The grumpy thread

[Station]

Speed camera van just over brow of hill catching speeding motorists who come over hill I didn't see it till last minute. Same as I didn't notice I was doing an indicated 35. Fuck sticks

I've been gripped once with a speed camera and twice with a speed camera. Every time I've sent a business card of someone who tried to con me out of money saying he was test driving the car and have not heard anything back.

[purplebargeken]

Hmm, Mrs PBK has a hot water bottle.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I set on mopping my Rover 45 tonight. Got the bonnet and wings done (and looking great) then the flippin mop died. I think the switch is jiggered. It was a cheapy 'silverline' effort off eBay though and I've had it several years.

 

I see you can buy a new switch off eBay from a chinese seller for £6 so I have bought one for ultimate mingebaggery, no idea if it will fit or blow all the fuses in my house though.

[scaryoldcortina]

Based on previous experience - the new switch will be fine, but fitting it will involve 37 screws and parting both halves of the mop and spilling a load of plastic cogs on the floor.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

OK fingers crossed, just got to wait 8 weeks for it to arrive from Tianenmen square

[The Moog]

Speed camera van just over brow of hill catching speeding motorists who come over hill I didn't see it till last minute. Same as I didn't notice I was doing an indicated 35. Fuck sticks

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[anonymous user]

Just bypass the switch and have it roar into the life as soon as you plug it in, that's what we did.

I recently borrowed a sander that had been modified in such a way, it would have been nice to have been told that before I'd plugged it in and switched it on. I have no idea why I didn't just switch it off at the plug straight away, electing instead to chase it around the floor trying to catch it before it bit something.

[Parky]

OK fingers crossed, just got to wait 8 weeks for it to arrive from Tianenmen square

Ah, so that blokes carrier bag was full of switches then!

[twosmoke300]

Or slip underneath with a pry bar and ease the calipers back . Panicky few pumps of the brakes for her !

[scaryoldcortina]

She rang me earlier full of apologies promising to bring the money first thing in the morning. She had some BS excuse about signal strength which wasn't a problem when I was ringing with updates on the car, but it looks like ringing her mum to complain might have worked.

 

I also noticed I still have the locking wheel nut key. Oops.

[Station]

I set on mopping my Rover 45 tonight. Got the bonnet and wings done (and looking great) then the flippin mop died. I think the switch is jiggered. It was a cheapy 'silverline' effort off eBay though and I've had it several years.

 

I see you can buy a new switch off eBay from a chinese seller for £6 so I have bought one for ultimate mingebaggery, no idea if it will fit or blow all the fuses in my house though.

Is it blue with silver 'metal' bits? Mine did the same. I fixed it by sorting out the round button on the side. You have to press it in to start it (as opposed to pressing it after you press the big switch to keep it locked). My speed dial has long since given up, so the only settings are 'back to primer' or 'unexpected delorean'.

[stripped fred]

I took a load of asbestos sheets off the garage roof last year but didn't get around to taking them to the tip so decided to take them this week. I've had to apply for a temporary permit which is OK. What is not okay is that they've started charging £10 a sheet from the beginning of May. Seems there's a charge for a lot of building products now, £3 a slab, £10 a upvc window etc. Bugger. I wouldn't mind so much but it's the same council I work for!

[dugong]

This is an incredibly minor first world grump, but does anyone want my 306 Estate for super cheap?

 

I want the tow bar off it, that's it. Something's died in the engine bay and the starter and glowplug relays are marmalised.

I just want shot of it now TBH.

[Timewaster]

Pa had a little piece of asbestos from am old ironing board.

He rang the council who said he had to take it to a waste facility 40 miles away,which he did.

He had to go over the weighbridge and the guy said his weight was the same in and of so they couldn't charge him.

Lucky really as the minimum change was for quarter of a tonne.

I think the woman on the phone sent him to the wrong place.

[Cavcraft]

Oddly enough my Silverline buffer has been playing up. If you hold it facing down it's mostly ok, but sideways it just shuts itself off. My neighbour (who's pretty good with these things) reckons it'll be the brushes: there's a cover (on the top, near the grab handle, I think) that you unscrew and he says the brushes are in there. I haven't tried to source them yet, he suggested trying an internet search or eBay.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

you can check/change the brushes dead easy, theres a little black placca plug on each side, under which live the brushes. They cost nowt off eBay too.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Carbon-Brushes-for-Silverline-129659-polisher-sander-1-PAIR-DW2-/131524838093

[Bren]

11th anniversary of my old man's death. He'd have been 80 next month. Been a rough couple of days

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Know how you feel. Talking with wife last night - we both conclude that as you get older and shit happens life becomes something of an anti climax.

[Bren]

Indicated 35 is probably more like 31-32 and hopefully low enough to not get a ticket for it. Cross your fingers! I passed a camera van today, but you could see it half a mile away.My grump - people and money.I did a clutch on a focus this week, for the daughter of someone I've known over 20 years. When she arrived to collect she was about £50 short even though I told her on the phone how much it would be. She promised to bring it in today, I let her take the car.Guess what? No show and her phone's turned off.I rang her mam instead. Waiting to hear back.

