I HATE FUCKING STREETS IN DC, So it's snowing and very little street lighting and i didn't see the big fucking pot hole; blew my tire out....

It's sad to see that streets in the nation's captial are in such bad shape....

Brand new tires and I blew one out...................gosh

 

Ouch...I hope you had the road hazard warranty on that tire...

Which reminds me, you wanna drop by sometime this week to see my new toy?

 

In NOVA, they fixed the road pretty often and i dunno why they don't fix the road in DC.

 

Funny thing, Mayor Williams did a good job of removing the trash from the streets but left the roads in deplorable condition, I could never understand it What a shame. Hopefully you didn't bend your rim. Sorry to hear about your misfortune bro.

 

i also hate driving in DC when its raining... u cant fucking see the lanes.. why dont they install reflectors.. anyways yea DC roads are horrible stay alertt.

 

You must have been driving really fast to blow out a stock tire, pretty thick sidewall, unless it's was a really deep ass pot hole. I blew one of my tire on my gold Ggames last week and that's with a 35 sidewall and I did not even hit a pothole.

 

any rim damage

 

no rims fine have my stock rims on now, i was gonna change over anyway.

 

Aww man Lito =| How'd you blow it out? Man if I'm going to be going to 18s with a thinner sidewall, I guess I'll have to leave the spare in the trunk after all huh...

 

so it's confirmed, my rim is bent bad enough for air to leak out...the tire somehow survived

kudos to the yokohama's

and fyi, anyone in the dc/md/va area that wants to get rid of a rim i've posted in the black market section to buy a oem tsx rim; help a brother out....

 

i'd lend you one, but i sold them last week. cgtsx has an extra set of tl rims

 

can you post some pics of the bent rim cause there is a wheel shop in Elkridge that fixes bent rims.

 

that's the thing I did'nt even know how I blew the tire did not hit any pothole or anything. I was driving a good couple miles before I realize it was gone.

 

Worst roads I've driven on are in MN. Between frost heaving and all-concrete construction they're murder on wheels, tires, suspension, and everything else in the car including my fillings. Iowa is, remarkably, much better -- not as many people I guess, and when they start fixing a road they FINISH.

I grew up in Bethesda -- DC roads are bad, 'burbs are much better.

 

You dont have to pay for it IN D.C. if you contact the department of Motor vehicles they will have them look at the pothole and your tire and write you a check of course i dont know how long that will take. It was on the news the other day.

 

i'll post pics of the bent rim tonight or tomorrow...i'm trying to purchase a used tsx rim instead of fixing the bent one....

but looks like i'll have to get this one fixed...many people have recommended Ye Old Wheel Shop in Elkridge, MD. so i'll have to call them monday to get some quotes....

 

do you know which news station you were listening to? i checked out dmv's website but no luck so far....

 

Yeah, unfortunately they have summer rubber on them so I don't think they'd to him much good given the weather we're having right now. Plus, I don't have them at my place. They're in storage at my friends garage in Potomac.

 

Dude, I totally feel your pain on this one. 2 years ago, in my CL-S, I hit a pothole in Arlington that was caused by road construction. It was a perfect square, unmarked, 9 inches deep (I measured it). It tore off my tire.

Pissed, I put on the spare and went home. The next day, after the car pulled hard to the right after getting a new tire, Acura discovered my control arm was damaged and the rim was bent beyond repair. $1200 later, I was back on the road.

However, I immediately sent a bill to the Arlington County. What a joke that turned out to be. They blamed the hole on Dominion Power, who in turned blamed Arlington. Arlington then told me they don't own the road, VDOT does. So, I complained to VDOT, who blamed Comcast cable. Comcast cable said they couldn't do anything without a police report. Called the police, and they couldn't do anything because the pothole had since been filled.

After 18 months of dealing with that nonsense, I gave up.

 

virginia has one of the best maintained secondary road systems in the country so overall va has very nice local roads....i'm from richmond but lived in dc for the past four years and now in fairfax...didnt have a car in dc, but picked up a tsx 7 months ago or so....

soooooo....obviously dc wont have the same road systems because they're maintained by the federal gov't no and NOT part of va or md??

also....dc roads really do suck...i've driven in dc a lot even if i never owned a car of my own here....but at least they're fixing up 23rd street in northwest. that road really blows...