dollywobbler Posted July 9, 2017 Share Posted July 9, 2017 We'll see what they say, the internet and my experience of working for a council suggests their insurers will fight to say it wasn't them and if it was they do a risk assessment so can't be held liable. The E of Bay suggests a a pattern bumper in primer is about 60 quid delivered. Getting it painted in a way that doesn't look terrible is the main issue. In which case you've got a great 'angry local news' angle. I'm sure their risk assessment doesn't say there's a risk of knocking bloody lampposts down! chaseracer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omegod Posted July 9, 2017 Share Posted July 9, 2017 I have just spent the day replacing a CV joint boot on SWMBO's 2.2 Astra Convertible. It's 15 years old but being Australian is rust free and is low mileage so I like to take care of it. Over the last couple of weeks I have done a complete major service including replacing all fluids (engine oil, gearbox oil, brake and clutch fluid, coolant etc.) As I had all the wheels off to bleed the brakes I had cleaned the inside of the wheels to get rid of all the brake dust. Last but not least it had 4 new tyres last week, Yokohama C Drive - the last of the japanese ones. Yesterday after a very early start to look at some steelwork in a shopping centre 70 miles away that was put up overnight and had to be signed off before the shopping centre opened we got to the Yacht Club for a leisurely breakfast before racing and parking up I noticed black stuff on the front left wheel. Moly Grease. Sailed (Came 2nd so not Grump) , drove home put the Astra away and thought this is an easy fix I've done lots of these on Astras before (I've had 6 over the years plus a couple of Novas and three Cavaliers.) Got the wheel off this morning and I've never seen so much grease, all over the inside of the wheel, wheel well, brake caliper, macpherson strut. Turns out the culprit was the ****ing brake pad wear sensor had falllen of the brake pad/caliper, got tangled around the boot and cut through it. The business end of the sensor was inside the CV joint boot! Now we've run out of kitchen roll and had to resort to toilet roll for cleaning up purposes. Breaking news - two rolls worth of kitchen roll liberally impregnated with moly grease and some petrol (ultimate degreaser) is really good for getting the wood burner going very quickly indeed. Now I've also got a brake pad warning due to the lack of a sensor. That isn't getting replaced- will figure out the wiring and reconnect so it thinks the sensor is fine and brake pads have lots of thickness. Edited to add - comment from Non PC wife - "You could be in the black and white minstrels show" Sturdy paper clip shoved into the sensor connector usually bypasses the sensor hennabm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supernaut Posted July 9, 2017 Share Posted July 9, 2017 the council had been cutting down trees, had knocked down a lampostThe incompetence of some people astounds me. LostnotFound and richardmorris 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adw1977 Posted July 9, 2017 Share Posted July 9, 2017 Why the fuck does Warwick services have two Starbucks about ten yards apart in the main building and a third one in the car park? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymous user Posted July 9, 2017 Share Posted July 9, 2017 Why the fuck does Warwick services have two Starbucks about ten yards apart in the main building and a third one in the car park?Because they haven't yet worked out where to put a fourth one. chodweaver, Bianconeri, HarmonicCheeseburger and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bianconeri Posted July 9, 2017 Share Posted July 9, 2017 Because they haven't yet worked out where to put a fourth one.Our local Waitrose now has two cafes, two 'coffee points', a juice bar, a snack / salad bar, a wine-tasting bar and a while you wait liposuction station. Ok I made the last one up. It also has 940 4 mile wide car parking spaces for the "dimwit with 43 children called 'Jocasta' in rented MPV" clientele, who still can't park between the lines. It now also has an EV charging point for Wayne and Waynetta to park the Corsa in "cause it's near the shop innit M5'. Alternatively, like me, you park 300 yards from the store and run the gauntlet of drivers* who don't know what a one-way system or 10mph look like and morons who think the car park is for abandoning trolleys because they are pathologically unable to walk 10 yards to that unused area called 'the trolley park'. But can I find the catfood? Cavcraft, RayMK, alf892 and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strangeangel Posted July 9, 2017 Share Posted July 9, 2017 I spent the entire morning dismantling and re-assembling the inoperative electric step on Mum's Autocruise/Peugeot Boxer camper. All of the internal parts - motor, gearbox, runners etc. - were as dry as a nun's twat. Half a day's worth of unpleasantness could have been avoided at a stroke if the retards who assembled this particular Omni Step had used about 2p's worth of grease FFS. I may add that this