Man Wants Town To Pay For Damage On His Lowered Car After Driving Over Speed Bumps

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Man Wants Town To Pay For Damage On His Lowered Car After Driving Over Speed Bumps

Man Spends £3,000 To Lower Car Suspension, Can’t Get Over Speed Bumps: People will go to all sorts of lengths to jazz up their cars, and although the additions might look cool, they’re not always practical. 23-year-old Christopher Fitzgibbon learned… https://t.co/6CjPjhiwa6 pic.twitter.com/TK2Upzm2Ab — Rebel Dublin (@RebelDublin) April 25, 2019

After spending around $4,000 to lower his car, Christopher Fitzgibbon now wants his town to pay because he lowered his car so much he can no longer drive over local speed bumps.Fitzgibbon lowered his Volkswagen Passat so it only has four inches of ground clearance which means he can no longer take his usual route to work through his home village in Limerick, Ireland since the village has installed six-inch speed bumps on various roads in town. So Fitzgibbon has had to re-route his commute and told the Daily Mail “That’s an extra 30 miles a day, 150 miles a week, 600 miles a month, and 7,000 miles a year - all because of speed bumps that are too high for my car.”On top of the extra mileage and driving he's incurring, Fitzgibbon also claims to have around $2,500 worth of damage to his car by driving over the speed bumps and now he wants the village to pay for it. However, the Limerick City Council reported back that the speed bumps are in fact not six inches high but rather about half that height, just under three inches.

gsbiz on May 22nd, 2019 at 13:44 UTC »

In reality if his car is above the legal minimum height, he may have a case. As councils have to build roads to allow cars within those specifications to safely use the roads.

enwongeegeefor on May 22nd, 2019 at 13:35 UTC »

Odd...based on the photos his car is barely lowered. In the pictures alone he has a bit more than 4" of clearance, and based on the wheel wells it looks like it's been lowered no more than 1" or so.

Here's some MORE stupid in all this. $4000 is also a LOT of money just to get new springs and struts. That price would be more fitting if he got custom hubs or adjustable control arms...and if he DID get those, he can change his ride height on his own...which means he could solve this problem all by himself.

I have Koni's on my DSM, but the past few years I've left them cranked up to max height because of how shit the roads are around here, makes a huge difference in ride quality.

ALSO....this happened in fucking LIMERICK, Ireland. I am disapoint reddit...where's the limerick?

Lampmonster on May 22nd, 2019 at 12:52 UTC »

Reminds me of the guy that bottomed out his car and destroyed it in our parking lot at work. He was all about how the owner was paying for his car until he realized we'd all been watching him do doughnuts across the street and come speeding into our private parking lot.