Suspension help

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Having a major problem with my Alpina Roadster S. The council has put up speed bumps everywhere where I live and I cannot clear them without scraping the car. Is there suspension I could get to raise the ride height of the car and still keep good handling?
 
Can you not even get over them by slowing to 5-10mph and going at them from one side rather than front on. I have a similar problem on mine, but doing this gets around it, although the front still scrapes over a few of them.
 
Normally too much traffic to go over them sideways plus they are on a main road for about half a mile (can't be avoided). I do normally go over them at about 10mph but I hold up everyone. This normally never bothers me as I am not really that considerate but I feel in pain everytime I go over the bumps :cry:
 
Yep TBH slowing down so much does bother me a bit too, but then I imagine that the people I am holding up will also be the sort of muppets who drive in the outside lane at 55mph and stuff like that, so not too bothered.

Although I can avoid them whereas you have no choice, the only unavoidable ones near me are in a 20mph limit anyway so not so bad about slowing down to 10mph.

Still annoying though, and I feel your pain - the scraping noise is excruciating, my poor bumper :headbang:
 
And to talk about suspension, not so sure I would be messing with my car just for the sake of 1/2 mile of bumps, just learn to live with it I think.
 
Wondermike said:
And to talk about suspension, not so sure I would be messing with my car just for the sake of 1/2 mile of bumps, just learn to live with it I think.
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You've got a point, just was so annoyed about the council placing so many of the little fuppers around where I live. Will just have to keep doing the 5mph approach. Going over them with just one wheel seems to sound and feel less painfull also :)
 
Is your Alpina setup at standard ride height at the moment? If so I would have thought the sleeping policemen must be outside regs if you can't do more than 10mph without scraping the ground. The only scraping I've had is on some fairly severe bumps in the docklands which caught me by surprise and I was probably doing about 15mph over them, not realising how bad they were.
 
You are concerned with holding people up?

I LOVE to slow down at speedbumps, and then accelerate hard. Hopefully, eventually, the locals will complain from congestion/car noise that they get them removed, and good riddance! ;)

It wasn't an issue in my old car, but the Z4 is stiff and low, and I really don't want to be forking out for new bushes every year :(

Not that many near me though, but the good local curry takeaway is accessible three ways, 3 miles, 4 miles, and 5 miles, so I go the 5 mile route with no speed bumps now... mmmm, smooth and comfortable! (idiot council)
 
Elberto said:
Will just have to keep doing the 5mph approach. Going over them with just one wheel seems to sound and feel less painfull also :)
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That's the spirit :thumbsup:

Mr Whippy said:
I LOVE to slow down at speedbumps, and then accelerate hard. Hopefully, eventually, the locals will complain from congestion/car noise that they get them removed, and good riddance! ;)
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Unfortunately the locals are usually the idiots who complain to the council and get them installed in the first place :thumbsdown:
 
I'm convinced that some councils are creating the thousands of potholes in our roads just to get enough material to erect more speedbumps.
 
2 points -we had speed bumps on the main road at the request of villagers and much expense. 6 months later they were removed due to complaints about cars acelerating, increased noise from cars bouncing over them and drivers scraping their cars on them.

First move was to lower them as they proved to be over legal height, then later removed completely.

I'd call the council and see what they say if you have a standard, not lowered car.
 
Might be worth getting your ruler out :thumbsup: if over 100mm its not allowed.

http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/roads/tpm/tal/trafficmanagement/speedcontrolhumpsscotlandeng4117

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Both flat and round top humps are permitted. Both types may be tapered at the sides to allow a drainage channel between the hump and the kerb. The schedule to the regulations provides for a standard channel width, but allows a variation of the taper width. A hump may be of any height between 50mm and 100mm to suit particular cases.

It is perfectly acceptable to use a variety of heights and profiles in a series of road humps, according to the local circumstances. The lower height hump will not have the same speed reducing effect on vehicles.
 
Around here they've moved from just "humps" (that the kids figured out you could get over by accelerating rather than slowing) and have gone to "tables" --wider so you don't scrape but you sure slow down if you take one over about 10 mph!!!!!!
 
Smokin said:
Around here they've moved from just "humps" (that the kids figured out you could get over by accelerating rather than slowing) and have gone to "tables" --wider so you don't scrape but you sure slow down if you take one over about 10 mph!!!!!!
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Actually the same here. I just used generic 'humps' but we have a combination of humps, cushions, tables and table junctions and of course the infamous slaloms where 2 way roads are slimmed at 'gates' to create single roads with give way bays. Trouble is they cause people to race to the gap and have fun swerving side to side on the road....
 
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