Terminator Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 In a village near by they have put these dumb things every 150 metres or so. I can only drive over them at about 15mph or I ground. Coming back from the pub tonight, I was only doing 12 to 15 mph and “bang - scrape - expensive - nasty under car noise” I hit one. When I got back home the car was blowing terribly. I thought I had hit the back elbow again and holed it. Once I got it up on stands, it was blowing from the back section, second section union, but not because I hit the elbow, but the second decate pipe was hit so hard it opened the joint. A few new gaskets and exhaust putty later it was mended. I checked all the other unions and they were OK. These things are ridiculous I have to crawl at 15mph, no 10 mph now while some prat in a escort overtakes and rips through at 50 in a 30 what is the point. I have a friend with a Kit car who cant drive down the road anymore or he will take off his sump. Traffic calming gone mad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbeh Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 Hehe yup.. cant have anything nice these days because of the do gooders, I wouldnt mind lowering mine or kitting it up with a few simple bits, but we have speed humps all over the place so I'd only end up damaging it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 15mph!!!!!! You lucky bastard I'm down to about 2mph over the ones DOWN MY ROAD!!!! I'm sure my clutch is going to be dead within a few months! Luckily they're the big ones that go across a whole T junction, so I can get up to 20 whilst on the top of the speed bump! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 Yep, same problems here - I can only leave the house in one direction and that means I have to navigate over 3 huge humps and then go through a series of those crap chicanes - the other direction is 20+ humps and takes an age to get over them In my other car I could fly over them at 100mph without an issue, lorries, buses, taxis and normal cars never slow down for them and like you I get overtaken all the time - I tend to blast between them though so people sometimes get stuck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 I was in Guildford last weekend. They have some pretty bad once as well. I did less then 5mph, still managed to scrape the bumper and the exhaust! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bammbamm Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 i love it, a road i drive down has about 10 small humps, i find it best to slow down to get over them, then flooring it in first until the next one then slowing down again, with the car backfiring banging and popping sounds lovely, just glad i dont live there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt_J Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 I think people with low suspension should pay less road tax. This is because they cant use all the roads in the UK!!!!!! Wishful thinking!!!!! Some of the roads in my area should be be twinned with the Himalayas!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitelightning Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 Yeah its a nightmare, I actually raised the suspension on WL - now thats embarassing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyJawa Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 I was in Guildford last weekend. They have some pretty bad once as well. I did less then 5mph, still managed to scrape the bumper and the exhaust! Ah bugger I have to contend with them every day, and for some reason the GTR is worse than my old supe over them Constantly scrape the exhaust :mad:Great thing is, they were done so badly no two are the same size or height or ramp angle. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rays the roof Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 Check with council mate. There is a max legal height and they must remove or lower them if above...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outatime Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 We've just had one reduced in size around here. First of all it was one of those bumps in the middle of each lane, then they put in an 8 inch speed bump across the whole road. Its just been cut down to 3" after nearby houses complained of the noise it caused, a nice waste of taxpayers money... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Posted March 2, 2005 Share Posted March 2, 2005 We've just had a load put along our 'high street' if you can call it that, in our village. Complete waste of time and pointless as no one ever speeds along that road anyway! Whats annoyed me is, they spent money on pointless speed humps and raised crossings, but one of the roads coming off of this said road, is in a terrible state, holes everywhere, surface has all but warn off on most of it etc... and they choose to put in speed hums instead of resurface a dangerous surface!!! PATHETIC!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jspec Germany Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 These are popping up more and more in Germany and they're everywhere in Holland. They just resurfaced my street, er... country road and put in two chicanes. I think the Schumacher wannabees drive even faster through here now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopite Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 what pisses me off is when people don't think and park in a manner where you can only go over them in 1 part..... few miniscule scratches on the base of my Bomex, not that arsed as it needs patchin up from the friggin multistory! i'm gonna start drivin down the pavement!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J4CK50N Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 The club i play football for has them on my way there so have to take a 5 mile detour just to avoid em!!! The thing is it is supposed to stop the chavs, boy racers etc but they just jump em etc then all the nice cars, that take it steady end up with all sorts of problems!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Walker Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 i'm gonna start drivin down the pavement!!! Class, would love to see the council's reaction to that Gaz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopite Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 they'd probably just put speed bumps on the pavement!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogmaw Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 If they MUST use traffic calming, I don't know why they don't just use chicanes? A lot safer for ambulances for start. Who'd wanna be in the back of an ambulance with a broken back - going over a speed bump?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 Ambulances don't exactly handle well though do they!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris aka fonz Posted June 23, 2005 Share Posted June 23, 2005 If they MUST use traffic calming, I don't know why they don't just use chicanes? A lot safer for ambulances for start. Who'd wanna be in the back of an ambulance with a broken back - going over a speed bump?! Never thought of that , good point ! I tend to go over them at an angle and arse to everyone else Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 Class, would love to see the council's reaction to that Gaz. When I lived in Dartford, I used to have to do that to get home without scraping the exhaust, I also cracked the front downpipe through scraping slowly over those speed humps. The neighbours used to stare in dis-belief as I trundeled down the very wide pavement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
far Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 Bad news termy dude - glad it was sorted with little/no expense. The worse thing is the speed bumps cause cars to speed up/ slow down in residential areas which must be a proper pain in the ass for the residents, I would hack them down myself if they got put up on my road! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leonv Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 Yep my wife had to get special permission to park in the Visitors car park at her work, cause everytime she took the soop over her humps in their car park she took the back end of the exhaust off! Have to come to a complete standstill and go over one tyre at a time!! should never have been invented Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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