The grumpy thread

[EssDeeWon]

Bastard BMW keys. Bastards!....

 

I mean really.

 

A couple of years ago I picked up a Diamond-shaped BMW key identical to mine off the bed of an old car-transporter trailer. I thought I could gut the scrap key to repair my own key. Turns out it's a bit harder than I thought.

 

The transponder bit is wrapped in copper wiring, easy enough to remove no worries. Unfortunately, the copper wiring in the scrap key has snapped in a tight place where it is supposed to be held in. I could try and shove a bit of wiring on there but knce the key is back together the chances of it coming loose is too high.

 

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The reason for the failure is the battery track which conducts the leccy between battery and board has snapped.

 

Everywhere it's £30 to get the key sorted, £25 more than I usually have. I am getting fed up this. Plus the BMW now just opens all windows when I use the remote on the other key.

 

Had all this a few years ago when all windows came down and the door lock barrel fell into a 100 pieces on my 330ci, had all that done then got rid.  The E46 was a slight disappointment and this was my final straw.   Stick to Rover's, better cars 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Replacement battery hasn't arrived, so can't drive the CX to Carmarthen in the morning. Feckitty feck 

[tooSavvy]

12hr shifts are unremittingly grim; even with a good night's(well, day's as it was a nightshift) rest I was generally starting to nod by the end.

I worked security [aye, with the Officer Dibble cap!] with 24hr rota.

However it was 14Hnights or 10Hdays... Frankly a night is $hite anyway but we all preferred the 10hr days option as it made life 'almost normal' :/

 

I soon shifted to something better & the rota was being changed to straight 12/12 (no consultation.. Eh?)

[dozeydustman]

DVLA have decided to review my medical condition (yet again) as I've moved house.

 

Followed the instructions that the bloke on the phone gave me to do, paid the £20 fee as mislaid the license.

 

Why do they need to review my medical condition with a house move?

 

I've been reapplying for my HGV since December 2017, my GP and consultant have both cleared me to drive HGV since January 2018. Why is this taking so fucking long?

 

Official complaints procedure is now underway

[wuvvum]

A rather petty grump, but I have been getting oddly enraged by the self-service tills at Poundland, which are currently voiced by the world's most irritating child, making stupid unfunny easter jokes* over and over and fucking over.  It must drive the staff absolutely mental - I'm only in the shop for a few minutes at a time and even then I find myself wanting to slap the annoying little shit.  I thought they'd hit rock bottom when they had "Santa" doing the voice at Christmas, but this is whole orders of magnitude worse.

[mercrocker]

I've stopped going to Poundland because of them.  It was quite amusing when they had the Elvis but not for long.   What gets me is that they deploy staff to "help" shoppers at the self-service - why not just man the fucking tills?   

[New POD]

I have little reason to be grumpy. But for. I'm wide a fucking awake. 2.24 am why????? Why why why.

[paulplom]

Worried about where to park the new rover?

[Snipes]

Too excited about the new rover?

[New POD]

New house. I have so much to think about with mortgages and shit like that.

[myglaren]

Bought a new laptop for my son, Hermes just delivered.

He asked me to set it up for him.

He's in bed in his own house (works nights)

Bloody Cortana wants his email address and password.

Address no problem but I don't have his password.

Can't continue without it.  What a pile of shite.

Give me Linux any day - I'd have been finished ages ago.

[iainrcz]

Someone has the day off, so we're heading up the a180 to Scunthorpe to look at wallpaper.

 

Brill.

 

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[Rovorsche]

The house a couple of doors down suddenly developed scaffolding, on a Saturday.

Nothing happened for a couple of days but it was "to have the guttering fixed" according to the grapevine.

 

Then a couple of blokes appeared with grinders and proceeded to saw a foot off his house on three sides.

Although not much of it went in the skip, the grinders seem to have reduced the concrete gutters to particulate matter, which on a windy day covered every car in the street.

 

One of mine being the closest bore the brunt of these grunting fuckwitts endeavours.

Rather than phone the DVLA and notify them of a change in vehicle colour I moved it to the drive and fired up the Karcher, job done beer time!

About an hour later I looked out of the window.

The car had dried but was still Grey instead of metallic black so it was time change to the Karcher jet that does not mess about, I destroyed a fence panel with this one.

This will have that shit off?

 

No, if fucking didnt.

 

An hour later it was a reluctant use of much hot soapy water on a car covered in grinding paste to finally shift the last of it.

I have no idea what magical vodoo was in this concrete that made it resist a jetwash, in hindsight I'm hoping it isnt asbestos.

 

After an exchange of words one of the Grinder heros offered to pay for a car wash if he could get a receipt then they buggered off in their plain white van, taking their sign on the scaffolding with them.

 

However Trent Valley Fascias, you are still cunts of the highest order.

[Snipes]

Sounds like they could be due a visit from H&S. They love a bit of dust surprsssion (or lack of) nowadays.

[mrbenn]

Bought a new laptop for my son, Hermes just delivered.

He asked me to set it up for him.

He's in bed in his own house (works nights)

Bloody Cortana wants his email address and password.

Address no problem but I don't have his password.

Can't continue without it.  What a pile of shite.

Give me Linux any day - I'd have been finished ages ago.

 

Could you set it up with your account then switch it to his later on?

[Rovorsche]

Sounds like they could be due a visit from H&S. They love a bit of dust surprsssion (or lack of) nowadays.

