Pothole Plague

[Cdm2018]

Just reading and saw news about the potholes that are now everyday avoidance wherever you go now!

I lost the count where and how bad the holes are now ? It’s a case to avoid by swerve the hole if it’s safe or go another route ! 
For owners like us we want to enjoy our cars but as the roads are deteriorating at such a rate it’s making it not a cheap or enjoyable experience 

Wondering should as a forum writing to Daily Mail campaign outlining concerns etc ? 
Now considering getting extra insurance to cover wheel alloy damage as I suspect the route of claiming back from councils is almost impossible ? 

[exeterjeep]

We all should be driving things like this - what potholes.

These are UK road legal....£31250 reserve not met.

[Bravo73]

2 hours ago, exeterjeep said:

These are UK road legal....£31250 reserve not met.

Fuel bill might be an issue. These use a Jag V12, don’t they? And are measured in GPM. 😳

[exeterjeep]

Found on our local BBC...

[ChrisJ]

If you really want potholes - Zaire 1990. Sometimes they became so big that a truck would drive in and wait for another coming the other way to pull it out.

The Primus beer trucks kept the roads in Zaire open. Mobutu deliberately let the road infrastructure go to pot (literally) to as to make co-ordination of any protests much harder.

Would have posted this earlier, but got sidetracked by a journal on this photo came from - clicky , as I went on an expedition in the same vehicle 6 months later.

[ChrisJ]

@Escape - as I understand it, before independence, you could order a Cadillac, and have it delivered anywhere in the Congo in 6 weeks, that is how good the roads were. One of the drivers in the video seems to back this up.

I've been there twice (when it was Zaire in the 1990s) to visit the Gorillas*. Drove through Uganda, all tarmac roads, had a few punctures, but no issues with the surface. Cross the border into Zaire, no tarmac - the "road" was there, but everything has worn away and it was just the lava bedrock. From memory, we only went 10 kms or so, but it was the worst road I have ever been on, and took a couple of hours.

* Everyone really should try to go and see Mountain Gorillas once if they can.

[ChrisJ]

I've been rather hooked on this channel over the past week or so. Here's another one, again the Congo.

I haven't got around to watching any of the non transport documentaries yet. 

[Escape]

I've only just watched the first documentary. Very impressive! Reminds me of a presentation I saw last year about the Camel Trophy in the Amazon region (where the Belgian team got the teamspirit award).

I don't know why you tagged me @ChrisJ but I'm glad for it. Especially the offroad content, but I also appreciate your insinuation the situation was better under Belgian rule. 😉

[pete]

 

[ChrisJ]

Like the speed, not sure about the durability though - as it looks a lot like how the potholes were "fixed" in Uganda, only they used people rather than a machine - and was just a superficial fix, didn't last long before the pothole would reappear, as the underlying cause of the pothole was not fixed.