The grumpy thread

[MarvinsMom]

what is Drivetribe?

 

is it a popular "beat combo" like those Beetles?

[Supernaut]

Drivetribe?

 

Seems to be a social media-engineered version of pistonheads / speedhunters. Seems to cater to that crowd anyway.

 

I'm not a fan of it either.

[EssDeeWon]

Have seen Prius, Micras, Metros and minis all on LPG plus loads of Corsa, escorts, fiestas no sense paying twice as much for fuel if you don't have too.

 

I get that but these LPG systems ain't cheap so it must take a long time driving something like an Almera before you actually start saving?

 

A daily used Range Rover I can understand

[Frogchod]

Got a new* injection pump for the Jumpy, fitted it along with new cambelt and watnot.

Then tried starting.

Nothing.

Bit of google inspired investigating and it turns out the stop solenoid is coded.

So take the whole lot off again and attack the stop solenoid shielding with the grinder and lob on the uncoded one from the old pump.

Starts ok now

Two hour job turned into an all fuggin day job.

Biggest grump is that I done exactly the same around five years ago on the same bloody van

I normally learn from mistakes

[DodgeRover]

Been contracting at this place in London for almost three years. I had been told my role would be going permanent and last week was called in by HR to inform me that the process is starting. Would I like to apply for it? Yes please says I. However...

 

They are splitting my role in two

 

Each role carries half the salary I am on.

 

So that's nice. Thanks for all your hard work, we would LOVE you to stay on and continue the excellent work you are doing but we will be halving your pay. That alright?

 

I wasn't on a particularly massive wedge anyhow so I am somewhat miffed. Especially considering that as someone with a quarter of a century of experience in financial services, my salary would same as a graduate intern. What annoys me the most is I turned down a half decent permanent role two months ago as I was asked not to take it as the place I am at wanted me to stay and assured me they would try and look after me.

 

To say I feel disappointed is a bit of an understatement

Make your disappointment known to them

[dollywobbler]

I had some YouTube stuff ready to go but canned it because of the comments section. Same shit, different arse. 

 

And Americans are allowed to post. 

 

You can turn comments off on YouTube you know...

 

I mostly get sensible ones. Only the occasional 'get a haircut.'

[DodgeRover]

I get that but these LPG systems ain't cheap so it must take a long time driving something like an Almera before you actually start saving?

 

A daily used Range Rover I can understand

I guesstimate £1200 for a cheap injection system fitted £400 or less DIY saving 50ppl that's break even at 2400 l or roughly 20000 miles at 40mpg

 

I guess some people would do that over 8 or 9 months

[DeeJay]

You can turn comments off on YouTube you know...

 

I mostly get sensible ones. Only the occasional 'get a haircut.'

 

Yeh, sorry about that. 

[Guest Hooli]

Printers are arseholes.

 

I *might* send everything I need to print to work & bring it home the next day...

 

That is what email is for right?

[mercrocker]

We had a retirement seminar at work a few months ago.   One of the forms we had to fill in asked "What will you miss most about working?" 

 

I guess "Printer" might have been the wrong answer.

[Guest Hooli]

Trouble is everyone buys an inkjet for home as they are cheap & then hardly uses it. The ink dries in the nozzles & it's buggered.

 

You'd be better off with a 2nd hand laser in most cases.

[anonymous user]

Trouble is everyone buys an inkjet for home as they are cheap & then hardly uses it.

 

You'd be better off with a 2nd hand laser in most cases.

Or a second hand twelve bore

[mercrocker]

I know I have told this tale before on here but I once flew into an incandescent rage with a printer, smashed the jolly fuck out of it with a wooden skull on a stick (don't ask - it was near Halloween time) and hurled it into the bin with super-human force.    

 

Two hours later I was still fucking miffed so I got it back out (or what was left of it) and set fire to it.  

 

Never owned another.   Absolute pricks.   It was nothing to do with ink or owt - just would not communicate with any other piece of hardware that I had access to.   Bastard.

[mercrocker]

Anyway, that is not what I came on here to grump about.   Just had 3 days off so I wrote a little list of jobs that needed doing across the fleet.   Did four of them and felt really pleased.   Until I got back indoors and realised I had written two notebook pages of other jobs that need doing, of which I had previously been completely unaware.    

