View Full Version : Wasn't our gas tax suppored to go to our roads?
carguy502
03-10-2009, 11:17 AM
Beacuse it is not. Driving in Los Angeles, I got caught in the slow lane on Santa Monica Blvd. It is bumpy and I am doing my best to navigate the potholes. Then comes a huge peak in the lane and I cannot avoit it. A large scraping noise emmits from my car and my cabin starts to fill with the stench of a lot of oil burning. Needless to say, that road nubbin nearly tore off my drain plug. I nursed my car a couple of blocks to my house and discovered the carnage. Seriously, why is a paved road that is a main fairway in a metropolitian city allowed to succum to such a state of disrepair? :machine:I feel like cracking some crowns. Pics will follow, of the car, that is.
ponchopwr70
03-10-2009, 11:45 AM
Yea I hear you, try living in New England, our roads are crap. You have to learn to dodge pot holes like its an autocross. I'm surprised I haven't had anything bad like that happen to my cars yet.
novanutcase
03-10-2009, 12:40 PM
On the contrary, having to dodge potholes just gives us an excuse to make our cars handle better!:smoke:
Seriously though, I hear ya! L.A. roads are HORRIBLE!
Where'd the taxes to repair them go? One word.......GOVERNATOR!
John
406 Q-ship
03-10-2009, 02:29 PM
Beacuse it is not. Driving in Los Angeles, I got caught in the slow lane on Santa Monica Blvd. It is bumpy and I am doing my best to navigate the potholes. Then comes a huge peak in the lane and I cannot avoit it. A large scraping noise emmits from my car and my cabin starts to fill with the stench of a lot of oil burning. Needless to say, that road nubbin nearly tore off my drain plug. I nursed my car a couple of blocks to my house and discovered the carnage. Seriously, why is a paved road that is a main fairway in a metropolitian city allowed to succum to such a state of disrepair? :machine:I feel like cracking some crowns. Pics will follow, of the car, that is.
Because the idiots in Sacramento have been raiding the highway fund for decades, now it is dry, so they want more so they can steal it again.
If I quit voting will these morons go away?
class67
03-10-2009, 03:37 PM
Hell...even when they make so called repairs, it makes the problem worse.
Damn True
03-10-2009, 04:36 PM
....and this is why it is absolute folly for people in CA to vote for any Measure "__" funds for any form of infrastructure project. They chuck the money in the general fund and it winds up going to [insert inane special interest BS here].
Ralph LoGrasso
03-10-2009, 06:25 PM
I'm not sure if it would work in your case, as the town/city would probably try to argue that your car is too low, but...
If any of you ever damage your wheels on a pot hole, you should pull over and call the police. File a police report at the scene for the damage done to your car.
I know someone who destroyed one of their wheels on a huge pot hole, did just as I described above, and then sued the town in court.
The town wound up buying him 4 new wheels, as the wheels he was using were discontinued and he could not replace just one of them.
carguy502
03-10-2009, 06:38 PM
My car does ride lower than a stock 1969 Nova, but adheres to all the state and local laws concerning ride heght: 22" from ground to center of headlamp, 5.5" ground clearance. This was literally a nasty protrusion due to lousy maintaince. Unfortunatly, I did not call the cops, so I doubt I have much in the way of recourse at this point.
On a lighter note, it looks like a drill and tap will fix my issue temporaily. Then its off for a new pan and a skid plate. :idea:
68sixspeed
03-10-2009, 07:30 PM
Yea I hear you, try living in New England, our roads are crap. You have to learn to dodge pot holes like its an autocross. I'm surprised I haven't had anything bad like that happen to my cars yet.
Frank- I had a first even or CT's bad roads... driving a side road near my shop the road just gave out under my left front tire into a 2ft round crater! I'm glad it was in my tahoe not one of my toys!
ponchopwr70
03-11-2009, 04:43 AM
Yea we got pot holes 2feet in diameter and 6-8 inches deep. Good to know about calling the police.
I'm not sure if it would work in your case, as the town/city would probably try to argue that your car is too low, but...
If any of you ever damage your wheels on a pot hole, you should pull over and call the police. File a police report at the scene for the damage done to your car.
I know someone who destroyed one of their wheels on a huge pot hole, did just as I described above, and then sued the town in court.
The town wound up buying him 4 new wheels, as the wheels he was using were discontinued and he could not replace just one of them.
I second that approach.
A similar situation happened to a friend hear and he got the city to pay for his dented 18" rim due to a pothole on a freeway.
406 Q-ship
03-14-2009, 01:24 AM
I'm not sure if it would work in your case, as the town/city would probably try to argue that your car is too low, but...
If any of you ever damage your wheels on a pot hole, you should pull over and call the police. File a police report at the scene for the damage done to your car.
I know someone who destroyed one of their wheels on a huge pot hole, did just as I described above, and then sued the town in court.
The town wound up buying him 4 new wheels, as the wheels he was using were discontinued and he could not replace just one of them.
You can try this........good luck you'll get the run around. I bent a 16" TT2 on my Bone Stock 1970 Buick Skylark. Now I knew that city,county, or state will carry insurance coverage for damages inflicked by the roads on vehicle. I learned this in Michigan when we lost a camper shell off a pick up truck due to a pothole (yes it was the pothole from hell), the county had insurance that paid to replace the shell. Well when I got my bent rim in Los Angeles City (thats who puts the patches on this piece of street) I sent in for a claim and got the form, filled it out and returned it promptly with an estimate. Did not hear back for 8 months and had given up hope, to get a form letter telling me that it was LA County problem and that I needed to put in the claim 6 months from the date of the incident. Beaurocratic BS and then waited to tell me long after I could submit. That is the government way.
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