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[krippy31]

lmao ive atcherly damaged the speed hump on my rd, my sump must be sturdy as its taken the corner of one of the small humps, i think they should have loafds of small ridges giving the same effect as a cattle grid (heavy vibration if hit at speed)

[mike.]

My mini seems to handle the better if i take them pretty fast. If they're a wide bump across the road then my car happily takes them at 25mph. The sqaure ones aren't that bad either i find if you do it right a mini can go over them at the speed limit without the suspension making that horrible slamming sound lol

It does make me cringe though when my arches scrape on the tyres!!

Edited by minimadmike, 15 October 2008 - 11:19 PM.

[GottaDesigner]

I DESPISE speedbumps. Utterly despise the fraggers!

There's a pack of 5 on a half-mile stretch of road on my commute. Even at the slowest speed I can hold without having some berk in a Merc, BMW X5 etc behind me revving in anger, poor Monty still scrapes his exhaust every now and then.

We'v taken to attacking them sideways so the exhaust side's up and the other down. Not ideal, but better than whiplash or an exhaust being ripped off.

The worst one's across the drive where I work though, it's one of those sharp ones. High but not wide. It's cost me 2 numberplates to date. So I now sneak Monty over the cobblestoned 'pavement' at the one side of it to avoid the bugger.

Let me just re-iterate the fact that I HATE SPEEDBUMPS!! >

[Juju]

If you have to negotiate speedbumps:

1. Tell your passengers to get out.
2. Don't collect 50kg of coal & stash it in the boot.
3. Remove all luggage, reverse a little way up the road, then take them at speed.

I only ever have a scrape if I have passengers nowadays.

[Heather&Henrietta]

have to say I agree here. Some speed bumps are WAAAAAY too high. I hate the ones they have in Tesco's car parks, they really pointy and I always find a away around them. Which is usually driving through empty bays

but for me the worse ones are defenatly those single ones on each side of the road, I HATE THEM!! There are loads in town, and mainly at places I need to go, there's loads near the local petrol station to the sixth form I go to, so I literaly have to drive in the middle of the road where ever there is a speed bump. I've managed to dent my back box a couple of times now, nothing major but I had to fit a second hand last week because of it!

And to make things that little bit worse, we have a really long drive to our school and sixth form site, and to stop people from speeding down there, they've put in about 6 speed bumps! I mean for sake! What total ers! Then I get moaned at by the other sixth form students from going soooo slow over the speed bumps. Grrr!

I really want wide sports arches at some point when I can get her re-sprayed and everything, but that means having her lowered slightly. Well I don't stand much chance there do I!!

[murukan]

Mines Lowered and Stiffened, never had a problem with the sump, it's the exhaust that gets the abuse on mine.

Large Humps - Fine for me as long as they aren't to high, I just take it very slow.
Small humps - I go inbetween them with a wheel on each hump

The ones that really get on my tits are the ones that are between 6" and 2' wide and I have no way to go around. If they are over 4" high then I can wave goodbye to my exhaust

The Mini is still sat on my driveway waiting for me to replace the Y section because it became to loose after the exhaust was pulled off to many times by speed humps.

[minicooper1.3i]

Maybe I'm just being blatently ignorant here, but if a speed limit is set at 30mph, then aren't I legally entitled to drive at a maximum of 30mph down that road? And if the poxy money burning council install speed bumps that prevent me from doing it in my Mini, then isn't that illegal?

I know of a bloke who was actually trying to sue the council as he had to go over about 12 speed bumps on one stretch of road to get to work, and he drove a really low down sports car. Not sure which type but the tyres were so low profile that they were more like rubber bands. Anyway, going over the speed humps at least twice a day actually caused the rims to cut into the tyres and knacker them.

And just to agree with everyone else here, my Scenic would go over any speed bump faster than the limit with barely a wobble or a bounce. So just exactly what point are they?

[Mort]

I catch my exhaust on most and have recked a gearbox on one cost me a bit to get a new one fitted. My next door naighbore sued the coucil after a pot hole took one of the wheels of his jag off.

[Tomfoolery]

The speed humps which don't go right across the road work for modern cars. If I take them at 30 in a mondeo then the car barely notices but they keep everyone down to 30. They're also cleverly designed to fit between the wider spaced wheels of ambulances so that they dont touch them at all.

Unfortunately my poor little mini has to slow to a crawl and I'm still trying to find a way through that doesnt scrape something!

[tuktuk]

i went to view a flat on tuesday, and on the way was a speed hump which i didnt see, mini took off really harshly. everything seemed fine tho.

then on my way home, started to hear a knocking noise, which quickly got worse.

checked it over that night and nothing visable. took it out to test it, drivers side wheel locked up and spun me onto the wrong side of the road

wheel bearing is screwwyd

obviously that wouldnt have happened if id taken it slowly over it, but it wasnt painted or anything, just, there...



now im travveling by lovely public transport

[chilly11]

The Smaller more environmentally friendly cars (Minis or not) are the ones that get clobbered
by the humps causing damage and frustration

While the 'Gas guzzling' BMW X5's of this world sale over them like they arn't even there. Now if
we are trying to cut emissions from these massive cars, what is the justice in making it so easy
for them and so hard for us?

[roofless]

2 at the end of my road now have divvots in them - perfect Vee just about 2/3rds of the way across.

[Hannioli]

Argh! It's horrible in London, they've pretty much put speed bumps on all roads that aren't a roads, though quite a few a roads have them too That and I swear the speed bumps in London are bigger than your average speed bump elsewhere and a lot harsher, you quite often don't get a curved, smooth bump, but a suddent ridge at about a 75 degree angle...niiiice

My mini's not had any damage yet *fingers crossed* But I know of a couple of people who have had damage to their minis from speed bumps, one's sump got damaged and another one had his backbox and exhaust pulled off

The only good speed bumps about are the ones that minis fit through the middle of nicely you do tend to scare any oncoming traffic when you do that though

[phil_clubman]

theyve just put some speed bumps up outside my house. no idea why really. but then theyve built them they havent smoothed them out so when you drive up one side it feels like you re hitting a brick wall and when you drive of it its like fallingg off a cliff. we also got a monster of a bump at work ive not even tried getting my car over.

my mate in his super low VW cant even get his car over the bumps on my road he has to leave his car at the bottom of the raod and walk up the hill lol.

phil

[danny2009]

you have to watch you dont take them at speed as you will loose your rubber stoppers wich will make your suspention not right cant remeber what it duz lol