The grumpy thread

[Lord Sterling]

This seems that be going as well as yesterday what with fucking peoe wasting my time. Today it's; twat at Portsmouth harbour, delivered a vehicle and promptly had my time wasted because he wants the FUCKING account number of whom the vehicle is going to. Yet you've done this job 12 years and have dealt with received vehicles before?

 

Due to this, I may not make my next vehicle in time which is in THANET, KENT

 

[Captain Furious]

There is a wanked out old Astra I see local to me fairly regularly, the exhaust must have been completely knackered for at *least* 3 years now, saw it the other day I thought to myself "I wonder how they get an MOT on it"

 

So today during a moment of boredom I had a look...answer is they don't

 

No insurance

MOT expired 2013

SORN

 

Fuckers

[Lord Sterling]

Busses in Berkshire are yanking my chain right now. The last connecting bus won't be here for 1 hour.

 

Guess!

Hmmm, Holland or France is what springs to mind regarding the Fantasio comics. I bet I'm wrong...

[cort1977]

There is a wanked out old Astra I see local to me fairly regularly, the exhaust must have been completely knackered for at *least* 3 years now, saw it the other day I thought to myself "I wonder how they get an MOT on it"

 

So today during a moment of boredom I had a look...answer is they don't

 

No insurance

MOT expired 2013

SORN

 

Fuckers

See all this talk of a police state and ANPR everywhere and yet stuff like this goes on.   Do they just drive locally and avoid the cameras?  

[Tamworthbay]

I did think of that, but what with rush hour traffic building I thought it might have been in vain.

I still need to get to Lichfield tomorrow morning if you or Tamworthbay are around....

sorry mate, only just noticed this, but I set off walking to work at 7.30am so would have needed to be back by then so may have been too early anyway I suspect. Could of dropped you back yesterday though

 

Would have preferred to drive around all day as found out our wonderful data system had puts a years worth of my entries in the wrong place and I had to transfer them all by hand. Several hours of mouse clicking later it's done but so is my soul.

[captain_70s]

See all this talk of a police state and ANPR everywhere and yet stuff like this goes on.   Do they just drive locally and avoid the cameras?  

I live in the middle of nowhere and there are quite a few folk who run around on an odd mixture of no tax/no MOT/no insurance. I remember a co-worker coming up to me one day after a fag break and pointing out my car had run out of tax 5 days previously, he also said not to worry too much 'cause out of the 6 cars parked there 4 of them were in the same boat!

 

If I avoid the larger towns I can easily go a few weeks without seeing a police car despite driving 45 miles a day.

[dave21478]

 

 

*sigh*

 

Just.....I dunno.

Fix one thing, something else breaks. Fix that, some other part fails....cars, house, tools, job related.....

 

Fed up of constantly fixing things.

 

 

[plasticvandan]

Mo,there is a reliant garage 2 mins walk from the hartlebury station,if your there again it might give yoiu something to go look at insdteasd of waiting lol

[richardmorris]

Oh, now I'm really really pissed off.I taxed the MGTF yesterday because it's sunny and the laguna needs work. I was on my way to the dentists this afternoon when.....someone drove into the back of the car!I was turning right at a very new roundabout which has been installed replacing a single side road off a NSL single carriageway A road. The car behind me failed to avoid the back of the MG, and then also failed to stop and exchange details. I didn't even get the reg and by the time I'd done a full circuit of the roundabout to give chase the bugger was long gone. Happened (I think) because he was too close and not expecting me to slow and swing to the right.It is very annoying mainly because of the hit and run, but also because of the damage to the car and also because if they hadn't put the damn roundabout in it wouldn't have happened! I'd have left the lane of traffic entirely and sat waiting in the marked box to turn right. What was wrong with that? No-one tried to turn right out of that entrance anyway because there is another exit from the village that already has a roundabout further down the road.Only bright spots - I got a damn good look at him, and he was driving a scenic RX4 which isn't exactly a common car. The police say there is some CCTV on the road that might have captured his registration. The MG isn't badly damaged either. Worst part is that the exhaust is now hitting something.

 

Not " liked" the incident, but that you've got details.

[Kiltox]

Oh, now I'm really really pissed off.

 

I taxed the MGTF yesterday because it's sunny and the laguna needs work. I was on my way to the dentists this afternoon when.....

 

 

 

someone drove into the back of the car!

 

I was turning right at a very new roundabout which has been installed replacing a single side road off a NSL single carriageway A road. The car behind me failed to avoid the back of the MG, and then also failed to stop and exchange details. I didn't even get the reg and by the time I'd done a full circuit of the roundabout to give chase the bugger was long gone. Happened (I think) because he was too close and not expecting me to slow and swing to the right.

