The grumpy thread

[ruffgeezer]

Bought a new car. It is so very dull that it isn't worthy of this page.

[Parky]

I have been looking at new cars. Dealer websites, CarWow, broadspeed, etc.

 

I feel dirty. I kinda need to trade the Leon for something smaller that will fit in the garage but at the same time really don't want the cost. Or the feeling you get when you get your first scrape on a wheel or stonechip on the bonnet. I quite fancy something like a Suzuki Swift with an auto box, Christ I am definitely getting old.

 

What do we know about these? Any horror stories worth knowing?

[Timewaster]

Due to an administrative cock up I did my defensive driver training for work in a Suzuki Swift sport.

 

A very nice little thing to drive, went well.

 

Would.

 

However I would point out that as a training for someone to drive a 6 tonne van it was a bit lacking.

[Parky]

I test drove one back in 2005 and recall enjoying it. I haven't heard any horror stories about them since but that doesn't mean they don't have weaknesses somewhere!

 

I also didn't recall thinking "this would be a great proxy for a six tonner" on the test drive. In fact I seem to remember my main thought was "is this worth £3k more than a Picanto". The answer was yes. Next question was "do I have three grand more than I budgeted for" and the answer was no. Hence one Picanto.....

[dollywobbler]

My sister wants a Swift, so I'm also welcome any thoughts about them. I like the look of them, but my only experience is of driving one about 20 yards.

[Barry Cade]

I love swifts, they are a great steer, but a bit, er.. flimsy. Would though. Dunno about the auto boxes but have heard no bad things.our local dealer is good too, been Suzuki since the days of the sc100 and LJ80.

[tinribs]

I call my Swift "The Rattlebox". If you can tolerate the rattly dashboard, A-pillars, doors, under the passenger seat etc they're not a bad little car.

[cms206]

1.3 manual Swifts shit gearboxes. My apprentice's is on it's fourth box. Or was until he gave up with it and got it running long enough to chop it in about three weeks ago.

 

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[Tamworthbay]

I think I have really pissed the one guy off, he thought he could drop his offer after we had agreed. So I upped mine. Now he is desperate for them but I won't take a penny less than the new price (£50 over the old price on a £200 sale). It has become a principle thing to me now, so I won't sell them for less to him. I don't need the money as the bass I was eyeing up sold anyway.

Now sold it at the original price to someone else and he is going ballistic!

[andy18s]

Now sold it at the original price to someone else and he is going ballistic!

I think everyone would agree and say we need to the text/pm's for this........

[Tamworthbay]

"But we had agreed a price", yes but then you said you would only pay £25 less than that, "but you upped your price", yes after you were messing me about, "but I offered the original price again", yes but the price had changed by then,"but you sold it at the original price to someone else", yes but he hadn't messed me about so didn't have to pay for wasting my time and offending me, "but I won't find any at that price again"', yup, you aren't wrong there so you shouldn't have been a cock. I think the brilliant feedback from the guy (who turned up at 8am this morning on the dot) is rubbing salt in the wounds as well - "thanks mate, they are perfect, I have been looking for years and never thought I would find some this good for so little, it was like Christmas today'.

 

Some days you beat the fucktards and it feels good.

 

Edit: just had a message that is pretty much empty but with this at the top 'some content has been removed as it breaches our guidelines on safe messaging'. Hmmm, that's a shame as I think his head may have finally exploded.

 

Edit2: I replied "pardon?" And copied in the message I had. I have had a reply that states he is going to contact the Police as I have breached a contract as we agreed a price (which he then tried to change) and his lawyer will sue me 'for every penny I have got'. My reply - "thank you for your response and complete lack of understanding of the law. I eagerly await your solicitors letter (although I am not sure how it will get here as you don't have my address or any contact details - perhaps you could try Santa, he doesn't have my details but seems to come through every Christmas). When my solicitor has stopped laughing I am sure he will reply with a carefully worded response in legal terms however I can summarise the response in plain English to expedite the whole matter - they are sold, not to you, ha ha, ha ha ha ha, ha ha. Good bye.

[Guest Hooli]

I used to know a chap with a Swift, he called the 'not very' but then his other car did have TVR on the boot.

[Parky]

The autos use an Aisin Warner box and as we know from their use in Saabs and Lagunas they never present any sort of problem at all......

 

I like the styling on them, and the interiors have a nice minimalist feel to them. I can see one being less labour intensive than a Bini which appeals too. I am not too worried about ultimate POWAH because I live in congested South Essex and I am not Jeremy Clarkson. No point in having outrageous numbers of horses as my average commute time is now about 15mph so all I really want is an autobox, decent visibility, a good audio set up, and reasonable soundproofing. But that's mainly so other people can't hear me shouting at Nick Ferrari on LBC or realise I am listening to "The best of Laurie Johnson"

 

"Marjorie, have you seen my slippers anywhere?"

[Rocket88]

"They're in the fridge, where you left them"......................

[r.welfare]

Friend of mine had a Swift 1.5 auto, really liked it and I don't recall it causing her any trouble in the 5 years/50,000 miles she had it.

