The grumpy thread

[oldcars]

Sad new, take care.

[danthecapriman]

Sorry to hear that Alabama.

[alcyonecorporation]

Sorry to divert off, but wtf is all this 'subscribe to three motoring rags' about?

 

Can someone PM? I'm having a stupid week, please forgive.

[beko1987]

Sorry to divert off, but wtf is all this 'subscribe to three motoring rags' about?

 

Can someone PM? I'm having a stupid week, please forgive.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=1734445

[alcyonecorporation]

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=1734445

I see - it's another PH trope.

[John F]

Well, it's finally dry enough to crawl under my new Discovery 2 to check the chassis rot.

 

It's not good, but might be salvageable as an interim measure without having to fit a replacement half chassis this year. Still a metric fuck-ton of work though

 

Bonus grump: one of the neighbours has some sort of yappy dog thing, and the little shit has been yapping without pause for the last hour. Grrr!

[captain_70s]

Met Office has declared that there is a less than 5% chance of rain today in my area. Naturally when I'm halfway through T-Cutting the bird shit stains out of the Acclaim's bonnet it starts pissing down.

 

Fuck off.

[Slartibartfast]

Well I got the phone call tonight I was expecting very soon that my dad had died.

 

As posted in the other thread I made it was for the best as honestly it's a twat that they leave people in pain but put animals down.

 

I'd been to the hospital today and nothing could be said or done. I know it sounds heartless but it's only of the inevitabilitys of life and nothing I could have done or said would have changed that. I just hope now that things can move forward for the better.

I'm really sorry for your loss

[mercrocker]

Well I got the phone call tonight I was expecting very soon that my dad had died.

 

As posted in the other thread I made it was for the best as honestly it's a twat that they leave people in pain but put animals down.

 

I'd been to the hospital today and nothing could be said or done. I know it sounds heartless but it's only of the inevitabilitys of life and nothing I could have done or said would have changed that. I just hope now that things can move forward for the better.

 

Sorry to hear this, chap.   

[fordperv]

Shit, sad news Alabama my thoughts are with you, remember bud were all here for a word if needed

[AMC Rebel]

 

Bonus grump: one of the neighbours has some sort of yappy dog thing, and the little shit has been yapping without pause for the last hour. Grrr!

 

Some twat (not actually that) near me (several gardens away) has some piss-poor excuse for a hound that yips every time I go outside.  If I am working under some old banger it shuts up a bit but it seems to have bionic hearing as it can detect the slightest change of posture on my part and responds with a restart of its pathetic yipping.

[madrat]

Some twat (not actually that) near me (several gardens away) has some piss-poor excuse for a hound that yips every time I go outside.  If I am working under some old banger it shuts up a bit but it seems to have bionic hearing as it can detect the slightest change of posture on my part and responds with a restart of its pathetic yipping.

Don't blame the dog, its the bloody owners, should have been taught better, we have 2 just the same by us.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Some twat (not actually that) near me (several gardens away) has some piss-poor excuse for a hound that yips every time I go outside.  If I am working under some old banger it shuts up a bit but it seems to have bionic hearing as it can detect the slightest change of posture on my part and responds with a restart of its pathetic yipping.

 

It's probably very bored, so any change in atmosphere - including your slight movements - brings a bit of excitement to the poor thing.

[Bren]

ESP and handbrake malfunction illuminated on my Audi. Again.

If I leave the car for just a couple of days this happens. Getting to the end of my tether with this car now.

[barefoot]

Not very automotive, but I was using the self service photo machine in Boots, printing out a series of pictures of me knob.

When I'd done the machine failed to print out the receipt thing that you take to the till to pay.

So I had to ask a woman to count me pics and charge me accordingly...

 

I only did it myself to save time, honest.

[danthecapriman]

Picture the scene.

 

Two lane dual carriageway, 50mph limit (everyone on it doing about 50mph), slip road exit from lane 1 going to a Morrison’s superstore. Your in lane 2 and suddenly, on the fly, you decide you want to go to Morrison’s.

 

Do you,

A: carry on since your at speed and shouldn’t stop. Continue a few hundred yards up the road to the roundabout, turn around and come back?

 

Or

 

B: slam the brakes on in lane 2 almost causing a pile up. Block lane 2 while you try to cut across the 50mph traffic in lane 1 to get to the Morrison’s slip road?

 

Naturally for the mentally deranged dick wad in the pretend Chevy (not a real Chevy!) in front of me you take option 2, fuck everyone else!

I very nearly rear ended him in my van because of this and almost got rear ended myself. I had that sick feeling you get when your almost positive your going to be in an accident. It’s a good job at least a few of us were concentrating at the time really. Bloody twat!

[John F]

ESP and handbrake malfunction illuminated on my Audi. Again.

If I leave the car for just a couple of days this happens. Getting to the end of my tether with this car now.

 

Bloody hell Bren, you're not having much luck

 

How about a Mk 3 Cav? There's not much on them to go wrong.

[mrbenn]

Well I got the phone call tonight I was expecting very soon that my dad had died.

 

As posted in the other thread I made it was for the best as honestly it's a twat that they leave people in pain but put animals down.

