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Originally Posted by 2750 HP
I passed my driving test in June 1972 and had my first car at 18 in August of 1973 - a Vauxhall Victor FB. Both in it and all subsequent cars I have broken very few springs:
Triunph 2000TC around 1985 - rear spring
Bentley Turbo R - front spring around 2007
MG ZT CDTi n/s rear spring around 2018 / 19
MGZT CDTI same car in 2021 - two drop links required replacing and the other o/s rear spring
Also my sons 2014 Vauxhall Corsa SE required a spring replacement.
Up until the pandemic i drove around 25k miles in the ZT each year but this has halved in the last 12 months but pot holes including on some 'A' roads seem to have proliferated.
Are the roads deteriorating?
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It is arguably cheaper for councils to pay out for lawsuits ( in addition, keep lawyers and lawmakers in work), than to properly repair our roads.
There are more than 35 million cars , motorcycles HGVs LGVs on the road in the UK, so if on average each driver pays 100 GBP road tax, and 50 GBP MOT that is more than 5 billion GBP in tax revenue, then there is fuel duty, that must bring in at least 20 to 25 billion GBP, so what is the government doing with all these money, they are not spending it on mending pot holes that is for sure.