 

I have just put the Cowley away and as I switched the lights off I heard a distinct "plick".   Now only one of the sealed beams is working.   Where's that fucking notebook.....

[UmBongo]

You can turn comments off on YouTube you know...

 

I mostly get sensible ones. Only the occasional 'get a haircut.'

 

And so you should. Bloody hippies!

[captain_70s]

Lost my 1/4" aux lead for my guitar. Probably went walkies when I moved house.

 

Also every weekend a mate comes round for drinks and we end up going into town. Costs a fucking fortune, last night were went somewhere that cost fucking £8 each just to get in and a double vodka/coke was £6.50... Need to cut this shit out, I'm flat broke! 

[dollywobbler]

Lost my 1/4" aux lead for my guitar. Probably went walkies when I moved house.

 

Also every weekend a mate comes round for drinks and we end up going into town. Costs a fucking fortune, last night were went somewhere that cost fucking £8 each just to get in and a double vodka/coke was £6.50... Need to cut this shit out, I'm flat broke! 

 

Yeah, some people just refuse to understand the concept of skint. It's almost as baffling to them as saying you don't drink. 

[dollywobbler]

Trouble is everyone buys an inkjet for home as they are cheap & then hardly uses it. The ink dries in the nozzles & it's buggered.

 

You'd be better off with a 2nd hand laser in most cases.

 

We tried this. It ended up being an even more expensive way of experiencing failure.

[danthecapriman]

I know I have told this tale before on here but I once flew into an incandescent rage with a printer, smashed the jolly fuck out of it with a wooden skull on a stick (don't ask - it was near Halloween time) and hurled it into the bin with super-human force.

 

Two hours later I was still fucking miffed so I got it back out (or what was left of it) and set fire to it.

 

Never owned another. Absolute pricks. It was nothing to do with ink or owt - just would not communicate with any other piece of hardware that I had access to. Bastard.

I've felt pretty low today but that's just made me chuckle!

 

I did something similar at work a few years ago. Piece of shit wouldn't print so after a few goes I punched it as hard as I could and completely wrecked it. I got bollocked for it and caused a scene.

 

In a similar vein, my old works van had an add on ice and low temp alarm gauge in the cab (yes really!) and one day it fucked up and started beeping non stop.

I tried to stop it but it wasn't playing ball so I grabbed hold of it and tore it out of the dashboard, ripped the wires off the back and threw it out the window. That stopped the little bastard beeping.

I put it under the vans shell afterwards and ran it over a few times too. My apprentice was pissing himself laughing.

Despite what people say, smashing stuff does make you feel better!

[Captain Furious]

I was trying to dial into work on my personal laptop once and it just wouldn't have it, for some reason every time I need to do anything important and/or urgent windows is out to thwart me at every turn, anywaythis resulted in a fit of boiling rage during which I punched the screen and shattered the LCD, yeah, that'll fuckin learn it...

 

Got into work the next day and found out the company internet connection had been down and that's why I couldn't connect. Whoops, still haven't got a new screen in it to this day.

 

And yeah printers are proper wankers, I don't even bother with having one at home, just use the ones at work.

[danthecapriman]

My mate at work lost it with his company tomtom sat nav, he twatted it one in the screen and killed it. It's always funny to watch but never is when it's you getting angry.

[Captain Furious]

I'm actually an IT geek for a living too, I don't do windows though because it's such a massive pile of shit.

[DodgeRover]

One of the staff at a local joinery suppliers got so fecked off with the new improved system they are trialling he grabbed a hammer off the display and put it through the screen...

[danthecapriman]

One of the staff at a local joinery suppliers got so fecked off with the new improved system they are trialling he grabbed a hammer off the display and put it through the screen...

It's a good job I don't live in America. If I did I think literally everything I own would be covered in bullet holes!

[captain_70s]

Yeah, some people just refuse to understand the concept of skint. It's almost as baffling to them as saying you don't drink. 

My complete lack of self control doesn't help, we're fucking hopeless as doing the whole "quiet night with a couple of pints" thing! Last night was just silly though, it cost as much as our last two nights out combined and was pretty shit... We met up with my mate's girlfriend and some of her workmates who'd ended up out on the town after some works related thing and within half an hour of us showing up they'd decide it was home time and that was that. He spent £30 and we were only out for about 2 hours!

