The grumpy thread

[3VOM]

Amazing how you can lose hours to YouTube - I’ve spent far longer than is normal watching an electrician go about his daily job (thomas nagy)

Yes, follow him too. (And Beko)

Mechanics - Charles Humble and Briansmobile1. Mechanic(s) plus quality eye candy - Flying Sparks Garage.

[Captain Furious]

I shouldn't moan about people flipping cars but some clueless moron is trying to sell a BX he paid £1k for a few days back for £3500 on Facebook.

He may be in for the long run as it took the previous owner over a year to shift it for a third of that....

 

Maybe he's put "need gone" in the ad, because as we all know this alerts potential buyers to the urgency of the sale and makes it happen much faster.

[richardthestag]

with all this youtube stuff this grump thread rocks

[cros]

I lied, it's the £15 Miele Revolution 500 video tonight, Dc24 is on Tuesday. (consulted my spreadsheet

Now that I'm all signed up I look forward to future coverage of Captain Beefheart's appliance of choice. Over to you Mr Beko

[wuvvum]

I think the Audi 80 may have fuel pump issues.

 

I was catastrophically late for work this morning due to most of the roads into Norwich being blocked by a variety of fallen trees, so ended up having to do half a lap of Norfolk to find a way in, then caned the living f*ck out of the Audi down the new (and still nearly empty, despite the chaos elsewhere) northern bypass to get to where I needed to be.

 

I've never caned it properly before - I've floored the throttle to overtake or pull out onto a busy A-road, but I've never held it to the floor for extended periods, and after a while the power delivery started "pulsing" like it does at idle - hitherto it had always behaved perfectly when under power, it was only at idle and sometimes at initial pull away that it had problems.  I think my hopes of the running issues being caused by air in the system are waning, and I might have to fork out for another pump, which won't be cheap - although it doesn't look like too much of a twat of a job to change.

[beko1987]

I've just sold the miele featured tonight... Need to have a cull I think, this was first!

 

Profit though, so sad I can't use it, but it needs to be gone!

[clayts450]

Computer says no on letting me tax the Cruiser online in prep for collekshun.

 

Left work late today but got home in time (I thought) to ring Swansea - incorrect. After several minutes of 30p a minute waffle from some random automated geezer, selected option 4 to be put through to an advisor to be 'advised' 'our offices are closed blah blah blah'...

 

24 hour society my arse. Surely the Govt must be crying out for my money, you'd think.

 

Oh well, will try tomorrow first thing, otherwise I'll be in the queue behind the blue rinses in the morning.

[320touring]

I think the Audi 80 may have fuel pump issues.

 

I was catastrophically late for work this morning due to most of the roads into Norwich being blocked by a variety of fallen trees, so ended up having to do half a lap of Norfolk to find a way in, then caned the living f*ck out of the Audi down the new (and still nearly empty, despite the chaos elsewhere) northern bypass to get to where I needed to be.

 

I've never caned it properly before - I've floored the throttle to overtake or pull out onto a busy A-road, but I've never held it to the floor for extended periods, and after a while the power delivery started "pulsing" like it does at idle - hitherto it had always behaved perfectly when under power, it was only at idle and sometimes at initial pull away that it had problems. I think my hopes of the running issues being caused by air in the system are waning, and I might have to fork out for another pump, which won't be cheap - although it doesn't look like too much of a twat of a job to change.

When did you do the fuel filter on it? And what brand is it?

[robinmasters]

Watching Goldfinger.

 

They just crushed a complete (straight off the road, engine & interior still in place) Lincoln Continental, plus occupant and some gold, into a 3' cube.

 

Not only was the resultant lump unfeasibly small, what would that weigh, 3+ tonnes? They just drop it into Odd Job's Ford Ranchero, and off he goes. The Ford is completely flat, as if there's no load in it at all.

 

Spoilt the entire film for me.

[SiC]

I don't believe the crushers can properly cube a vehicle with an engine in. Especially a big engine.

 

Anyway that era Bond is all about light hearted ridiculousness!

[The Moog]

Can't pay my tax bill on credit since Jan 13th. I should have paid more attention. Knobs.

 

 

Oh and uncle bumblefuck is a god . Lived in Newfie for a bit and knew loads of guys like him

 

 

Quite enjoy forgotten weapons on YouTube. It's basically Dolly Wobbler with guns.

[Ghosty]

I've been enjoying VINWiki's YouTube channel, lots of American car guys telling their stories. Simple, nicely done videos too.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Can't pay my tax bill on credit since Jan 13th. I should have paid more attention. Knobs.

 

 

Oh and uncle bumblefuck is a god . Lived in Newfie for a bit and knew loads of guys like him

 

 

Quite enjoy forgotten weapons on YouTube. It's basically Dolly Wobbler with guns.

I've no idea about the top two but gun jesus as he's called is getting about a bit.

 

Think the world might explode if he met dollywobbler though.

[angle]

Can't pay my tax bill on credit since Jan 13th. I should have paid more attention. Knobs.

 

It's not just you. Going to be living off beans this month...

[The Moog]

My fault for not sorting it earlier.

[scaryoldcortina]

Common sense. Why is it so uncommon?

