Frost Heave

[inski]

How many of the cute little "Frost Heave" signs do you see on your daily drives? How many roads do you avoid now?

If i take the short cut there a 3 frost heave signs, one doozie. But I have to avoid the short cut and its two awesome gravity defying jumps because the first 2/3rds of the road is total crap. Like Normandy Beach after the invasion artillery prep. :eek:

[subydoored]

i dont have the problem inski

[civic si hb]

I'm not from Maine but I went out yesterday and took some back roads in Keene NH, and I hit this one road for about a 5 miles stretch there was one every 5 seconds and got annoying real quick....

[Bu11dogg2]

the road that runs behind my road looked like a dried up river bed :unamsued:

Max speed: 3.2MPH

[abenson100]

frost heaves just mean your not going fast enough. everything smooths out at about 50 :-) :p

[adam]

there are 5 of these on my road alone

[middleG622]

Tons of them on the way to my parents house. Randy hates it when I drive on the left hand side of the road to avoid them. :shrug:

[Joe]

My driveway needs one of these signs :unamused:

Heaved hardcore this winter. No worries though, gonna be fixed in the spring. One of the roads to my work has some good heaves in it. It is dirt too so you don't see them til youre on top of them.

[Pulski]

There's one in front of my house. :unamused:

[Buck_Rogers]

This whole state is a giant frost heave this time of year. Personally, I like them. But then again, I have almost 11" of ground clearance :devil: Never could figure out why someone from Maine would want to lower their vehicle.....CRUNCH

[MAINIAC SPEC B]

Acton is known for its frost heaves :lol:

[Joe]

This whole state is a giant frost heave this time of year. Personally, I like them. But then again, I have almost 11" of ground clearance :devil: Never could figure out why someone from Maine would want to lower their vehicle.....CRUNCH


Same reason someone from Florida wants to lift theirs... Cause its awesome! :lol:

[boxer3maine]

I am living on a downtown street with a hole right outside enough to get a town truck stopped at it and inspecting...little orange light spinning.

I used to have a ride that broke frames. milo to bangor..everyday, all yer round. Oh My God. A baja truck would have failed eventually. All vehicles, structural failures that are unlikely...becoming likely.. It is an education. My 23 year old sube is a result...in the other welded direction.

The guy who jacked up his wrx .. it is just the beginning.

beware of that 50 foot hole in rockland.

:unamused:

I have several predictions for the subes in the ej categories...
the legacy wagon: check unibody around rear doors and under rear seat.
the sedans, check rear end, and aft rocker panle interior beam included.
the forestor, that mimicks my 87.. the rear left gains a squish more than the others..you may find the structure that does it..it is never just a strut..it ends up analogizing a "trick knee".

the hatches could do anything, they fail all around...including the belly..same for all the low riders in the hemmerhoid makers/ masocist category. no offense, it is your life.

[HamSocks]

I watched a guy make confetti out of the rear end of his Buick on a frost heave last year. Sparks and exhaust components everywhere. It was amazing.

[inski]

Tons of them on the way to my parents house. Randy hates it when I drive on the left hand side of the road to avoid them. :shrug:
<--guilty of that. :D Evasive maneuvers! The huge one on my road causes me to turn left and then back quickly right so only the right tires hit the HUGE lump but the right side tires are still unloaded so impact force is minimum.

I watched a guy make confetti out of the rear end of his Buick on a frost heave last year. Sparks and exhaust components everywhere. It was amazing.:rofl:

[subaru_crazy]

there's one by my house that i got my dads truck off the ground its so bad. its not that bad in my car but my dads truck litteraly got a couple inches of air.

[inski]

heh, stole pic from NER
http://www.ner.org/gallery2/d/31140-2/Frost_Heaves.jpg

[Seraphinwolf]

Road Axis and Jess live off of is MURDER! :( I need to un"racing spec" my suspension. It's really killing me. Around here in NH everyone knows 27 gets bad cause they repair in squares so there at the seams of each segment is a heave. 5 miles of 10' per heave gets really old.... Back roads are a lot of times okay but where ever there is a regular dip or heave from water running under the road it's bad. I have to slow WAY down at the bottom of on the the hairpins on my way to 101 or really hope no one is on the other side of the road cause it's a blind corner at the dip.

[ReZDoG]

There is a section of road on Route 6 between Kossuth and Topsfield in Washington County that is real rough.. I hit it by accident at about 65, and I damn near went off the road.... it's more then just a frost heave.. more of a road redirection.. hehe

[flat4awd]

I blew my passenger front spring over the top hat driving 60mph over potholes on route 93 to North Conway. I drove it probably 100 miles with it rubbing against the inside of the wheel. I was all "I didn't know my brakes were that bad" until I took it to the yard and discovered the carnage. Thankfully, 01 Impreza struts "bolt right on" haha.

[axis]

Road Axis and Jess live off of is MURDER! :( I need to un"racing spec" my suspension. It's really killing me. Around here in NH everyone knows 27 gets bad cause they repair in squares so there at the seams of each segment is a heave. 5 miles of 10' per heave gets really old.... Back roads are a lot of times okay but where ever there is a regular dip or heave from water running under the road it's bad. I have to slow WAY down at the bottom of on the the hairpins on my way to 101 or really hope no one is on the other side of the road cause it's a blind corner at the dip.

Yeah, that road is pretty bad for sure. It's not so bad going south but going north is a *****. It's slowly getting better though.