What makes you grin? Antidote to grumpy thread

[Tadhg Tiogar]

....the wife said that they had put it up for sale last year for £2,000, and I have their number in case anyone might be interested...

 

I was then given the tour, apparently it's been garaged it's entire life, sunroof has "probably" never been opened. There were a few scratches around the wings, but I didn't spot any obvious welding, though the husband did say that a rear suspension turret has been worked on after a spring broke. The inside looked even better, no obvious signs of wear on anything despite actually having done about 46k, it just looked all very honest to be honest.

 

It was a nice local car too, to finish off (along with noticing that there was a rear wiper through the rear glass on a saloon, unheard of now) here's the original dealer sticker....

She really let you have the hard sell, didn't she?

[Slappy]

Oh totally! Utterings were had about the husband having too many cars too

[bramz7]

Someone I work with called up an ECU place who seemed to have fudged their car whilst it had a remap, with it going into limp mode or such like (he mentioned the EML is permanently on too) every 3 miles now. He had called them over and over and they just kept ignoring him.

 

Anyway he wrote a threatening letter, trading standards etc, not up to reasonable standard, which seemed to finally pique their interest, he had a reasonably* heated call with them this afternoon.

 

The owner of the garage not only told him to 'wind his neck in' but also said he shouldn't have to refund him as 'to be fair your car isn't worth that much.' 

 

What a knobber! I am quite glad he didn't get me on the end of the phone as I would have bloody told him where to stick his opinions. 

 

In the end though I think he agreed to refund the guy, as his aggression tactics fell on deaf ears. Mind you, his car is still fucked. 

[catsinthewelder]

Where do you generally stand with garages (or builders) fucking things up?

 

A local garage snapped a glowplug they were changing on one of the Transit vans at work.  They phoned up to ask if it would be OK to take the head off to get it out.  I said no, we would live with 3 as it is going soon.  The van is only 3 and a half years old FFS surely we shouldn't be putting up with that shit.  We did put up with this as they are far more competent than the last garage.

 

If I fuck up a job for a customer I will fix it for free.  This isn't to say that all jobs are finished on time and on budget,  sometimes things take longer because the wood is rotten behind the paint or you dig down to find unexpected concrete.

[DodgeRover]

Modern transits start without heat anyway unless it's minus temperatures don't they?

[Wack]

Oh totally! Utterings were had about the husband having too many cars too

You were getting cucked , if you'd fell for it handcuffs and a whip were on the agenda , come and look at my car , the paperwork is upstairs

[155V6]

A customer turned up in this today to buy a bag of horse feed,we gave him some water too 

 

[AMC Rebel]

Major grin day today! I aquired a Holden Suburban to be the new tow barge from a friend a few weeks ago, where it had been parked in the open on a Scottish hillside for the last 3 years. A couple of weeks was spent replacing rotten pipes etc before getting it home where I have been slowly getting it ready for MOT. This morning was warm(ish) and sunny, and before doing anything to any of the motors decided to do a tip run with the Saab. On my way back, I called in to see my MOT man to see when he had a slot available, only to be told to bring it in at 1630!

Returned home, did a few final checks and duly turned up for a test. All was going well until he spotted a damp patch on a rusty fuel line, but after promises from me, and threats from him, he put it down as an advisory and it now has a years MOT. Got home and replaced the rusty section of fuel line with some proper petrol hose, so all is good. Will tax it next week and see what it is like, but I am happy.

 

I bloody love those and have resolved to own one at some point

[Louise2cv]

Where do you generally stand with garages (*OR BUILDERS*) fucking things up?

 

 

Oh don't. *Triggered*

 

 

Small claims. It's been going months and we still haven't got anywhere. We have been complaining to he builder for a year now, been through their trade body ADR scheme. It's finally at the local court, but haven't heard from them for nearly a month.

[hairnet]

 

[MorrisItalSLX]

Found this picture in the for sale ad for the Dyane:

 

 

Winning at life?

 

https://www.carsales.com.au/private/details/Citroen-Dyane-1979/SSE-AD-5274671/?Cr=10

[dollywobbler]

That BX is an amazing colour!

[gm]

I'm on the train to work just now, the conductor has just announced "ladies and gentlemen, we apologise for the late running of this train today, the reason for this is a streaker was running through the tunnels at haymarket"

[D Spares & Tyres]

Where do you generally stand with garages (or builders) fucking things up?

 

A local garage snapped a glowplug they were changing on one of the Transit vans at work.  They phoned up to ask if it would be OK to take the head off to get it out.  I said no, we would live with 3 as it is going soon.  The van is only 3 and a half years old FFS surely we shouldn't be putting up with that shit.  We did put up with this as they are far more competent than the last garage.

 

If I fuck up a job for a customer I will fix it for free.  This isn't to say that all jobs are finished on time and on budget,  sometimes things take longer because the wood is rotten behind the paint or you dig down to find unexpected concrete.

Undoing a glow plug is a simple job. A child could do it. If it snapped then its the poxy vans fault. Have a heart

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Oh totally! Utterings were had about the husband having too many cars too

 

Reminds me of "Aunty Wainwright" in Last Of The Summer Wine. Nobody came out of her shop without having "bought" something.....

[chaseracer]

I'm on the train to work just now, the conductor has just announced "ladies and gentlemen, we apologise for the late running of this train today, the reason for this is a streaker was running through the tunnels at haymarket"

 

Maister Flower on shift again...? 

[drum]

The reason I've moved into the countryside.

 

Good for the soul after a crap day at work.

 

I had to stop this morning and take a pic.

[sierraman]

Got back on good terms with my brother, we fell out some time ago over something really minor. Things over the past week made us think what a bloody silly thing it was to bust up. If I've learnt anything in the past week its that times too precious commodity.

[MorrisItalSLX]

I went looking in my shed for some tail light bulbs and found a heap, even some NOS ford ones



I also found a life time supply of 30 amp fuses



I've never even heard of Australux

[The Moog]

We have working heating... Very happy bunny. Plus was £100 less than had budgeted for.

[Tickman]

We have working heating... Very happy bunny. Plus was £100 less than had budgeted for.

Extra £100 in the car fund then?

[puddlethumper]

^^ Or a lorra roffle tickets.

[Guest Hooli]

We have working heating... Very happy bunny. Plus was £100 less than had budgeted for.

 

£100? that's a dozen mopeds!

[Guest Hooli]

Main grin for the day is having booked tickets for this, I've always wanted to see jousting. It's a proper sport unlike all the modern shite (all sports are shite after 1486 etc)

 

https://royalarmouries.org/events/calendar/2018-03-30/easter-tournament-2018

[rainagain]

Haven't watched the youtube vid, but it boils my piss to see "safety" covers shoved in 3-pin sockets. I know the boffins in the 40s already thought about it.

 

NO NEED!

 

http://www.fatallyflawed.org.uk

 

This for me too, especially in public buildings. Those things should be made illegal.

[rainagain]

Sorry if we have already had this one.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zeBIxI7n1I&sns=em

 

 

This video complies with our intetests!

Wow what great ingenuity, thanks for posting

[Guest Hooli]

I know this will make a load of you weridos grin...

 

[DeeJay]

I don't know what I'm looking at but you are right.

[Guest Hooli]

I don't know what the transporter is, but pretty sure that's a Trabant on the back.

[Datsuncog]

Barkas transporter... that's quite the Commie combo there.