The grumpy thread

[chaseracer]

Take money.  Buy bits.  ROFFLE project.

[scaryoldcortina]

MM, Take the money, retain the salvage, sell the car as is to Loserone before he does something stupid involving an electric nissan!

[MarvinsMom]

Or, Jo: you could take the money and buy the Gran Fury from the ebay thread?

 

my god that is ugly..... IT WOULD BE PERFECT!! pentastar FTW

[Guest Hooli]

How ever much the cost of parts hurts, I'm sure it hurts less than a broken leg.

 

I'd let it go, chances are you'll find something else as it's stripped to the work & cost more anyway.

[eddyramrod]

It would too.  I've had one, with the same engine, I can vouch for it.  Six-pot Yanks are under-rated IMHO.

 

Edit for clarity: the Gran Fury, that is.

[MarvinsMom]

It would too.  I've had one, with the same engine, I can vouch for it.  Six-pot Yanks are under-rated IMHO.

 

Edit for clarity: the Gran Fury, that is.

this is very true, a friend who is very much into yanks says this.

 

currently he has a Chevy pick-up with a BFO detroit diesel in it, it used to have a big block V8 in it, and it was hideously expensive to run, hence the engine change, but before that he had a '60s Mustang, with a 6 cylinder engine.

 

it cost a fraction of what a V8 would have cost, and it nearly had fuel economy!

[clayts450]

I see complaints from the other side as I'm a complaints officer for a housing association. If yer nice to us, we see you right. If you're shouty with unrealistic demands (some bloke wants 7K for being without a shower for a few weeks - he's got a bath as well), you immediately go to the Friday afternoon pile. Which rarely gets looked at.

[Angrydicky]

I see complaints from the other side as I'm a complaints officer for a housing association. If yer nice to us, we see you right. If you're shouty with unrealistic demands (some bloke wants 7K for being without a shower for a few weeks - he's got a bath as well), you immediately go to the Friday afternoon pile. Which rarely gets looked at.

Yep I do exactly the same at work. One fella was rude and obnoxious to me so the parts he brought in for overhaul took a month to get to the front of the queue. If you're polite and friendly the work happens MUCH quicker.

[DVee8]

Christmas adverts FRO

[timolloyd]

Country lanes near me.

 

I drive them in fast cars, slow cars, old, new, small, large. But I must drive everywhere like an old codger. Because even when I think I'm barrelling along nicely, there is always, always, some twat right up my arse.

 

Reminds me of that old Top Gear when Clarkson has a 30 second head start in an Espirit vs an Astramax, and the van flashes him out the way at 140mph. That's my local lanes every day.

[dave21478]

I see complaints from the other side as I'm a complaints officer for a housing association. If yer nice to us, we see you right. If you're shouty with unrealistic demands (some bloke wants 7K for being without a shower for a few weeks - he's got a bath as well), you immediately go to the Friday afternoon pile. Which rarely gets looked at.

 

It never fails to amaze me, the number of people who dont understand this simple concept. See also bell-sniffers who think its a good idea to be rude or shouty to the people who are preparing or serving their food......how do they think thats going to play out?

[Lankytim]

Work cancelled today, and tomorrow. Posted on a lorry drivers group on Facebook about how quiet things were and how I was fed up of being cancelled (mentioning no names) and got the number for the agency that does work for Royal Mail. Turns out its another branch of my current agency .Anyway rang them up asking for work and they said they'd ring me back. 

 

Keeping up so far? (boring I know)

 

Anyway, my current agency later rang me up saying that the other branch had been on the phone and they'd reported me for slagging the company off on facebook- which was total horseshit. They'd obv taken my name and done a quick seach to see what I was up to. Nothing bad was said, I'd even said they were a good agency! Just I wasn't getting enough work and was fed up of being "block booked" and getting cancelled all the time. Needless to say I won't be getting work from this other branch.

 

I did screen shots of the Facebook thread and fired them off to them, they agreed there was nothing defamatory but to be careful in future. 

 

I honestly don't know WTF I'm meant to have done wrong, but this whole industry can just do one.

[fordperv]

They sound like a bunch of cunts tim, have you thought of applying at s j bargh's recently built depot at normacot/longton by the fire station?

[320touring]

did an exceptional job smashing my backup phone earlier - by being thick! Hoping a certain shiter can assist in turning it into a grin..

[alcyonecorporation]

BenHar already did the AS equivalent of that to me, unfortunately the silly old twat was on block anyway so all he did was massively improve my forum rating overnight.  

Baffling to this day. 

[M'coli]

Click like on every post they have ever made on Facebook, their phones will vibrate like a nuns vibrator when the priest is out of town.

That only works if you're using the Faceache app, if you look at Facebook using a browser you don't get any instant notifications.

[Lankytim]

I don’t know who it was, presumably they have a spy on the lorry drivers group keeping tabs on who says what.

[chaseracer]

Many employers do this.

[beko1987]

Is it me or are the roads really greasy this morning? Joining the m40, same speed I do it every day, same angle I do it every day and I nearly lost the front end! Made me crawl up the motorway to the next junction and pull over to check the car!

