Five main spring dangers on the road
All the main road problems for car owners that appear in the spring are the "legacy" of the winter months. Although not long, the off-season period threatens drivers and their vehicles with serious troubles.
First of all, the pits should be mentioned. Every spring there are so many of them in the asphalt that it is impossible to bang the suspension in the next pothole at least several times a day. Owners of cars with low-profile tires on wheels are especially affected. One hit and the wheel is sent to the scrap, and the disk is to be straightened. Moreover, which is typical, these pits are formed every year in the same places. Every year they are rolled up with new asphalt in the summer, but by the next spring, drivers are again trying not to break the suspension on the same pits.
The second, specifically spring trouble on the road is associated with the melting of snow on the roadsides. During the winter, under a layer of snow, a fair amount of various kinds of garbage accumulates here, which, under the spring sun, “floats” into the light of day and ends up on the roadway in various ways. Among the plastic and pieces of paper, nails, screws and other piercing and cutting gizmos come across from nowhere, and strive to dig into the delicate rubber of car tires. For the author of these lines, it has always been a mystery: how small and thin, the so-called "wallpaper" carnations manage to pierce the tread of the most toothy tires ?!
The third spring muck concerns, mainly, city drivers. In the spring, all sorts of caretakers have an irresistible craving to "renew" the surrounding reality.
From the point of view of car owners, this is expressed by the appearance on the sidewalks and the roadway of teams of guest workers with brushes, busy painting curbstones, decorative fences and garbage cans. At the same time, only the most intellectually gifted of them (or with a developed instinct for self-preservation) individuals guess that you should not allow paint to get on cars parked in the immediate vicinity of the painting site. Other "workers from Asia" do not consider it something shameful to sprinkle oil paint on the bumper of a nearby car.
Another typical spring problem for drivers is driving into the oncoming lane. Very often at this time the road markings are erased "to zero" over the winter. Police officers are well aware of the places on the road network where drivers can inadvertently cross the center line of the road and “graze” there, hoping either to fulfill the plan for deprivation protocols or to take bribes.
Well, the main traditional trouble on the road is the brains of “racers” and “pilots” completely melted by the spring sun, whom dry asphalt incites to kick off something street racing in the stream. Unfortunately, it ends as usual - another "lost control" in the police protocol, broken cars of neighbors down the stream, injuries and other "joys" for normal drivers.
