On my normal route to work they have those speed humps, the ones which are 
split into three across the whole of the road. In my car, a renault scenic, 
if you position it correctly you can just drive over them and they pass 
between the wheels.
Some dozy pillock, dropping theyre kids off at the nursery on that road, 
parks right outside, double yellow lines, right next to a hump forcing me to 
go into the centre of the road and directly over a hump with one wheel. 
CLUNK. Sodding right side rear shock absorber is now broken.
Going ten miles an hour over these cant be construed as too fast can it?
Pete (taking a different route from now on)

PeteZahut (not@this-address.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying : 


> Some dozy pillock, dropping theyre kids off at the nursery on that
> road, parks right outside, double yellow lines, right next to a hump
> forcing me to go into the centre of the road and directly over a hump
> with one wheel. CLUNK. Sodding right side rear shock absorber is now
> broken. Going ten miles an hour over these cant be construed as too


It would seem so, yes.

PeteZahut wrote:

> On my normal route to work they have those speed humps, the ones which are
> split into three across the whole of the road. In my car, a renault scenic,
> if you position it correctly you can just drive over them and they pass
> between the wheels.
> Some dozy pillock, dropping theyre kids off at the nursery on that road,
> parks right outside, double yellow lines, right next to a hump forcing me to
> go into the centre of the road and directly over a hump with one wheel.
> CLUNK. Sodding right side rear shock absorber is now broken.
> Going ten miles an hour over these cant be construed as too fast can it?
> Pete (taking a different route from now on)


Did it break after just going over the bump once?  If that's the case
then it must have already been on its way out!

I really do sympathise with you though.  Look on the bright side, it's
better your car breaking than it is your back!  I hate them!  In my car
(a small car) I can sometimes drive between the humps, but it depends
which humps they are.  If it's a wide road, then maybe you can do that
i you scenic?

"PeteZahut"  wrote in
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> On my normal route to work they have those speed humps, the ones which
> are split into three across the whole of the road. In my car, a
> renault scenic, if you position it correctly you can just drive over
> them and they pass between the wheels.
> Some dozy pillock, dropping theyre kids off at the nursery on that
> road, parks right outside, double yellow lines, right next to a hump
> forcing me to go into the centre of the road and directly over a hump
> with one wheel. CLUNK. Sodding right side rear shock absorber is now
> broken. Going ten miles an hour over these cant be construed as too
> fast can it? Pete (taking a different route from now on) 
> 
> 
> 

Get a claim in with your local council. A lot of other people have 
successfully claimed off the council for damage caused by speed humps. 
Talking to local exhaust fitters in my area, they have almost doubled their 
business during recent years, since speed humps began to spring up 
everywhere!


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"PeteZahut"  wrote in message
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> On my normal route to work they have those speed humps, the ones which are
> split into three across the whole of the road. In my car, a renault
scenic,
> if you position it correctly you can just drive over them and they pass
> between the wheels.
> Some dozy pillock, dropping theyre kids off at the nursery on that road,
> parks right outside, double yellow lines, right next to a hump forcing me
to
> go into the centre of the road and directly over a hump with one wheel.
> CLUNK. Sodding right side rear shock absorber is now broken.


I'd suggest the shock absorber was ready to break anyway.
I can't believe a jolt like that could break a shock absorber in condition.
Mike.

> PeteZahut wrote:
>> In my car, a renault scenic, if you position it correctly you can just
>> drive over them and they pass between the wheels. 
>> Some dozy pillock, dropping theyre kids off at the nursery on that road,
>> parks right outside, double yellow lines, right next to a hump forcing me
>> to go into the centre of the road and directly over a hump with one
>> wheel.

>  In my car (a small car) I can sometimes drive between the humps, but it

depends which humps they are.  If it's a wide road, then maybe you can do
that i you scenic?

Peter, do you ever *read* the posts you respond to?

