The grumpy thread

[M'coli]

Bristol-Bath cycle path this morning: someone else's 205. Bastards.

[M'coli]

It feels like the switch is either completely gubbed or has detached itself from the stalk, no click at all.

It wouldn't bother me if I didn't have people flashing at me as if I've left my highs on coming round a corner.

My late night journey home is almost always on the main road, all I have to contend with there is taxis in even more of a hurry than me

Try turning the stalk at the same time as pulling it towards you, this worked on my 205. Sadly I won't be able to salvage the stalk from the one above.

[beko1987]

1:30am, start 10 mile drive home. Leaving town, high beams on, nothing. Think I'm being stupid and using the wrong stalk, stop and switch to sidelights, pull stalk and headlights flash. Back to headlight, try again, sod all.

This is exactly the sort of thing I need right now. Why can't anything ever break catastrophically rather than just one niggly little thing?

It could be worse, it could have been your dipped beam that broke...

 

We were in a travelodge in Peterborough, on the A1. 7pm in winter, go to leave for my dads for dinner. In the Meriva, which had fully functioning lights 25 minutes before when they were used. Turn car on, sidelights on, headlights on...oh. Sidelights, full beam yep, dipped beam, no...

 

Had to call my dad to come and pick us up and bring us back later, then I popped to euro car parts in the morning when I didn't need headlights. Both bulbs had gone pop. Never happened again, to this day I don't know if it was a coincidence or something blew them both. It's had one blow since then, again I treat it with confusion.

[reb]

Bristol-Bath cycle path this morning: someone else's 205. Bastards.

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Mega dislike.

[adw1977]

It could be worse, it could have been your dipped beam that broke...

 

We were in a travelodge in Peterborough, on the A1. 7pm in winter, go to leave for my dads for dinner. In the Meriva, which had fully functioning lights 25 minutes before when they were used. Turn car on, sidelights on, headlights on...oh. Sidelights, full beam yep, dipped beam, no...

 

Had to call my dad to come and pick us up and bring us back later, then I popped to euro car parts in the morning when I didn't need headlights. Both bulbs had gone pop. Never happened again, to this day I don't know if it was a coincidence or something blew them both. It's had one blow since then, again I treat it with confusion.

I had both dipped beam bulbs blow at the same time on my Focus. Leaving London on well lit roads, I had no idea anything was amiss until I got out into the sticks.

[Guest Hooli]

I can't be old yet, I still drive a manual car!

 

I feel old & still ride a manual bike...

[richardmorris]

A typical Citroen cx s 2 issue is the headlamp switch. The switch seems to draw the full current ( French not believing in relays) and so after a couple of hours the plastic would heat up so much that it melted and the contacts moved. I would often come off the motorway after driving down from n Wales put the main beams on and find that I could'nt get dipped back. Oh How I laughed ( or not).

[Guest Hooli]

More proof as if it was needed that no frogs should be allowed to touch electrical items.

[AMC Rebel]

I noticed it with BMW drivers about 15 years ago. It was as if they all suddenly became aware of how other drivers saw them.

 

Not round here - they are still non-indicating aggressive twats for the most part here.

[Bucketeer]

There's been a lot of talk recently (and always) about the forum changing for the worse. I am of the mindset that evolution is natural and different isn't neccesarily bad, however I've reached a point with Autoshite where I don't think I can carry on. There is still a lot of excellent content provided by great people but I am struggling to appreciate it as it seems to get diluted more and more with inane rubbish from people with nothing to say but who are determined to say it anyway. That and the myriad of threads that should just be posts in existing threads. I have limited internet usage and availability and it's just getting too much to trawl through even the many top drawer threads to find something of humour or interest or worthiness. Someone mentioned a couple of pages back about typing out a reply but not posting it, and I wish more people would consider that approach. Ask yourself 'is anyone at all going to be interested or gain anything from what I'm typing?'. If the answer is no then maybe reconsider. This is not meant as a rant or a flouce or whatever else and I'm definitely not looking for sympathy or owt but I just reckon there's nowt for me here anymore. I'll still be doing the 6000km round trip to Shitefests whether I'm welcome or not, 'cos I love everyone of you fellow wierdos I've met previously and I'll still get PM notifornications through my e-mail in case anybody wants any Bulgarian car ad translations or inspections or if anyone wants to visit. I hope I don't come across as the moany type who adds no content themselves, I've tried, I really have. 25 pages of pan-european spottings, various quizes, videos and suchlike have hopefully been of slight interest to someone. I'll see you next summer when hopefully someone will have railroaded Trigger in to doing his duty hosting SF17, or else you can all come here.

