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i have just damaged my front spoiler on my c2 alpina i have a claim form from the council does anyone have an idea of the cost to replace and paint it also it will need new badges.tony

I think simon13 has just has resprayed not sure about replacement.

are you the peron my dad was speaking to at ace OT i nkow

Can you claim for hitting a speed bump?

waste of time mate, the council arent interested! you fill out the form, wait six months, then they say "you should have been driving slower"...

i've cracked my lip spoiler on my iS too, from F*CK*NG speed humps!!! BASTARD THINGS!!! get a photo to back up anything though.

my mate from college hit a pot hole that ruined is alloy wheel. he rang the council, gave them details, and the council went and filled in the holes and denied it ever happened! they're all scum, they're just a small scale government!!

My mates mrs managed to drive over a brick (!) outside a council building site, got a full payout and had the SET of wheels replaced as they were NLA! this was in an mr2

Another mate had about Ԛ£1200's worth of damage on his series 2 after hitting a pothole, also paid out for.

Get pics and persue it, make sure they know your serious and know your rights. Not sure how you stand with things like speedbumps tho.

new spoiler is Ԛ£300 from sytners and about Ԛ£80 to get sprayed. Thats if your spoiler is beyond repair mate.

I can help u get the decals for it too no problem. PM me

My alpina is lowered 60mm on the front and with the spoiler is interesting to say the least but i have only scraped it about 5 times in 6 odd months, even being careful and going very slow over humps. I now have a brand new one on there and shall be even more careful!

let me know how you get on because the miss's done mine on a speed bump today, she also did the exhaust in

I was under the impression you cant do anything about speed humps? Only pot holes,
If I go over the speed humps round here I literally ground the car on the sump guard, I have to go over the both of the single humps at about 5mph driving down the middle of the road

Same here over the middle, but there is one that i go over at 5mph and my sump scrapes like crazy, had two people in the car once and they had to get out so i could clear the hump as the car became wedged

I hate bastard speed humps!! Don't quite know where you stand with these but i think i'll have a crack at claiming something just to annoy croydon council some more!!
Used to have a 1 minute drive to my lockup - now they've put humps in that i can't get over, i have to go a long way round and takes almost 10 minutes during the day!!!!!!

I find the full width ones are slightly better if you take them diagonally, and the little ones i can clear with the wheels either side, but when i've got stuff in the back i keep the left wheel clear and the right wheel on the hump so the exhaust won't scrape! I'm always the one doing 2mph over them though with a big queue of cars behind me!

Surely if you spend you life working and saving and buy your dream car, pay your insurance and road tax, you should be entitled to drive it on any public roads without it being damaged!!!
There's a max height that humps have to comply with too, but i dunno what it is!!

Once lost the exhaust off my mini to a speed hump at the exit of a car park Why would you put a hump under an exit barrier?????????? There wasn't one on the way in and i couldn't get out without going over it. Wankers!!!!!

Sorry, rant over - back to work!

I complained once about a very badly installed speed bump which kept catching my exhaust quite badly. My tech 1 at the time was completely standard.

The council wrote back to me saying they have looked into it and its found to be satisfactory and meets all the guidance. I rang him up to ask how he investigated it....he said "I drove over it in my car twice"...which happened to be a shitty pug 205.

They make no allowance for cars which sit low as standard - thank fcuk they dont investigate murders

massive wrote:
They make no allowance for cars which sit low as standard - thank fcuk they dont investigate murders

LOL,that cheered me up

speed humps suck big time,id rather a camera than humps.They build us nice roads, then fcuk them up with a huge curb or hump right in the middle of them.Its crazy

They build us nice roads

Ha ha, haven't seen any of those around here!!

Nice to hear of others in the same position, i curse the things daily

I finally got my claim off the council after waiting since may after hitting a 3ft x 3ft x 4" deep pothole. Mate made me up a quote for 1200, only cost me 400 to fix beemer

i have trouble with my exhaust on every fcuking speed bump. i am waiting to find it in my rear view mirror, i am that paranoid that i have to check if it is still there after a drive... sometimes i check it 3-4 times just to make sure...

georob wrote:I finally got my claim off the council after waiting since may after hitting a 3ft x 3ft x 4" deep pothole. Mate made me up a quote for 1200, only cost me 400 to fix beemer

And people complain when their insurance bill goes up.
On topic, there are design criteria somewhere stating the maximum height, slope etc for traffic calming devices. Try and find this document then check that the offending speed bump to make sure it's legal. If it isn't you have a case.

d6dph wrote:My mates mrs managed to drive over a brick (!) outside a council building site, got a full payout and had the SET of wheels replaced as they were NLA! this was in an mr2

Another mate had about Ԛ£1200's worth of damage on his series 2 after hitting a pothole, also paid out for.

