Odd request...!

[Funk]

This might seem a little strange, but is this a Volvo S80 headlight from around 2010?



If so, would anyone happen to know the measurement of the height of it please? I'd appreciate it - it'll help as a reference point for measuring something else in the photo..!

Cheers!

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Thats not an S80. Thats either a S40 or V50 from the looks of the photo. They've both got the same front end.

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To show you that its a S40/V50, compare these photos. The blue one is a S40/V50, the black one is an S80. Compare that against your photo and you'll see what I mean.

[Funk]

Smashing, thanks chaps - anyone happen to know the height of the headlight by any chance?

[passport010]

Are you trying to measure the speed?!

Why the headlight? Could you go by the wheel diameter? Or day running light.

[sherman]

C30 used the same lights as the s40/v50 too.

[Funk]

passport010 said:

Are you trying to measure the speed?!

Why the headlight? Could you go by the wheel diameter? Or day running light.

A pothole. It's the only reasonable reference point in one of the pics I took and as it was a busy road I wasn't going to crouch there with a tape measure. If I can get an idea of the height of the light, I can roughly extrapolate the depth of the pothole.

My initial claim in to the council for the £300 tyre that was destroyed hitting the hole at 60mph has been declined so I'm having to step it up a gear...

[Davie]

sherman said:

C30 used the same lights as the s40/v50 too.

Pedant mode but no, the C30 and C70 are different.

As for your dimensions, anything to escape the wife and crap telly for five minutes...

Ground to base of headlight = 500mm

Headlight height = 160mm

Can't see how that'll help given the car pictured is further back and the image is taken from above the pothole. You'd be better going back when it's quiet with a long baton, a tape measure, your camera and a spotter.

[anonymous-user]

I should put that pothole at about 0.12m deep at a guess, I spend most of my working life estimating dimensions of things by eye especially from photography.

Probably of no practical use but there you go.

[Funk]

Davie said:

sherman said:

C30 used the same lights as the s40/v50 too.

Pedant mode but no, the C30 and C70 are different.

As for your dimensions, anything to escape the wife and crap telly for five minutes...

Ground to base of headlight = 500mm

Headlight height = 160mm

Can't see how that'll help given the car pictured is further back and the image is taken from above the pothole. You'd be better going back when it's quiet with a long baton, a tape measure, your camera and a spotter.

Thanks for the measurements - it's really just to try and get a rough estimate of the depth. I don't know whether the pothole is still there, it's a 60 mile round-trip to check so understandably it's something I'd rather avoid.

It actually looks as though there are two layers of tarmac visible in the picture which suggests that the pothole is/was there a long time and deep enough to knacker a tyre. It was a really abrupt edge from the bottom of the hole back to the road surface that did it.

Thanks for the info!

Newarch said:

I should put that pothole at about 0.12m deep at a guess, I spend most of my working life estimating dimensions of things by eye especially from photography.

Probably of no practical use but there you go.

I'd agree with that - and probably 500-600mm in length? It's also wide enough for a 255/35/20 wheel to drop into.

Edited by Funk on Saturday 10th July 20:35

[V1nce Fox]

Go back when it’s quiet?

[Funk]

V1nce Fox said:

Go back when it’s quiet?

Per my previous post, it's a 60-mile round trip for something which may or may not even still be there - it was around 2-3 months ago it happened.

[V1nce Fox]

Funk said:

Per my previous post, it's a 60-mile round trip for something which may or may not even still be there - it was around 2-3 months ago it happened.

Ah apologies, only skimmed the thread.

[Funk]

V1nce Fox said:

Funk said:

Per my previous post, it's a 60-mile round trip for something which may or may not even still be there - it was around 2-3 months ago it happened.

Ah apologies, only skimmed the thread.

No worries.

It's taken this long for WSCC to tell me they're not liable for the tyre replacement. Next step is FOI request asking for lots of info...