A Current Affair - Speed Humps!

[paulthepilot_5]

Who else watched the report on A Current Affair tonight regarding speed humps?

Apparently speed bumps cause significant damage to a vehicle and can half the life of a vehicle in a few years!

Is it just me or does this seem like the biggest load of rubbish ever?

I guess the 99.99% of driving not involving speed bumps has no effect on suspension component ware at all! :angel:

I wonder if ACA will investigate the ware and tare caused by the mechanic using the rattle gun to torque up the wheel nuts on camera during the report :o

Paul

[dullbird]

ACA is the biggest load of rubbish ever!!!!

[paulthepilot_5]

ACA is the biggest load of rubbish ever!!!!

I agree with you there!

[Chenz]

That show is about as useful as an ashtray on a motor scooter. On the odd occasion when I wander past the box and it is on it never fails to remind that some brain dead bimbo will actually believe that the so called facts they present are real when in fact they are about as believable as the three headed lady at the Easter Show.

The once covered something from my work and it was so far from the truth that it wasn't funny. It was edited and the information provided to them in good faith was so mangled and twisted around as to make us out as being something akin to a Nazi concentration camp.

If they did that to us then it is a pretty fair assumption that all the stuff they do is a crock of rear end fertiliser.

[Crackerjack]

So do you agree with speed bumps then?

[d@rk51d3]

Had a similar experience Chenz.

As a result, I don't watch any current affairs programmes.

[Sprint]

i dont agree with speed bumps, but 2 things stood out to me

1: what kind of "expert" mechanic does wheel nuts up with a rattle gun going nut by nut instead of staggering them like everyone has been taught to?

2: wow.... a VE commodore has dodgy strut top bushes...... the bushes and bearings in commodores are a well known wear point, we go through 2-3 sets on average a week at work.......

[Crackerjack]

I have been told exactly the same thing in the UK by a major ford dealer about speed bumps causing excessive vehicle wear.
Speed bumps are just a political tool to satisfy the loud mouth minority of do-gooders.

[Blknight.aus]

of course the a speed bump can half the life of your car.

it can total your car.

of course you have to be driving something thats been lowered with licorice strips for tyres with stiff suspension so you can go faster round corners and have doof doof speakers.

IF however you drive something thats complient with ADR's and drive it sensibley then you're ok

Since I dont think anyone on this forum fits into that first catagory perhaps we should petition ACA to do an expose on how since most cars have their componentry life halved by driving over speed bumps in a vehicle designed to operate in more arduous conditions say like a four wheel drive and since they require fewer repair jobs to critical components, have a longer operable life that they are therefore greener than the smaller cars that have been touted as being better and why dont we get tax and registration benefits for owning them.

[paulthepilot_5]

1: what kind of "expert" mechanic does wheel nuts up with a rattle gun going nut by nut instead of staggering them like everyone has been taught to?


I didn't pick up on that one, only noticed the rattle gun. Bloody turkeys,

You would think that if you were going to show you're business on TV, you would at least display some less dodgy workshop procedures.

Paul

[klappers]

Who else watched the report on A Current Affair tonight regarding speed humps?

Apparently speed bumps cause significant damage to a vehicle and can half the life of a vehicle in a few years!

Is it just me or does this seem like the biggest load of rubbish ever?

I guess the 99.99% of driving not involving speed bumps has no effect on suspension component ware at all! :angel:

I wonder if ACA will investigate the ware and tare caused by the mechanic using the rattle gun to torque up the wheel nuts on camera during the report :o

Paul


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[3toes]

A few years ago in London they did a study into the impact of speed humps. Their study came to the conclusion that delays to emergency vehicles caused by them cost about 200 lives a year.

They also came up with some figures on the cost added to each bus ticket to cover the repairs needed due to damage caused by these humps.

Further info on the additional noise, air polution and co2 caused by cars slowing and speeding up showed significant increases near the speed humps.

Result of all this was ............... nothing. The one council which acted on the report and removed the speed humps had its road maintenance funding held back until they agreed to put them back.

Think the difference is that here they line main roads with them to slow traffic down. Makes an 4x4 a must have rather than an urban accessory.

[Lotz-A-Landies]

Never ever watch A Current Affair, but do believe that speed humps damage vehicles suspension system and they don't have to be lowered rice burner doof-doof machines.

A poorly engineered speed hump is exactly like a pothole in the road, they ramp up too steeply so risk damaging wishbones or McPherson struts on cars and even radius arm bushes on your LR.