process was not in any way helped by the fact that a cordless drill had clearly been used to wang up all the screws, destroying their heads to the point where I had to use Mole grips to turn them out. Sadly, this level of workmanship is about on a par with the standard of Autocruise's wiring... can't wait till that starts playing up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted July 9, 2017 Share Posted July 9, 2017 Try Swift, if you want really shit 'workmanship'. Next-door paid £stupid for one of those six-wheel gin palaces with the front end of a Fiat Ducato. Oddly, the Italian bits were of immeasurably higher quality/reliability than Swift's contribution. After three attempts at rectification by the factory - one visit resulting in body damage - the van was rejected and all funds returned, slightly ahead of legal action. They decided instead on an Audi S3 and an annual fortnight in the Maldives. privatewire and mercrocker 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timewaster Posted July 9, 2017 Share Posted July 9, 2017 Re Council/trees/lamp post/bumper unpleasantness, the risk assessment is no excuse. They either didn't take the lamp post into consideration or they did and then went ahead and knocked it down anyway. Either way demonstrates incompetence. chaseracer, LostnotFound and myglaren 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bramz7 Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 Piece of crap new car literally keeps FTPing. Probably needs a new alternator or the wiring between the battery and it is utterly ruined. And the arse won't go up. Not a good Monday morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3VOM Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 Why the fuck does Warwick services have two Starbucks about ten yards apart in the main building and a third one in the car park? The one in the car park is a drive through? I'm sure we went in one yesterday but I think it was at Keele. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod/b Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 The council are putting up the rent on the lockup where we keep the ZX by 45% so it's no longer viable to keep it. Fucking thanks a bunch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise2cv Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 The new bath is still leaking and the builder has told us to FRO he is bored of trying to fix it. We have also discovered the pipe work or waste for the sink is leaking but it's all been boxed in. His final offer was to take down the partition wall that the shower and shower screen is on and then give £75 to get someone to put it back. Obviously having paid him to fit the bathroom including plasterboard, tiles, tiling, shower and screen we don't find this solution acceptable and we think it means he will be breaking the contract. So now we are trying to get some kind of money back (having spoken to CAB) but of course this relays on getting quotes for the work that needs to be done. Naturally we are now back to the situation where people are coming but not sending the quote in writing or saying they will come and not turning up. Nightmare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 Trading Standards...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise2cv Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 Apparently not. Matt knows the local TS dude and he said it wasn't really their scene. I don't understand why either! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artdjones Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 Write or email the builder telling him that either he fixes the leaks or you will have a surveyor look at the job he did, will pay someone else to rectify his faulty work and then take him to the Small Claims court for what you've spent.Stopping the bath and sink wastes from leaking is plumbing 101 and any competent builder's labourer should be able to do it.Any competent diyer in fact. The Moog, alf892, myglaren and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 Apparently not. Matt knows the local TS dude and he said it wasn't really their scene. I don't understand why either! WHAT??!? Write or email the builder telling him that either he fixes the leaks or you will have a surveyor look at the job he did, will pay someone else to rectify his faulty work and then take him to the Small Claims court for what you've spent. This. richardmorris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise2cv Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 Thanks. This is what we are in the process of doing. The main problem I think is we are both not wanting to make a fuss. They have been back several times and they are saying that this proves we are unreasonable, where as we think that a.) we must be having problems to keep asking them back and b.) we are giving them opportunity to put it right rather than demanding a refund or going legal on them. Basically we need to toughen up and get to it! myglaren and STUNO 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 You do, on this occasion. And I know that doesn't come naturally to a genuinely nice person like you. richardmorris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louise2cv Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 We sent an email with a list of problems, including photos and said we were getting quotes. They haven't replied so I suspect they will deny having received it. So Matt's job today is to print it all off and I will get it sent recorded delivery. It's a nice little project for Matt while he is recovering from an emergency appendectomy... (I was not cut out for nursing it seems!