american roads suck because of cheap politicians who would rather spend the money that's supposed to be alloted to road work and maintenance on other things. it used to be that, from the compacted dirt up to the surface, the composition of a road had to be at least 24" thick. then they realized hey, we're spending a lot of money building really good roads, let's spend LESS and just build barely decent roads! so it went down to something like 12", and now it's around 10" [at least, in california it is] which is why roads get buckled and broken up so much more quickly than they used to.

 

if it means no damn POTHOLES. .i'd rather go back to dirt roads!

 

i had a similar situation while on vacation in Puerto Rico. Was in the fast lane doing about 75 when a 5 gallon bucket flew out of a pick up truck. I didn't have enough time to swerve out of the way and ended up hitting it straight on in a rental altima. The bucket cracked the front bumper and broke the front license plate bracket.

Ended up going to a hardware store and buying some screws to mount the plate. Was able to mount the plate a little higher to hide the cracked bumper. Thank god the rental place didn't notice!

 

u guys are lucky , some stupid truck droped off a metal as big as a chair in front of me while drving on freeway doing about 70mph , then boom,, hood ,fender and door have to replace cuz that,, fxxking stupid truck

 

U.S. roads have a 20 year design life. European roads 40 years.

 

my exhaust was a few days old when it started smelling bad...a few days later I found a garbage bag hanging from it that I must of snagged. Most of it melted onto the exhaust pipe Anyone know how to clean this **** off?

 

i try to NEVER drive behind any kind of truck. .not only can and do they drop stuff. .but they also kick up road dirt or rocks that will chip your paint. . .