If she doesn't pay just make it clear she goes elsewhere in future - somewhere where she doesn't get her keys until she's paid.

[Richard]

My friend has an SOC type garage and he reckons that unpaid bills represent good VFM because he never sees the non - paying customer again.

[Sheefag]

 

 

 

My grump - people and money.

I did a clutch on a focus this week, for the daughter of someone I've known over 20 years. When she arrived to collect she was about £50 short even though I told her on the phone how much it would be. She promised to bring it in today, I let her take the car.

Guess what? No show and her phone's turned off.

I rang her mam instead. Waiting to hear back.

 

Pint of milk in the air intake.

[chaseracer]

Know how you feel. Talking with wife last night - we both conclude that as you get older and shit happens life becomes something of an anti climax.

 

Wise words.

 

We lost the monster-in-law back in March; for a tiny Irish lady of 84, she's left a very large hole in a lot of people's lives.

[twosmoke300]

For people that don't pay me ( small amounts ) I consider it a cheap way of finding out that some one is a cunt

[dave21478]

Getting real fuckin tired of this shit.

 

 

Its just impossible to keep coolant inside this mofo.

 

Its been flushed and cleaned and pissed all over the road and refilled so many times the coolant is now perfectly clean bright green with no hint of rust. Stat is new and seems to work, cap is new, heater gets nice and hot, rad fan works as it should, hoses dont get too pressurised, header tank doesnt smell of exhaust and has no bubbles, exhaust isnt greasy, the engine runs well so probably not HGF.....

This time its leaking from under the cap again. Its a new one, so I reckon changing the header tank itself is the next step.

Are these still available?

 

 

[dave21478]

Of course they are not still available. Google suggests an injection mini tank can be made to fit.

 

EIGHTY FUCKING QUID?

 

Looks like a sweaty day spent lifting bonnets in a scrapyard looking for something that will fit beckons.

[scaryoldcortina]

If she doesn't pay just make it clear she goes elsewhere in future - somewhere where she doesn't get her keys until she's paid.

 

That's normally how it works here, she only got the car back because I know her mother.

 

My friend has an SOC type garage and he reckons that unpaid bills represent good VFM because he never sees the non - paying customer again.

Yup, I know that one too - I once invented a £30 charge for something just so the debtor would never come back. It worked!

 

 

For people that don't pay me ( small amounts ) I consider it a cheap way of finding out that some one is a cunt

Well, given that she didn't show this morning either and her phone is mysteriously turned off again....

[stripped fred]

 

That's normally how it works here, she only got the car back because I know her mother.

 

 

Yup, I know that one too - I once invented a £30 charge for something just so the debtor would never come back. It worked!

 

 

 

Well, given that she didn't show this morning either and her phone is mysteriously turned off again....

If she's still not paid in the next few weeks i would send her a formal letter, recorded delivery, asking for payment and mentioning the small claims court! Download a template off the internet for free.

[panhard65]

If she's still not paid in the next few weeks i would send her a formal letter, recorded delivery, asking for payment and mentioning the small claims court! Download a template off the internet for free.

This is the best advice. I can't remember now how you go about it but you send them the invoice with so many days to pay. If they haven't paid by then then a second invoice advising that you will take them to court if not paid within 30 days. If she still hasn't paid take her to court it costs £50 to start with. This will get you a judgement then it's baliffs and the costs go up but she will have to pay them. I have been lucky and only ever had to go down this route once but a garage I know will go after everyone and took a woman to court for £50. It took a while but they got the money plus interest. In the end the woman had to pay over £300 to stop the baliffs seizing her property, all because she thought she could get away with it as it wasn't a lot of money.

[Sheefag]

It's all online now and takes about 15 minutes, any fees are added to the debt and an extra £60 once you have judgement sends the baillffs around.

I've used the government service 'Money Claim Online' (MCOL) loads of times over the years and have never lost - most just ignore it and judgement is gained by default.

 

I've had debts paid that would never have been otherwise recoverable and I can't recomend it highly enough.

 

https://www.moneyclaim.gov.uk/web/mcol/welcome

[scaryoldcortina]

I once had a customer who actually pretended that he had died to avoid a £50 bill, got his wife to ring up doing the weeping widow act! FFS, I'd been fixing his cars for years by then, so it seemed a safe bet. Sadly for him it's a small town and I saw him at ASDA a few days later. Didn't quite get to court, second invoice/letter worked.

 

Other pathetic excuses for non payment include -

 

didn't have all the money because someone else died and they had to buy flowers for a funeral. Suddenly found the extra when the car wasn't leaving the yard without it.

 

don't get paid until thursday.. surely you knew that before you booked your car in on a monday? It will still be here on thurdsay!

 

It's more than I expected - aw, poor you. I'll just take the clutch back out then, yeah?

 

etc etc. Some people get a small amount of tick for convenience sake and others I wouldn't trust to owe me a quid.

 

This one probably thinks she's clever and that I don't have her address but she left her purse in the car with her licence in it

[twosmoke300]

As written in the james Herriot books - use the PNS system

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