hotxr8 Member 49 Member For: 15y 11m Gender: Male Posted 07/07/13 06:21 AM Posted 07/07/13 06:21 AM Coming home from a mates place late last night, I hit this mongrel thing.This morning I went to go somewhere, and as I was walking past the front wheel I looked down and saw this.I want to go to the council and try get them to pay for repairs, or a replacement, ( alignment is out aswell ), has anyone gone through this, or know what I need to do?.P.S.I'm looking for a set of Zumbo Vaige's, anyone got a set they want to offload?
bossmang FREAKY Legacy Donating Member 12,441 Member For: 16y 8m 21d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 07/07/13 10:47 AM Posted 07/07/13 10:47 AM (edited) yep if you have pics of the hole (before they fill it) and pics of the damage ring them and find out who to deal with.make them pay up for the damage to your wheel and steering! but not an easy process and you must be firm and be able to convince them the hole caused the damage. try and get the council to pay for the damage directly. its unlucky mate, ive been through this many times. Edited 07/07/13 10:52 AM by Ford Freak
tab Sucker Moderating Team 32,303 Member For: 22y 4m 21d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 07/07/13 10:55 AM Posted 07/07/13 10:55 AM I think the deal is they'll only compensate if someone reported it and they failed to fix it prior to your incident. Definitely worth a shot.
hotxr8 Member 49 Member For: 15y 11m Gender: Male Posted 07/07/13 12:55 PM Author Posted 07/07/13 12:55 PM Yeah, went back and took plenty of pics, while I was there, it was unreal how hard some cars were hitting it, I'd be surprised if there aren't more people out there with dinged rims from it.
NVT Formerly EGOBFXR6 Legacy Donating Member 1,111 Member For: 18y 7m 10d Gender: Male Location: Perth, WA Posted 07/07/13 12:58 PM Posted 07/07/13 12:58 PM (edited) Hey mate,Not being an a$$ but that happened to me about a year ago. I hit a massive pothole on a roundabout so I had no choice but to go through it as there was a car on my left.It tore the sidewall of my tyre, took a chunk out of my rim and absolutely shagged my steering. So new tyre, buggered rim and f*cked steering...Took pics and everything. Sent it to the council to see about repairs and was flat out denied.Didn't get a friggin' cent and they weaseled their way out of everything - The f*ckers...Anyway, I hope you get more than I did buddy.All the best,Dan Edited 07/07/13 12:58 PM by NVT
TROBL Inactive Members 1 Member For: 13y 7m 3d Posted 07/07/13 03:46 PM Posted 07/07/13 03:46 PM Yeah mate I recently got a 2 inch split in my rim but because it is 20 inch with low profile tyres they didn't want to hear it, sometimes it's not worth the fight
towsw001 Member 67 Member For: 14y 3m 28d Gender: Male Location: Adelaide Posted 08/07/13 01:27 AM Posted 08/07/13 01:27 AM (edited) I had a mate go through the council for this in SA and they got their rim fixed. As previously said just be firm and if they dont budge try get the ombundsman (spelling??) involved. Or at least threaten them. Pay enough taxes for these holes to be fixed which most of the time sit there for months on end. Edited 08/07/13 01:27 AM by towsw001
hotxr8 Member 49 Member For: 15y 11m Gender: Male Posted 08/07/13 05:24 AM Author Posted 08/07/13 05:24 AM Got to give it a try, nothing to lose.The wheels I've got are no longer available, so it looks like a complete new set.
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