The grumpy thread

[Dick Longbridge]

1 hour ago, gm said:

A grump from yesterday - I was happily working away in the garage with a bit of 'Maiden blasting out and some soppy sod at apple has decided that my hearing is at risk ! I turned it up again and ten minutes later it turned itself down again  fuck that, I'll just turn up the amp instead  

(I don't use headphones, it was plugged into my amp via the headphone socket)

And *that's* why I use Android. 

[LightBulbFun]

5 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

And *that's* why I use Android. 

I do wonder if its an iOS thing or an EU thing...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-21294537

 

good excuse to piss off any neighbours you dont like by blasting loud music in their general direction with genuine excuse of its for research purposes!

[reb]

Finally got a response out of Carparts4less, the basic gist of it being their courier won't ship the battery because it's hazardous goods? Quite why they're selling them then I don't know since they're delivery only? Incompetent monkeys. A friend is going to get me one through Dingbro, which will likely be cheaper and turn up quite a bit faster. Should have just done that in the first place.

[Lacquer Peel]

2 hours ago, Bren said:

I have been to the garage which have the vectra. From speaking with mechanic it became apparent that they have weeks of work hence reluctance to get further involved. I explained if I thought it was absolutely knackered then I would'nt have brought it in. Mechanic then said he would be happy to strip it down.

We need an estate - and a diesel one. I would be happier fixing this and chucking £1k at it and fixing it than spending £1500 on some other shite. Apart from the engine the car is mint - I have seen worse three year old examples.

I think people don't fix things because they have no cash. It's easier to sign up for a PCP.

 

[High Jetter]

More fucking fireworks! Why?

[sierraman]

5 hours ago, Bren said:

I have been to the garage which have the vectra. From speaking with mechanic it became apparent that they have weeks of work hence reluctance to get further involved. I explained if I thought it was absolutely knackered then I would'nt have brought it in. Mechanic then said he would be happy to strip it down.

We need an estate - and a diesel one. I would be happier fixing this and chucking £1k at it and fixing it than spending £1500 on some other shite. Apart from the engine the car is mint - I have seen worse three year old examples.

I think people don't fix things because they have no cash. It's easier to sign up for a PCP.

Is it manual? I’d check the state of the DMF before making any rash decisions. 

[Bren]

28 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Is it manual? I’d check the state of the DMF before making any rash decisions. 

No its auto.

[Tamworthbay]

FedEx are twats, apparently ‘to be delivered by 6pm Thursday’ actually means ‘ you will get it when we fucking say you do, feck off’

[High Jetter]

Ordered online from Boots. ETA next Tues. Text from Royal Mail 7:05 yesterday saying arriving tomorrow (ie today).  Plus 2 more texts, plus one after delivery. Why?

[captain_70s]

16 hours ago, Dick Longbridge said:

And *that's* why I use Android. 

My last two android phones have done this too. I just turn the volume back up...

My iPod Classic has a much more annoying variant why by it sets it's volume lock at about 5/6ths if you listen at full blast for too long. To undo this you have to navigate the menus and reset the volume lock, ideal when you're driving. I have the bloody thing specifically because the interface can be used without looking at it ffs...

[Dick Longbridge]

39 minutes ago, captain_70s said:

My last two android phones have done this too. I just turn the volume back up...

Good lord, really? I clearly haven't played music loudly enough to find out! Having said that, I've been trying to look after my hearing for the last decade after developing tinnitus from loud personal stereo listening in my late teens and playing in a band (with a brilliant, but excitable drummer) with zero ear protection for a few years. 

[PhilA]

6 hours ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Good lord, really? I clearly haven't played music loudly enough to find out! Having said that, I've been trying to look after my hearing for the last decade after developing tinnitus from loud personal stereo listening in my late teens and playing in a band (with a brilliant, but excitable drummer) with zero ear protection for a few years. 

Gotta be an EU thing, my phone will sit with the headphones connected forever without altering the volume.

I have one of my old phones in the garage connected permanently to a charger and the headphones to the line-in on the hifi.

 

If anything: "We detected you were listening to Iron Maiden so we automatically increased the volume"

 

Phil

[gm]

It's the first time it has done this, presumably it was the (another) essential update that the phone decided it needed the other night. 

But yes, it should know better - Quiet heavy metal just doesn't work   

[omegod]

That bearded twat explorer has trespassed and done another video of someone's woodland chodstash, cue another owner now having no peace of mind. I've been hammering him at every opportunity and will continue to do so

[Dick Longbridge]

19 minutes ago, omegod said:

That bearded twat explorer has trespassed and done another video of someone's woodland chodstash, cue another owner now having no peace of mind. I've been hammering him at every opportunity and will continue to do so

I've left a suitably salty comment. What a dick.

