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Great, I've never had a poor-condition road cause a repair
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OK, good for the most part
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The roads around here suck, and has caused me many problems
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Old 07-15-2007, 06:57 AM
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Palm Bay, FL

If you are on the correct side at the correct time... you wont hit any pot holes. My girlfriend bent her OEM rims to hell (thats cuz she sucks at driving), daddy got her new rims and tires. Then she hit another hole... but only bent it a little . She kills me

I think my town' roads SUCK! So many roads here have lines of pot holes, so many roads have those damn man holes stickin up.

I think Palm Bay road is the worst though, after that its gotta be the back roads
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Old 07-15-2007, 08:38 AM
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The quality of the roads and the way roads are repaired around here are atrocious...sometimes even downright third world...they will eventually rattle your car apart...Just one of the many reasons I can't wait to leave...
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Old 07-15-2007, 03:59 PM
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nyc roads have no match... brooklyn bronx manhattan - you name it - you need an atv to drive a vehicle w/out damaging it
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md roads are the worst.
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Old 07-16-2007, 07:20 AM
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southern state parkway on long island, had a string of fatalities(two in the exact same spot, cars incinerated beyond recognition)...papers dubbed a 15 mile stretch the corridor of blood
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Old 07-17-2007, 02:12 PM
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The potholes in philly are terrible, I've seen ones that had to be over 3 inches or so deep.
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Old 07-17-2007, 02:58 PM
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I live in Vermont so I don't even have to tell you how bad the roads are. I have to drive a 3 mile dirt road just to get to my house.
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Old 07-17-2007, 03:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Brad23
The potholes in philly are terrible, I've seen ones that had to be over 3 inches or so deep.

My God! I would love it if our potholes were 3 inches deep. I swear I saw a pothole so big, it would've ripped the control arm off my car, along with the axle and tie rods, had I hit it. I saw this one minivan with a sideways tire/rim, halfway into a parking lot (probably trying to pull over, but when he turned the wheel came loose) right after said pothole on central ave. That leads me to believe that's what caused it, but I didn't see it. Said pothole has since been fixed, but more and more happen every day.
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Old 07-17-2007, 07:50 PM
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Jersey roads are SLIGHTLY better than Jersey. I had a pothole take one of my chrome rims back in the day....and i dont mean a dent, it broke it in half right down the middle.
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Old 07-18-2007, 02:27 PM
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Originally Posted by meccanoble
Jersey roads are SLIGHTLY better than Jersey.

This is why us New Yorkers don't venture into new jersey..lol
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Old 07-18-2007, 08:47 PM
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I've been through 3 tires in the past new years on pot holes on my car and 2 rims and a couple of struts. Matter fact, my front passengers strut is clunking around, haha. I love NY..
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Old 07-19-2007, 06:43 AM
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I love that avatar maximadave, and yeah we got pretty good roads in Murf. and Nashville, but when have they not been under construction... They are doing all kinds of stuff around here in the boro... I tore a front sway bar bracket off my saturn... crap car anyhow...
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Old 07-19-2007, 12:13 PM
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6 months ago I hit a pothole in CT so deep it ripped apart my rear muffler section pipe...3 months later I was trying to avoid that same pothole and I hit another pothole and damaged it again.
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Old 07-23-2007, 09:59 AM
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I think I will take it upon myself to take some pics of some of the ghetto roads around here...One of my favorite roads has random sections dug up and covered with washboarded dirt and gravel...and I have no idea why they did this...
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Old 07-27-2007, 12:01 PM
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Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, NY might be the worst road in the country. It is a 6 lane avenue with speed bumps
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Old 07-27-2007, 02:22 PM
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No place has worse roads than in Montreal...our potholes have swallowed dump trucks & buses (sink holes) downtown....and now there is a gang stealing man hole covers so that they can cash them in for their metal content....that will rip your car apart as the man holes here are right where your wheel drives over on the streets! Try and beat that anyone!

Victoria BC and BC in general has amazingly smooth challenging twisties with very few cops!

Cheers!
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Old 07-27-2007, 03:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Vlasic
Yup. Ive bent one rim, ripped open one tire and destroyed a stage 1 LTB.



Whats wrong with the 5? its seemed fine to me everytime Ive driven up and down it.
The 5 in Irvine is no good. The 405 between LA and the valley is just as bad. The issue isn't so much potholes as it is sudden dips and the concrete slabs of bridges not smoothly lining up with the rest of the freeway.

Maryland has nice freeways.
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Old 07-27-2007, 04:26 PM
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LOL these are some great stories
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Old 07-28-2007, 05:05 PM
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I've driven past a minivan with the right front tire in a pothole so deep, it lifted the rear OFF OF THE GROUND...
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Old 08-01-2007, 07:57 AM
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Missouri roads suck
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Old 08-01-2007, 09:10 AM
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NYC Roads probably the worst.
I have a 04 SE, bought it on 26th and have a bubble on 1 tire already.
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Old 08-01-2007, 09:22 AM
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depends where I am, roads in Lexington(where I live) are nice, roads in cincy(where I go to school) are ok, and roas in the Boston area(where I intern) suck more than a dyson vacuum.
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Old 08-01-2007, 09:39 AM
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yea Worcester roads stink. There sre some good areas, meaning your not banging and bouncing for to long . Then there are the spots where they do construction and leave the road amess for a year or so. i have wacked the max on a few potholes and cracks. Ive been up to the burlington area of Mass and that was real nice. Getting on the hiway with no cracks in the pavement was very nice. Gotta agree that in the suth is real nice. I have been to Fl and the roads where like glass compared to Mass.
Also need to remember the Northeast gets winter and things heave and move and crack. The south not as much
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Old 08-03-2007, 10:33 PM
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i live in the Utica area and my roads suck 2 bent sooo many wheels on sooo many cars it freakin ridiculous
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Old 08-05-2007, 08:35 AM
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Northeast Houston TX, everything here seems smooth and pretty str8... no problems yet so far. Thats one of the reasons i bought the maxima yesterday instead of the acura rsx i almost bought....alot more power and acceleration, not as good a handler and not as nimble as an rsx, but you dont really need it here cuz there just aren't any curves!
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Old 08-06-2007, 04:42 PM
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Bad enough where all of my cars are no longer dropped.
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Old 08-06-2007, 07:14 PM
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Most of the highways in Maine are fine but the backroads are pretty bad
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Old 08-06-2007, 07:26 PM
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hands down NYC has the worst roads...Wisconsin has nice smooth roads though. Man...NYC roads messed up my tie roads and ball joints. If I get an alignment its ruined only a week afterwards. Thats why it is not worth it to have a lowered car here. Only here will you find potholes more than half a foot deep and a few feet in diameter in the middle of highways where cars go more than 70+ mph.

Long Island is the better part of NY when talking about roads
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Old 08-21-2007, 08:41 AM
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I think the roads in my city is pretty decent compared to some other cities that I have been to. It's just that when they are under construction, it takes too long to finish. I.E. A highway in my city has been under construction since before I was born.
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