I wonder if they carefully wrapped and arranged separate disposal of the Asbestos down pipes ?

 

Or did they simply fuck those off with the grinder and bury them in the bottom of the skip......

[myglaren]

Could you set it up with your account then switch it to his later on?

Possibly but knowing Microsoft it could go very badly, not worth the risk.

 

I suppose it isn't too bad as delivery wasn't expected until next month (his birthday) so it won't kill him to wait a day.

Just damned frustrating.

[beko1987]

Plumb it in with a new account then switch it to a local account (presuming windows 10)

[myglaren]

Plumb it in with a new account then switch it to a local account (presuming windows 10)

No, not going to risk that.

I have had hardly anything to do with Windows since 7 came out so I am not comfortable with it.

Despised it before 7 and anything newer is worse so to hell with it until he shows his face.

I can do it while he's at work and it will be ready for morning.

I need him to revive his Gmail account to so he can have access to Google Drive/docs.

[strangeangel]

"Yeah, just wang the rest of it down that grid. It'll be fine."

 

London sewers blocked by record-breaking 'concreteberg'

 

FFS.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

"Yeah, just wang the rest of it down that grid. It'll be fine."

 

 

London sewers blocked by record-breaking 'concreteberg'

 

FFS.

Twats. Why do these people continue to breed? Seriously.

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

"Yeah, just wang the rest of it down that grid. It'll be fine."

 

London sewers blocked by record-breaking 'concreteberg'

 

FFS.

 

HS2 has a LOT to answer for! Bastards

[Rovorsche]

Are you sure they are not making another Fantastic Four sequel in London ?

 

Maybe The Thing has a dose of the squits

 

[Jerzy Woking]

My mates BMW garage in Hoylake burnt down the other day. Inside were some customers cars, including a 993 Porche 911, and a number of his own cars. The Ducati he had in his office survived with some smoke damage.

 

Very sad, as Chris had built the business up from nothing due to hard work. Luckily the unit he has next door was unaffected, so he and his team can still work. And sad for his customers who lost their cars - all insured, but still going to be a massive ball ache for all.

[meggersdog]

When my glamorous assistant's car was up for mot last year the offside headlamp aim was obviously wrong.The car is a Citroen C4  Picasso which we bought a couple of months earlier and some cars (mainly French ) have two Allen screws holding the bulb holder in place.The idea is to undo these screws slightly, turn the bulb holder until it is free then remove the holder and bulb complete.Fit a new bulb to the holder and refit then tighten up the Allen screws.The reason for no aim was some chump didn't do the job correctly at all and just siliconed the bulb in place and hoped for the best.It took me flipping ages scrapping  all the silicone out of the headlamp through a small hole not big enough for three fingers so I could fit a bulb flat to the headlamp surface.

Today the nearside bulb went out.Guess what ......The same fucking chump did the same to both sides...What a twat...  

[beko1987]

I washed 3 cars today

 

 

All I had were 2 buckets, a sponge, meguiars gold class and an old shammy...

 

The 2 buckets and megs gold were the only good things about the whole thing. Didn't really give much of a shit about the zx, dad's car wasn't too bad but my stpemums yaris thing is such a fucking toy with such soft paint I can see the damage I've inflicted on it. Luckily my dad and stepmum aren't 'car' people so don't see it but I've vowed to return with all my gear and do them properly later in the year!

 

The yaris is so fucking flimsy too, all the panels move about, as does one of the rear windows even though it's fully up. My stepmum hit a pheasant the other week apparently and the wing fell off and needed clipping back on and despite both being hybrid, the yaris makes a very loud motor-ey noise when turned on.

 

I peeled the gb sticker off the zx too and wished I hadn't...

 

 

Who is it who sells the AS stickers? I need one for structural body panel repair reasons...

[SiC]

House we were supposed to be buying, before our chain fell apart, has had an offer accepted. We're not sold yet nor had any offers. Fuckity fucking fuck.

 

I'm really having a shit lot of luck the last year or so.

[LightBulbFun]

so according to the Italians where I live does not exist...

 

 

first time iv had this happen, and I have had plenty of parcels delivered here in the past

 

its going to be fun resolving it cuz its all in italian does anyone know what courier "SDA" use in the UK?

 

(its a bundle of rare lightbulbs from italian ebay im partly relaying to the US for a friend, for those wondering LOL) 

[Kiltox]

I washed 3 cars today

 

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All I had were 2 buckets, a sponge, meguiars gold class and an old shammy...

 

The 2 buckets and megs gold were the only good things about the whole thing. Didn't really give much of a shit about the zx, dad's car wasn't too bad but my stpemums yaris thing is such a fucking toy with such soft paint I can see the damage I've inflicted on it. Luckily my dad and stepmum aren't 'car' people so don't see it but I've vowed to return with all my gear and do them properly later in the year!

 

The yaris is so fucking flimsy too, all the panels move about, as does one of the rear windows even though it's fully up. My stepmum hit a pheasant the other week apparently and the wing fell off and needed clipping back on and despite both being hybrid, the yaris makes a very loud motor-ey noise when turned on.

 

I peeled the gb sticker off the zx too and wished I hadn't...

 

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Who is it who sells the AS stickers? I need one for structural body panel repair reasons...

Never pick at a structural GB sticker!!

[beko1987]

Never pick at a structural GB sticker!!

No, lesson learnt! It shall be stuck back with the finest sellotape and something found to replace it! Not fucking about finding another tailgate, I don't care that much!