[Honey Badger]

I've had 5 days off and had a list of things to do, mainly workshop related and a bit of gardening but got fuck all done as my body is giving up on me, backs fucked and can only manage 30 min of work before I need to slap a heat pack on it and lie down. Knees need ice pavks applying if i have to kneel for anything and now my thumbs and elbows are swollen and really really fucking painful for no apparent reasons

 

I've gone from being fit and able capable of rebuilding a house and heavy landscaping work to someone who worries about how much it's going to hurt after I mow the fucking lawn. I'm already taking fuckloads of anti inflammatories and painkillers for my back every day along with blood pressure tablets along with stuff for my stomach to counteract the damage the back pills are doing.

 

I'm forty fucking two.

 

Getting old is shit.

[Hendry]

It's a good job I don't live in America. If I did I think literally everything I own would be covered in bullet holes!

       that really made me chuckle! found it funnier than i probably should!

[jon928se]

Major grumps. 

Spent all day bleeding the brakes on the 98 V8 Discovery yesterday. Put through 1.5 litres of Blue fluid (old was yellow about 5 years old) using my Gunsons Eezibleed to change the fluid. Didn't pay a lot of attention to the old fluid coming out until it was all blue. But then realised I was getting a lot of air coming through the system. Previously brakes were not awe inspiring but seemed to work OK. So I put the wheels back on took it for a drive to check it out and the brakes actually seemed a bit better than they were before. Not happy with the amount of air bubbles I had seen, back on the jackstands and started bleeding again. After running 0.5 Litre twice (reusing the same fluid each time) through each wheel still lots of air coming through, got bored and just kept bleeding the Left rear while I got on with other maintenance tasks like changing a track rod end and greasing all the UJs. After about 10 bleeds (about 5 litres) at the left rear I had to add another 0.25 litre of fluid to my bottle suggesting that I had actually got rid of 0.25 litre of air. Carried on bleeding at the left rear - another 10 times (5 litres) and still getting air bubbles coming out. Now I am stumped.

The only odd thing I have found is that the pedal is actually quite hard to push down even when the bleed nipple is open.

Have i stumbled upon a gold mine of air in the ABS system that has been there for the whole time I have owned this Disco ?

FWIW - brake flexis were changed about 8 years ago along with brake fluid reservoir. Didn't have any issues I can remember bleeding the brakes then.

 

Carried on again today

 

Well I'm still not convinced I've got there. Wondered if there could be false air just getting into the system at the bleed nipple. I'm not really sure how this could happen given that I bled the system using a pressure bleeder at between 15psi and 20psi but I suppose there could be some kind of Venturi effect as the fluid goes through the 1mm hole in the side of the bleed nipple then expands into the 3mm dia central bore of the the nipple. Mind you if someone told me it wasn't air but smoke escaping from the Lucas electrics I could believe that too at the moment.

Anyway determined not to be beaten I flared a piece of brake pipe with a union nut on one end and clear hose on the other to screw in place of the bleed nipple. Ran 0.5L through each wheel and no air bubbles at all. Heartened by this I then sucked all the much recycled fluid out the reservoir, cleaned out the Eezibleed and refilled with new amber coloured fluid. Bled this through with bleed nipples in place not my adapter and still got air bubbles. Couldn't be bothered with it anymore so once the new fluid came through just buttoned it all up and called it a day.

Been for a test drive and it does actually stop better but still not awe inspiring, but good enough to make the ABS work on my steep driveway. 

Can't help thinking it should be better though - My 94 Disco I had in NZ was much better as was my 93RRC (but that had the electric booster pump and no servo) 

Anyone else had this kind of problem.

[twosmoke300]

Fuck the ezi bleed off

[Mr A Lawrence]

Wish the ground would open up #1

 

Since we moved into our village early last year there's been an old guy with an equally old sheepdog walk past our house 2 or 3 times a day.

 

This morning he walked past just as I was closing the gates so I asked where's your dog today.

 

His reply was he died a couple of weeks ago.

 

Then he proceeds to tell us in detail what happened, said he doesn't half miss him then started crying and walked off.

 

If ever there was a stunned silence and me wanting the ground to open up it was that moment.

 

Fuck.