Riley 0 Posted January 22, 2007 There are two entrance/exit roads from my house... At one side (see pics) i can not get the car over at all :mad: absolutely rediculous! :evil: And this morning ive found that the speed bumps at the other end have been raised!!! :evil: Gonna get pics of these too,and make a serious complaint...every time im going over them its damaging the car and eventually they will have to pay for the damage.Oh and ill mention the fact that i cant even friggin get out of the other end of the road!!! see pics! Neil. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
herisites 0 Posted January 22, 2007 Ouch!! I know your pain though mate, i have to go over a mahoosive speed bump every day at work and it scrapes like a b*tch!! :x Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Riley 0 Posted January 22, 2007 Tis a joke :x You cant really see the enourmasity? of the thing in the pics... :shock: it actually sits higher than the curb in the middle! Theres no way the rado would ever go over it :roll: Have spoken to some monkey at the council "someone will be measuring the speed bumps" but i bet they dont take into account cars such as the lotus elise etc that run low as standard :mad: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mave 0 Posted January 22, 2007 Yeah it's pretty crap that, would like to hear about the outcome. They might tell you to raise the car up though if they know it's been lowered? :( Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Riley 0 Posted January 22, 2007 Aye...have thought about that one. Ill tell them that the lotus elise i have somewhere? :wink: :lol: runs lower as standard! 8) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mave 0 Posted January 22, 2007 Good thinking! :D edit: your fogs look bloody lush in those pics. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
G60SC_Stoney 0 Posted January 22, 2007 find someone who owns a zonda or a elise and get them to go over it and see what the council have to say when they are given a £20k bill for a new front bumper!! :lol: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Riley 0 Posted January 22, 2007 Mave,cheers m8 :D Stoney,exactly! :lol: 20k per day too with one of those things :shock: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
G60SC_Stoney 0 Posted January 22, 2007 i think they'd rather come along with a big stick of dynamite and blow the speedbump up than pay for a new bumper!! **brainwave--invite a load of people from the zonda owners club over to your house for a BBQ, think you could bankrupt the council in an hour!! either that or you will end up paying stupid amounts of council tax!!** Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bally 0 Posted January 22, 2007 Not suprised yr pisse* off looking at the pics!! look like mountains theyve dropped on yr doorstep!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
herisites 0 Posted January 22, 2007 I had to give my little bro a lift to football yesterday morning and i hadnt been that way since i were younger, definately not since driving. They have put up some exactl same speed bumps outside the school on that road, i was in the exact same boat as you. I made it over the first one with a LOT of scraping to the chin spoiler but the second was even bloody higher :mad: luckily there was a side road i could go down and bypassed them. But if that wasnt there i probably would of ripped off my chin spoiler or had to get a bunch of cars to back up :lol: And i hate people who shake their heads and say that i shouldnt have the car so low and i ALWAYS reply with the elise or a supercar of some sort saying that they are probably even lower than mine standard!! :mad: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stevef182 0 Posted January 22, 2007 i feel your pain! the worst that ever happened to me was in my mk3 golf, i got half way over a speed bump, and there was NO way i was gonna make it so i reversed and the bumper somehow got caught and ripped straight off the front of the car, no jokes! not good! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GIXXERUK 0 Posted January 22, 2007 traffic calming lol , they took some of those away near me because the emergency services said it was wrecking the fire engines ... honestly and it hampered their response time Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
veedub 0 Posted January 22, 2007 There are fecking hundereds around here and they are all mahoosive! I love paying my road tax when the local council makes speed humps so big that they wreck my car!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheWizardofOdds 0 Posted January 23, 2007 There was an article in the paper yesterday about a town in Holland which has taken away all the nonsense associated with town driving-and how it's benefited the area.No traffic lights/speed-bumps/railings etc. and all of a sudden this is the thing to do.Not before time.There is so much today that is unneccesary;traffic lights every 50 yards,round-a-bouts all over the place etc.It absolutely does my head in when I'm stopped at lights on a dead road at 3 in the morning constantly. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
herisites 0 Posted January 23, 2007 It absolutely does my head in when I'm stopped at lights on a dead road at 3 in the morning constantly. An average person spends 2 weeks of their life wating for traffic lights to change!!! That was probably figured out 10 years ago where as nowadays its 2 weeks each traffic light!!! :lol: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mrsbeige 0 Posted January 23, 2007 Oh mate what a p*ss take, i'd be pretty cheesed too. It has made me think actually cause they've just put a new spead bump at my work and i struggle in my peugeot, so there would be no chance getting over it in a rado, i would need air ride. Maybe that's something you should think about if you don't get anywhere with the council :idea: or move :?: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dukest 0 Posted January 24, 2007 so riley, these new wheels you're keeping us in suspense about, tractor wheels are they?! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Riley 0 Posted January 24, 2007 How did you guess m8!? :lol: Mrsbeige,aye...will hopefully be moving away from this sh|t hole soon :D this area has had it tbh... Neil. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Turbogirlie 0 Posted January 24, 2007 U have my sympathies with the speed bumps. Unfortunately my driveway is our speed bump - I grind the G60's front spoiler and zorst every morning and evening pulling in and out of the drive. Naff all can be done either! Arse! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The_Dude 0 Posted January 24, 2007 U have my sympathies with the speed bumps. Unfortunately my driveway is our speed bump - I grind the G60's front spoiler and zorst every morning and evening pulling in and out of the drive. Naff all can be done either! Arse! Small bit of wood to make the transition easier? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Turbogirlie 0 Posted January 24, 2007 Thanks for the idea but don't think it'd work. My driveway is on a slope with the peak at the top, where it joins the pavement, the pavement then drops away and then the camber of the road gets in the way! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
herisites 0 Posted January 25, 2007 I scrape my chin spoiler driving off my driveway, only a small amount though. But the best bit is there is a nursery school opposite so there are shed loads of mums standing around and they all turn and look when they hear it :lol: I see loads of shaking heads but i just laugh :lol: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bendy 0 Posted January 25, 2007 I scrape my chin spoiler driving off my driveway, only a small amount though. But the best bit is there is a nursery school opposite so there are shed loads of mums standing around and they all turn and look when they hear it :lol: I see loads of shaking heads but i just laugh :lol: mines the same, and mine is only a 50mm spoiler. catches on a drop curb as well!!! speed bumps i dont do!! :lol: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Talc 0 Posted January 25, 2007 Crowthorne high street; scrape spolier and cat sheild on all except one of the speedbumps which was pulled up to allow an entrance to car park of lidl that was built, the repalcement was done by german contractors and theres a much longer gradual slope (still do the same damage if you hit speedhump fast in normal car), but nothing scrapes... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites