Last night at about 9'ish I was heading back to Hereford from the Abergavenny roundabout when I stopped at the road works traffic lights; they're re-doing some of the main road, anyway the lights turn green so I'm off getting up to 60mph when I hear a horrendous bang at the rear left! After thinking that I'd run over a freakin' cow the zed seemed to handle fine apart from a bit of a buzzing noise from the rear left quarter. Got home alright and took a quick walk around the back of the car, nothing obvious found. Anyway this morning I'm heading back down the same stretch of road and stop at the same set of road works traffic lights; albeit heading in the opposite direction. I took a quick look and noticed that the newly laid cats eyes are sitting several inches above the level of the road surface. Roll on a few minutes and I'm going around the Abergavenny roundabout at about 30mph when suddenly I'm Tokyo drifting in the outside lane. Thankfully the old instincts kicked in and I contrlled it; the guy in the 4x4 clearly thought thst I was show boating as he looked less than impressed! So I pull over just after the Newport exit and take a look....the tyre had instantly deflated but the rim looked to have survived. I'd binned the spacesaver so the wife threw a spare set of rims in the MPV and drove down. I cracked on changing the four rims over and she began to load the Enkei's into the boot. It was then that she pointed out the damage that the cats eyes had done the night before....

 

All I can say is thankfully it happened at low speed and not on the motorway

 

Monmouthshire council have asked for a written statement after my wife described the damage

 

 

On blackberry at the moment so not sure if the pic will insert properly

Ooh- nasty!! :scared:

Crikey mate, that could have been so nasty (as if the state of your wheel isn't bad enough), I do hope they do the right thing and compensate you accordingly.

make sure you retain that photo mate, I'm sick of councils not maintaining the roads properly, it's disgusting.

Lucky... make sure you get pics of the height of the cats eyes from all angles, even use a ruler / tape measure to give an idea of height

Nice one for keeping it on the road bud.

 

I had this happen to me in an Audi 80 @ 70ish on the motorway a few years ago.

 

Scary scary moment......

 

J

Glad no one was hurt mate the roads over here can catch you out to if you dont watch out this droped manhole was 150 meters from my house glad I missed it.

 

 

That manhole cover is terrible! Could lose a bloody bike down there!

That manhole cover is terrible! Could lose a bloody bike down there!

 

I managed to miss it but a Fiesta behind me hit it bursting a tyre and damaging a rim he pulled up outside my house and I helped him change the wheel as he had no jack.

Nice one, you good samaritan! :thumbup:

 

He should have a good claim there with the local council as you were a witness too, although will probably take months before he will get any compensation!

make sure you retain that photo mate, I'm sick of councils not maintaining the roads properly, it's disgusting.

 

Lucky... make sure you get pics of the height of the cats eyes from all angles, even use a ruler / tape measure to give an idea of height

 

As above mate - and I'm glad to hear you are OK. that could have been a lot worse!!

 

Richard:scared: