a big private company and a local authority and this difference in attitude between the 'customers' is staggering.

Of course there are lots of lovely people who I have to deal with, but unlike in the private company where a tiny minority were taking the pee, it seems like a majority in my current job.
 
chanjy said:
This is totally off topic now, but if we are to recycle 80% of our waste then why do my council provide us with the same size recycling and black bins, and collect both fortnightly?

Shouldn't they collect the green bin more often, or give bigger green bins out? :p
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If you have a reasonable excuse then you can request more/bigger bins.

As a family of 7 we ended up with 3 brown bins and either 2 or 3 green bins.

That was actually overkill and most of the time they were spending time as temporary waterbutts. Not short of room to keep them so no big deal.
 
Hotwired said:
If you have a reasonable excuse then you can request more/bigger bins.

As a family of 7 we ended up with 3 brown bins and either 2 or 3 green bins.

That was actually overkill and most of the time they were spending time as temporary waterbutts. Not short of room to keep them so no big deal.
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Also a family of 7 here - we have 2 green (recycling), 2 black (waste), 1 brown (garden) wheelie bins. Alternate weeks, for waste and recycling, so effectively 2wks between collections.

The waste is almost always full to busting - recycling is usually 75% full.

And whilst 80% of household waste *might* be recyclable, each local authority has different rules for what they will recycle. We still have to use waste bins for many things which I know *could* be recycled - sweeping generalisations are not helpful :)

Back on topic now - great thread, would read again thanks.
 
Park up somewhere else and use your legs in future if you're afraid of cleaning some crap off your car. ;)
 
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1. Clean the sand out of your ******!

2. Go pick up proper car cleaning products.

3. Clean Car.

4. Man up park down the road and walk the extra few hundred feet to and form your car for the forseeable future the walk'll do you some good and help you to calm down dear!
 
Amazing thread, "oh noes!! I got tar on my car...I want some compensationings".

What's next... suing Jesus because you drove through a muddy puddle?
 
glen8 said:
councils share part of the blame

they resurfaced our road (well, they had to do it four times in total as they kept doing it wrong)...new build estate, and you know what those lego houses are like, built right on the road. Cars, windows, doors all covered in the stuff

I wouldn't have minded, but they never stuck a letter through the door

it comes off, but it's damn hard work

regarding the bins comment, they are 100% to blame. When you combine fun sized wheelie bins, a family of four, council tax rise and fortnightly bin collections, what do you expect

councils need a dose of common sense!

tldr; clean your car yourself this weekend and move on with your life

p.s. if I had a nice car, I wouldn't have driven it on a newly surfaced road
p.p.s why do they do the majority of the work during rush hour traffic, and not in the middle of the night?
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in reality you should be blaming the government as they have cut the money to local councils so they either have to raise council tax or cut services. Common sense cant help with that, if you want a certain level of service, pay for it or get central government to stop being ****s with local council budgets
 
[TW]Fox;28157179 said:
I hate it when I need to clean my car after driving it through a construction zone too.

Tar is annoying but it DOES come off. Just a bit of hard work and some Autoglym tar remover and a claybar.
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Doesn't even take much hard work tbh.
 
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