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What is the best way to drive over these type of bumps?

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  • 07-08-2008 3:32pm
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    NewApproach
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    bumpll0.th.jpg

    Like in my pic above, or on one wheel??

    One of those silly things I have always wondered!


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    L-M
    Registered Users Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    I always do it with one wheels, but a passenger gave out to me for it saying it damages the suspension. Don't know of any truth in that though.


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    biko
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    If I'm alone in car I go over bump with the lightest side wheel. If more people in car I do as your pic.


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    Táck
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,744 ✭✭✭Táck


    em...i dont understand the picture!


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    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    I don't understand the picture either?


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    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,466 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    If it's one of those silly half-road-width bumps I usually go straight over it in my car, and each wheel usually just goes over the sloping edges of the bump rather than over the bump itself and you hardly notice it. But in my wife's Yaris (narrower distance between wheels) I usually go slightly to one side or the other.


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    BlackWizard
    Registered Users Posts: 3,282 ✭✭✭BlackWizard


    Just use the foot path.


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    craichoe
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    Drive over it slowly?


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    legalbird12
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    They are not silly, the reason for those particular bumps is for ambulance routes. The ambulances are meant to go over them in the middle of the road and the rest of us go ver them on two wheels.


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    mthd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 115 ✭✭mthd


    forwards


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    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,466 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    legalbird12 wrote: »
    They are not silly, the reason for those particular bumps is for ambulance routes. The ambulances are meant to go over them in the middle of the road and the rest of us go over them on two wheels.
    :confused: There usually isn't any more room between the bumps, than the bumps are wide, less usually, so how does that work? Any vehicle driving down the middle of the road would have one wheel on each bump rather than both wheels on one.


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    towel401
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    legalbird12 wrote: »
    They are not silly, the reason for those particular bumps is for ambulance routes. The ambulances are meant to go over them in the middle of the road and the rest of us go ver them on two wheels.

    every speed bump is silly.before they just had bad roads, now they have bad roads with speed bumps so you can hardly drive on them at all. why should ordinary people have to be annoyed with this crap just because someone once woke up some old biddy living in an estate by driving too fast?


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    Quazzie
    Registered Users Posts: 28,963 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    I always drive over like that because it requires less slowing down. There is no truth to the 'ruined suspension' theory or the It'll ruin your diff' theory. neither are true, the truth is normal country road is worse for your car than these.


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