[Guest Hooli]

Being oncall for crap money. Woke up at 8:30am by the phone & just finished fixing shit. You can tell how concerned by it all I was by how many times I slacked off to post here while waiting for stuff

[Guest Hooli]

Update. It's all still fucked, bang goes any chance of doing the plumbing I need to do today

[Guest Hooli]

Now fixed, fooking shite IT systems.

[doobietoo]

Bloody windows ...ever since it did an update two weeks ago it has been crashing and putting up "not responding" boxes which then involved ctr-alt-delete, close program it had got to the stage I was ready to launch it out of a window (sic) and as always microsofts site was absolutely useless and I have only just found out from another site that I can reset ie11 which seems to have sorted the problem.... the question is why couldn't windows have done this during one of the 27 million times it told me it was looking for a solution to the problem...and failing to do so....I pity anyone who has to work with or fix computers for a living.... 

[mercrocker]

Bloody windows ... got to the stage I was ready to launch it out of a window .... 

 

I bet that's how it got the name.   Bit more polite than "Microsoft In the Fucking Bin"

[strangeangel]

"But we had agreed a price", yes but then you said you would only pay £25 less than that, "but you upped your price", yes after you were messing me about, "but I offered the original price again", yes but the price had changed by then,"but you sold it at the original price to someone else", yes but he hadn't messed me about so didn't have to pay for wasting my time and offending me, "but I won't find any at that price again"', yup, you aren't wrong there so you shouldn't have been a cock. I think the brilliant feedback from the guy (who turned up at 8am this morning on the dot) is rubbing salt in the wounds as well - "thanks mate, they are perfect, I have been looking for years and never thought I would find some this good for so little, it was like Christmas today'.

 

Some days you beat the fucktards and it feels good.

 

Edit: just had a message that is pretty much empty but with this at the top 'some content has been removed as it breaches our guidelines on safe messaging'. Hmmm, that's a shame as I think his head may have finally exploded.

 

Edit2: I replied "pardon?" And copied in the message I had. I have had a reply that states he is going to contact the Police as I have breached a contract as we agreed a price (which he then tried to change) and his lawyer will sue me 'for every penny I have got'. My reply - "thank you for your response and complete lack of understanding of the law. I eagerly await your solicitors letter (although I am not sure how it will get here as you don't have my address or any contact details - perhaps you could try Santa, he doesn't have my details but seems to come through every Christmas). When my solicitor has stopped laughing I am sure he will reply with a carefully worded response in legal terms however I can summarise the response in plain English to expedite the whole matter - they are sold, not to you, ha ha, ha ha ha ha, ha ha. Good bye.

 

Class. Although surely this now belongs in the grin thread

[Tamworthbay]

Class. Although surely this now belongs in the grin thread

true, but it was a response to a request so made sense to leave it here.

[xtriple]

Eating a twix on Saturday, thought, 'Hmmm, that's a bit crunchier than I'm used to...' and another bloody tooth has fallen out! That's three gone in a month or so. Mind you in proper 'autoshite' fashion, one of them is now held back in with the aid of super-glue!

[beko1987]

I always stop dead when I hear a harder than normal crunch then inspect teeth to see which one has crumbled this time

[Timewaster]

I once broke a tooth on the liquorice straw in a sherbet fountain.

 

Mind you, I bought it from a place which I later learned was known locally as "the mouldy shop"

 

It was a crumbly filling that dropped out like a ball of wob from a wheel arch.

[cobblers]

Fuckin ell, I've just worked out that I've not visited my council garage for about two years.

The most notable contents include:

Two bald nankang 18" tyres

"shitty bits of tubing offcut corner"

A cardboard box with a load of wire I cut out of a mk3 golf engine loom when putting the engine in my van

A gearbox that may or may not work and doesn't fit any vehicle I ever want to own

An engine that may or may not work and doesn't fit any vehicle I ever want to own

A £30 second hand broken amplifier.

Some long gone off primer.

 

I can't believe I've paid monthly rent on that lot of shit. If I go down and find the place has been torched I'd be quite happy that I don't have to deal with any of it.

 

edit:

Looking back through a load of my old photos to work out projects I was doing, I reckon it's 4 years since I've put anything in that garage. I daren't even work out how much it's cost me in rent in that time, well into 4 figures.

 

Anyone for a pair of t25 gearboxes and an early 80s vw 1.6td engine?

[scaryoldcortina]

dump them in the back of your car, and go to the nearest weighbridge. If you're lucky you'll get a couple of month's rent back.

[Cavcraft]

Has anyone not got a lock-up full of crap? Got two here filled with ancient cycles, trailer, a tent, several thousand car spare wheels, two scooters and lots of other stuff. Just no cars.

[Coprolalia]

Woah woah woah cobblers.

Which engine code is the 1.6td? And where are you?

 

If it's an SB it's a way better engine than the Sharan one for my Scirocco.

[FakeConcern]

Went Gatwick to pick up my friend from Switzerland. Plane was meant to land at 21.40. It got in at 23.09. Next the M23 South was shut, but they only put a sign up actually at the slip road so we go back past Gatwick to the A23.

 

Onto the A27 and fog thick enough that I was down to less than 30mph most of the time and needed my rear fog lights for the first time in living memory.