Get pics and persue it, make sure they know your serious and know your rights. Not sure how you stand with things like speedbumps tho.

But they are all legitimate claims due to faults with the road or others not taking care of their work hence the brick.

I cant see the council paying out for anything to do with speed bumps unless you can prove the speedbump is too steep, too high, too long blah blah.....Im sure since they started popping up everywhere they have had to revisit some of the early ones as they were just any old shape and size.

I do about a four mile journey to work and hit 70 of the useless things every day, thats just one way.
Lowering the car is just not an option, i remember hearing that the height of them can not exceed 10cm but you best find that in writing before you get the ruler out.

Tarmac-Terrorist wrote:let me know how you get on because the miss's done mine on a speed bump today, she also did the exhaust in

thats why you should never let her drive your car!!!

On topic, there are design criteria somewhere stating the maximum height, slope etc for traffic calming devices. Try and find this document then check that the offending speed bump to make sure it's legal. If it isn't you have a case.

Would love to find that document - i'm pretty damn confident there's a load near me that are to big!! Struggle to get over them without scraping in a standard vectra!!

thats why you should never let her drive your car!!!

Definately agree with that!!!!!!!

thanks for the comments i spoke to someone today from the roads department ,they told me to fill in a claim form,i asked what happens now they send the form to there insurers and they deal with it,i was told it could take months or even years to sort out and i may not even win, i have taken pictures of it ,they havent even fixed the road yet.tony

You can claim if you damage an alloy on a damaged road surface but not for speed bumps..... i've done it a few times (crԚ£p roads down here)

the maximum height for a speed bump is 100mm.if its higher than that claim if not dont waste your time.if theyve been newly layed they could be to high but tend to be sorted quick once the claims start coming in.i put in a compaint when new ones near me were fitted as they were 125mm high and scraped my gearbox even at 1 mph.they were sorted quick.

I have no problems with speed bumps or sumps dragging but then again i haven't 'removed' my suspension like some here ! . I am currently working on a minty 40000 mile motorsport cab , some **** has lowered it what seems like 80mm all round ,i can't even get a jack under it, needless to say it drives like shit ,bounces all over the road and has 1/2 " shaved off the front spoiler !

its not the height of the the speed bump ,the problem is that the concrete that is fitted so that the tar dosent get damaged was loose and sticks up 20mm higher than the bump it is on a bus route .

pacerpete wrote:I have no problems with speed bumps or sumps dragging but then again i haven't 'removed' my suspension like some here ! . I am currently working on a minty 40000 mile motorsport cab , some **** has lowered it what seems like 80mm all round ,i can't even get a jack under it, needless to say it drives like shit ,bounces all over the road and has 1/2 " shaved off the front spoiler !

Its got a spoiler on the front

Obviously not low enough

One of the bus routes round here has been dropped due to speed humps, caused uproar there were grannies queing for miles outside the council buildings

if your car is lower than factory spec i dont think you would have a case.

its always worth a try though.

let them pay for fitting them speed bumps. i say

we have 100s of them in liverpool my car bilstiens and it a nightmare on the speed bumps.

I smashed my sump on a grid in blackpool, too right am i going to get my cash!

We had these problem around here, so some sad geek pointed out that nearly every installation of speed humps was different. some were to high, to low, to wide, not painted, so on so on....

It proved that the council was not checking the humps were up to spec....

I used to have an Escort, Kitted up Cossie bumpers etc. Very 'CHAV' I know. I hit a raised manhole on some Roadworks and totally wrecked the front bumper. Council did'nt give a Monkey's toss. You're probably waisting your time trying to make a claim.

heres one for you.....

A friend of mine, kitted up Escort cossie, lowered, not to much.....went to the states for 2 months, car in garage, his miss's did not drive it..while he was away, council installed speed humps around his estate, he could not get his car over the humps without scraping on the front and rear skirts/aprons......had a 12 month battle to get council to do somthing...turned out humps were too high and too narrow..

some of the humps around here are just blocks of tarmac, slopes are nere 75Ԛ°