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AlexSXI
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Registered: 10th Jan 08
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22nd Jul 15 at 16:06   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Is this 'Loose Chippings' type of road-surfacing instead of traditional tarmac now common across the country?

Here in Essex, more specifically Colchester, we are riddled with it with every new road now dressed with the stuff.

Doing an awful lot of damage to tyres, windscreens and general bodywork.

If anyone isn't familiar with what it is, it is basically lorry loads of small stone chippings (approx. 5mm each) that is poured onto a hot glue-type substance to stick it to the existing road then rolled over a few times.

It basically takes abut 6 months for the chippings that didn't stick to wear away and they then put down the white lines etc.

In that time, their are temporary 20mph speed limit signs up and the road is unbearably noisy and dangerous for vehicles.

Absolute joke considering the road tax, council tax etc. we all have to pay
AlexSXI
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22nd Jul 15 at 16:07   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
A quick Google reveals it is called Surface Dressing. Shit stuff
Marc
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22nd Jul 15 at 16:11   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
They have just done 2 roads in York, one a fairly busy one. Its crap when it is first laid down. No complaints from me once it has settled.
Steve
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Registered: 30th Mar 02
Location: Worcestershire Drives: Defender
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22nd Jul 15 at 16:22   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Been happening for quite a few years now, but it's shit
Tiger
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22nd Jul 15 at 16:26   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Even if you stick to the low limit, always some dickhead coming the other way too fast thus still showering your car with grit.
Gary
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22nd Jul 15 at 18:10   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
All over the place up here too. Dangerous as fuck on the bike
Neo
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Registered: 20th Feb 07
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22nd Jul 15 at 18:22   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Agree Alex it's a right pita, was going over Colchester Saturday back roads past wivenhoe and they've done all along there. Back end was shimmying around on acceleration
Stu_22
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22nd Jul 15 at 18:34   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I guess it's a lot cheaper than re-surfacing using Tarmac
Dee25790
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22nd Jul 15 at 18:38   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I had to go along a bypass with this for about 8 months of last year. Car is covered in stone chips and really could do with a new windscreen thanks to it
VegasPhil
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Registered: 16th Jan 05
Location: Fareham, Hants Drives: Octavia VRS
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22nd Jul 15 at 20:18   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Comes around every year at this time. I wonder what the companies do during the winter

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3CorsaMeal
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22nd Jul 15 at 20:50   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Same they have done it almost the whole way to work. Nearly lost it a few weeks back. But felt a proper hero drifting a tdi a3.
Dave
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22nd Jul 15 at 21:07   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Seem to be seeing it a lot more on busy roads, such a shitty way of resurfacing though, I've been doing a commute for 2 years and they've dressed the same section twice in that time.
They recently did it on the side streets round here too, ridiculous really as cars are always parked on both sides of the road so it never gets run in and it's falling apart in places already.
Robin
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26th Jul 15 at 21:33   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I have 2 chips in the BMW windscreen and the Corsa has a massive crack which curves around and doubles back on itself all because the main road near our old house got resurfaced with this, even though it was the best road in the area!
Nic Barnes
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26th Jul 15 at 21:52   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
It's awful for cyclists like me. The clippings are like missiles as cars go past. One struck my knee cap with some force it made it bleed yesterday.
Rķan P
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Registered: 26th Jul 15
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26th Jul 15 at 22:08   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Aye they do this in NI and it does my head in. I drive really slow like an old man, then someone else comes flying down the road shooting stones at the car
Dee25790
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26th Jul 15 at 22:26   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Nic Barnes
It's awful for cyclists like me. The clippings are like missiles as cars go past. One struck my knee cap with some force it made it bleed yesterday.


Stop cycling where cars are meant to go then. Roadies Should be lined up and shot
Bart
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Registered: 19th Aug 02
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27th Jul 15 at 20:49   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
every road thats been done around here is the same... probably related to cost savings...
Twiggy
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27th Jul 15 at 20:54   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Get a claim in if you have a stone chip
Dee25790
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Lot of effort that tho twiggy. For
Me anyway.. A new screen is £50 ha
Twiggy
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