Wolfie

Yesterday I went over a speed bump @ 20 mph ... sheezzzz was it ever scary!!
Once I went over it, I could hear a big bang like my car hit the end if his suspension (it was like the engine almost came out ...)

No visual damage and still a smode ride - so I guess no damage

I HATE speed bumps- I would like to meet the retard who invented these things !!

solman98

Nobel-Prize-winning physicist and former Washington University Chancellor Arthur Holly Compton

http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/...ton_bumps.html

Jdans431

physicist & speedbumps? huh, interesting. I would have thought it would have been some Dept of Transportation cronie or something to that effect.

RaineMan

You probably bottomed out and scraped the muffler.

Slow down next time.

Marcruger

Trust me, engineers HATE speed bumps. Your DOT guys don't install those things. They ruin traffic flow, and don't make things safer...mainly because some drivers go over them fast and some slow. A pedestrian never knows which. You get politicians and uneducated do-gooders that get these things installed. I've heard of citizens getting them installed in front of their house because they think it will reduce noise. Yeah, right. Stopping. Thumping. Accelerating engines. Squealing tires. Very quiet......riiiight......

God Bless, Marc

Kinison_fan

I had a friend who used to say "speed bumps are to knock the mud out of your tires".
He must have spent a small fortune on suspension work before he learned to slow down..

tireman1554

I've been feeling a knock in my front end for the last 10k miles or so every time I go over a speed bump or a rough road. I'm sure with 89K miles and never had an alignment, something is bound to be loose.

jerSSey HHR

Speed bumps have given way to speed humps and/or speed tables, which are less "violent" on a car. DOT's rarely use speed bumps on highways, as they are mostly installed by local municipaities on local streets.

I wonder how the residents near speed bumps like it when every vehicle makes lots of noise when they go over the bump. I understand the need to control speed on local streets, but it seems like you introduce more problems.

The other thing we are doing now for what is called "traffic calming" is to reconstruct intersections with different materials such as brick pavers, at a slightly different elevation (an inch or so) that signifies to drivers that they have entered a "slow down" area.