Regarding the wheel nuts, they should never be torqued up with a rattle gun that is one thing that should always be done by hand preferably with an actual torque wrench.

[BigJon]

A poorly engineered speed hump is exactly like a pothole in the road,


There are actually design regulations and guidelines for speed hump design.
Whether the councils who install them follow the regulations is another topic...

[carjunkieanon]

Where I grew up for the first 17 years whenever we left the house it was 11 speed humps to the main road & 11 speed humps to get back home. 22 speed humps each time we went out.

Rangie had no problems, the Ford Fairlane had to have the wheel alignment corrected (it felt like every day), really really frequently. I hate the rotten things. They got in the way of pushbikes & skateboards too.

r

[VladTepes]

But ashtays on motor scooters (unlike ACA) are useful.

You can keep your money for the tolls there.

Oh wait... no toll booths any more.


I didn't pick up on that one, only noticed the rattle gun. Bloody turkeys,

You would think that if you were going to show you're business on TV, you would at least display some less dodgy workshop procedures.

Paul

Yeah that's assuming they realise they themselves are dodgy. they might think they are professioanls !

[austastar]

Stand on the pegs and cross'em at 80km/h on the BM!

Who said that???

cheers

[Rob Bruce]

Speed Bumps, the bush is full of them, out there they have diferent names,
Corregations, Washouts, Potholes,Rocks, to just name a fiew.
In town I dont give a rats about them but love watching lowered doof doof cars crunching over them :twisted:

Cheers
Rob

[CraigE]

I think it depends on the speed bump design and application. There are some very good ones around that slow you down but are not a high impact at the required speed limit. Then there are others that will damage your car at 10kmph. There should be some review of standards for speed bumps and their design to make thm appropriate. The minimum standard is a cost saving initiative, not the best usefull design.

[Graeme]

I don't know about vehicle damage, but speed humps are murder for my wife's injured spine. I would love to sue councils for the pain they cause her to force them to be removed.

[waz]

Maybe they need more 4wds in the city??:twisted:

[strangy]

That show is about as useful as an ashtray on a motor scooter. On the odd occasion when I wander past the box and it is on it never fails to remind that some brain dead bimbo will actually believe that the so called facts they present are real when in fact they are about as believable as the three headed lady at the Easter Show.

The once covered something from my work and it was so far from the truth that it wasn't funny. It was edited and the information provided to them in good faith was so mangled and twisted around as to make us out as being something akin to a Nazi concentration camp.

If they did that to us then it is a pretty fair assumption that all the stuff they do is a crock of rear end fertiliser.


What!!!????

I m sure the 3 headed lady is real!!

[rfurzer]

When I was young and stupid and had an ancient Hange-Over with no straight panels and no interior I used to love streets with SB's. At 60kph (or thereabouts) the nice soft suspension just soaked them up like a magic carpet.:wasntme:

Wouldnt try it now of course (partially because have grown a brain, partially because have a series 111);)

[richard4u2]

I don't know about vehicle damage, but speed humps are murder for my wife's injured spine. I would love to sue councils for the pain they cause her to force them to be removed.
if i were you i would give it a try and see what happens , make it a large figure as the pain she endures when she has to go to doctors visits etc is unbearable ;)

[zulu Delta 534]

A couple of years ago I had the misfortune to break a leg and was duly picked up and transferred to hospital by ambulance.
Had quite a pleasant ride in actual fact, inflatable splint alleviating the pain of the leg, puffing on some other supposed pain relief contraption and chatting to the paramedics, whilst enjoying the benefits of nice supple Mercedes Sprinter suspension system.
Strategically placed in the entrance to Greenslopes hospital emergency ward, the road that all the ambo's use, is a bloody great speed bump and not a very vehicle suspension friendly one at that.
This particular one still sticks in my mind today as a memorial to the many great incompetent masses of 'engineering degreed' flesh sitting in offices in front of drawing boards somewhere far removed from reality, deciding on a whim, how to be seen by the gullible masses to "calm" traffic.
I am sorry to admit it but the designer of this system must be male, and an abnormal one at that, as one could not get that stupid, playing with only one!!!
By the way, an unofficial military interpretation of the words "speed bump" often refers to those individuals who volunteer as "human shields" in a misguided effort to thwart a military advance! (Often heard during the early days of the Iraq conflict)
Thank God I am not one of those Grumpy old men, nor, heaven forbid, a cynic!
Regards
Glen