Re: Ever broken a windshield from a pothole?

[J Buck <vwpride@mixi.net>]

In Michigan on I-75, I was driving my Cabbie, in a one lane construction zone
doing 75mph, when WHAAAAMMM!   Didn't have time to even react.  Dented a rim
and snapped off my rear view mirror!  Next thing I know, I'm passing a half
dozen cars on the shoulder changing tires.  Didn't pop the tire though,
although it did have to be replaced.  Then someone told me its the MICH DOT
policy that if you report a pothole that damaged your car and they don't fix it
(the pothole) in 24 hrs, they'll pay to fix your car!  Guess which got fixed
first?  Yea, made me feel sooo much better....

jim

16v Jason wrote:

> It's been one of those weeks again.
>
> Pennsylvania is famous for its bad roads, but this is rediculous.
>
> Saturday afternoon I decided to take the Scirocco out for a drive since it
> hadn't been driven for a week (I had surgery on my right hand following a
> dog bite last week so I was confined to my Automatic all week).
>
> So, I'm cruising along with a shit-eating grin on my face, having forgotten
> how sweet 7000rpm sounds.  Doing maybe 60mph (45 or 55 zone, don't
> remember), and I'm rounding an ever-so-slight right hand bend.  In front of
> me all of a sudden I see a grey strip across the road, about 2 feet wide.
> Looks like someone dug a hole across the street and filled it in with
> gravel.  I brake. Hard. Let go of my brake pedal right before I hit it,
> maybe doing like 45?
>
> ****BBBAAAAMMM*****
>
> I've never felt such forces in a car without being carried off in an
> Ambulance afterward.
>
> My sun visor falls in my face, the sunroof handle falls, and the CD Player
> turns itself off.
>
> I pull over to the side of the road.
>
> The casualties:
> 2 Hockenheim Rs, 15".  Bent slightly at the hub (nasty vibrations)
> My 1-year-old windshield.  4" crack where the mirror is glued on.
> 2 Boge TurboGas shocks.
>
> ...and who knows what else.
>
> I went back with my friend who's a photographer for a regional newspaper--
> and I'm trying to get these pics published.  Whatever asshole filled in the
> ditch didn't put enough gravel in, so it sank, leaving a 2-foot-wide,
> 4-inch deep ditch.  While photographing the ditch, we saw Jeep after SUV
> after full size pickup bottom out over the bump... drivers subsequently
> pulling over and inspecting the damage on their cars.
>
> Spoke with PennDOT this morning, and I need to supply pictures of the loss
> scene, pics of the damage to my car, and either 2 estimates for repair, or
> 1 repair bill.
>
> Anyone have any experience with getting PennDOT to pay for being ASSHOLES?
>
> ARGH.
>
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