How to go about this v. damage from road construction

[LUKE_L]

Call 1-800-POT-HOLE and complain. That is your best bet. I got reimbursed for a bent wheel.

https://www.nysdot.gov/programs/pothole-rpt

Pics are a great piece of evidence. Get a ruler on that and your bumper too.

Good luck!

[JayS]

@Fry

I hope that tax payers don’t end up footing the bill for you to be able to drive a car that can’t drive over a 2-3" edge without damage. Pay to play. If you want to drive a car like that on public roads don’t expect others to pay the risk. Too much of this kind of entitlement and we’ll wind up with state mandated minimum ride heights. I’m surprised we don’t have that already.

This. 10mph is still way too fast to hit something like that and the, “as slow as I could go without being rear ended” line just proves you knew you were going too fast. Next time slow down to a crawl and in the rare chance you do get rear ended then someone else will be paying for it.

[Mike93]

Is this car a Roush that has 100% ‘stock Roush’ parts? I realize the car is low, but if you can say that you have a stock car then I could see you having a chance to fight. I’d leave the speed comments to yourself and simply state that the drop caused damage.

There are several production cars out there with low to the ground front ends…I’d be curious to know if there is some kind of a law or code that needs to be followed in regards to how much a road surface can drop to appease the many other models out there that could be affected.

*just being hypotihetical here…

[02NismoSpecV]

the car is maybe an inch lower than stock but the body kit all that is how the car comes from Roush. im going to make some calls to the NYSDOT and whoever else today and try and get somewhere with this.

and JayS

like i said if you read the whole post, the other 2 changes from paved to ripped up road were nothing compared to this one. and traffic was going roughly 30-40 over the rest of the bumps, myself included, but there was no real bump for the other ones. and then once i got on the bridge and saw the cars bouncing as they went off i slowed down to 10 which is all i could do without causing a bigger accident, as getting rear ended wouldn’t have been much better. and then it hit. so yeah if there was no traffic at 2am and i was coming up to it i would have stopped completely and then proceeded but i couldn’t at the time due to the amount of traffic

[MPD47]

@Fry

I hope that tax payers don’t end up footing the bill for you to be able to drive a car that can’t drive over a 2-3" edge without damage. Pay to play. If you want to drive a car like that on public roads don’t expect others to pay the risk. Too much of this kind of entitlement and we’ll wind up with state mandated minimum ride heights. I’m surprised we don’t have that already.

We already do, it’s just not enforced.

[duck]

yikes! And i thought my broken shock and eleventy alignments (about to need another) from this construction season were bad…