Fifth Gear: Pothole Damage Repair (Money Back)
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- Опубликовано: 14 фев 2018
- Throwback Thursday clip from series 16, Tim shows you if it's possible to get money back from any damage done by potholes.
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It’s a long process. I damaged my AMG wheel on a pot hole. Lucky i had a dash camera with gps to prove exactly where it happened ( you could even hear it ) photos, measurements, everything. Took a year and still went to court. Should have seen their smug faces till i proved it to the judge, Winner. Never give in
Ady Cooke I remember once In my aunts BMW X5 we went over a pot hole and it had the rear self levelling suspension. We hit the pothole at about 45-55 mph and it totally shook the car and the whole journey back home we heard "psssssshhh" noise, only to find out that the rear left air suspension has completely damaged, costed £300+ to repair
john here. I managed to get just over £600 competition, did you manage to make a claim?
Ady Cooke we actually tried but nowt happened. I think they said that the pothole in question wasn't big enough and we knew a few people who tried and failed, you're lucky that u got 300 off them. The council just loves keeping money to themselves. I mean just look at the state of the motorways, when was the last time you saw anyone working on the stretches they've blocked for roadworks on M1 or M62...
john here how very true, M62 seems to have gone on for years, but no wonder if there’s never anybody working on it.
did you claim for the time it took, letters written, miles driven, etc
Pretty sure it would be cheaper for the council to fix the holes
only if everybody knows about and takes the time and effort to go to their bureaucratic BS...
Visit India once.Not only your suspension but even your bones would get broken due to these potholes and good luck getting a claim from those local politicians then.
Indian Train Simulator seems like I should visit India then
Yes hit a crazy 2 feet deep one ,ripped the tyre wall & bent the alloy.I can only imagine how many bikers must be cheating death on that one.
Indian Train Simulator same with indonesia. Potholes everywhere and good luck for pothole refunds there from local officials
Come to the USA & go to the state Louisiana. Your car will be ruined & your spine will come through the top of your head! Amazing Coffee(With Chickory) Phenomenal cuisine BUT The Worst roads in US!!!
Emmitt M. McAdams how deep is the pothole?
The lad here obstructing the road like no man's business 😆 😂
Gotta love Tim Shaw.. come a long way to Car SOS :)
in my country there are pothole lakes and sometimes rivers...
this is a truth - my mother installed a lift kit on her corolla to avoid getting broken down or destroying the underside
Well... in my country to make a claim you should call the traffic police to come... and then you going to receive a ticket for inappropriate speed at first place... As our minister of transport said: Why you are driving a low profile tyre... nice indeed :)
Nice job
When i hit a pot hole I think to my self fuck that sounds expensive
old citroen comes to mind. hydraulic suspension eats potholes like i eat pot brownies...
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I think I know where you're coming from. Maybe perhaps u might be referring to the Citroen C6 with its absorbing suspension. Though I'm a bimmer Audi and bit of merc fan but that C6 suspension is amazing. I really wished that they sold the one-off experimental suspension made by BOSE for that Lexus LS, I'd highly appreciate if u look it up and see and let me know. It truly amazes me how cool of a suspension that would've been
john here, actually, i was aiming at DS, GS (GSA), BX and XM. C6 is a fantasy indeed, but a costly one...
If someone is talking about Citroën hydraulic suspension, nobody is talking about their modern suspension systems. If you are gonna be a hardass about the definition of hydraulics, dont do it on a post mentioning the once unique system Citroën used.
I have a Citroen '02 c5 estate and if I go over a pothole I don't feel it at all because of the hydraulic suspension
He keeps parking on double-yellow lines!
Well here in the U.S. particularly the state I live in - you can invoice the state or city for damage caused by potholes.
Unfortunately, not all of us live in the US. You guys are spoiled!!...here, if you hit a pothole and something happens to your car, call a tow truck because that is as good as it gets...
Yeah I know. But it has long been the case in the U.S. where you can recover damage amounts caused by potholes from the city and state in depending on roadway.
I had all the evidence and video. The council still ignored it. I don't have the time to go to court and I had to fork out for a new alloy. Lost faith in local councils. Would love to know why they don't just repair the hole properly in the first place!!
Kit Bennett other countries too , they could have use the money to fix the road but NO , instead they add more unecessary traffic lights 😡
Kelly Dunois well if they cut down on the amount of overpaid managers plus the back handers they get. The last time i saw the council repairing any roads, one working three stood watching
Ady Cooke wtf
If the council decides that it is not their negligence, they do not need to do anything about it, and it is cheaper to make the odd payment, when they have to, than to make the repairs.
They are obviously hoping that you will not be taking them to court.
0:20 the wheels of the truck are just mesmerizing
This is the car from the other episode when he changed his BMW to the Proton for a week.
Weren't expecting the end with the cab lol
That’s not a pothole! Come to Hereford:)
GORGI's World Hereford gang
Tim show
It's only flat at the bottom
My moms Volvo XC90 rim broke because of a pothole in New York.
There’s a thing we pay to use the roads, what’s it called again? 🤔
Ow, and when I say roads I mean ALL ROADS!!!! Including ones where you have to pay a toll to use them 😡
TheManLab7 council tax?
