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Raised crossing in earl street
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Mikinton
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Is this serious?
Try this one instead. http://www.theaa.com/motoring_advice/car-servicing-repair/coil-springs-breaking.html
Jonah
Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
I had a suspension spring break when going over the speed humps along Eastgate Street. No I wasn't driving fast, no I wasn't doing anything stupid. I was driving normally with my family and mother in the car and the spring broke when I was driving "up" the hump by The Shrewsbury Arms. Cost me £200 to repair.
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
Well you'll all be glad to know that now the speed bump has been properly tarmacced and painted they have decided to skim half of it off. There is a machine doing so as I speak, I shit you not.
shoes
Well-Known Forumite
No, it's completely compliant but in my experience VOSA love taking modified cars off people for a week at a time to 'inspect them'. It's happened to me before and I didn't get so much as an apology.
I shall not be stopping for them again, ever.
shoes
Well-Known Forumite
Sigh. Ok then, you're right. Applying excessive lateral and vertical force to a geometrically sensitive system supported by shock absorbers designed to operate in a narrow range of travel repeatedly will do not harm at all to the setup.
That's why when I have my car laser aligned every three months it most definitely hasn't moved at all, and my tyres are definitely not suffering as a result of this misalignment. The uneven increase in camber and toe-in is definitely all in my head.
The road car is definitely not smashed about by the council's lumps of tarmac. The track car which is only driven hard although hasn't been near a speed hump in months definitely also needed adjusting this weekend when on the machine. Completely out. Geometry... totally destroyed. It took the mechanic nearly two whole minutes to correct how ****ed up it is.
Definitely not. That's right.
<== see, that's my serious face.
wildwood
Well-Known Forumite
That's good to hear!
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
I wonder who's paying?
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
And a big job it seems to be. But it should be less likely to appear on contour maps now. It does look likely that it will be surfaced again, so ending up a little higher than it is now - there's a trench either side to allow for the join in the surfacing. And then it will be repainted - again. The chaps didn't look too happy...
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
Now they've measured the whole thing:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5ip1wpoq5cealdq/2012-08-20 13.31.04.jpg?m
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/5ip1wpoq5cealdq/2012-08-20 13.31.04.jpg?m
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henryscat
Well-Known Forumite
It is an offence not to stop if directed to by a VOSA officer.
ChrisLewis
Well-Known Forumite
I have it on good authority that the contractors constructed it as per the plans supplied by the appropriate authority! My only comment now the height of the thing has been rectified is that clearly it's position is dangerous. It seems far too close to the slip road exit from the Guildhall car park.
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
Oh, we will - just take his wallet out..
henryscat
Well-Known Forumite
And how fast should you be exiting the car park anyway?
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
I likewise heard the same, on good authority. The new hump is actually just as high, but less humpy if you catch my drift.
henryscat
Well-Known Forumite
Sigh. Ok then, you're right. Applying excessive lateral and vertical force to a geometrically sensitive system supported by shock absorbers designed to operate in a narrow range of travel repeatedly will do not harm at all to the setup.
That's why when I have my car laser aligned every three months it most definitely hasn't moved at all, and my tyres are definitely not suffering as a result of this misalignment. The uneven increase in camber and toe-in is definitely all in my head.
The road car is definitely not smashed about by the council's lumps of tarmac. The track car which is only driven hard although hasn't been near a speed hump in months definitely also needed adjusting this weekend when on the machine. Completely out. Geometry... totally destroyed. It took the mechanic nearly two whole minutes to correct how ****ed up it is.
Definitely not. That's right.
Translation: you have chosen to drive a heavily modified car for a niche application. 99.9% of people drive a motor car that is set up for every day driving. If driving your modified car away from a track really does do that to it, then you have a couple of choices - trailer it to the track using one of your fleet of BMWs, or be selective where you drive it. As you might guess I haven't really any sympathy. If you can afford to be racing about in a car, you can afford to laser align suspension every third phase of the moon and optimise the flux capacitor for performance above 88 mph. You've chosen to drive a very non-standard car so you must also choose to live with the consequences. The majority of the rest of us drive normal cars so don't have a problem, and as per Stafford Forum rules, the majority is always right innit?