[s-cars] Re: [Audi-nw] Scraping when hitting a "depression"

[Harold McComas]

Wow Dan, I am impressed. A couple of years ago I hit a cut section of 
blacktop with a 3" drop. The city of Nashua, NH was doing a repair and 
simply stopped for the day. No signs up, no cones, no warning. I  was in my 
'85 GTI and ripped off my front  fender flares. I did not see it until the 
last minute ( SUV in front of me) and  slammed on the brakes . Of course I 
called up the city to complain and find out about a possible claim. Their 
reply: " the city of Nashua has 72 hours from the moment of notification to 
fix a road problem". I was the first to call it in and they finished the 
repair a day later. I tried to argue that it was not a pothole and that they 
"created" the hazard,  but I got nowhere.

Harold

> From: "Daniel Hussey" <danh at s-cars.org>
> Subject: [s-cars] Re: [Audi-nw] Scraping when hitting a "depression"
> in the Road
> To: "Nathan Belo" <nathan at license2sell.com>, "S List"
> <s-car-list at audifans.com>, "AudisNorthwest" <audi-nw at u.washington.edu>
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> You should send a claim to WSDOT.  I don't know how to do it or if it 
> works
> here, but a friend of mine in Georgia bent a rim badly after hitting a
> pot-hole.  He called up the DOT there and reported the claim.  He told 
> them
> where the damage occured and sent them the invoice for the new wheel. 
> They
> simply cut him a check to cover the amount for the wheel replacement.
>
> That depression in the road doesn't look that deep and seems like it would
> be hard to do such damage.  But, that may just be because these pictures
> aren't doing a good job of showing the severity of it.  I'd go back and 
> try
> to take some better pictures of the "scene of the crime" and this time get
> them with a time delay with the camera at ground level or something.  See 
> if
> you can capture this better on film.
>
> If this road is really this bad, WSDOT should know about it so they can
> address the issue.  But, unfortunately with a shrinking local and state
> budget, the roads don't seem to be getting much attention these days.
>
> Later,
> Dan