Tight arsed owners tales

[Bren]

I used to be in the Sd1 owners club - a member bought a ropey example and on closer inspection the rear trailing arm bushes had been replaced with black sponge in order to get through an MOT, which it did.

 

I was appalled at this - not because it was an uber bodge of death trap proportions, but because I had'nt thought of it first.

[Bren]

It happened more than once that I found three different kinds of spark plugs fitted by (a) previous owner(s).

Several black and one red plug lead is also not too uncommon, also plug leads repaired* with electric tape.

Usually the owners of such cars complained about the excessive OMGMPG.

 

My own tightarseness often makes me do even long journeys with underinflated tyres,

because I will not pay money for air at a petrol station.

Charging for air should be made illegal on a general principle.

I agree it should be made illegal, along with having to deal with fucktards on eBay, and showing your gums when you laugh.

[Tetleysmooth]

Ummmm, yeah. I do this, but also on the grounds Im being paid to take a dump.

We have showers at work so I often get in early and shower there too.

 

You blokes are bloody priceless

I never take a dump at work unless I'm touching cloth.

If you see some of the dirty horrible bastards where I work, you'd understand, and that's at a food distribution warehouse.

[Pete-M]

I know people who drive diesels. Cheapskates.

 

Chap I know rides a 1000cc bike, rides it across Europe quite often

With luggage and panniers. Replaces the brake pads individually. One wears out he'll replace it and keep the other ones ready for when the next pad gets low. Two discs on the front but he'll never buy pads for both discs. He keeps the old pads if there's any meat left on them.

[Lankytim]

I NEVER crimp one off at home, always at work. I thought this was pretty standard?

[inconsistant]

I totally get the not free air argument but still resent putting £75 of deisel in the car and then having to pay 50p for air.

[Lankytim]

Maybe charge then for the air coming out of your mouth when you talk to the guy at the till when paying?

[Jim Bell]

Charging for air should be made illegal on a general principle.

Agreed. The price keeps going up too.

 

I guess that's inflation for you.

 

 

Budum tshhhhh

[Station]

Eat a load of (provided for) breakfast in work - muesli is great as it is so dense, I and I really like it anyway. Always too full to eat until 6pm. I then have a packet of 30p noodles. Then go back up to my mum and dad's on the weekend.

I think I spend about 2 pounds on food every week.

Used to go to the gym every day, and had a 'free' shower there as well.

This was not intentional, but considering how much energy a shower uses, you're probably saving a bit.

[Junkman]

When I worked in a small village garage this "free air" bollocks used to wind me up.

A one bay workshop with one airline so when Mr/Mrs free air complained about the dirty hose or couldn't understand how to use the gauge I had to stop what I was doing to check their tyre pressures.Atleast half an hour, maybe more, of the working week was lost checking other peoples tyre pressures.If we let them do it themselves more often than not they'd chuck the gauge down where it was and run over the fucker on their way out.So no it isn't free.We never charged anyone even though it cost time and electric to run the compressor.

 

I should have worded it more precise - charging for air at a petrol station should be illegal.

I think there was even a trading standards case when it started.

Properly inflated tyres are a safety factor and people who just spent 90 quid for a fill up and maybe some victuals shouldn't be milked further.

It should be offered as a free service.

Remember the days when the air was free and they even threw in some freebies when you filled up?

[inconsistant]

When I was growing up our household operated with 3 different currencies... Pounds Sterling, Luncheon Vouchers and Tiger Tokens.

[Grundig]

When I was growing up our household operated with 3 different currencies... Pounds Sterling, Luncheon Vouchers and Tiger Tokens.

 

..... there was a fourth --- Green shield stamps  

[Micrashed]

When I was growing up our household operated with 3 different currencies... Pounds Sterling, Luncheon Vouchers and Tiger Tokens.

 

 

..... there was a fourth --- Green shield stamps  

There was a fith.... John Player Tokens.

 

I ordered a Black & Dekker Dustbuster and a hosepipe and a tape player.

[Lankytim]

Pulling off into a motorway services to find the air machine is out of order must be the most frustrating experience in the world. I agree, its a safety critical service and even if its 20p it should be working! Ditto the water for screen wash too. Sometimes it actually lets air it of the Tyre before you realise is not working, leaving you stranded..Ideally it should be free of charge seeing how much petrol costs..

[Partridge]

I knew a bloke who used to put watered down handwash in his washer bottle. It created a weird film on the glass that just seemed to attract dust and dirt.