 

I came home because I was expecting a parcel. Courier (Herpes) have already been and there is a card on the doormat with "in wheelie bin" written on it. FFS it's bin day... Out I go, and thankfully the parcel is still there in the top of the bin BUT the bin hasn't been emptied and there is a notice stuck to it warning me not to put non recyclable rubbish into the recycling bin.

 

Too much thought required for the courier to NOT put my parcel in the bin, or for the binman to take it back out again. Oh well, at least it wasn't general waste week.

[Captain Furious]

Over the last 2 days they have coned off the hard shoulder of the M6 for pretty much the entire length of my commute and started to erect average speed cameras - please don't be "Smart Motorways"

 

Edit:  Bollocks, it is...that's my commute fucked for the next two years, and for the rest of time after that.

[Lankytim]

Watching Goldfinger.

 

They just crushed a complete (straight off the road, engine & interior still in place) Lincoln Continental, plus occupant and some gold, into a 3' cube.

 

Not only was the resultant lump unfeasibly small, what would that weigh, 3+ tonnes? They just drop it into Odd Job's Ford Ranchero, and off he goes. The Ford is completely flat, as if there's no load in it at all.

 

Spoilt the entire film for me.

 

 

I remember reading an article written by a guy working on the film at the time.For the crusher scene they bought a blue Lincoln Continental from a local Doctor and painted it black to match the car used in the other sequences. They removed the engine and box and filmed it getting squashed. To get it to the right dimensions they cut the now rectangular car in half to make it a cube shape.  

 

The scrapyard was also in the UK... I forget where but apparently it's now a housing estate.

[sierraman]

I shouldn't moan about people flipping cars but some clueless moron is trying to sell a BX he paid £1k for a few days back for £3500 on Facebook.

 

He may be in for the long run as it took the previous owner over a year to shift it for a third of that....

Good luck to him, if I could flip a grand into 3.5 id do it like a shot. I once sold a lawnmower on for twice what I bought it, the original owner who purported to be an expert got all funny about it. Tough shit I said that's business.

[barefoot]

U2 tickets go on sale Monday

Because I pay $40 to be in the fan club, I can buy today

Standing tickets (£70) sold out after two minutes

I can buy a seated ticket @ £212

FRO Bono

[Guest Hooli]

Why would anyone buy U2 tickets anyway?

[Louise2cv]

Wasn't the M62 one where they were planning to trial traffic lights?

 

ETA traffic lights on link roads and smart motorway (if that's what "variable mandatory speed limits" means) on M62

[HillmanImp]

U2 tickets go on sale Monday

Because I pay $40 to be in the fan club, I can buy today

Standing tickets (£70) sold out after two minutes

I can buy a seated ticket @ £212

FRO Bono

 

There was a letter in Viz many years ago from a chap who was at a U2 concert. He was complaining about listening to Bonio harp on about world poverty and hunger as he queued up to pay £6 for a Cornish pastie.

[Captain Furious]

They were doing a text-in thing on Absolute Radio the other day asking what do you think it was that Bono was looking for - (in the song, I still haven't found...etc)

 

Someone text in "His tax return form"

 

Ace

[Captain Furious]

Wasn't the M62 one where they were planning to trial traffic lights?

 

ETA traffic lights on link roads and smart motorway (if that's what "variable mandatory speed limits" means) on M62

 

I dunno about the M62, but the M6 has had traffic lights on slip roads for years, they actually work pretty well.

 

Smart Motorways are shit though, they might as well just slap a permanent 50mph speed limit on it and bang speed cameras up everywhere, its the same difference.

[HillmanImp]

They were doing a text-in thing on Absolute Radio the other day asking what do you think it was that Bono was looking for - (in the song, I still haven't found...etc)

 

Someone text in "His tax return form"

 

Ace

 

[richardthestag]

I remember reading an article written by a guy working on the film at the time.For the crusher scene they bought a blue Lincoln Continental from a local Doctor and painted it black to match the car used in the other sequences. They removed the engine and box and filmed it getting squashed. To get it to the right dimensions they cut the now rectangular car in half to make it a cube shape.  

 

The scrapyard was also in the UK... I forget where but apparently it's now a housing estate.

 

63 continental without running gear was crushed

 

Location was Miami, hence lack of piles of Ford Pops

 

https://foursquare.com/v/miami-iron--metal/51bb33295019661f39fd3e0b

[Louise2cv]

I dunno about the M62, but the M6 has had traffic lights on slip roads for years, they actually work pretty well.

 

Smart Motorways are shit though, they might as well just slap a permanent 50mph speed limit on it and bang speed cameras up everywhere, its the same difference.

I believe the difference here is that rather than slip roads it's link roads.

[Cavcraft]

I think I’ve got a touch of this flu thing that’s going round. May have to cancel my work’s do tomorrow night

[AlabamaShrimp]

It's a few of slip roads round here on to the M62 but they are hardly ever switched on.

 

When they are they are on and off very quick making them totally pointless as you're speeding up, see yellow so slowdown, but they change to green at the bottom.

 

The section in West Yorkshire seems to work well with the extra lane and is just been extended towards Castleford. The only problem with it is there's too many cars at peak times near Leeds/Batley and Bradford that it messes the rest up.