bent wheels

obviously not N15 related but thought id put it in here.
not too pleased at the moment, just got back from the tyre fitters to get my balancing checked, after i went down a pothole at 40+ that just seemed to swallow my car ive had a wobble at 70 ish.
they put my wheel on the machine only too find that my wheels is jumping like a fucking rabbit shafting his mate :mad:
looking at my wheel now you can visibly see that its flat like a rugby ball, not happy as there only 6 months old if that.
i intend on finding a diffrent pothole (the other has been filled in) to take a photo of, take a photo of my wheel (and my other if i hit the other side good enough as that is a little bad :D )
get an invoice for the wheels and claiming off the council
my question is
has anybody done this with the council and been succesfull? obviously councils vary, but i pay tax for everything going and the most they can do is repair a main road or any road in that matter.
rant over :mad:
 
rhyd4 said:
obviously not N15 related but thought id put it in here.
not too pleased at the moment, just got back from the tyre fitters to get my balancing checked, after i went down a pothole at 40+ that just seemed to swallow my car ive had a wobble at 70 ish.
they put my wheel on the machine only too find that my wheels is jumping like a fucking rabbit shafting his mate :mad:
looking at my wheel now you can visibly see that its flat like a rugby ball, not happy as there only 6 months old if that.
i intend on finding a diffrent pothole (the other has been filled in) to take a photo of, take a photo of my wheel (and my other if i hit the other side good enough as that is a little bad :D )
get an invoice for the wheels and claiming off the council
my question is
has anybody done this with the council and been succesfull? obviously councils vary, but i pay tax for everything going and the most they can do is repair a main road or any road in that matter.
rant over :mad:

You could do it m8 just be careful of what you say
 
friend of mine hit a pothole - burst his front tyre and wrecked both the front and back wheel - council didn't wana know when he tried getting them to cough up.
 
think you will have to persistant, would be suprised if they didnt try to fob you off with some lame excuse straight away but keep complaining like you have every right to and in the end i bet they will pay up just to shut you up. maybe mention getting a local paper involved if they refuse to pay, local papers around here seem to have nothing to report on so that would probably be a great story for them :lol: dont know if it would be the same around you but just be persistant and stay within your rights, they wont want bad publicity and your not breaking any laws by asking for money to fix something they have damaged.
 
i have heard of people doin this but can't recall hearin if they are succesful?? there is loads of fuck off potholes in my area that never seem to get fixed even although you see road workers digging up what seems to be a perfectly good road and replacing it??
 
I've herd of people doing it sucessfully, but it takes ages, about 6 months if i remember correctly. He used a newspaper next to the pothole to give an idea of scale in his pics.

Either way you are gonna have to fork out initially I hate to say.
 
I know I should be taking your side, But its incidents like this which result in all this fucking bollocks health and safety shit.... Shit happens, deal with it.
 
br3n said:
I know I should be taking your side, But its incidents like this which result in all this fucking bollocks health and safety shit.... Shit happens, deal with it.

what you on about health and safety :confused: you pay your hard earned cash on road tax so the road's are to be maintained not fuck your car up, incident's like this will hopefully get the road's department to get there finger's out instead of drinkin cups of tea all day
 
think i read a few weeks ago they took 5 billion or some stupidly massive figure from motoriss, tax, fuel, etc last year, they should stop lining there pockets with it and start maintaining the bloody roads!

i got pulled by coppers because i was avoiding some potholes! like im going to mess my wheels up so i can go in a straight line, grrrrrrr
 
br3n said:
I know I should be taking your side, But its incidents like this which result in all this fucking bollocks health and safety shit.... Shit happens, deal with it.
WTF with the above :lol: i dont see why i should pay £100 a wheel when the roads arnt getting fixed, and im paying tax on everything.
i think im entitled to my straight wheels back, the robbing fuckers take enough from me.
surely it should be health and safety to do the holes not leave them for people to swerve and cause acidents.
 
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