Motoring Discussion > A hole answer for £60 but £140K for the wheels. Miscellaneous
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New Tue 23 Feb 10 21:32 
 A hole answer for £60 but £140K for the wheels. - henry k
Looks promising.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8529964.stm

Anyone spied one in their area. We need a fleet in Surrey
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New Tue 23 Feb 10 21:35 
 A hole answer for £60 but £140K for the wheels. - Chris White
Haven't seen the machine round my area.

How long do they expect the repairs to last using this machine?
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New Tue 23 Feb 10 21:37 
 A hole answer for £60 but £140K for the wheels. - tyro
Interesting that Scottish Councils seem to be ahead in the game.
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New Tue 23 Feb 10 21:44 
 A hole answer for £60 but £140K for the wheels. - Bellboy
>> Interesting that Scottish Councils seem to be ahead in the game.
>>
>>>>>>> best kept roads in the country are in scotland though, so they were bound to show interest
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New Tue 23 Feb 10 21:49 
 A hole answer for £60 but £140K for the wheels. - henry k
The Scottish version - ahead of the game! See it in action.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/8081764.stm
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New Tue 23 Feb 10 21:54 
 A hole answer for £60 but £140K for the wheels. - Bellboy
according to the link scottish roads are bad for potholes,well everytime im up there which isnt often i admit ive always found the roads first class,so either warranty direct are wrong or me or someones titillating the figures
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New Tue 23 Feb 10 22:14 
 A hole answer for £60 but £140K for the wheels. - tyro
everytime im up there which isnt often i admit ive always found the roads first class

It must depend on where in Scotland you are.

Here is Warranty Direct's league table of the worst areas for suspension failure insurance claims, according to the BBC

Ayrshire - 14.05% of all cars
Northumberland - 13.84%
Renfrewshire - 13.58%
Angus - 13.36%
County Durham - 13.07%
Aberdeenshire - 11.6%
North Yorkshire - 11.21%
Warwickshire - 10.56%
Lanarkshire - 10.48%
Tyne and Wear - 10.23%




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New Tue 23 Feb 10 22:15 
 A hole answer for £60 but £140K for the wheels. - FotheringtonTomas
Gosh! They're all "up North" - that is, the ones I've heard of....
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New Tue 23 Feb 10 22:20 
 A hole answer for £60 but £140K for the wheels. - Old Navy
Have you lot seen the potholes thread on page 2? :-)
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New Tue 23 Feb 10 22:31 
 A hole answer for £60 but £140K for the wheels. - Subariquet
I think this is a case of wait and see. I'm a little doubtful about how this device gets around the old problem that the best repairs are where you cut back to good asphalt and have edges to the hole perpendicular to the surface, otherwise you're simply glueing the repair in place.

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New Wed 24 Feb 10 09:47 
 A hole answer for £60 but £140K for the wheels. - jc2
Our local council is hiring a machine(will buy if it works)that melts the repair asphalt into the existing.Apparently most potholes re-appear because moisture gets between the old and the new asphalt.
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New Sat 27 Feb 10 06:55 
 A hole answer for £60 but £140K for the wheels. - swiss tony
>> .Apparently most potholes re-appear because moisture gets between the old and the new
>> asphalt.
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My theory is that in the old days hot tar was used to repair potholes, where as today they use cold stuff.
by using hot, any water in the pothole would boil off, as well as the tarmac setting harder.
today, any water stays sat under the repair, just waiting to freeze, popping out the repair like a champagne cork out of the bottle.
I know 'repairs' around here, that have lasted less than 2 days....
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New Sat 27 Feb 10 08:14 
 A hole answer for £60 but £140K for the wheels. - rtj70
Last summer they were meant to totally resurface a road near us. Just before the end of the summer holidays nothing had happened and there must have been a good 1.5 - 2 miles to cover. Then one Sunday morning they'd done a fair old chunk.

Had they lift the old surface... no. They had laid about 10mm of asphalt on top of everything including drains that needed cutting out later. I bet that doesn't last either.
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New Tue 2 Mar 10 07:50 
 A hole answer for £60 but £140K for the wheels. - MD
I read in the DT I think some years ago now about a product called a Rhino patch which apparently was almost bomb proof. Haven't heard of it since though. Anyone?

MD
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New Tue 2 Mar 10 19:17 
 A hole answer for £60 but £140K for the wheels. - Fullchat
I've seen them filling some of these potholes and what struck me is that they make no attempt to dry them out first.

Correct me if I am wrong but with the best will in the world you cannot bond to something that is wet so the repair is doomed from the off.
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