Pot hole season

[N4LLY]

My 7 mile commute to and from work is a complete farm track

Hit one, in the 120i, i could not avoid due to double parked cars and the ABS and asc lights came on.
The car started to judder, initially i thought i was running out of fuel.

Hoping it's just a dislodged ABS sensor. Could it be worse?

This one is just outside the house.

 

[Grumps]

Yep awful around here as well. I'm in the process of memorizing all the potholes on my 6 mile route to work.

 

[Tracy Dee]

It's like dogems trying miss pot holes roads are in a shocking state even more so after all the bad weather very uncomfortable driving.

 

[Dino D]

The impact could have dislodged the ABS sensor (if it wasn’t fully secured in place) - I had the before - chasing ABS light fault - bl@@dy sensor was on and looked in place but was not properly ‘clicked’ in place!

No idea why it shuddered though. Could be the DSC going nuts and cutting the fuel like it does to stop a slide.

 

[G4FUJ]

And people wonder why I often prefer driving the Land Rover...

 

[Shelly]

Yes it's the same round here with pot holes
It's a pain driving the Z trying to avoid them
Sue the council @N4LLY

 

[DavidM]

Our government are not too good at managing infrastructure and related finances!!!

Just heard on the news this morning the staggering amount of debt the country is in broken down by household - the strange thing is government officials are responsible not individual households!!

I think our government needs supervision from independent work study professionals to help get them off their a....s - and work!!!

Rant complete!

 

[smiffy]

My daughter passed her test about 2 months ago. In the run up to her test I started teaching her the stuff instructors don't, including reading the road surface ahead, and dodging potholes, peripheral vision, spacial awareness, you know the stuff that keeps you alive

On her test she was taken along the local dual carriageway which is really bad at the moment (@Shelly can probably vouch forbetween Jay Lane and Hopton). After she weaved along at the required 59mph, her examiner asked what she was doing, "dodging the potholes mate", to which he responded "good answer".

She passed with flying colours..

 

[Shelly]

Well done on passing your driving test

Yes that stretch of road is really bad

 

[G4FUJ]

Excellent answer!
And congratulations to the lady on passing her test

 

[NeRo]

My local garage posted a picture, on Facebook, of a broken spring - the caption

Noise at the rear?....this is the culprit, another broken spring.... number twenty this week

Funny how they can find tarmac to create stupid traffic calming, but not for potholes

 

[smiffy]

I know she's my daughter and everyone will say, "yeah you would say she's great", but while she was learning, I sat beside her for over 1,000 miles*. That was in addition to the lessons she was taking with instructors. (we sacked the first one). I was extremely critical and hard on her in that time as I believe there is much more to driving that just meeting test standard. But regardless of that she has from the start been an extremely "in tune" with the task, something that really surprised me. I genuinely expected her to be one of those, scrape through and drive for necessity liabilities, we all dodge. How wrong I was! Her grandfather, a life long petrolhead, would have been so proud.

At the start, I wanted her first lesson to be in the Zed on private land, you know that first learning clutch control and gears bit, but she flatly refused! I'm now thinking about a novice track day for her in the Zed for her 18th, or maybe a rally experience day to help with potholes!

*She bought her own car, and that is based on the odometer reading from when I picked it up to when she passed, minus a couple of shopping trips to Norwich with mum, not a random guess!

 

[G4FUJ]

Snetterton is not too far away...

 

[mwpe]