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Good news. The quote from Lexus was for £515 so just a small increase from last year 😃

Just a small update on my car that hit this pothole. The car still drives as if nothing has happened, so I guess I got very lucky. Charlwood road, where this happened at Gatwick, is still not good in many places near where the main pothole I hit so do drive with caution on this road and avoid if possible at night i should also add that all the side roads in many parts of Crawley are poor so take care at night

Saga has just quoted me £1000 which is more than double I am paying at the moment with Lexus insurance £450 so be careful if you're due like me to renew. I haven't yet had my renewal come through from Lexus but will let you know when it does. I should add I have the maximum NCD and 50 years of clean driving

Lexus won't charge if they have fitted the new tyres

Hi Ian 🙂 They seam very quiet on motorways and good roads that are tarmacked. Locally where i live the roads aren't great, but the noise level is still very good I find on a safety level, they are by far the very best tyres you can get if my recent pothole experience is anything to go by, in which the police attended. They didn't even drop a bar of air pressure incredible I know what you mean thou, and you may have to give up the run flats if you won't excellent low noise levels

My run flats are Dunlop and to me, they are very good so will be sticking with them

If warnings are important to you, both with visual and sound alerts so you can see and hear 100% of what's going on around you, then the Lexus is very poor. Only a Mazda is first class in this department, and would never make any errors under normal circumstances or receive speeding / red traffic alerts tickets as the sound and visuals are top-notch clearly displayed with full dialogue speech on the approach

I got a large nail in my run flat and only lost a few bars over a week, so I'm keeping mine

Having hit that large pothole, they may have helped serious damage recently?

My dealer sets the uxs at 25 bar for everyone

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That sure sounds like Gibraltar. They need to get their act together with the potholes, i look after 2 main roads here at Gatwick with my weekly inspections and as i said above that to hit this pothole of which just a couple of days earlier i had reported i just can't understand. i guess with my wife and i chatting, i forgot that we were coming up to this pothole. i saw it very late and if it hadn't been for a car coming the other way could have swerved and missed it we had a very bad pile up here on Friday in the rush hour on the m23 you have probably heard about that 15 cars involved

From what i remember, the whole place in 1980 was pretty bad, so it all needed a radical plan to get it up to date. i guess there are no jobs there still. In the summer, the odd thing, i distinctly remember being the only person on the beach and in the slot machine arcades playing pinball. i still play pinball today over in the VPF forum and on the steam platform with Zen studios

My aunt use to live in invicta road with the small alleyways at the back. She just had gas lighting in those days before she died in 1980 100 years old i haven't been back since, so am not sure as to how things have changed

It could well be Malcolm have further developed into a sinkhole. I went past there yesterday, but because of the heavy rain I couldn't make out the extent of what's happened as i said above, my car has been inspected for free by my Lexus dealer, and it appears to be OK, but we will not for certain until the MOT in July 2025 comes around when the wheels will get a thorough inspection along with all the other parts that get inspected I'm keeping the car and now need to put this behind me. It's not the first time i've been involved in a heavy collision, the last one was in 1969 with my dad on a double-decker bus in sheerness going under a low bridge late at night in November with heavy rain ripping the roof off and we in the front seats upstairs. My dad just saw what was about to happen and got hold of me and head first through me down the stairs. Same noise as the pothole with violent shaking so yes it's not easy for me at this time but could have been worse with the car flipping over

The pothole in question has further developed into a major pothole, with a 100-meter section of Charlwood road at Gatwick being now closed off and operated by traffic lights

It's really got bad the past few years. I was lucky the car didn't roll over, as that's what the police expected. So if anyone is about to purchase a car, I would say the UX every time and forget about small details that you don't like. Life's too short to get too wrapped up in what's wrong had i been in another type of car, things may have been well different and the car would have rolled over. We will never know my neighbours' daughter Renault rolled over in her pothole experience and her mum has lost the wheel twice the past few months in the wet in her Renault

If they are anything like i had to go through last night, I would say there Bullitt proof

Well my friends I have just got back from seeing Tim master tec at Lexus Gatwick who has inspected the car and all looks normal so a miracle must have happened. The pothole in question has been coned off so at least i achieved something last night, the prevention of a serious injury or death to a fellow driver but more importantly a motorbike rider who no doubt would have been killed thanks guys for your support 😊

i only managed to get this photo, but at least it's something. Will call Lexus in the morning. i have filled out a report for the council but don't hold out much hope there, knowing councils as I do from past experiences that's 6 inches deep, hitting it at 50 mph what i car no blow out, but hidden damage must have been done

Thanks arqum good idea 🙂 The odd thing is I look out for this road at Charlwood Gatwick for potholes and keep it up to date with the highways and drive by there at least 3 times a week and all has been good up till tonight. How this sort of damage has happened in such a short space of time since i last drove by on Saturday is scary

Iv'e just hit a massive pothole here at Gatwick. The police are attending, but my wife and I are really shaken by this. It's over 2 meters in size and 6 inches deep, the car took a very hard blow. I've put into the council a report of what's happened in case of any damage. As for the car itself, it seems to be OK, but by the sound of what happened I'm sure some damage must have taken place. What's best now to proceed, do you think. The local Lexus dealer will charge around £150 for a quick look i'm sure

The tread looks like them? 😉

The only advantage of the Manuel folding door mirrors is when it's snowing and the gear mechanism has frozen and can break on opening the car door. This happened on my last car, Mazda.

The renewal bill should be around £450 in Sussex with a £600 excess to pay. That is what I paid to Lexus for my yearly insurance