The most vicious “podlyanki” for road builder motorists when replacing asphalt
- June 2, 2023
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The start of the season of road repairs in the cities and towns of our vast country once again raised the issue of the safety of car travel
The start of the season of road repairs in the cities and towns of our vast country once again raised the issue of the safety of car travel in such areas. Mowed asphalt not only vibrates for passengers, but also poses a serious danger to the car.
Replacing the road surface threatens the motorist not only with traffic jams, but also with damage to the car. The technology requires that the asphalt crumbs left after passing the milling machine be removed from the roadway. But employees do not always meet this requirement as they should. As a result, all kinds of pebbles and pieces of the old coating remain in the place of the removed asphalt. Cars run over them. And all this crushed stone flies from under the wheels into the windows and paintwork of the bodies of neighboring cars downstream. The result is cracks in the “windshields” and flakes in the paint, which then turn into pockets of corrosion.
The second mess of the road builders is the heads of shutters and joints on viaducts that remain after the passage of the milling machine. Usually, road builders make the entrances and exits of these temporary “artificial obstacles” more or less soft. But the degree of this flatness depends solely on the benevolence of a particular milling machine operator. He can organize such a step in front of the hatch that the passenger car loses the last wheels. The thickness of the cut asphalt layer is also important in this case. A “hollow protruding” sunroof can be very high, so it would be simply dangerous for a typical passenger car to allow it to pass between the wheels. So sometimes you have to do it with fairly heavy traffic that prevents you from getting around an obstacle.
On such a hatch it is quite possible to catch one of the “cans” of the exhaust system. Even if you don’t lose it at the same time, shock and concussion can damage the fragile catalyst cells. Which then threatens them with contamination from fuel combustion products and even with melting. “Katalyk” after that can only be thrown away.
The most blatant kind of “gift” from road builders to car owners on mown asphalt is some kind of iron that has fallen off their equipment. An encounter with such a “surprise” is almost guaranteed to end with a visit to the nearest tire shop to send a broken wheel or pair to the scrap yard. Because in this case, as a rule, the tire is not found with a small carnation or screw, but with a rather massive metal squiggle, which immediately and to shreds the rubber.
The most common in the situations described above is that it is unlikely that it will be possible to make claims to the authors of such misdeeds. Pebbles from under the wheels not only “do not write to the protocol”, but later find them under a layer of promptly laid new asphalt. With protruding shutters, the situation is about the same. In addition, the process will ultimately conclude that the driver has had every opportunity to avoid the obstacle. Well, to prove that the insidious piece of iron fell, for example, from a dump truck belonging to the road builders, and not from another car that later passed through the repaired area, is not possible at all.
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Replacing the road surface threatens the motorist not only with traffic jams, but also with damage to the car. The technology requires that the asphalt crumbs left after passing the milling machine be removed from the roadway. But employees do not always meet this requirement as they should. As a result, all kinds of pebbles and pieces of the old coating remain in the place of the removed asphalt. Cars run over them. And all this crushed stone flies from under the wheels into the windows and paintwork of the bodies of neighboring cars downstream. The result is cracks in the “windshields” and chips in the paint, which then turn into pockets of corrosion.
The second mess of the road builders is the heads of shutters and joints on viaducts that remain after the passage of the milling machine. Usually, road builders make the entrances and exits of these temporary “artificial obstacles” more or less soft. But the degree of this flatness depends solely on the benevolence of a particular milling machine operator. He can organize such a step in front of the hatch that the passenger car loses the last wheels. The thickness of the cut asphalt layer is also important in this case. A “hollow protruding” sunroof can be very high, so it would be simply dangerous for a typical passenger car to allow it to pass between the wheels. So sometimes you have to do it with fairly heavy traffic that prevents you from getting around an obstacle.
On such a hatch it is quite possible to catch one of the “cans” of the exhaust system. Even if you don’t lose it at the same time, shock and concussion can damage the fragile catalyst cells. Which then threatens them with contamination from fuel combustion products and even with melting. “Katalyk” after that can only be thrown away.
The most blatant type of “gift” from road builders to car owners on mown asphalt is some kind of iron that has fallen off their equipment. An encounter with such a “surprise” is almost guaranteed to end with a visit to the nearest tire shop to send a broken wheel or pair to the scrap yard. Because in this case, as a rule, the tire is not found with a small carnation or screw, but with a rather massive metal squiggle, which immediately and to shreds the rubber.
The most common in the situations described above is that it is unlikely that it will be possible to make claims to the authors of such misdeeds. Pebbles from under the wheels not only “do not write to the protocol”, but later find them under a layer of promptly laid new asphalt. With protruding shutters, the situation is about the same. In addition, the process will ultimately conclude that the driver has had every opportunity to avoid the obstacle. Well, to prove that the insidious piece of iron fell, for example, from a dump truck belonging to the road builders, and not from another car that later passed through the repaired area, is not possible at all.
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Donald Salinas is an experienced automobile journalist and writer for Div Bracket. He brings his readers the latest news and developments from the world of automobiles, offering a unique and knowledgeable perspective on the latest trends and innovations in the automotive industry.