 

It is very annoying mainly because of the hit and run, but also because of the damage to the car and also because if they hadn't put the damn roundabout in it wouldn't have happened! I'd have left the lane of traffic entirely and sat waiting in the marked box to turn right. What was wrong with that? No-one tried to turn right out of that entrance anyway because there is another exit from the village that already has a roundabout further down the road.

 

Only bright spots - I got a damn good look at him, and he was driving a scenic RX4 which isn't exactly a common car. The police say there is some CCTV on the road that might have captured his registration. The MG isn't badly damaged either. Worst part is that the exhaust is now hitting something.

Hope he gets the shoe-ing he deserves

[Lord Sterling]

Mo,there is a reliant garage 2 mins walk from the hartlebury station,if your there again it might give yoiu something to go look at insdteasd of waiting lol

Sweet! I live 5 mins from Hartlebury anyway so I'll pop down and have a look at some point.

[Cheggers]

This seems that be going as well as yesterday what with fucking peoe wasting my time. Today it's; twat at Portsmouth harbour, delivered a vehicle and promptly had my time wasted because he wants the FUCKING account number of whom the vehicle is going to. Yet you've done this job 12 years and have dealt with received vehicles before?

 

Due to this, I may not make my next vehicle in time which is in THANET, KENT

 

PM me if you're ever stuck in Portsmouth, I've a spare room you're welcome to crash in.

 

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[HH-R]

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*sigh*

 

Just.....I dunno.

Fix one thing, something else breaks. Fix that, some other part fails....cars, house, tools, job related.....

 

Fed up of constantly fixing things.

Man, I hear you there. Was going to take a week off  work to catch up with just fixing shit, like I did last year and the year before, before realising how depressing it sounds. My desktop computer is fucked... again... has been a lemon since I built the damn thing. Even a Laguna II's electrics are better than this POS. Was so close to just taking the thing outside and smashing it to smithereens. I got as far as smashing the keyboard and mouse to bits before reconsidering the rest. If I'd had the cash spare to replace it, it would have been a gonner.

[saucedoctor]

Royal Fucking Fail. I ordered (and received) an iPhone 5 battery from a 100% feedback eBay seller. So good was it, I ordered another one for my spare phone. From the same seller, who posted it in the same sort of envelope as the first one, and at the same Post Office. For some reason, known only to themselves, Royal Fail went to OMG DEFCON 1 and destroyed it because they thought it was a hydrogen bomb. Or something. The email I received from them (below) raises a question or two: are all lithium batteries regarded by them as apocalypse-inducing, and they just missed the other dozen or so that I've bought from eBay over the last 12 months? Or, as I suspect in this case, the person who scanned/x rayed the parcel was just a fuckwit?

 

As a native of Northern Ireland, I can tell you all that iPhone batteries are no good for making bombs - not enough kick

 

 

[fordperv]

My mums beautiful 12 year old jack Russell sadie has had to be pts she was a crazy running around all the time dog and today she couldn't breath properly so mum and dad rushed her to the vets and scans showed she had pneumonia and a heart problem whilst there she continued to get worse and became unresponsive, i loved that dog to bits, as a puppy she used to curl up on my chest when I was lying on the sofa and fall asleep listening to my heartbeat, all she had to do was hear my footsteps and she would go crazy getting excited.

 

run free over the rainbow bridge

[maxpower]

^ Sorry for your loss fordperv

[doobietoo]

Me too....... /\ /\ /\ /\ /\  It's always sad to lose a member of the family...

[doobietoo]

The girlfriend of a guy I work with took her car for an MOT yesterday and it failed on the following items,

Lower front suspension bushes both sides

Brake light not working

centre rear seat belt locked

 

I couldn't believe the quote she was given to repair the items.... £400+ parts!!!!

I popped round after work wd40ed the brake switch and took the rear seat out, released the seat belt and refitted. Took 15 minutes in total

Ordered the lower arms off ebay £35 and at about 1 hour a side to fit as it is only 6 nuts and bolts per side thought £100 including parts for 21/2 hours work was fair.....

 I know they have overheads and wages etc. but how the fuck do they sleep at night when they are charging more than Â£150 an hour?

 

Following on from this thread she took it back for its re-mot yesterday and it failed again, on the brake lights which was surprising as they worked perfectly after being sorted... when I inspected the car I found the brake switch bracket had been bent so the switch was still not working, I fixed it and told her not to let the car out of her sight when she took it back today....... unsurprisingly it passed but they charged her £20 for the second re-test.... money grabbing bastards.... This is no one man band either but a national chain of tyre shops. I guess they were short on their extortion quota for the month...

[Tamworthbay]

Someone managed to go into a barrier on the slip road near me. It was slow speed but will write off the car I think. It happens. But why are the police so clueless? I arrived a few seconds after the copper had stopped all traffic so they could load it onto the recovery vehicle. It took about twenty minutes with cars backing up and ending up stationary on the duel carriageway. Now I know what you are thinking, it has to be done so tough shit and normally I would agree with you but on this occasion the car was perfectly driveable as they drove the pile of shite onto the wagon AND thirty metres up there is a layby used for HGV where they could have spent all bloody night if they wanted to. If anyone behind had been hit I would have put a complaint in, utterly utterly pointless and moronic from the traffic wombles again.