;-)

Chris

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PeteZahut wrote:

> On my normal route to work they have those speed humps, the ones
> which are split into three across the whole of the road. In my car, a
> renault scenic, if you position it correctly you can just drive over
> them and they pass between the wheels.
> Some dozy pillock, dropping theyre kids off at the nursery on that
> road, parks right outside, double yellow lines, right next to a hump
> forcing me to go into the centre of the road and directly over a hump
> with one wheel. CLUNK. Sodding right side rear shock absorber is now
> broken. Going ten miles an hour over these cant be construed as too fast 
> can
> it? Pete (taking a different route from now on)


French car build quality?
##


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"PeteZahut"  wrote in message 
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> On my normal route to work they have those speed humps, the ones which are 
> split into three across the whole of the road. In my car, a renault 
> scenic, if you position it correctly you can just drive over them and they 
> pass between the wheels.
> Some dozy pillock, dropping theyre kids off at the nursery on that road, 
> parks right outside, double yellow lines, right next to a hump forcing me 
> to go into the centre of the road and directly over a hump with one wheel. 
> CLUNK. Sodding right side rear shock absorber is now broken.
> Going ten miles an hour over these cant be construed as too fast can it?
> Pete (taking a different route from now on)


Fairly common I've seen a lot of renaults with broken shockers, mainly 
meganes and scenics.

On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 16:09:13 GMT, "PeteZahut" 
wrote:


>On my normal route to work they have those speed humps, the ones which are 
>split into three across the whole of the road. In my car, a renault scenic, 
>if you position it correctly you can just drive over them and they pass 
>between the wheels.
>Some dozy pillock, dropping theyre kids off at the nursery on that road, 
>parks right outside, double yellow lines, right next to a hump forcing me to 
>go into the centre of the road and directly over a hump with one wheel. 
>CLUNK. Sodding right side rear shock absorber is now broken.
>Going ten miles an hour over these cant be construed as too fast can it?
>Pete (taking a different route from now on) 
>


I suggest posting this to uk.mothers.nursery

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> Some dozy pillock, dropping theyre kids off at the nursery on that road, 
> parks right outside, double yellow lines, right next to a hump forcing me to 
> go into the centre of the road 


Must be a twat thing because in the road which leads into mine humps have
just been built and now at least two locals keep parking directly on the
humps, these humps are the type which span the entire road width.

Dave

"PeteZahut"  wrote in message 
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> On my normal route to work they have those speed humps, the ones which are 
> split into three across the whole of the road. In my car, a renault 
> scenic, if you position it correctly you can just drive over them and they 
> pass between the wheels.


I used to go over them that way in my Focus, until one day I knocked my 
exhaust off its mountings. Simple matter of putting it back on again, but 
bear in mind that if you go over the humps that way then you're effectively 
lowering the distance between the road and the underside of the car. A point 
I neglected to notice until my exhaust was rattling one day! I now make a 
point of going over two at once, or else just making sure one side of the 
car goes over them.

Pain in the butt, and adds a good ten mins to my journey now, but I have to 
say they were badly needed in the locations they're at.

Oh and I also had a pinhole puncture on the inside sidewall of a front tyre 
last year, which neccessitated a new tyre about a month after I'd got two 
new ones fitted... I put that down to the humps too, as there's nowhere else 
that the inside wall of the tyre would have been in contact with anything.



Gary.

In article <JsLJe.84703$G8.30219@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk>, PeteZahut 
says...

> On my normal route to work they have those speed humps, the ones which are 
> split into three across the whole of the road. In my car, a renault scenic, 
> if you position it correctly you can just drive over them and they pass 
> between the wheels.
> Some dozy pillock, dropping theyre kids off at the nursery on that road, 
> parks right outside, double yellow lines, right next to a hump forcing me to 
> go into the centre of the road and directly over a hump with one wheel. 
> CLUNK. Sodding right side rear shock absorber is now broken.
> Going ten miles an hour over these cant be construed as too fast can it?
> Pete (taking a different route from now on) 
> 

Sorry but either something was already wrong with the shocker or you're 
being economical with the truth. 

I rattle over them in a Capri with 20 year old shocks without any 
issues.


-- 
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K5, just along the corridor. Stupid git. (Monty Python)

"Conor"  wrote in message 
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> In article <JsLJe.84703$G8.30219@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk>, PeteZahut
> says...
>> On my normal route to work they have those speed humps, the ones which 
>> are
>> split into three across the whole of the road. In my car, a renault 
>> scenic,
>> if you position it correctly you can just drive over them and they pass
>> between the wheels.
>> Some dozy pillock, dropping theyre kids off at the nursery on that road,
>> parks right outside, double yellow lines, right next to a hump forcing me 
>> to
>> go into the centre of the road and directly over a hump with one wheel.
>> CLUNK. Sodding right side rear shock absorber is now broken.
>> Going ten miles an hour over these cant be construed as too fast can it?
>> Pete (taking a different route from now on)
>>
> Sorry but either something was already wrong with the shocker or you're
> being economical with the truth.
>
> I rattle over them in a Capri with 20 year old shocks without any
> issues.