Also, I realise the irony of mentioning the upsurge in worthless posts whilst posting this which has no worth or interest, I just felt I needed to press 'send' instead of 'delete' this one last time. Soz for wasting your time with this self-indulgent waffle em-eights. C U L8ER.

[Guest Hooli]

That'd be a shame. I might be a new member but I reckonise your quality shite posts as higher quality shite than a lot of others.

[The Moog]

Real shame Bucketeer. Do love your spots even if I don't know what they are.

 

There is a real spate of random threads rather than being in stupid question/wanted/starting one thread to keep all your stuff in

[garbaldy]

Not another one gonna kick the bucket 😢

 

Just take a break then come back with some more excellent spots.

[Station]

I love Red Dwarf and I'm no geek or nerd at all, but the last four or five series have been utter shite.

[reb]

I wish if people were going to move tools I leave lying out, they'd at least move them to where they belong, very quickly turns a one minute job into a 20 minute game of find the big pliers.

[Bobthebeard]

There's been a lot of talk recently (and always) about the forum changing for the worse. I am of the mindset that evolution is natural and different isn't neccesarily bad, however I've reached a point with Autoshite where I don't think I can carry on. There is still a lot of excellent content provided by great people but I am struggling to appreciate it as it seems to get diluted more and more with inane rubbish from people with nothing to say but who are determined to say it anyway. That and the myriad of threads that should just be posts in existing threads. I have limited internet usage and availability and it's just getting too much to trawl through even the many top drawer threads to find something of humour or interest or worthiness. Someone mentioned a couple of pages back about typing out a reply but not posting it, and I wish more people would consider that approach. Ask yourself 'is anyone at all going to be interested or gain anything from what I'm typing?'. If the answer is no then maybe reconsider. This is not meant as a rant or a flouce or whatever else and I'm definitely not looking for sympathy or owt but I just reckon there's nowt for me here anymore. I'll still be doing the 6000km round trip to Shitefests whether I'm welcome or not, 'cos I love everyone of you fellow wierdos I've met previously and I'll still get PM notifornications through my e-mail in case anybody wants any Bulgarian car ad translations or inspections or if anyone wants to visit. I hope I don't come across as the moany type who adds no content themselves, I've tried, I really have. 25 pages of pan-european spottings, various quizes, videos and suchlike have hopefully been of slight interest to someone. I'll see you next summer when hopefully someone will have railroaded Trigger in to doing his duty hosting SF17, or else you can all come here.

Also, I realise the irony of mentioning the upsurge in worthless posts whilst posting this which has no worth or interest, I just felt I needed to press 'send' instead of 'delete' this one last time. Soz for wasting your time with this self-indulgent waffle em-eights. C U L8ER.

Hmmm. Ok. Understand. But I and possibly you have SKY TV. Some channels I watch, some are terrible IMHO so I don't watch them. I pick and choose. Surely there is something on here that you like? Such a varied place.

If you went to a pub you would chat to the folk that interested you and ignore those that did not? I look on this place as my social life. Like what I like and ignore what I don't really. Have met some great people here.

[rainagain]

Bugger, noticed last night when I was driving the OH's Tucson there was a whine when in gear, I haven't driven it for a while so thought nothing of it, (every car sounds noisy after driving the S80 ). She used it this morning and said she only noticed the whine yesterday and now it was much louder. I'm hoping the gearbox oil just needs topped up, but I wonder where it's gone? I'm really really hoping it's nothing more serious as we just don't have any spare money right now to sort it.

 

Checked gearbox oil, only a couple of mm below max. Noise then came back with a vengeance on way home, I opened the bonnet and found the power steering reservoir below min and cavitating like crazy. Topped it up Added more fluid until it was at the max indicator on the side of the vessel The noise is now gone but I need to figure out where it went nothing obvious, might be time to break out the talc again.

