Bloody Aberdeenshire Council

[The Dogfather]

Decided to pop out for a quick blast in the newly polished mazda. Whilst out driving ended up passing through some roadworks near Colpy, they were applying a new surface dressing you know th tar and chips.

The stone chips sounded like machine gunfire and now the whole car is covered in black tar marks. The wheels actually had stone chips stuck to them and the wheel arches actually had a lump of stone chips in the recess.

Any upshot is I know have to claim against the council for the car to be cleaned and replish.

W:mad:nkers!

[Neil and Lorna]

Holy shoite that's worse than it raining just after polishing.:eek::eek:

Better get the tar removing products out.

Neil.:D:(

[The Dogfather]

Nope, its getting redone at the councils expense, £105 minimum.

[monkimagic]

Man what a pain in the arse !!

Will they cough up though, I take it there was signs saying 20 mph

[X30YES]

quote:Originally posted by monkimagic

Man what a pain in the arse !!

Will they cough up though, I take it there was signs saying 20 mph
and loose chippings etc ?....take photographs!!

[The Dogfather]

there were signs but I was actually doing 10 mph an still got the damage. They closed the road just after because "there was a problem with the surface dressing".

[Neil and Lorna]

Looks like you have a valid claim.:D

Bunch of numpties.:D

Neil.

[Hadi]

My cougar got covered in overspray in my work last year, got £80 off the firm who done it to get sorted, bought a meguiars quik clay detail kit and a tin of nxt generation tech wax paste, came up a treat.

[Crombers]

Trade the thing in & buy a MINI :p;):D

[Scottie]

my silver cooper s got burn marks on the back bumper when they were taking of the white lines on the A9.:( We paid for the repair:(

[gill]

quote:Originally posted by ScottieCoop

my silver cooper s got burn marks on the back bumper when they were taking of the white lines on the A9.:( We paid for the repair:(


Ouch ...:blackeye:

[The Dogfather]

Just had a quote in for the repair work, £290 plus VAT

[bpirie1000]

Ouch..

Good Luck with the Council.

They put up a fight with everything

[The Dogfather]

I'll take them to court if I have to :evil:

[The Dogfather]

I should also add I've actually got evidence that they closed the road later that day which kinda proves they had a problem with the road surface.....

[ianking]

My car got covered in silver paint at Menzies. They only removed about half of it though. Had to do the rest myself with heavy polish. Wont be goin gback to Menzies...

[Big Col]

VB:I want you to pay for the repair of my car!

Council : You're only supposed to do 10mph!

VB: I WAS!

Council:Prove it!

VB:......

[The Dogfather]

they were using a truck to guide cars through the roadworks, so it was impossible to go any quicker :D

[Big Col]

Can you prove that?

[ianking]

V.B
I work for Borders Council and a wee bird at my work told me that many claims came in one day for a very similar thing down here. Tar didnt set properly and messed up lots of cars. The council had to buy people tyres like they were going out of fashion as the treads had become blocked with tar. Just thought you might like to know.......;););)

[The Dogfather]

Cheers Ian :D