Speedbump @ about 40mph
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[TW]Fox;15966942 said:How kind of him to cause considerable damage to somebody elses £20,000 car
If thats what is considered well behaved and kind I'd hate to see your idea of a 'bit of a wideboy'
Were you never a teenager? They do irrational things. Hes shown a lot of remorse for being a prat and hes borrowed the car many times without issue and i've been driven by him a few times and hes actually ok, i guess he got caught up in the moment. Not defending his behaviour though, totally unacceptable especially on a residental road. Hes been told off a lot today and almost had to spend the night by me cause his parents are soo ticked off.
I was in The Gambia a few weeks ago - now THOSE are some scary roads. Some potholes so big we nearly got launched straight out the back of the little suzuki jeep thing that didnt have seatbelts. And thats where there are actually roads, not just dust tracks
It was the worst motorway I've ever driven on and I couldnt even work out why it was a toll road.
I know what you mean, African roads are quite an ‘experience’, there is one section of decent road in Tanzania, it was built by the Japanese and runs from somewhere around Ngorongoro national park out towards Arusha, although I was heading to Lake Manyara and the decent highway did not go all the way and we had to use a lot of roads that were basically just dirt tracks, but the dirt tracks are actually better and more comfortable in a Landcruiser than some of the paved roads, as you say, crumbling surfaces and pot holes so immense you could lose a child down them.
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How does a 19 year old get insured on a 197 clio ? At 18 it cost me a fortune on a bog standard 1.2 clio
Postcode and rich daddy
Wish i was that lucky, my first car wasa square shaped polo banger!
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As some of you know, the roads in Belgium are usually in ****poor condition.
Imagine how bad they are now then, after this lovely winter (which is still ongoing..)
I was stuck in a 5km tailback on the Brussels Ring the other week due to a gigantic pothole in the middle of the carriageway..
It's a disgrace, but a lot of the motorway traffic in Belgium in just passing through. German, Dutch, French trucks, etc that don't pay a penny
Imagine how bad they are now then, after this lovely winter (which is still ongoing..)
I was stuck in a 5km tailback on the Brussels Ring the other week due to a gigantic pothole in the middle of the carriageway..
It's a disgrace, but a lot of the motorway traffic in Belgium in just passing through. German, Dutch, French trucks, etc that don't pay a penny
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Those are lovely, hardly feel them at all if you get right over the middle
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I go for this method on the Punto when I'm driving that, even though it's the most narrow car ever it sails over them as if they're not there. So why bother with them if they can only slow 1% of cars?
The worst I've seen is this road in Liverpool:
They're hella tall, way more than half way up to the under-run bars on that truck.
Doing the mounting 2 of them method in the Alfa, the front and read bumpers were scraping each set.
The worst I've seen were literally like a square made of bricks in the road, was a case of slow down, drive up a little step and over the buggers. They received so many complaints that they were removed in the end, about 6-7 years ago.
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Yes i found Belgium rather amusing. Canada to me has the best ever roads for smoothness and space, also driving was much more relaxed due to no ever present threat of winning points on roadside tax machines and actually had quite decent drivers, even in Toronto.
I think the roads are made of cheese here, only about 5-6 months ago they resurfaced a road entirely. Was wonderful for all of about 3 weeks and it was back to being uneven and full of craters, imagine what this winter did to it! They also created a width restriction to stop trucks from using a certain road to enter a business park, the bwestards now use our residental roads and narrow streets to come off the north circ and obviously wreck our roads to bits now with their 18 wheelers etc.
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I spent 3 years in Guinea, a little down the coast from Gambia, and also some time in Sierra Leone and Liberia.
Guinea, for those that don't know it, it a country about the same size as the UK, but with a population of only around 10 million. Rich in diamonds and now oil, it is poverty central. Until recently, it had been ruled for decades by one president (Lasana Conte I think from memory) but he's dead now. In his time in office, the road ministers (if there ever were any) put a tarmac surface on the roads from the port to the ministerial palace to the airport and around the centre of the capital - Conakry. There was also about 200 km of road covered to the other city in the north - Kan Kan. That's where most of the diamonds came from.
Everything else had to make do with dirt or stones - a lottery in the rainy season! I reckon there were a good deal less than a 1,000 km of tarmac roads in that country, and believe me, those roads that were covered in tarmac had the same pothole problem as most African roads!
I went through 3 cars in 3 years. A Nissan Pathfinder which just died one too many times (plus the aircon was inexplicably broken). A Discovery (which my driver rolled a couple of times) and then finally a Landcruiser which was just so tough it refused to break no matter what you threw at it.
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ya its the sleeping policemen full road width one that are a pain in the ass!
rest of them u can straddle etc.
rest of them u can straddle etc.
I hope he is on his fathers insurance - I dread to think how much it would cost to have a young lad like that on a 330D policy. If he isn't I would seriously consider shopping him. I feel strongly about this as I have family history involving being on the receiving end of uninsured drivers.
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Yes hes a named driver. His dad is into real estate etc.. and they've been well off since the early 80s so money is not a big big deal for insurance. Money can't buy common sense though.
The worst I've seen is this road in Liverpool:
They're hella tall, way more than half way up to the under-run bars on that truck.
It's also impossible to straddle them at the moment because of all of the potholes near the side of Richard Kelly drive
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Not realated to this thread, but who was that guy who reckoned to have a load of cousins who had lots of car adventures? Going from Manchester to Glasgow in 2 hours and sitting in 1000 cars so he knows what a good car is. I remember something about an M3 but exactly what I dont know
Physco_sunny i think