Renault shockers = shit,   the most snapped shocker at the mo

"Gary McClean"  wrote in
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> Pain in the butt, and adds a good ten mins to my journey now, but I
> have to say they were badly needed in the locations they're at.
> 

These are the places where speed cameras should be employed, IMHO (perhaps 
with a 20 limit if a particularly tight & narrow street), not on clear open 
roads where the risk of injury/death due to increased speed is much less.

Of course, as our beloved law enforcement agencies will keep telling us, 
speed cameras are purely a safety measure, absolutely *nothing* to do with 
generating *shitloads* of revenue for them.

BTW, I'm not bitter, I've never been caught by a speed camera or picked up 
any points whatsoever. I'm just rather cynical with regard to the motives 
of traffic police in general.

{Dons flame retardant suit}


Cue PC Paul.....


-- 
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"Tim S Kemp"  wrote in message
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> French car build quality?
> ##


An oxymoron shurely?

> CLUNK. Sodding right side rear shock absorber is now broken.


What about checking whether the humps conform to the legal standards ?

http://www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/groups/dft_roads/documents/page/dft_roads
_504796.hcsp

(watch the wrap)

"Colin Wilson"  wrote in message
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> > CLUNK. Sodding right side rear shock absorber is now broken.
>
> What about checking whether the humps conform to the legal standards ?
>
> http://www.dft.gov.uk/stellent/groups/dft_roads/documents/page/dft_roads
> _504796.hcsp
>
> (watch the wrap)


errr yea

Road Hump Dimensions
The only dimensions now constrained by the regulations are: maximum and
minimum heights of 100mm and 25mm respectively; a minimum length of 900mm;
and no vertical face to exceed 6mm in height.
It should be noted that the tolerances included in the 1990 Road Hump
Regulations do not apply to the new regulations. So exceeding the 100mm
height, without authorisation. So exceeding the 100mm height, without
authorisation, would be likely to mean that Section 90E of Highways Act 1980
did not apply, with the result that the road hump could be viewed as an
obstruction. (Humps constructed prior to the 1996 regulations will not be
affected by this). Additionally it is not considered good practice to
deliberately choose heights which are either higher or lower than those
prescribed, on the grounds that the regulations would not then apply. This
again would mean that Section 90E of the Highways Act would not apply with
consequences for the highway authority in providing the device was not an
obstruction.

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> "Tim S Kemp"  wrote in message
> news:5q6dnZ2dnZ2SbYHrnZ2dnWsCat-dnZ2dRVn-y52dnZ0@karoo.co.uk...
>> French car build quality?
>> ##
>
> An oxymoron shurely?
>
>

renault build kwality
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=kwality

"Conor"  wrote in message 
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> In article <JsLJe.84703$G8.30219@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk>, PeteZahut
> says...
>> On my normal route to work they have those speed humps, the ones which 
>> are
>> split into three across the whole of the road. In my car, a renault 
>> scenic,
>> if you position it correctly you can just drive over them and they pass
>> between the wheels.
>> Some dozy pillock, dropping theyre kids off at the nursery on that road,
>> parks right outside, double yellow lines, right next to a hump forcing me 
>> to
>> go into the centre of the road and directly over a hump with one wheel.
>> CLUNK. Sodding right side rear shock absorber is now broken.
>> Going ten miles an hour over these cant be construed as too fast can it?
>> Pete (taking a different route from now on)
>>
> Sorry but either something was already wrong with the shocker or you're
> being economical with the truth.
>
> I rattle over them in a Capri with 20 year old shocks without any
> issues.
>


Economical with the truth? Thats what happened, like it or lump it. Maybe it 
was coincidence, maybe the shocker was on its way out, we'll never know. I 
didnt say they were in perfect condition and I dont get under the car to 
have a look every day. I was just venting that *if* that car hadnt been 
parked illegaly then I *mightn't* have had to drive over the bump and my 
shocker *might* still be working today.