[Tamworthbay]

21 hours ago, Tamworthbay said:

FedEx are twats, apparently ‘to be delivered by 6pm Thursday’ actually means ‘ you will get it when we fucking say you do, feck off’

Follow up to this, after a day of the useless tossers claiming they knew exactly where it was, it turned up as I was on the phone listening to bullshit, it had got lost in the van under some rubbish and sat there a couple of days. I let the bloke do his bullshit about the system never failing before asking him if he wanted to speak to the guy at the door with my parcel in his hands. He went strangely quiet.

[Wack]

No idea whats going on here but whoever is driving wants fucking with a rusty nail

https://www.facebook.com/471607460314277/posts/873933826748303/?sfnsn=scwspmo

[Mrcento]

On 11/19/2020 at 2:34 PM, Bren said:

Having said all this garages can also be an issue - a lot of them don't wan't to be come involved in anything that cannot be turned around quickly - ignorant people get fobbed off so buy another car.

Many garages are basically slightly more in depth fast fit centres now. It's whipping parts off and putting new ones on (with an air gun). Fault finding consists of plugging in a code reader and declaring a car dead if nothing shows on it and they can't see something obviously hanging off, snapped or smoking.

The quicker they can turn cars around, the more cars they see to and the more rounded up hours they can charge on other cars. It soon adds up over a month. Over a year, it'd be several thousand to a busy garage.

It's even starting to become a struggle to find garages to do fairly basic but potentially long winded jobs like a clutch.

3-4 hours to them @£50 per hour = £150-£200 labour, but a ramp taken up that they could get 5-6 30-45 minute jobs done on, all rounded up to an hour @£50 = £250-300. It's effectively costing the garage £100 in profit to take on the big job.

[twosmoke300]

Unfortunately margins are pretty tight in garages. People see the labour rate and assume we are minted. The overheads are pretty shocking .

Obviously I like to turn jobs around quickly but also take on bigger more snaggy jobs too. But on the proviso the customer isn’t hassling me twice a day asking when it will be done and the price to the nearest penny before it’s even finished. 
 

But in reality it’s simple business - if you are booked ahead for weeks with easy profitable jobs why would  you want to burden yourself with snaggy shit ? 

[Bren]

1 hour ago, twosmoke300 said:

Unfortunately margins are pretty tight in garages. People see the labour rate and assume we are minted. The overheads are pretty shocking .

Obviously I like to turn jobs around quickly but also take on bigger more snaggy jobs too. But on the proviso the customer isn’t hassling me twice a day asking when it will be done and the price to the nearest penny before it’s even finished. 
 

But in reality it’s simple business - if you are booked ahead for weeks with easy profitable jobs why would  you want to burden yourself with snaggy shit ? 

I heartily agree - however modern cars and snaggy shit go hand in hand. When the valve stem seals went on my 545 the local specialists did'nt want to know. The place I took it to entailed a 220 mile round trip but they did the job quickly for under a grand. They seemed to do all the stuff most places run from - do they have techs with better skills?

As cars get more complicated snaggy shit will not go away - many places will fall by the wayside if they don't upskill.

[red5]

19 hours ago, Dick Longbridge said:

I've left a suitably salty comment. What a dick.

How does he know its abandoned ? O know loads of vehicles/places left to deteriorate because the owners choose to. Fucking wanker trespasser.  

[twosmoke300]

3 hours ago, Bren said:

I heartily agree - however modern cars and snaggy shit go hand in hand. When the valve stem seals went on my 545 the local specialists did'nt want to know. The place I took it to entailed a 220 mile round trip but they did the job quickly for under a grand. They seemed to do all the stuff most places run from - do they have techs with better skills?

As cars get more complicated snaggy shit will not go away - many places will fall by the wayside if they don't upskill.

It’s not a lack of skills usually . Simple business . Enough snaggy shit comes with normal jobs without taking it in on purpose. 
I could rebuild a Maserati engine no problem - would I take it on as a job? Would I fuck as like . 

[Mrcento]

1 hour ago, twosmoke300 said:

It’s not a lack of skills usually . Simple business .

I reckon at a lot of garages, it's 50/50.

The standard of work i see on even the most basic stuff from some places is criminally bad, blatant rush kinda stuff.

Things going back unlubed, left unclipped, everything blatantly rattle gunned back on. The sort of stuff people have rightly criticised places like Kwik Shit for, for years just expanded past Brakes and Tyres,

A fast fitter can work as a full on mechanic in a lot of garages these days. They simply don't take on that truly involved work anyway. Same processes. Same tools. Remove and replace surface components, bolt off with air gun, bolt on with air gun jobs.

