Posted by u/this1tyme 14 hours ago
LPT: Texans, you are about to experience the worst potholes many of you have ever seen. Make sure your tire pressure is correct for your vehicles, drive slowly, give plenty of distance between your vehicle and the one in front of you, and don't trust puddles. Love from Michigan.
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Nothing like low profile tires and potholes. I broke not only the tire and rim but the strut as well.
I broke them all! They’re mechanical and I broke them like mechanicals. I hate them!
Oooh don’t trust puddles. That’s a good one. From a New Englander.
Cannot emphasize this advice enough. Some puddles can be deep enough to pop a tire and damage your rims.
Real talk: Michigan has some of the worst road conditions I've ever seen. I live in Minnesota and I was blown away by how bad the roads were.
We're still the automotive state. Gotta have cars go bad fast to sell more cars.
Texan here. Reading this sitting in my car with a flat tire from a pothole that literally happened 30 minutes ago.
I am so sorry. I've been there with the "why me?" feeling. Take care of yourself.
I’ve hit New Orleans potholes that momentarily knocked my soul from my body. Everyone thinks we flash a bunch in New Orleans during Mardi Gras, in reality we just have potholes that’ll shake you so hard a titty pops out
Ugh, I've hit some of those. Also, driving across the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge fucking sucks.
You ever hit a pothole and audibly apologize to your car? Edit: didn’t expect my comment to get this much love for a joke I heard when I was 10 Edit2: I’m from Texas... I just have NY born dad who lived closer to Canada then the city...
You ever hit a pot hole and that check engine light you've been ignoring finally turns off?
Any potholes you see get out and draw a penis and some balls around it with some spray paint. It will fixed quickly.
As a frequent visitor to Texas, my experience tells me that someone is just going to come along and draw a bigger dick next to it.
The kind of potholes you can expect with this kind of temperature swing are not going to be tiny, cute little things. The roads have been frozen for a few days, but with the sudden warm weather, the surfaces of the roads are warming up a LOT faster than the material underneath. This is going to tear up the roads, like, violently. Some potholes are going to be huge, and I mean gargantuan. Homeless people are going to move into them and they will swallow compact cars whole. Okay, hyperbole aside, it is not unusual to see potholes feet deep (not inches: feet). They can total cars and even flip trucks under the right conditions (high-rise trucks need to be especially careful due to their high center of gravity). If you see a large pothole, call your road commission or whoever needs to be aware of them. Don't assume they know... there are going to be a lot.
Once hit a pot hole so bad it triggered the emergency fuel shut off. Had no idea what was going on, but the car died and would not restart. Turns out in a head-on collision the fuel pump will shut off so the car doesn’t burn up. Had to call the manufacturer’s customer service line to figure out how to reset it. This was in Indiana.
Damn straight—DONT TRUST PUDDLES. I trusted one today and the thud from the pothole lurking ‘neath the deep was monstrous. That’s real thalassophobia, Midwest style Edit: spelling
Ooof. Ohio felt that to the core.
God I hated driving in Cincinnati for the few years I lived there. A pot hole would be filled, then totally open in a day it seemed like.
As a NJer who visited Texas, i can tell you it doesn’t matter. They drive like it’s Mario kart out there.
If anyone questions this, please visit the Dallas North Tollway. I refer to it as the North Texas Autobahn. 80 in the left lane will piss most drivers off
When you find yourself bouncing along a full mile of heaves, bulges, cracks, massive splits that drop to an abyss, and a crumbling edge over which you are transported into a Stephen King novel, the term "pothole" may seem insufficient. With love, Maine
Dear Michigan, appreciate the advice. Good looking out bud. Love, Texas.
Seconded. Thanks, fam.
Asking Texas driver to slow down and allow plenty of braking space is like asking a regular person to simply stop breathing for an hour.
Best of luck from PA.
PennDont cause they don’t do a goddamn thing.
Wow lol, I’m from Texas and just moved to MI less than 2 years ago and I could have written this! What part of TX/MI you from if you don’t mind me asking? And def spot on!
Fam in Houston, I'm from the northern Detroit suburbs.
**WOW** An actual protip! This person knows what they're talking about Texas. As the road freezes and thaws it cracks and splits and there will be mammoth tire eating potholes in your future. The best tip is to not tailgate. You'll want a few seconds to react when you see the car in front of you lose its tire. You can bend your rim or worse...tear the tire completely off of your car. I saw one poor guy that lost 4 tires to a series of potholes. Also if you do damage a tire to a pothole often times the city is responsible for the cost! You might have a hard time qualifying but it's worth a shot. For example where I live we have a pothole map that shows where all of the worst potholes are. If you hit one and file the claim the city pays for it. The catch is you have to hit a pothole that is on the map AND prove you hit it. The proof is usually call the police and they file a report. Good Luck!
I'd say it was an actual pro tip, but my rural town of Texas is so cheap, they haven't fixed pot holes in decades. So nothing new here. Also the town doesn't take responsibility for damages. So that doesn't apply here, at least in my county of Texas. Idk about the rest of Texas.
Edit: if anyone is wondering why no one in town seems to care, it's cause they don't want their taxes raised. Trust me, anytime the issue is posted on facebook, the oldies rally up and say no cause of taxes.
Uh oh. We're just about the worst drivers I have ever seen. Everyone one cuts each other off, we give no space between the cars in front of us, and we're all driving like we're 20 minutes late. Imagine an entire city with nothing but NYC cab drivers.
Already seeing them :(
Yeah, going from sub-zero temperatures to plus seventy-degree temps is like dropping an ice cube into room temperature water. You know that "pop" the ice makes? Yeah, that's the roads right now. Take care of yourself.
OP has officially done more for Texas than CancunCruz
Don’t worry. If the government down there is as horrible as the midwest, the potholes will rarely get fixed so you will memorize where most are
Lmao for real. We’re extremely familiar with potholes, at least in Houston.
Can confirm With love from Canada
The pot holes of the outskirts of Huston are already so fucked. Vehicles gonna be disappearing into the underworld