Why do we pay road tax again ?

[Alty 10]

I brought these brand new a year and a half ago, Both front wheels of my car!

 

Edited February 27, 2014 by davidwort

[easypops 8]

Could do with a clean :lol:

[Alty 10]

Lost the will to live with them now!

[g0ldf1ng3r 13]

we dont drive on roads any more - we drive round holes with bits of tarmac/pebbles/clay/sand/whatevertheidiotsfeellikelaying kind of connecting them :(

 

i would be pursuing a claim against your local council m8

[delfinis38 1]

is rod tax for fishing ?

 

agree about claim from local council.... start by getting a form and tacking pictures of pot hole with measuring stick before they fill them in.

Edited February 26, 2014 by delfinis38

[Alty 10]

Yeah I've looked in to doing so but just seems so much hassle!

[Jon_vr6 1]

Some Places can repair them alloys and road tax doesnt pay for repairs on the road the local council does

[Alty 10]

Think this might be an excuse to invest into DEEP dish! :D

[Dox 22]

The tyre sidewall look to be catching on something?

Edited February 26, 2014 by Dox

[Alty 10]

Old winter tyres. They were rubbing on the coilovers, 3mm spacers sorted that. Thanks for the concern :D

[Jim Bowen 1]

Wouldn't be surprised if one of mine is like that after the hole I hit last night.

[jscVR6 0]

I was seriously unimpressed last winter when I found potholes had wrecked both of my N/S BBS:

Front:

Rear:

[KIPVW 0]

What's ROAD Tax? :)

[Sean_Jaymo 0]

I don't think there's been Road tax for nearly 20 years.

[Jim 1]

What's ROAD Tax? :)

 

As cyclists, a question we're used to be asked about once a week... :|

[KIPVW 0]

Road tax was Abolished by none other than Churchill in 1936 I believe. None b of the VED Tax goes on roads either :) just saying.

Cyclist & 3 Corrado owner.

[buttles 0]

Good luck claiming against the Council. They will say unless the pothole was previously reported and known about they cannot be expected to know about the state of all the roads in their area. Been there........

[Jim Bowen 1]

I plan to dig up the council offices car park one day

[davidwort 0]

can't bear to read 'rod tax' any more, so changed it :)

[EJ Taylor 22]

can't bear to read 'rod tax' any more, so changed it :)

 

:cheers::cheers::cheers::cheers::cheers::cheers::cheers::cheers::cheers::cheers:

[Alty 10]

WOW! Only just noticed that !

[Kevin Bacon 5]

I plan to dig up the council offices car park one day

 

You pretend to be BT and dig up the road outside their offices. I'll come along 2 days later pretending to be the gas company and dig it up again. Then someone else can do the same a few days later, and so on.

 

Make sure you use the cheapest contractor in the Yellow pages and ask them to use more stones than tarmac (coz it's cheaper), so that the filled in holes will just unfill themselves again 2 weeks later.

 

My colleague and I actually witnessed the second sentence happen as we walk down the same hole ridden road to Tesco every day. Day 1: Orange lines sprayed around the worst holes. Day 2: A.N.Other cheapy contractor turns up, literallly throws in some tarmac and stamps on it. 2 days later, rain and heavy traffic had all but undone their work. The following week, an Essex Highways lorry was there repeating the work :roll:

 

Honestly, local councillors. Feckin clueless. To see what kind of people we're dealing with, tune into "Permission Impossible" on Monday evenings. It's about local planners, but they're the same as local councillors. Middle aged, rotten teeth, awful hair styles, drab clothes. Isn't it about time we injected some youth into Parliament and local councils?

[KipVR 1]

I couldn't agree more Kev. It's years of council managers promoting useless cretins to positions below them so that they don't get 'threatened' by bright sparks coming through the doors. I've gone through two tyres in two weeks... It's a fairly easy fix, do the job properly, once.

[Stonejag 10]

I cracked two Ultraleggeras, I feel your pain :-( Even aftet they were welded one of them doesn't hold air, gave up for now and fitted something sturdier...

 

One of the roads near me is always referred to in the local paper as 'cluster bomb alley' - I'll take some pictures when I'm next there, it really has to be seen to be believed!

 

As above, they just chuck some tarmac in the holes and then look surprised when it caves in the following week. Crap.

 

Stone

[EJ Taylor 22]

Just cracked my Porsche wheel. Not a happy bunny