[V8] Road Debris

[S_Matus]

Jeremy -
 
Ouch,  I had a similar instance with my 1990 Corrado.  The city was repaving the road and all of the sewer cap rings were raised.  They were only up about 3-4 inches.  All of them had barrels on then except the one I hit.  Corrado had 50 series tires at that time.  They just bought me a new set of tires and a new wheel.  I had the wheel straightened and saved $400 on the wheel.
 
I received a payment from the construction company not the city.  It will take you months and many $s to get anything from your local municipality.
 
Scott.
 
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Message: 10
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 07:33:39 -0700
From: Jeremy Ward <jward.v8 at gmail.com>
Subject: [V8] Has this ever happened to you? Road Debris
To: v8newlist <v8 at audifans.com>
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So I was driving to work this week, and there was a mini-manhole cover
sitting up in the road.  (You know, the small 6" ones that cover your
water shut-off valve for your house out in the middle of the street.) 
It was sitting vertically in its flange instead of flush,
horizontally.

One road that I take to work is under construction and they have big
orange barrels and cones setup to tell you where to drive on the fresh
asphalt.  I see this round metal plate (like a giant-sized ashtray)
sticking up out of the road vertically; it must have been 3" or 4"
high.  Couldn't really swerve around it, so I decided to straddle it. 
Now if you will remember my car has H&R sport springs and sits a
little low...  BANG!  Holly crap!  No idiot lights came on, oil
pressure was fine, the only thing I noticed was a stain in my seat.

Got to work and there is hole in the exhaust X and the pan for the
transmission fluid is majorly dented and scratched (fortunately no
holes in that one!)

Soooooo, anyone have advice on the following:
1) dealing with the county to get them to pay for my repair bills
2) price of a good used exhaust X
3) price of a good used steel pan for the transmission
4) advice on how to replace items 2 and 3

Thanks in advance,

- Jeremy


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