Roadtax
TheManLab7 It's not been "Road Tax" for years. Sadly the government decided it could be a reward scheme for those who drive so called "green" cars. I ask them this. If I drive a hybrid car all day every day I help wear out the road with everyone else yet pay nothing in vehicle tax. If I own a 3 litre V8 and only drive it on a Sunday I wear out very little of the road yet pay a huge tax (and don't polute the air as much). Where is the logic in that? It just shows that the money goes nowhere near the roads as it should. This tax should be scrapped and added to fuel so that the more you use a car the more tax you pay & it should all go towards repair, maintenance and development of the road system.
That's all great and all but you forgot about your spine
Ha i live in michigan. We have the worst roads in all of the U.S. right now. I think its because we have a high road weight limit. Plus winter and improper concrete.
nick B I don't understand why you can go so fast in Michigan
Joseph Weaver what do u mean? Lol we really cant. Every mile there i more holes.
IDK why states are paving roads with concrete again, we proved in the 1950s that it's a bad idea because when potholes develop the only way to fix it is to rip the entire road up! Asphalt is way better, you can patch potholes up and when it gets really bad all you need to do is grind the top layer off and relay it
It might be an idea to build and maintain infrastructure.
I think the vehicle damage caused annually is much higher £!
Dat infrastructure. Meanwhile american cars are like Lol what is this it tickles. And the odd old lexus that just glides over like its not even there.
Dragon Butt even classic cars from 80s just so smooth sailing. My dad had a 1987 Chevy Caprice classic. It just glided over the imperfections like being riding on double whipped cream
John here even Die hard 3 capitalizes on this fact ruclips.net/video/0m5QoYnKne0/видео.html
Dragon Butt the car that I told u about mate. The 87 caprice ... It's the exact same looking one as the cab in that movie. Only better and classier
Dragon Butt no pothole claim on that Chevy there 😂👍🏼
Dragon Butt
*American car driving down the road*
"Suddenly, a wild corner appears!"
"American car uses pudgy suspension and 100 to 1 steering rack ratio to negotiate corner, it's not super effective!"
Hi
The potholes are bad in Manchester. Stupid council can’t fix anything.
draw dicks around them. council shows up real quick when all the elderly start ringing
Or just fix the hole up with some Instant Noodles and paint over it. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
pfffff what a nightmare, luckily the Dutch roads are much nicer to my E81
TheDailyBiker hahaha
come to belgium
You won’t get fuck all out of North Somerset council.
My Mrs hit a pot hole the size of Cheddar Gorge which put a flat spot on the wheel and burst the tyre.When she complained to the council they said they would not do anything as nobody had previously reported the pot hole and you can only make a claim if they had failed to act upon a report of a pot hole after a certain amount of time.
To top it off,this winter i had the bonnet of my mint condition Mitsubishi Evo X ruined when a council gritter drove past me spreading grit at the height of the windscreen/bonnet of my car,not sure why the council think the roofs of cars needed de-icing
But the council can simply claim that they did not know it was there, so how are they liable?
oh. dont worry about the proton. the car is designed in malaysia so they already took into account on the amount of potholes on malaysia roads 😂😂
I mean yeah its awful if you damage your car, but just imagine what its like for motorcyclists. Some of these pot holes you see will actually cause us guys to come off our bikes. I've seen it happen.
Birmingham....
the same problems like italy
Do more team test plz I think it been a year but you are just using old one's the uploading it :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[
I think you will find the program is no longer made (which is a real shame) it stopped about 2 years ago and the bean counters won't fund it anymore.
whyy would thay do that so whatever
Well that was pointless in the end
I dunno why they can't just fill the bloody potholes with gravel, it would be quick and cheap
Gleness D'Menace because as soon as it rains the gravel flows away.
I suggest a special vehicle that dispenses that really strong cement that British telecom use made of epoxy and sand the stuff goes off in about 5-minutes and is as hard as a solid rock. a small van kitted out correctly could probably fix 2 to 300 potholes per day
in the US potholes do not exist
2:43 triggered
Your claim will get rejected 🚶
Inches, pounds, gallons... but you anglos use the metrical system to count the money and dont get wrong. Why dont you use inches and feet to count the money? No, it would be really stupid... like to measure lenght and weigth like you do.
Talking about those potholes come check them in india
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What That was truck going on pothholes a more car go on road wtf idk my car a havly car and mine is old ford foucus amd pothholes are struck idk about that shit idk if there was a pothhole beside my house and evry time i drive my foucus its swing it self wtf WTF 😂😂😂 ik about that litel bit swinggy idk that completely fucking struck my car
I really hate pot holes
RIP Proton :v
It's a TV show, the tyre was deliberately deflated each time. Don't watch the one where they run the Proton with no engine oil, very upsetting for anyone with mechanical sympathy.
Chris Wales you mean that red Persona ? Yeah it was hard to watch but its for science , since theres a lot of idiots dunno how to care for their cars
Oh yeah it was a Persona, still had the same irritating presenter. Was so glad when they stopped using him.
Chris Wales wats wrong with the presenter ?
He's a bellend : ruclips.net/video/GXZuyUs4Bi4/видео.html
Stop trying to be top gear