[Partridge]

Pulling off into a motorway services to find the air machine is out of order must be the most frustrating experience in the world. I agree, its a safety critical service and even if its 20p it should be working! Ditto the water for screen wash too. Sometimes it actually lets air it of the Tyre before you realise is not working, leaving you stranded..Ideally it should be free of charge seeing how much petrol costs..

I always think charging for air is just a bit too strong...

[Pete-M]

It's a quid at some service areas.

[Micrashed]

40p at Truckhaven. That said I dont begrudge paying that sort of money. I didnt use the services for anything else.

[FredTransit]

never buy sugar or sweetners. Its always on offer at filling stations, asda cafes and maccy d's......

[oldford]

After taking our works van into a local tyre place to have a puncture repaired, which turned out to be irrepairable so they chucked a tyre on it that they had lying around for free, I was informed that the brake pads were in very urgent need of a change.  I passed this observation onto the workshop who, 3 weeks later got around to replacing the brake pads with a set of pre owned ones.

 

This was the same van which we had been driving for some time with a cracked windscreen, cracked across the full width just above the wipers,  we got it changed recently when another crack in the drivers view of the road appeared for a screen which a year before we had removed from a car which we scrapped.

 

On my car I did replace the punctured drivers pneumatic lumbar support with a (free) fork lift truck inner tube.

[Cavcraft]

I don't know if it counts, but sod it: in my last job when I started I was lucky* enough to have a 260,000 odd mile Transit Di to do my usual minimum of 140 miles a day in.

We were supposed to check the oil daily bit I CBA until one day the oil light came on as I was pasting down the A5 by Oswestry, and a quick check revealed no oil. I called into a garage I knew of and scrounged some old oil, lobbed it in and drove off. 

Sadly the bastard thing didn't kill itself and the (utterly useless) garage who serviced our vans spent £2,900 'sorting it out completely.' What they completely sorted out obviously didn't include it's ability to climb a slight incline on the A55, whilst producing a smoke screen that blacked out everything in my rear view mirrors as I wheezed on by at 40mph flat out.

[Doctormop]

I once read that it was impossible to be convicted of letting tyres down as the 'crime' would be theft of air; which is free thus can not be stolen, could this be proved total bollocks, to use a legal term if the plaintiff could show, beyond a reasonable doubt that said air had cost them money?

 

(Or should I just go to bed and limit my Friday Evening intake of Aldi's Highland Earl whisky to one bottle per night forthwith)

[Station]

This is a true story and not made up: My mate walked two miles to my house to charge me petrol money for giving me a lift (I said I'd pay him for it). It was 25p. He added the 5p on for 'wear and tear'!!!

He was well known for his notorious tightness.

He had a part when he was 21 - his parents provided beer, until about 8 o'clock when they locked it away in the cupboard.

[Cavcraft]

It'd possibly be a crime if someone crashed their vehicle as a result of it, though obviously it's the driver's responsibility to check before setting off.

 

Talking of Tiger Tokens, I used to drive my ATS pick-up everywhere flat out in lower gears and tried to stay in 4th (rather than 5th) on long journeys to burn more fuel off. We always left them running where possible and revved the knackers out of them, whoever bought them at auction when we'd finished with them must have been really sorry. I also used to take the centre steering wheel cover off and leave notes in there saying whoever now owned this van had been robbed blind. 

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I always stock up on mint used pads and air filters when at the breakers. Pads need to be virtually as new with near enough the full 10-15mm of asbestosis intact. I got s perfect set of Mintex pads last week plus a pair of front shocks that were just days old. Why not? As with part worn tyres, every used car has a set.

I once had an issue with a jet wash that didn't work properly, leaving soap on the car when the old water rinse shut off after 10 secs. The owner just laughed and wouldn't give me another token just to rinse it off. 'Another two pounds please' he grinned. I grinned even more when after gibing him two quid and completed the job, I used the hacksaw in my toolbox and cut the brush end off.

[Cavcraft]

I used to leave the jetwash on the hook in a certain way at the garage my lad worked at because the gypsies always used it. Then, as soon as they'd inserted the coin they'd get soaked unless they'd moved the lance first, which they invariably didn't.

[simmo]

..... there was a fourth --- Green shield stamps  

 

When they were doing twenty fold stamps dad was running an S-Type Jag, filling both tanks would fill books

[sierraman]

How much do you pay for brake pads at the scrapyard?

[simmo]

Just done a tight arse fix, the viscos fan hub knackered up on my Transit so now its sporting 316 beemer one that was in the garage.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

How much do you pay for brake pads at the scrapyard?

Fuck all, which is my kind of price. Shocks were a tenner each. A new Nissens rad was 15 quid. All in stock for when req'd. Why pay more?