"PeteZahut"  wrote in
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> 
> "Conor"  wrote in message 
> news:MPG.1d61bdce9ea17ed198a61a@news.individual.net...
>> In article <JsLJe.84703$G8.30219@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk>,
>> PeteZahut says...
>>> On my normal route to work they have those speed humps, the ones
>>> which are
>>> split into three across the whole of the road. In my car, a renault 
>>> scenic,
>>> if you position it correctly you can just drive over them and they
>>> pass between the wheels.
>>> Some dozy pillock, dropping theyre kids off at the nursery on that
>>> road, parks right outside, double yellow lines, right next to a hump
>>> forcing me to
>>> go into the centre of the road and directly over a hump with one
>>> wheel. CLUNK. Sodding right side rear shock absorber is now broken.
>>> Going ten miles an hour over these cant be construed as too fast can
>>> it? Pete (taking a different route from now on)
>>>
>> Sorry but either something was already wrong with the shocker or
>> you're being economical with the truth.
>>
>> I rattle over them in a Capri with 20 year old shocks without any
>> issues.
>>
> 
> Economical with the truth? Thats what happened, like it or lump it.
> Maybe it was coincidence, maybe the shocker was on its way out, we'll
> never know. I didnt say they were in perfect condition and I dont get
> under the car to have a look every day. I was just venting that *if*
> that car hadnt been parked illegaly then I *mightn't* have had to
> drive over the bump and my shocker *might* still be working today. 
> 
> 
> 

It's most likely that the spring was already broken and that hitting the 
speed bump unseated it. Coil spring breakages *do* happen occasionally 
and you don't always find out about it until MOT time or when something 
drastic happens like what you describe. If this was the case, you're 
lucky to have done it on the speed bump whilst travelling slowly, rather 
than hitting a pothole at high speed and sending the car out of control.



-- 
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Stu (nobody@home.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying 
:


> It's most likely that the spring was already broken and that hitting the 
> speed bump unseated it. Coil spring breakages *do* happen occasionally 


Lovely, an' all - but he was talking about a damper, not a coil spring.

Yes, it is the spring that absorbs shocks, and therefore ought to be called 
the "shock absorber", rather than the damper - but we all know what he was 
referring to.

Besides, doesn't the Scenic have a torsion-beam rear, not coils?

Adrian  wrote in
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> Stu (nobody@home.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
> saying 
>:
> 
>> It's most likely that the spring was already broken and that hitting
>> the speed bump unseated it. Coil spring breakages *do* happen
>> occasionally 
> 
> Lovely, an' all - but he was talking about a damper, not a coil
> spring. 
> 

Thought it was a shock absorber. Is this not a combination of the two?


> Yes, it is the spring that absorbs shocks, and therefore ought to be
> called the "shock absorber", rather than the damper - but we all know
> what he was referring to.
> 

Except for me, who obviously has an inferior intellect :-(


> Besides, doesn't the Scenic have a torsion-beam rear, not coils?


Very good. Excuse my ignorance.

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Stu (nobody@home.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying 
:


>> Lovely, an' all - but he was talking about a damper, not a coil
>> spring. 

> Thought it was a shock absorber. Is this not a combination of the two?


Not really.

The front on most modern cars with MacPherson Struts will use a coil-over 
strut - the damper is an insert inside the suspension leg, with a coil 
spring wrapped round the outside.

The spring is what "absorbs the shock" by providing the suspension travel 
and managing the rate at which the suspension deflects.

Most people, though, including the OP, refer to the telescopic damper as 
the "shock absorber" - what it does is to damp the suspension movement, to 
prevent the car bouncing merrily down the road.

The nearest you get to a combined unit is the sphere on Citroen hydraulics 
- the gas pressure inside acts as the "springing", while there's a 
calibrated hole for the fluid to pass through which acts as the damper.

Adrian  wrote in
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> Stu (nobody@home.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
> saying 
>:
> 
>>> Lovely, an' all - but he was talking about a damper, not a coil
>>> spring. 
> 
>> Thought it was a shock absorber. Is this not a combination of the
>> two? 
> 
> Not really.
> 
> The front on most modern cars with MacPherson Struts will use a
> coil-over strut - the damper is an insert inside the suspension leg,
> with a coil spring wrapped round the outside.
> 
> The spring is what "absorbs the shock" by providing the suspension
> travel and managing the rate at which the suspension deflects.
> 
> Most people, though, including the OP, refer to the telescopic damper
> as the "shock absorber" - what it does is to damp the suspension
> movement, to prevent the car bouncing merrily down the road.
> 
> The nearest you get to a combined unit is the sphere on Citroen
> hydraulics - the gas pressure inside acts as the "springing", while
> there's a calibrated hole for the fluid to pass through which acts as
> the damper. 


I see. I understand the principle perfectly, it's just the description 
I'm getting wrong. I
I'm getting wrong. I've always thought of a sprung damping system as two 
major components: a spring and a damper. Only when the two are assembled 
together have I referred to the complete unit as a shock absorber. If my 
car became bouncy, I would have gone and asked for new dampers, honest 
:-)

I don't think it's anything to fuss over, anyway :-)
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