The grumpy thread

[pilninggas]

Years ago i threw a bike up the road in Switzerland [i was battered but okay]. Anyway a kindly swiss biker called my RAC Euro cover who sent a local swiss agent out - from Davos 50km away. The recovery guy came quickly and we got the bike down to his depot. He said, i am on call for 3 hours, so lets fix the bike up so you can ride it home. We lashed my smashed panniers up, straighted the bent bars out with a scaffold tube and sorted the indicators and mirrors. I rode straight home [by fuck did i ache!].

 

About a month later the RAC sent me a bill for almost £600, apparently the cover did not include RTAs/RTIs and the recovery guy should not have been sent. I sent them a letter saying that i wouldnt be paying and that no county court would want to judge a contractual issue that happened abroad.

 

They then sent me a letter saying i could never be a member again. One year later i got insurance with RAC cover included. No problems encountered.

 

European cover is dicey. I been to Bosnia this year and did France this week. Didnt bother with recovery as it just seems to be a cash cow. If it breaks down, i either try to fix myself or use a local agent.

 

2 years ago i needed a tyre in Italy, not one bike place wanted to do it. Not interested at all ["come back next week" etc]. I rode it back and was on the canvas from Luxembourg to home - was 'interesting' on the flooded motorway east of Kortrijk, to say the very least....

[STUNO]

Just discovered a water leak in the bathroom. The house is built on a concrete slab and I noticed water dripping outside at the join between the floor and wall. It turns out to be somewhere behind the built in bath so will almost certainly mean that having to be pulled out to get at the pipework. We are getting the bathroom re-done soon, but this will need to be fixed now. 

[mrbenn]

Finally found a replacement door for the Focus in the correct colour and good condition.

 

Arrived via courier this morning sporting a couple of bits of impressive* damage that are clearly not on the listing pictures.

 

Couriers: is it that hard to move something from A to B without damaging it? Apparently, yes.

 

I appreciate something like this isn't the easiest thing to move around, but this thing was packaged up to the absolute eyeballs. It took me ages to bite through it all, it's clearly had a couple of fairly heavy whacks/drops.

[meggersdog]

Having a bad day ?

 

My ramp has packed up with a customers car up in the air.Ramp repair guy seemed very vague don't know if he will turn up so had to cancel 7 mots for today and not booking any in as I might have to cancel tomorrows too.

[Guest Hooli]

Bike update. Dealer says about €800 to fix, obviously I said feck off. Now my useless breakdown twats are looking for flights to get me home and probably excuses no to take my bike back to England.

[DodgeRover]

  On 16/08/2018 at 14:22, Hooli said:

Bike update. Dealer says about €800 to fix, obviously I said feck off. Now my useless breakdown twats are looking for flights to get me home and probably excuses no to take my bike back to England.

How do they come up with that figure? What's the factory time to change the stator about 2 hrs?

 

Are your insurers being any more use than a chocolate teapot now?

[Guest Hooli]

Parts prices I bet, the stator was about £350 years ago before the Yen went up. Reg/reg is probably over £100 too.

 

I'm awaiting them ringing me back about getting myself and the bike home. Will chase yet again them later.

[Supernaut]

Stupid students on campus.

 

I saw one cycle past me wearing huge headphones, and he had a helmet dangling from his backpack... He was just about to join a major road, too.

 

 

 

[scratches head]

[SierraMikeHotel]

Builders.

 

If you don't reply to emails, don't answer the phone and don't return my calls when I leave voicemails it is unlikely that you'll get my business.

[Guest Hooli]

FFS! AXA are still useless cunts!

 

The price to fix my bike is about €800. Obviously I said 'get ti fook'. Now they are deciding if they'll bring my bike home, aye right ya fuckers you'd fucking better damn do so!

 

Oh and they've not bothered to work out how they get me home either as it's obviously free to live in a fucking hotel!

 

 

CUNTS!

[DodgeRover]

Just checked Electrex World and they list a reg/ rec unit but not a stator, when I had a trade account with them I'm sure they used to be able to test and repair stator plates - might be worth trying them when you get home.

[STUNO]

A bit more bad weather here. Just about had enough now and then this happened.

 So far

 

 

And more to come

 

This woke me up this morning  !

 

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/106342481/lightning-strike-closes-roads

 

Hi Hairnet

[DodgeRover]

^^^^ I guess compared to the ground shaking a little* lightening activity is pretty un impressive.

