The grumpy thread

[sheffcortinacentre]

Last womble that came on to me like that was told to go hassle someone who thinks they were guna be taken in by his pretend plod appearance.

His female associate said I want your name & address so I asked are you a police officer?

Her reply was no.

So I said Im not giving you them then, you could be going to give them to your mate to burgle me seeing as I'm broken down overan hour from home.now go away I'm waiting for the AA.

A mate who's a time served mechanic was changing a tyre on the hard should when as if by magic one appeared beside him & during the procedure was constantly told you shouldn't be doing that you should get to a safe position & wait for a professional to come do that when he done he said I am but it's my day off but I still now what to do see you  & drove off.

You should have took there details & reported him traffic cops can't stand them.

[sierraman]

Past 2 days of looking at £500 cars has reinforced what I already knew. £1000 is the starting point for something respectable with a bit of life left in it. Searching for a car for the in laws, they’re not too fussy just something average sized that does everything averagely. 15 years ago £500 got you something fairly decent that would stand a fighting chance of seeing a year or two out. I think now inflation means a grand is the old £500. 

[Amishtat]

Zel, you took that from a traffic womble? Hope you got some id to report him by, surely that behaviour is well outside his remit. Also, I'd have loved to have seen the camper in a good old fashioned roundabout slide.. 

[LightBulbFun]

I just learned that Aussie50 has passed away

May he RIP,

(I pretty much grew up watching his videos along with Photonicinduction and other "nutters" of the same type.)

[Broadsword]

People who call Range Rovers trucks. Something to do with the surge in pickup truck popularity I suspect. A Range Rover is no truck.

[SiC]

5 minutes ago, Broadsword said:

People who call Range Rovers trucks. Something to do with the surge in pickup truck popularity I suspect. A Range Rover is no truck.

Because they're commonly seen on the back of one?

 

 

Bada um tsh

[andy18s]

15 minutes ago, Broadsword said:

People who call Range Rovers trucks. Something to do with the surge in pickup truck popularity I suspect. A Range Rover is no truck.

Or Jeeps....

 

[Broadsword]

14 minutes ago, SiC said:

Because they're commonly seen on the back of one?

 

 

Bada um tsh

Ah damn. You had me there!

[twosmoke300]

It’s funny cos it’s true ?

[Zelandeth]

8 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

I just learned that Aussie50 has passed away

May he RIP,

(I pretty much grew up watching his videos along with Photonicinduction and other "nutters" of the same type.)

Hell that's a bloody shame...he was only our age.  Always enjoyed his channel...some of his shenanigans with JGCertified actually made me laugh till I was almost in tears.  For all I've never met the guy, he always felt like someone it would be eminently possible to walk into a room with him and immediately lose hours nattering about pretty much anything tech, car or engineering related.

Loss to the engineering world as a whole too, was really nice to see a young lad keeping a lot of old school engineering principles alive and well. 

[Fumbler]

8 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

I just learned that Aussie50 has passed away

May he RIP,

(I pretty much grew up watching his videos along with Photonicinduction and other "nutters" of the same type.)

Jesus I never knew! How sad. I really enjoyed his Crunchy PC and his rambletrons. He even got some VW 8 valve engines to run as well.

[LightBulbFun]

I hope someone takes good care of his dog, and also handles his workshop properly, it would be a shame for all of his stuff to go in the skip, he had some very impressive rare and historically important bits and pieces

heres his facebook page if anyone wants to know more about his untimely passing  https://www.facebook.com/edward.jones.9400984?__tn__=%2CdK-R-R&eid=ARAMFqAml3XEsKlRAhV1g2vML4wTYDYRANiGbunSO_2yJDPxKw1C68275aJReaMZGss4pM3KWQWmBGkW&fref=mentions

[clayts450]

Some bastard hacked my ebay/Paypal/Amazon accounts this PM and made some purchases this afternoon so have spent the last few hours sorting that little mess out 

TSB - perfect, cards stopped, blocks on a few dodgy transactions, time taken 5 minutes

Paypal - perfect, filled in a form, transactions on hold, time taken 2 minutes

Ebay - perfect, contacted seller to explain, all okay : somewhat foolishly the buyer pretending to be me had sent a message to the seller through eBay asking them to send it to a new address. The seller messaged them back (also sent to my Gmail account as well) advising it'll go to the address on the account but didn't disclose the address - luckily they haven't sent it yet, but muppet very kindly provided his address. Argos catalogues on their way

Amazon - fucknuggets. Clearly an offshore call centre - had spotted three transactions on my TSB account, two for the same amount, all to Amazon (one a token £1 probably pre-authorisation) Agent checked and stated only one order since my last legitimate order - asked them to check again. And again. They confirmed they could stop the one order as it hadn't left the warehouse. Great. Asked them again, to please double check as there were two debits on my TSB account for the same amount. No, no, all okay, one order, and I've stopped it. Wasn't until I managed to get into the account online that there had indeed been TWO orders and one had been delivered today (handed to me in person apparently), the second order (the one she stopped) where the blagger realised he'd fucked up and added his address (this time an address somewhere else - I sense more Argos catalogues on their way). He'll get nowt. Neither will Amazon as TSB have already stopped the payments. Anyway, checked my Amazon safe place, and sure enough, a nice shiny new digital camera in there. FFS. All boxed up and ready to go back tomorrow.

What a fucking ballache. Anyway, all bases covered, all passwords changed, crisis averted - thankfully the hacker(s) were as thick as pigshit and fucked up not once but twice.

 

[Lankytim]

I wonder how they managed to suss out your details? I'ts always a worry of mine, touch wood I haven't been had yet but It'll probably happen one day. 

 

A grump of my own making, or maybe not. 