[beko1987]

Checked gearbox oil, only a couple of mm below max. Noise then came back with a vengeance on way home, I opened the bonnet and found the power steering reservoir below min and cavitating like crazy. Topped it up Added more fluid until it was at the max indicator on the side of the vessel The noise is now gone but I need to figure out where it went nothing obvious, might be time to break out the talc again.

"Petunia, that crazy man from number 28 is covering his car in talcum powder again!"

[twosmoke300]

Inside the rack boot ?

[panhard65]

Hmmm. Ok. Understand. But I and possibly you have SKY TV. Some channels I watch, some are terrible IMHO so I don't watch them. I pick and choose. Surely there is something on here that you like? Such a varied place.

If you went to a pub you would chat to the folk that interested you and ignore those that did not? I look on this place as my social life. Like what I like and ignore what I don't really. Have met some great people here.

I think Mr Bucket's problem is he has rubbish internet and with so many threads it is hard to find the decent stuff. It is easy to skip through pages looking for a decent thread when you have fancy Western broardband but not so easy when you rely on two yougart pot's and a bit of string like our Eastern European reporter. I do hope he will keep us updated every now and then as his Balkan thread is one of my favourites.

[Kiltox]

AWL MODERNZ R SHYT

 

Why, Citroen, does the relay/fuse box need to be a non serviceable part that has a circuit board covered in resin inside?

 

When you are so shit at making electrics that work, why can't I try to fix them without chucking entire expensive modules in?

[Jack D]

Bristol-Bath cycle path this morning: someone else's 205. Bastards.

 

Piss garglers.  I knew this car, it was mint and I used to see it on moorland road and drizzling around oldfield park a lot.  White with the prosthetic coloured wheel trims if its the same one.  I suspect it is.  I'm sure I've papped it for lazy spotters thread but never got round to posting in the ultimate spirit of laziness.  

[JohnDeere]

It could be worse ... We were in a travelodge in Peterborough

 

Sod the headlights, it doesn't get much worse than that.

[Station]

I'm not a fan of snogging on telly, but two blokes going at it just does nothing for me.

[cros]

Cars that made Britain Great, a Programme that makes TV Shit. I watched a succession of know-nothing 'guests' call series Landrovers 'Defenders'. Then the presenter tried to drive an early series 1 and proved to be completely incapable of changing gear. Quentin Wilson claimed that he'd driven his leaf sprung model at 125 mph, and I wish that it was true as that would mean that he'd gone over a cliff and was speaking through a medium.

When they started menstruating over a Triumph Spitfire I couldn't endure any more and was compelled to snip through the tv's mains lead with a pair of scissors.

[Des]

I'm not a fan of snogging on telly, but two blokes going at it just does nothing for me.

 

Surely you've more than the one adult channel?

[Rocket88]

Cars that made Britain Great, a Programme that makes TV Shit. I watched a succession of know-nothing 'guests' call series Landrovers 'Defenders'. Then the presenter tried to drive an early series 1 and proved to be completely incapable of changing gear. Quentin Wilson claimed that he'd driven his leaf sprung model at 125 mph, and I wish that it was true as that would mean that he'd gone over a cliff and was speaking through a medium.

When they started menstruating over a Triumph Spitfire I couldn't endure any more and was compelled to snip through the tv's mains lead with a pair of scissors.

 

I have an irrational hatred of Q Wilson Esq.....................that series he did with the lanky posh bird and the bespectacled idiot was some of the most toe curlingly awful motoring journalism I've ever seen..................

[Jazoli]

Things like this piss me off no end

 

 

We are not in fucking America

[cros]

Mr Wilson's '125' mph landrover came with a 91 bhp V8 and a factory quoted top speed of 80mph. He threw away an inlet manifolf restrictor which would still only get him 114 bhp and completely exhaust his technical abilities. His performance claims are as ludicrous as the product he endorses, a reconditioned engine in a bottle.

[garbaldy]

Mr Wilson's '125' mph landrover came with a 91 bhp V8 and a factory quoted top speed of 80mph. He threw away an inlet manifolf restrictor which would still only get him 114 bhp and completely exhaust his technical abilities. His performance claims are as ludicrous as the product he endorses, a reconditioned engine in a bottle.

Remember we are talking a land rover here so the speedo needle would have been bouncing between 80 and 125 and no self respecting yoof would choose the lower number.

The programme was still shit though.