 

I'd been to the hospital today and nothing could be said or done. I know it sounds heartless but it's only of the inevitabilitys of life and nothing I could have done or said would have changed that. I just hope now that things can move forward for the better.

Sorry to see this, hope you’re doing ok.

[Guest Hooli]

ESP and handbrake malfunction illuminated on my Audi. Again.

If I leave the car for just a couple of days this happens. Getting to the end of my tether with this car now.

 

Sell it to SiC.

[dozeydustman]

Sorry for your news Alabama

[drum]

My grump is minor compared to dead parents, sorry to hear that A Shrimp.

 

What's pissing me off is BT broadband, or the lack there of. It went from a dizzy 2.95 mb/s last Wednesday to an unusable 0.1 at most last Thursday. I had an online chat with Diviyansh who assured me he would reset the the line and call me back on Sunday. Sunday came and went with no call, so back on the online chat, this time to Saanvi. She tells me it's definitely a borked home hub and sends me out a new one and will phone me on Thursday to check its fixed.

It arrived yesterday but made feck all difference, so I thought I'd let them know so they can get on with fixing it. Kashvi took up the chat and asked me if I would like to chat to her/his manager. She/he must have sensed my frustration. Manager Rajani told me I had to wait until my phone call on Thursday at which point I would be told the latest update on the problem. Why I had to wait until the phone call wasn't made clear and Rajani 'left the chat' mid conversation*.

I was duly phoned this morning by Tahira. She told me that the line was reset 7 days ago and it takes 10 days to settle down. Nothing can be done until the 10 days are up. I can expect another call on Sunday to check if everything is working. Marvellous. So that will be ten days and counting with no internet. No offer of a sim with some data to keep us going. No refund of the BT bill for a service they aren't providing and no compensation for the other crap we subscribe to like Netflix and Prime and the stuff my boy does with his Xbox.

 

Before anyone gets on their high horse, I'm not having a go at Indian based call centres. They're the poor sods that get the flack and are probably paid a pittance.

 

My mobile data is getting a hammering and the teenagers are going mental. First world problems, I know.

The main grump is I can't look at the YouTube vids some of you have posted about Olds 88s.

[madrat]

 

BT broadband

Theirs yar problem!

[AlabamaShrimp]

Thanks everyone really appreciate the comments.

 

People always ask 'do you want anything doing?' yes please can you come round and weld the Fiesta while putting some new wings on and a quick coat of paint?

[chaseracer]

On our way.  You have tea and bacon sandwiches?

 

[Kiltox]

Moderation is getting a bit out of hand isn’t it? Don’t see why the Stolen thread was locked and all of this bunching sticky threads into one that nobody will read isn’t going to end well....

[AlabamaShrimp]

On our way. You have tea and bacon sandwiches?

 

Of course! Oh can you bring a decent welder, parts and tools please

[chaseracer]

Moderation is getting a bit out of hand isn’t it? Don’t see why the Stolen thread was locked and all of this bunching sticky threads into one that nobody will read isn’t going to end well....

 

 

[catsinthewelder]

BT can just fuck right off they drive me insane at home so from next Monday won't be my supplier.  My dad has just got his phone back after 3 weeks of no line after they fucked up installing fibre.  Work is into the second week of no broadband after an almighty row with the useless cunts who are still posting our bills to the old unit 3 and a half years after we moved and after more than 50 requests to change it.

 

Todays grump is with DART charge though,  at the start of last month a customer didn't pay it so we got the PCN.  I filled it out and posted it off with his rental agreement as I've done dozens of times.  Today we had a letter to say we were still liable because of a problem with the statement of liability so I phoned them.

 

  Spoke to a nice asian lad up at the Leeds office who, after some digging suggested that it wasn't a probem with the rental agreement as the letter had seemed to suggest but the form I'd sent back with it.  I asked what exactly was the matter but he couldn't tell me as it was missing from the record.  He tried to suggest that I hadn't returned it but I pointed out that would have meant they recieved an unaccompanied rental agreement which we both agreed they would have ignored.

 

He suggested I should send in another form,  but how?  I don't have a spare form.  Why not? You are a rental company.  Because PCN comes with form,  we fill in form and post it thus no spare form.  After a bit of an argument and a promise from me to keep a couple of photocopies filed away ready for the next fuck up he took my email address and said that he would try and get one to me.  Its not here yet so expect a repeat tomorrow FFS.

[Inspector Morose]

Don't talk to me about the DART charge. They are currently trying to fine me for a crossing that I'd paid for and have proof of payment.

Sent off the relevant rebuttal forms and silence. Nothing. Meanwhile in a few days time, according to the only paperwork they've sent me so far, they will start court proceedings.

What number do you phone as I've never found one on their website (it may be there and I'm totally blind though)?

[Tamworthbay]

Once it gets to the court stage it gets stupid, even if you have the evidence in your hand they won’t listen. You can go in person on the day which will work if you are lucky but otherwise it will be bailiffs at the door if you can’t get it sorted before. My mate who lives in Leytonstone had no end of hassle with them, they ended up taking stuff from his house which he never got back (but was ‘compensated’) but never got so much as a sorry. Another faceless bunch who don’t give a shit.