Hope all is well

[STUNO]

More close lightning than earthquakes round here

[Guest Hooli]

  On 16/08/2018 at 17:23, Hooli said:

FFS! AXA are still useless cunts!

 

The price to fix my bike is about €800. Obviously I said 'get ti fook'. Now they are deciding if they'll bring my bike home, aye right ya fuckers you'd fucking better damn do so!

 

Oh and they've not bothered to work out how they get me home either as it's obviously free to live in a fucking hotel!

 

 

CUNTS!

All hotels under €200 a night are full today, I need to be out of this room in 23 mins and still I can't get any response except 'we will ring you back'.

I can't go get a flight as all the ones that don't take 20hrs (where the hell does that stopover?) Will have gone before I could get there by train.

They've not yet agreed to get my bike home....

 

AXA breakdown really are a useless bunch of cunts once you leave the UK.

[drum]

Keep updating your Twitter feed.

[beko1987]

And when they ask you to DM them, do that, but also post it publicly! They want to take it offline, you don't want to do this!

 

Post tweets in the style of a nice holiday! #Another lovely hotel curtosey of @Axa - then take a picture of a shitty little hotel room that your being forced to stay in!

[Guest Hooli]

That's the trouble it's a nice expensive hotel that I'm paying for!

 

I don't get twatter, it makes no sense to look at so thanks for the tips guys.

[twosmoke300]

V6 Touareg tdi starter and an early scooby sti front exhausts to turbo gaskets .

 

Awesome day

[pilninggas]

  On 17/08/2018 at 08:39, Hooli said:

All hotels under €200 a night are full today, I need to be out of this room in 23 mins and still I can't get any response except 'we will ring you back'.

I can't go get a flight as all the ones that don't take 20hrs (where the hell does that stopover?) Will have gone before I could get there by train.

They've not yet agreed to get my bike home....

 

AXA breakdown really are a useless bunch of cunts once you leave the UK.

cheap tent, sleeping bag and rollmat from the local hypermarket? campsites are cheap and plentiful.

[Guest Hooli]

  On 17/08/2018 at 11:30, pilninggas said:

cheap tent, sleeping bag and rollmat from the local hypermarket? campsites are cheap and plentiful.

It's Friday night. Beer and local bird lol

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Got into Canterbury to get fuel for a drive up to my Grandad’s 90th in Shropshire. Rear left tyre flat. Had to replace both rears. Fortunately got reasonable tyres in short order and cheaply from Invicta Tyres in Wincheap but still. I’d only had the last lot since last October!

[captain_70s]

An hour to drive less than 11 miles.

 

Fuck traffic and fuck a long shift on a Friday.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Feckin' incompetent shites at KwikFit. Last week, they booked* the CX in for its MoT to be done this afternoon. Only, it turns out they didn't. I turned up dead on time only to be told "computer sez no".

 

Shower o' bastards. I'm trying again on Monday morning.

[Guest Hooli]

Breakdown update.

 

One for the grin thread really but the story has been here.

 

I fly home in the morning. My bike follows within two weeks.

[DodgeRover]

  On 17/08/2018 at 16:36, Hooli said:

Breakdown update.

 

One for the grin thread really but the story has been here.

 

I fly home in the morning. My bike follows within two weeks.

That's good news anyway. Safe journey

[Zelandeth]

Stupid inaccurate dimensional drawings. Just bought a pair of new speakers for the front of the van, having carefully checked that they would fit. Do they hell. A good 2cm deeper than on the drawing. Result? They don't fit in the boxes - about 5mm too deep.

 

Guess I'll be making a spacer tomorrow then...

[Bucketeer]

I'm generally a placid guy. I try not to let anything get to me. However yesterday I was sat on a coach behind a lad (20-ish) who was playing some war game online on his phone, with a few online mates, with the speakers at full volume. All I could hear was machine gun noises and the online group of them chatting tactics, shouting obscenities and the like.

I kept my displeasure bottled up, and as I prepared to alight at my stop I was internally congratulating myself for rising above it.

As I walked past his seat I turned to give him a suitably tough Paddington stare and instead, without planning, knowledge or control, my mouth told him that if he ever did that again on a bus I was on I would post his phone into his skull through his eye socket.

I was quite surprised I did that.

[BorniteIdentity]

To the scum who stole my anti-depressants.

 

I hope you’re happy now.

[Tamworthbay]

  On 17/08/2018 at 16:36, Hooli said:

Breakdown update.

One for the grin thread really but the story has been here.

I fly home in the morning. My bike follows within two weeks.

About fucking time!