Two colleagues at work - one with a nice SAAB TTiD (yes, I've pointed him in the direction of these forums but cant get him active here
) the other with a monstrously quick BMW M 'somethingorother' have both sustained damage to their cars.
The fellow with the SAAB fitted new springs less than six months ago and told me when he heard I was complaining about my broken springs, that already one of his is broken.
The chap with the BMW came to work in torrential rain and went through a deep puddle that was concealing an enormous hole. It not only wrote the tyre off, but it wrote off the wheel and did some major damage to his suspension geometry. He was so angry that he even got the police involved by saying that a hole that deep had the potential to kill a motorcyclist.
Lewis with his SAAB TTiD follows much of the same route as I do on a daily basis including the dreaded bridge at Burford, but the BMW only does that route when he drives to/from his home in Birmingham every five days or so as he has digs in Carterton. The BM got damaged on a different local road to Brize, thankfully one that I dont need to negotiate, nevertheless I am sure there is an accumulative amount of damage with the potholes throughout Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire.
A couple of weeks back I headed up to Worcestershire and while I am pretty sure Worcestershire has its own share of craters, the parts I travelled through seemed so much better than my area.
