I ran through a pot hole on the Aberdeen Airport road and bucled the NSF wheel on my RB320 so i took all the photo's, depth of the hole etc and contacted the council. I got a really nice reply from them with all the forms to fill in and send to their insurers (AXA) which i did very diligently. Got areply telling me to basically piss off!! Said the road fault had not been reported since they did asurvey some 3 months prior to my "accident" so they were not liable. Oh and by the way sir, if you decide to pursue this further we will launch an independant enquirey into your claim - christ i felt like a criminal...................
Oh and by the way, the tar and stone chips thing is exactly the same here in Aberdeenshire.........