Brand new alloys damaged after 3 weeks!!!

by Lex_P

09 Mar 2011

Hi,
Me and my friend had decided to go to the cinema, and was pretty late on at night. I ahd to pick him up from Penistone which is pretty bad for potholes as it is with roads that look asthough they hvent been re-surfaced in a decade!
As we were in penistone i didnt want to make my way back to the motorway so we took a short cut ONE country lane (Silkstone Lane, Silkstone). the weather conditions were pretty dry but at this time it had dropped dark and the country lane has no lighting, i proceeded to take the lane as it comes, with afew hair pin bends meaning i had to drive at lower speeds than country lanes accept. Then all of a sudden in the driving tracks of a left hand corner an almighty bang hit the car and shhok the wheel, i slowed to a crawl to and looked to see if i had hit something in the road but no sign! Carrying on driving as the wheel didnt seemed buckled and couldnt see what the damage was at the time i thought nothing of it, until we had pulled into the cinema carpark. Low and behold, between the spokes of my 3week old brand new alloy wheels was a great big massive buckle which i was very very suprised haddnt flattened the tyre. guttering doesnt even begin to comprehend ho appauled at some of our uk roads today, even after i pay my dews to the council of £220 for road tax just to drive my car that a horse and cart would have issues with!!!!
Thanks to potholes.co.uk for the information provided, helped me alot in my complaint although not herd anything back as yet!!