 

Then I got proper tyre squeal pulling out of a junction I never get tyre squeal on, despite pulling out harder (fnarr) at other times!

 

Talking to a colleague they had similar this morning, wafting round a corner and feeling a little wander.

 

Hurry up and fucking properly rain to wash it all away please weather!

[Kiltox]

What kind of temperature was it?  Was a bit frosty yesterday morning at early o'clock...

[scaryoldcortina]

It's pretty slippy out there today - MG stepped out on a corner so I held throttle and steered into it thinking it would snap back into line like always but no, 100 yard drift and a cheer from a bus stop full of kids.

 

I'll be more careful in future, I promise.

[beko1987]

What kind of temperature was it? Was a bit frosty yesterday morning at early o'clock...

I have no idea! I was fine without a coat but if I took my clothes off it would have been too cold...

[BorniteIdentity]

I've mentally prepared myself for selling a car - in order to free up some time, money and space.  I've even started physically preparing for the sale of a car.  And then, every SINGLE member of Autoshite, past and present, lists their car for sale.  This morning.  

 

!!

 

I'll just have to tell the wife that there's no point in selling at the moment, and then post in the 'happy man thread' how I've got to keep them all.

[eddyramrod]

If it helps you at all, none of mine are For Sale on the forum at the moment.  I've already got a cash sale on the Saab by word-of-mouth, as soon as the buyer comes back from his holiday.

 

Unless anyone wants to buy a Cadillac...?

[DodgeRover]

Not sure about this morning but yesterday I saw a new BMW get very very out of shape on a simple right turn at the roundabout, looked a real brown trouser moment, luckily they got it back.

[xtriple]

There's a chap locally with a new (66 plate) BMW 330 'e' drive thing, it has bald tyres all round. This is the same chap who had a lovely Lexus hybrid thingy with not a straight or unscraped panel on it... compamy car keeper.

[scaryoldcortina]

Keep us posted on this Focus saga Scary, its most enjoyable for us outsiders who are not having to deal with these ludicrous people.

 

OK.

 

By popular request then, another chapter in the book of why do I bother.

 

I finally tested the Focus yesterday because I've had a sudden and quite nasty dose of flu which nicely bridged the gap between her "asap" key returning (half two the next day if anyone is keeping score) and this week.

 

• I sent her a text straight after the test saying "car is ready for you to collect, please let me know when you want to come for it" but got no reply.
• Nothing for the rest of the day, or this morning, or most of this afternoon...
• I was out on an autoelectrical job in gateshead at about 4, I was planning to go straight on from there to see an old mate for a catch up and a natter so I didn't have to drive the rush hour (which is a pig)
• Guess who rang to say she was outside the yard? Yeah. Called over on spec, didn't check first. Sigh.
• MoT side is open, car is accessible, I have the keys though. Feck...
• OK I said, hang on and I'll be there ASAP but it's going to be at least half an hour maybe longer.
• Drive back through hideous traffic, less than 5 mins from base the phone rang, then rang again, then I got a message. Ignored these because DRIVING.
• Arrive at yard, no sign of them. Check message, is her, she's gone and it's my fault if she misses her doctor's appointment.

There are no words left for how irritated I am, but at least my friend was understanding and said she'd catch up with me some other time.

[Kiltox]

There's a chap locally with a new (66 plate) BMW 330 'e' drive thing, it has bald tyres all round. This is the same chap who had a lovely Lexus hybrid thingy with not a straight or unscraped panel on it... compamy car keeper.

Don’t understand that when the company will buy the tyres!!

[Kiltox]

OK.

 

By popular request then, another chapter in the book of why do I bother.

 

I finally tested the Focus yesterday because I've had a sudden and quite nasty dose of flu which nicely bridged the gap between her "asap" key returning (half two the next day if anyone is keeping score) and this week.

 

• I sent her a text straight after the test saying "car is ready for you to collect, please let me know when you want to come for it" but got no reply.
• Nothing for the rest of the day, or this morning, or most of this afternoon...
• I was out on an autoelectrical job in gateshead at about 4, I was planning to go straight on from there to see an old mate for a catch up and a natter so I didn't have to drive the rush hour (which is a pig)
• Guess who rang to say she was outside the yard? Yeah. Called over on spec, didn't check first. Sigh.
• MoT side is open, car is accessible, I have the keys though. Feck...
• OK I said, hang on and I'll be there ASAP but it's going to be at least half an hour maybe longer.
• Drive back through hideous traffic, less than 5 mins from base the phone rang, then rang again, then I got a message. Ignored these because DRIVING.
• Arrive at yard, no sign of them. Check message, is her, she's gone and it's my fault if she misses her doctor's appointment.

There are no words left for how irritated I am, but at least my friend was understanding and said she'd catch up with me some other time.

Fucking utter cuntery. Definitely needs a pint of milk in each footwell.

[beko1987]

Tip a bottle of steel seal in the coolant...