I've taken cross country trips where I've come home to find the bottom of my doors and bumper covers slathered in asphalt goo after driving through road construction/repaving, presumably from asphalt that wasn't fully dried. Anybody that has had to rid a car of asphalt spray knows how incredibly frustrating that is.
I come home today to find them repaving the road in front of my house (a moderately busy state highway). They're closing down about 1/8 of a mile at a time down to one lane where the paving equipment is, but then it opens right back to two lanes, so the traffic going south is driving on asphalt that they literally just put down with zero cure/dry time. I drove through about 1/4 mile of it before I got to my driveway. My tires are now coated in asphalt goo (the tread), of which the goo is now covered in about 1/2" layer of gravel on each tire that it picked up from my driveway. I feel bad for the guy that gets behind me next time I have to take the car out.
Is this common practice? Is there any recourse for someone whose car gets damaged by wet asphalt? I'm not incredibly concerned for myself (and luckily I had my black car), but for the people who have to travel 10+ miles down this road on wet asphalt.
I come home today to find them repaving the road in front of my house (a moderately busy state highway). They're closing down about 1/8 of a mile at a time down to one lane where the paving equipment is, but then it opens right back to two lanes, so the traffic going south is driving on asphalt that they literally just put down with zero cure/dry time. I drove through about 1/4 mile of it before I got to my driveway. My tires are now coated in asphalt goo (the tread), of which the goo is now covered in about 1/2" layer of gravel on each tire that it picked up from my driveway. I feel bad for the guy that gets behind me next time I have to take the car out.
Is this common practice? Is there any recourse for someone whose car gets damaged by wet asphalt? I'm not incredibly concerned for myself (and luckily I had my black car), but for the people who have to travel 10+ miles down this road on wet asphalt.