polo - CHIPPINGS !!!!

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Mon 28 May 2012 17:57
polo - CHIPPINGS !!!! - chewer1

I think this must have been covered before BUT I am really annoyed ! Driving towards Westerham Kent today a couple of miles of fast B road had been tarred and chipped. Of course there were the 20 mph signs - really work for lorries,vans and company vehicles ! WHY don't they sweep the road afterwards and recover tons of chippings to re-use ? It was so dusty with chippings flying everywhere I could hardly see where I was going + my windscreen survived by luck only.

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Mon 28 May 2012 22:02
polo - CHIPPINGS !!!! - ed81

Well maybe next time you ought to leave yourself more room and slow down a bit more. I work along the A25 near Sundridge and if you walk along that road you could be blown over as most ignored the 30/40mph speed limits..seriously I did not think it was that bad as I drove past the roadwork twice today!

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Tue 29 May 2012 10:13
polo - CHIPPINGS !!!! - veryoldbear

They leave the stuff on for a week or so to try and get as much as possible bedded in before sweeping off the surplus. With this hot weather it's going to be mucky.

The trouble is that HGV man is five feet higher than Polo man and doesn't really worry about dust, grit and 20 mph advisories, and Polos can be intimidated.

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Tue 29 May 2012 17:33
polo - CHIPPINGS !!!! - chewer1

Thanks folks ! I was doing 20mph others weren't ! + more room ? it's not a wide road and with lorries coming the other way should I have taken to the fields ? And why should the traffic bed in the chippings ? how about ''steam''rollers ?? This sort of road surfacing is done to save money and should be reserved for country lanes in my view.

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Tue 29 May 2012 16:25
polo - CHIPPINGS !!!! - ChannelZ

WHY don't they sweep the road afterwards and recover tons of chippings to re-use ?

They do. But traffic driving over the chippings for a few days is what makes them stick to the road. If they brushed them up the same day, everything would come up leaving a shiny sheet of bitumen.

Does your Polo not have brakes and steering wheel? I hear in the certain combination these two items allow a driver to turn the car round and use a different road if he so desires.

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Tue 29 May 2012 17:51
polo - CHIPPINGS !!!! - dadbif
"surface dressing" does nothing to improve the road other than improve grip, any imperfections ie potholes etc remain beneath the new layer. All it acheived is an increased demand for new windscreens and touch up paint to fix the pebble dashed paintwork, Cheshire CC, when I lived there used to use the abominable process with alarming regularity ......


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Wed 30 May 2012 19:12
polo - CHIPPINGS !!!! - chewer1
Thanks dadbif - it's good to see one person out there that agrees with me !!

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Wed 30 May 2012 21:59
polo - CHIPPINGS !!!! - Leif

They are doing the roads where I live, and even when I went slowly, I got hit with high speed chips from speeding cars overtaking. There are not many alternative routes, and it is only when you are on the road that you realise how bad it is. If you take a back route, you risk damaging the suspension on rough country roads.

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Wed 30 May 2012 22:57
polo - CHIPPINGS !!!! - Bromptonaut

Yeah, you can go at walking pace but no good if an HGV is doing 50.

Probably 20 years ago now I was going along the A82 after an overnight drive from the Midlands, about 06:30 and was looking forward to a decent brekky in Fort William. Just after Rannoch moor, by the White Corries ski wotsit, they'd been resurfacing by this method. I could see a truck coming the other way surrounded by a clod of dirt. Like pig pen in the Charlie Brown strip!!

Was peppered in shrapnel including a huge chip in the windscreen. Just had to pay the excess for a repair and car was far enough past its youth I was no longer bothered about stone chips. Wouldn't have liked to have been on a bike though.

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Thu 31 May 2012 17:59
polo - CHIPPINGS !!!! - Bobbin Threadbare

No indeed! Ow!

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Tue 19 Jun 2012 19:47
polo - CHIPPINGS !!!! - chewer1
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Tue 19 Jun 2012 19:54
polo - CHIPPINGS !!!! - chewer1

No indeed! Ow!

Sorry to resurrect thiis folks but the road i first complained about 3 weeks ago is still best avoided because of flying chippings. Today the 70mph dual carrigeway A22 north of junction 6 M25 is being chipped - what next the M25 ??? !!! Not everyone agreed with me last time but I still think this is crazy.

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