The grumpy thread

[chadders]

Yeah - but being a bloody-minded Yorkshireman means I'll just work harder to cancel it and then complain.

 

I know that it's futile and won't make any difference overall but that's the way I am.

[AlabamaShrimp]

The Frontera is a twat. Squeaking on the front if or course a lot quiter when I took it to the expensive garage down the road this morning for them to have a look.

 

One of the kids there messes with it and thinks it's a damper as it's so quiet. I had a look underneath and all the bushes look OK and there's no obvious leaks. Drive home, fucker starts squeaking again...

 

I think it's coming from the hub. I'll have to get the wheel off when I get chance just can't be arsed on my own and the month long manflu isn't helping.

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Dry ball joint? May improve when wet?

[AlabamaShrimp]

That must be what it is. Can more grease be put in or do it need a new part?

[artdjones]

A lot of Japanese 4x4s have grease nipples on the ball joints,or plugs which can be removed so that grease nipples can be screwed in.

[captain_70s]

Today is Founders Day at work, a celebration of the founding of Bacardi.

 

This means a long break and in the case of full time staff some sort of Proabition themed show/lunch.

 

Us agency staff have been ushered into a back room. Literally second class citizens.

 

I'm not even that fussed about the actual show or whatever but it's a bit grim to be doing the same job for less money, no proper contract and being segregated.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Go to the pub and drink some whisky. In protest.

[loserone]

A long, paid break?

[meggersdog]

Bloody car designers.

Just spent 15 minutes changing a stop and a tail  lamp on an 11 plate Corsa.

Couldn't be the nearside oh no had to be the offside.Inside the inspection panel is the jack, wheel brace,towing eye and a screwdriver.All in little compartments inside an injection molded piece of hard foam.This foam is way too large for the inspection hole obviously to stop it falling out.Because of this wriggling it about here,there and everywhere to find the one spot where you can force it out without damaging it was a right pain.Customer was in the viewing area watching so I couldn't just break it had to be right.

[Cavcraft]

It's because Corsas never go wrong, so they don't need to make them easy to fix.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Only because by then you usually want to introduce them to Mr Vesta and his sticks of imminent immolation.

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Dry ball joint? May improve when wet?

 

That must be what it is. Can more grease be put in or do it need a new part? 

 

Unless there's a dedicated way it won't be very successful and even if it is, not in the long term. New part unless you're winning at luck. Rarely find the squeak too once jacked up as it's all sitting differently and the weight is off it.

Assume noises means that something has gone wrong.

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

It wouldn't make any difference.

 

She's had help, time after time. Every time she gets help she self destructs again.

 

I have my own responsibilities, my own children, and I won't jeopardise that for someone who doesn't want help. I know that sounds harsh, but that's the situation.

 

I lost my sister to the alco-hols..... 2yrs 4mths ago. I know I live a long way away and did the usual lectures when around. I forget the amount of times I was shouted at, screamed at, abused… on an evening and she had NOT A CLUE the next morning and was instructed to apologize by the husband. You and the others wanting to 'help' are in a no win situation at the moment. Until they hit rock bottom you're wasting breath and efforts…..

I'm sad to say my sister losing the boys to her other half was the breaking point - but she didn't come out the other side. I really truelly wish your sister the best of luck and hope your family can make it through the horror show.

There isn't a day I don't miss her and wish we could've done more - but sometimes you're just the passenger. Life does sometimes hit hard...……

 

Good luck fella. If you need to rant via PM - drop me a line. Open doors

[beko1987]

My favourite firm but fair garage now dont open on a saturday apparently, so the Zafira is booked into a place ive never used before at 8am on Saturday morning... I now need to tell them to just test it and not do any work as I'll take it away to fix and try not to sound like a massive throbber doing it, and rack my brains to be super double safety sure that I've not forgotten to so anything on it!

[purplebargeken]

Yep, this about a million percent correct.

 

You and the others wanting to 'help' are in a no win situation at the moment. Until they hit rock bottom you're wasting breath and efforts…..

 

I'm sad to say my sister losing the boys to her other half was the breaking point - but she didn't come out the other side. I really truelly wish your sister the best of luck and hope your family can make it through the horror show.

 

There isn't a day I don't miss her and wish we could've done more - but sometimes you're just the passenger. Life does sometimes hit hard...……

 

In old drug and alcohol speak the 'pre-contemplative stage' is a cunt.

[chaseracer]

Assume noises means that something has gone wrong.

 

Precisely the opposite with a Dyane.  Noise is good; it only stops when the thing making it has fallen off!

 

AMHIK... 

[Cavcraft]

People who ask how far Chester is from Hastings, or wherever. Tell you what, Dora the fucking explorer, I'll find out on Google whilst you sit on your fat arse getting ready to type '2 far m8' shall I? Actually, like bollocks I will, piss off and find out for yourself.

[New POD]

People who ask how far Chester is from Hastings, or wherever. Tell you what, Dora the fucking explorer, I'll find out on Google shall I whilst you sit on your fat arse getting ready to type '2 far m8' shall I? Actually, like bollocks I will, piss off and find out for yourself.

Tell.them.its.263 miles and will.take them through 2 border controls and they'll need to.sort out a visa and change money from.GReatbritishpounds to Greatnorthernpounds.