Time is money. And with overheads already high, it's very much a case of many places paying peanuts and getting monkeys.

[hairnet]

greatest hits just played the waitresses christmas wrapping

fucks sake

even radio 2 said they arent gonna play shite till dec 1

 

[MarvinsMom]

what a fuck on it is to buy anything off amazon.

usually i wouldn't have anything to do with them,

having once worked for them for an hour or so, and walking off the job cos they had been lying about what the wages were.

and that been the one and only instance that i have walked off a job........ lets just say that company is not one i willingly spend my money with. 

that is another story, 

BUT we want a tin of sweets for xmas. a proper sized tin, made outta tin and not one of them shitty little plastic  tubs of nasty cheap soft centres.

so i have had to hold my nose and go on their website.

but i dunno what the password is for it.

not one iota what it could be,

and to reset it, they send an e-mail link to my mobile. my mobile that does not have internet connected to it.

and so the long evening wares on! in the end Kerry has ordered it on her account. 

now all we have to do is sit and wait to see what gets delivered, and in what condition it is when it arrives.

internet shopping sucks.

 

[GMcD]

Royal mail. Every single time. 

Due today (Saturday)by 7.30PM. 

Where is it currently? 

Good job I'm not in a rush for it. 

[PhilA]

Ugh. Central air system quit tonight. Thermostat was telling system to run, but the compressor was off.

Went outside, pulled the side panel off, nothing looked amiss; the trip hadn't triggered and pushing the contactor in caused it to start up.

After a minute bugger all was happening in terms of heat pump activity so I pulled the contactor off and heard what I didn't want to hear...

Hissssssssssssss

 

Buggeration. Looked about and saw an oily mark by the pressure shutoff switch; the thing has been replaced in the past and technician X has ziptied the wires to the main compressor pipe.

Pulled the wires away and got a blast of refrigerant. Ugh.

The live feed to the compressor has buzzed through the insulation and holed the main copper pressure pipe coming out of the compressor, shutting the system down on low pressure.

I need to look further in the morning but it may have chattered through the insulation and burned through because there's a pock in the pipe and some dirty marks on the wire- it was still aggressively hissing when I put the side back on (midnight). I don't know if that refrigerant is flammable, but if it is, that could have been bad.

I'll look better in the morning, but I'm hoping that can be brazed up and refilled. I really don't want to have to fork out for a replacement compressor right now.

All shut down at the main isolator for now.

 

Don't ziptie things to pipes, kids!

 

Phil

[Parky]

2 hours ago, PhilA said:

Ugh. Central air system quit tonight. Thermostat was telling system to run, but the compressor was off.

Went outside, pulled the side panel off, nothing looked amiss; the trip hadn't triggered and pushing the contactor in caused it to start up.

After a minute bugger all was happening in terms of heat pump activity so I pulled the contactor off and heard what I didn't want to hear...

Hissssssssssssss

 

Buggeration. Looked about and saw an oily mark by the pressure shutoff switch; the thing has been replaced in the past and technician X has ziptied the wires to the main compressor pipe.

Pulled the wires away and got a blast of refrigerant. Ugh.

The live feed to the compressor has buzzed through the insulation and holed the main copper pressure pipe coming out of the compressor, shutting the system down on low pressure.

I need to look further in the morning but it may have chattered through the insulation and burned through because there's a pock in the pipe and some dirty marks on the wire- it was still aggressively hissing when I put the side back on (midnight). I don't know if that refrigerant is flammable, but if it is, that could have been bad.

I'll look better in the morning, but I'm hoping that can be brazed up and refilled. I really don't want to have to fork out for a replacement compressor right now.

All shut down at the main isolator for now.

 

Don't ziptie things to pipes, kids!

 

Phil

 

[MorrisItalSLX]

Just had a molar out at the dentist, I’m in agony. Constant bleeding and a throbbing headache. All I can do is bite down on a piece of gauze and rest up.

At least I get 2 days off work.

[cobblers]

Fucking shitty mobile phones! They're so wank! 

We've got 5G now, moving to 6g soon supposedly. This thing in my hand is about £1200 worth of the BEST TECHNOLOGY MONEY CAN BUY. Sure, I can reliably get a 60mbit internet connection in a field in the middle of the peak district, I can tether a laptop to this and stream 4K UHD VR BBW MILF porno, season 1 of Fargo on Netflix, and a youtube makeup tutorial  at the same time. I can climb up onto kinder scout or bleaklowe and still have a better internet connection than most homes.

 

But can it make or receive a reliable audible telephone call in my suburban house, or perhaps at work in a fairly big town? Of course not! 

Before we start installing more Gs, perhaps we should just get the existing ones to work properly?