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!

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

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