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 GWS, Matt! Louise2cv 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostnotFound Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 In which case you've got a great 'angry local news' angle. I'm sure their risk assessment doesn't say there's a risk of knocking bloody lampposts down! They've still got a few days to get back to me, I always feel you should give people a chance to do fix their mistakes / do the right thing before getting too excited. It's irritating but something that can be bodged and lived with even if I can't get them to sort it. If it would have landed on the windscreen and I'd have had to make a claim on my insurance even for vandalism then I'd already be outside the council offices with a torch in one hand a pitchfork in the other. My wistful dreams of a 90's supersport bike would be badly affected by insurance issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outlaw118 Posted July 10, 2017 Author Share Posted July 10, 2017 Not sure where this should go.... If you choose to shout in my face the words "WOT U GONNA DO ABAHT IT YOU FAT CAHNT", it won't be long before you find out. And stop bleeding everywhere, it's unhygienic. HarmonicCheeseburger, Cavcraft, alf892 and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lankytim Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 Need a passenger side mirror cover and indicator for my 2005 Volvo S40 as it was knocked off on the dim and distant past, just a couple of pieces of plastic... you can't buy the cover separately and a full mirror unit is £120 odd! Why so pricey?? Sod that, I'll just live without it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 Not sure where this should go.... If you choose to shout in my face the words "WOT U GONNA DO ABAHT IT YOU FAT CAHNT", it won't be long before you find out. And stop bleeding everywhere, it's unhygienic. GRIN thread, I think Bob outlaw118 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hooli Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 Apparently not. Matt knows the local TS dude and he said it wasn't really their scene. I don't understand why either! I have tried TS for several things & it's never their scene. I'm at an utter loss what they do cover as it doesn't include anything you buy from or get done by a trader. Louise2cv 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobT Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 It appears we have another new set of wankers living here, as my garage has been blocked in for the second time in the past month. Left my usual note but I'm extra annoyed tonight as I was going to drag the Astra dizzler out and do some cleaning/tinkering, seeing as it's been a nice evening. I feel like letting his tyres down, but that would make me as uncivilised as him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artdjones Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 My wife was born in Canada to English parents.They moved back in 1976and she has only ever had a UK passport.Same for her sister.End of Augustthe two of them plus MIL are going to the far west near Alaska so they cansee where they lived before Mil is too old.(She's 82).You dont need a visabut you do need an electronic travel authorisation which costs $7 over the internet.Filled in the onlineform which includes the question "where were you born" Answer-Canada.It now turns out that they can't have the eta because they are citizens.Citizens can only enter Canadausing a Canadian passport since last November.That costs $190 and has a turnaroundtime of 10 weeks.They leave in seven weeks.Cue panic as they already spent €3000 euros for tickets,insurance and car hire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DodgeRover Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 Can they apply at the embassy in person and get it done any quicker? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artdjones Posted July 10, 2017 Share Posted July 10, 2017 I don't think so.I'm sure there will be some sort of expedited process probablycosting $$$ more.Her sister happens to be in Dublin on Thursday - hopefullyshe can call in and find out.At the moment the form is being filled in and refereeschosen.Also they are picky about photos - the photographer has to have theiraddress printed or stamped on the back,for example. Ironic really - something many would pay a huge amount for(Canadian citizenship) is rather a nuisance at the moment! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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