Also suggest that they will need to get a NOVA to register a car from.the NORTH with the DVLA and they might need to.pay for an SVA ($0uthern vehicle @pprov&l)

Suugest they use the train as driving up.north is HARD

[Pillock]

I usually send them a lmgtfy.com link if they come back with questions like that.

[tommytwo]

Thanks to those who posted tips and solutions to help with my boiler problem. All very much appreciated. Fired it up first thing Saturday morning and it has worked fine just as it should ever since. I now doubt very much that the boiler itself is the source of my problem.I think it is much more likely that the pressure in the gas mains is the culprit. I believe that gas companies run with normal stocks of gas and are caught short by a sudden cold snap, which they find hard to forecast. Modern accountancy theory states that money tied up in stock is unproductive. So they are forced to get more supplies from Holland and Norway via pipelines and this takes time to restore the pressure in the mains. Being in the South West, the gas has a way to travel.

 

This problem only affects me for two days every year. So I have decided to buy a couple of oil filled radiators for the bedrooms. About £40-50 for two. This way, I get something for my money instead of spending it with a gas engineer who will tell me again the my installation is old, inefficient and should be replaced, when it works just fine 363 days a year. The living room has a four burner gas fire and that heats up the downstairs very quickly..

 

[mrbenn]

Sounds like a reasonable approach.

 

Until last year we had a Potterton boiler that was over 25 years old. Had a replacement fan and circuit board (at different times) but had been extremely reliable. Most engineers wouldn't touch it, simply wanting to replace it before looking at anything else on the system.

 

Struck me as rather like refusing to replace the indicator bulb on a Corsa B as the car was old, even though it had just passed an MOT. Boiler was only replaced as we had a move around and the boiler needed relocating from the kitchen to the bathroom.

[xtriple]

Saturday I spent many long days (or so it seemed) on the phone to BT, sorting out deals etc and while I was on I asked to be transferred to the repairs and maintenance section. In the blink of an eye, I was on the  'sub-continent' instead of darkest Yorkshire where I spoke to a lovely chap who did alarming things to my TV by remote control. Having done the same, he declared my 'Youview' box to be fooked and a new one will be with you by Monday.

 

All jolly good and great apart from the fact that it didn't arrive yesterday nor this morning so I called them and spoke to a chap in the very deepest Yorkshire who sounded like he was in the same room as me with the LOUDEST VOICE EVER! Turns out that because I was doing two things with BT at the same time, they canceled the new box, for some reason totally unknown to me, the chap I was speaking to and common sense, in general, it seems BT cannot handle two operations at the same time but with different departments.

 

Rubbish

[Jazoli]

BT are garbage, I recently cancelled my sky sub as it was getting on for £100 a month and took out the top BT package available for around £60, they cocked it up so many times I now get everything for under £50 a month and got the 4k Youview box for free, it is crap though and feels like several steps behind the Sky box, I'm not impressed at all but unless I go back to sky I cannot watch the few channels I want to watch without having to pay for football and god knows what else.

 

First world problems I know...

[loserone]

I still don't understand why anyone deals directly with BT.  

[Captain Furious]

Recently ditched BT for plusnet after they refused to negotiate anything resembling a decent deal, which actually ended in the BT salesman suggesting I go to plusnet because they can't touch them on price - so I did.

 

I've also found that Sky are extremely willing to negotiate these days, even with existing customers.  1st year I was getting the full package with them for 75% discount as a returning customer, which worked out about £24 a month, when this expired I phoned up to cancel and they did me the same deal but minus the sports - which I never watch anyway, for £22 a month.  This expired again last November so I phoned up to cancel, figuring there was no way they would repeat it for a 3rd year running, it took a bit more persistence this time but they did me another deal for £24 a month, again everything besides sports.

 

I will go back to BT though once plusnet is up, because their new customer discounts and cashback\top cashback offers are pretty unbeatable, its just existing customers who get rogered

[Snipes]

I had a great service from BT for about 3 years, not spoiled by a house move, then it went down and they fucked it right up. Had to winge on Facebook to get them to cancel after two months of bollocks.

[DodgeRover]

Got to say Sky's Irish call centre have been really good when I spoke to them.

[wuvvum]

Why is it seemingly so difficult for those who carry out roadworks to figure out that in the morning rush hour there will be more traffic going into town than coming out, and vice versa in the evening, and adjust the timing of the traffic lights accordingly?  Once again this morning they were digging up the road on my route into work (UK Power Network this time), and there was a 2-mile queue of traffic Norwich-bound (which I was able to bypass 2/3 of by going down some back roads, but still held me up for a good ten minutes), and a grand total of seven cars waiting at the lights going the other way.  Doubtless I'll have the reverse problem on my way home.

 

It really cannot be rocket science.  Am I missing something, or are these people just as thick as pigshit?

[beko1987]

We had this by my work yesterday, 8 mile queue coming in, 3 cars going out. One irate chap got out and 'had a word' with the roadwork blokes and the light sequence was hastily changed apparently.

 

Id already gone with my route c which takes me through Dibley and out further up the motorway

[Frogchod]

How did you know ?

Have I missed a thread somewhere ?

Is it the same as mine* ? If it is, how the feck do you turn the heating on ?

Pics ?