[Ghosty]

Royal Fucking Fail. I ordered (and received) an iPhone 5 battery from a 100% feedback eBay seller. So good was it, I ordered another one for my spare phone. From the same seller, who posted it in the same sort of envelope as the first one, and at the same Post Office. For some reason, known only to themselves, Royal Fail went to OMG DEFCON 1 and destroyed it because they thought it was a hydrogen bomb. Or something. The email I received from them (below) raises a question or two: are all lithium batteries regarded by them as apocalypse-inducing, and they just missed the other dozen or so that I've bought from eBay over the last 12 months? Or, as I suspect in this case, the person who scanned/x rayed the parcel was just a fuckwit?

 

As a native of Northern Ireland, I can tell you all that iPhone batteries are no good for making bombs - not enough kick

 

Can't send most batteries through RM I don't think (hazardous goods). They're supposed to ask what's in packages before you send them, but only folks in refurbished POs (the shit ones) actually seem to bother in my experience (retraining?) so it's very hit and miss, as is whether they bother checking to see if your parcel's in dimension for Small Parcel or not (jobsworths, this has diverted me to using Hermes as they'll take pretty much anything). I imagine a large eBay seller is going to have a mailroom or something so all these slip through the net. NiMH and NiCd are allowed if in original packaging, so knowing eBay it's probably because it was loose.

[scruff]

Yes Mo keep us posted, happy to give you a lift in the lorry if it's in the right direction. 

[dugong]

Likewise Mo, if you're ever stuck in my part of Cambs, bell me and I might be able to relay you further. 

[robinmasters]

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Someone managed to go into a barrier on the slip road near me. It was slow speed but will write off the car I think. It happens. But why are the police so clueless? I arrived a few seconds after the copper had stopped all traffic so they could load it onto the recovery vehicle. It took about twenty minutes with cars backing up and ending up stationary on the duel carriageway. Now I know what you are thinking, it has to be done so tough shit and normally I would agree with you but on this occasion the car was perfectly driveable as they drove the pile of shite onto the wagon AND thirty metres up there is a layby used for HGV where they could have spent all bloody night if they wanted to. If anyone behind had been hit I would have put a complaint in, utterly utterly pointless and moronic from the traffic wombles again.

The culprit seems be a Renault; plod were just being realistic, ie. expecting the worst.

[Tamworthbay]

The culprit seems be a Renault; plod were just being realistic, ie. expecting the worst.

no they weren't, the car was driveable and they knew it as they drove it out of the barriers whilst waiting for the recovery truck then flagged it to stop. The layby is so close it would have taken less than a minute, probably half that, to get the car to it. Instead they inconvenienced people (not the end of the world) but also risked lives by backing stationary traffic onto a busy dual carriageway during rush hour for no good reason. A few seconds of thought would have made for a safe situation, to make it worse the coppers had parked in said layby and walked down!

[anonymous user]

 this has diverted me to using Hermes as they'll take pretty much anything.

and throw it over my six foot high gate.

[AlabamaShrimp]

I think the old pub that's been slowly converted into a house over the ST year has also been converted into a cannabis farm. It's fucking stinks and I think I can make out that the windows are now taped over.

 

Winds blowing towards my house tonight and as I've always got the windows open I can smell it and, as normal, it's given me a lovley headache.

 

Thought about ringing 101 but they'll do fuck all..

[Ghosty]

and throw it over my six foot high gate.

Complain and get them to take it up with the driver. We have a decent, regular Hermes guy who drives a 2004 Punto that's always absolutely packed with stuff. Comes at about 8am too which is handy.

[Mr Livered]

I think the old pub that's been slowly converted into a house over the ST year has also been converted into a cannabis farm. It's fucking stinks and I think I can make out that the windows are now taped over.

Winds blowing towards my house tonight and as I've always got the windows open I can smell it and, as normal, it's given me a lovley headache.

Thought about ringing 101 but they'll do fuck all..

Why would you call the cops?

 

I'd go and have a chat with whoever lives there, if you know you're aware what they're up to and if you play your cards right, they might be willing to grease your palm in exchange for silence?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Yeah that'll defo work out OK

[rainagain]

Two tricks to deal with tailgaters:

 

(1) Slow down. This is actually important, as if someone's up your arse you need a lot more reaction time and stopping distance in front. 

(2) Left foot tapped gently on the brake pedal a few times will usually see a bit more distance opening up.

 

Then relax about it and don't get het up. They'll eventually zoom past and out of your way.

 

(3) clean your windscreen and watch them do the same as the spray from your car hits them and then repeat, this is more fun with a hire car as it's not your screenwash.