Torrential Rain & BMW’s

I heard it was to do with the new gritting techniques on the roads.  The council are "spraying" the roads with something rather than firing grit at your car at ver 60mph.

"There is now Brine added to the grit as it spread. It's still the same grit thats always been used just brine comes out aswell. The brine is supposed to stop the grit "spraying" all over the road. It seemingly makes the grit stick to the road. And it isnt cheaper than whats been used in previous years"

Basically the brine turns to slippy s**t (keeping the Dunkmeister happy :D)

Aqua-planing thread

http://www.strathycruise.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=72961

m3tiko wrote: the roads need to be more driver adaptable in events such as heavy rainfall...which our beloved country tends to see

Err, no.

"The Driver needs to be more adaptable to the conditions..."

(Bad workman always blames his tools remember)

m3tiko wrote: grahame34m5 wrote: CHANGE THE F'IN TIRES even race car drivers don't do slicks in the rain. Mon ami the tyres are still within government guidelines...whatever that may be? But you're not entirely wrong as the thread line is only about 2mm's i'd say from the indicator.Tyre change is imminent as when the new wheels come on. This however does not change the fact the roads need to be more driver adaptable in events such as heavy rainfall...which our beloved country tends to see

As a Civil Engineer and fellow motorist I wholeheartedly agree with your comments.

However as grahame has quite rightly pointed, our fuel duty, road tax fund etc goes on everything else bar the roads.

Aside from surface water issues, shoddy patch-up work by contractors maintaining existing services has also been the norm for near enough a decade, only now have transportation departments in local government authorities acknowledged the problem.

Back to surface water though and in terms of the money required first of all for research into what materials to use, sustainability issues and as mentioned the tree-hugger enviromentally friendly contingent and your better off just accepting that your going to have to change your tyres at 4mm mate.

Dont expect anything from these clowns that way you dont get dissapointed

grahame34m5 wrote: BMW328i wrote: As a Civil Engineer..... Hero, hero . A real Engineer good on you! Tiko don't worry thepits is just stiring, which I think you'll find is in his job description

Im guessing our job descriptions are one in the same??

Im guessing this because if you were from a Structural or Mechanical background you would of told me I wasnt a REAL Engineer

Just back from aberdeen , All the way down the road pouring , kept to about 60 no incidents, but yesterday going north on the M80 I was about 0.5 mile past the river Carron  the road was damp but fine open right hander and I saw a "river" , not joking, crossing the road . I was doing speed limitish , hit the water and I was a passenger as I floated across. There was nothing to do but wait untill i landed at the other side , I had moved about a yard sideways across the lane and had a little shimmy to bring things back into line when I did . 

Did see the road engineers at it as I passed again today but it was still a full flowing river crossing the northbound carriageway( it disappeared into the central reserve.

re road engineering I remember about 20 years ago reading about a porous road surface where the rain just pours through the sucface and drains below but it cost twice as much and lasted half as long.....................I have never heard of it being used in this country

Only too true hehe, thankfully I am not an engineer....worse than that....

BMW328i wrote: grahame34m5 wrote: BMW328i wrote: As a Civil Engineer..... Hero, hero . A real Engineer good on you! Tiko don't worry thepits is just stiring, which I think you'll find is in his job description Im guessing our job descriptions are one in the same?? Im guessing this because if you were from a Structural or Mechanical background you would of told me I wasnt a REAL Engineer