Had a Civic I'd bought to sell, mentioned it to an old  bodywork friend of mine and he asked if he could buy it, seeing I know him we agreed a good price and a day he was going to collect. Sorted, as I mentioned, I've known this guy for years and we've helped each other out on various projects over the years, he's lent me tools and trailers and generally been a great help in my shite activities. I was really doing myself out of money on this Civic, but there you go.

The day before he was due to collect I messaged him asking to let me know when he was showing up, no response. Got out of bed early the next day especially to deal with said Civic (I work nights), no message, no show, maybe he'd changed his mind? who knows. Anyway, I left it a day and as I needed it gone I advertised it on Facebook. It sold the following day for the asking price, £200 more than i'd offered it to my mate.  I suspect my mate saw the advert on Facebook as he sent me a message an hour after the guy had left telling me he could collect it the next day.. or the day after that...

I explained that as he never contacted me or collected when arranged that i'd sold the Civic to someone else and I figured he'd had second thoughts. I never got a response from him and he's ignored subsequent messages. 

I seem to have lost a mate (who maybe wasn't much of a mater after all)  but to complicate things he's meant to be repairing the front panel from my Volvo 145, or maybe he's not repairing it now, or maybe he's chucked it in the scrap pile. Perhaps he's going to repair it and charge me well over the odds as some sort of retaliation. The bottom line is i'm probably going to have to go up and repossess my own property as i'm not sure what he's going to do with it. 

*edit*

 

Just re-read this post to myself and it sounds proper pathetic doesn't it? Especially compared to some of the other more serious grumps. First world problems etc etc. 

[paulplom]

Not pathetic at all mate. It's 2019 ffs. why didn't he answer his phone? Your property man up and go and get it.

[dollywobbler]

The whole beauty of the thread is that some grumps are a bit first world. Good luck getting it all ironed out.

[mrbenn]

Not in the least pathetic, an awkward situation.

I'd have done exactly the same as you. And, if the situation were reversed and I was the one who had kept you waiting, I'd be apologising for wasting your time.

[Lankytim]

I guess I’ll have to go and repatriate it at some point, problem is I’m away from home for a while and he doesn’t live locally so it won’t be for a few weeks yet I think.

*looks in mirror* you’re a tiger and you can get that panel whenever you like, rawwww!


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[cort16]

I had someone who wanted to buy the cortina. They left a deposit then couldn’t come for it after 2 weeks as they’d forgotten it was their daughters birthday. Okay .

i messsge them the next week and no response even though I can see their iPhone is getting the message (I.e it’s on). Another weekend comes and goes so I message them again saying you need to have a plan in place in 24hrs or I’m putting it back up for sale. Exactly 24hrs later I get a message, I’ve had an accident and I’m in hospital I can maybe pick it up this weekend . This may be genuine but red flags are waving so I just told him to forget it. I’ve had no response .

this is twice this has happened to me I think in excitement they drop a deposit then the realisation of picking it up or getting the money dawns and they start stalling . 

It happened with the Cadillac , the guy sent a deposit after pressing bin then when I heard nothing and chased him he said “well I should be back in the uk from the Alps in a couple of weeks”.  Ffs

[wuvvum]

Went to head off to work this morning and I couldn't get my front door open - the lock (Mortice) wouldn't budge.  Don't know WTF is wrong with it, didn't really have time to investigate.  Had to leave via the patio doors, which was awkward as the Spacy was parked right up against them.  I'm going to have to try and fix it tonight, rather than looking at pornography on the internet like I was planning to do.

[beko1987]

23 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Went to head off to work this morning and I couldn't get my front door open - the lock (Mortice) wouldn't budge.  Don't know WTF is wrong with it, didn't really have time to investigate.  Had to leave via the patio doors, which was awkward as the Spacy was parked right up against them.  I'm going to have to try and fix it tonight, rather than looking at pornography on the internet like I was planning to do.

Amy and the kids came home from shopping on Tuesday, turned the key to unlock the door and as it unlocked the barrel fell apart internally! Landlord had a locksmith round who said they were damn lucky it happened as it unlocked! They wouldn't have got in through the front door too as the porch was full of crap as we never use the front door! 

Awaiting a new lock now, porch is empty, back door gets locked by the bolt only for now

[wuvvum]

I don't even have my landlady's phone number..  If I can't fix it myself I'll have to fork out for a locksmith (or just continue using the patio doors to get in and out).

[Bobthebeard]

After the recent HGF on the 80,000 mile Chevrolet Tacuma (Daewoo re badged) I have finally got it all back together and running. New gasket set, head bolts, new timing belt, idlers, tensioner, waterpump etc. One gasket doesn't come with the new set for some reason. The one for the EGR water cooled manifold block thingy. Old gasket looked ok so re used it with some RTV black sealant. Left it to cure for a couple of days then filled up with coolant. Ten mile shakedown run today and everything looked good. Coolant level checked and down by half a litre ish. Topped up, another few miles done and coolant level down. Bugger. Wisps of steam and drips from the bodged gasket. That will teach me then. New gasket needed. No idea what to order. The engine is a GM (Vauxhall obv) 2.0 litre 16v X20SED I believe. Must have been different versions of the EGR water cooled manifold and trawling ebay/the internet has been no use so far! Leak got bigger. Car parked up and out if use again until I find out what the name/number of the gasket is to order one. Grumpy. 

[jakebullet]

The  man from delmonte he says no. Disco 2 with 194k. Rear chassis hole. Bulkhead holes. 

Sensibly it's time to look for a new disco. Good job I don't do sensible. 

[anonymous user]

Bugger, it's always a worry when you get the call from the Mot tester asking if you know where he can get some more yellow chalk as he's just run out and had to abandon the test.

[Bobthebeard]

Paint the underside yellow. That would mean the tester has to nip out for some darker chalk. You could then dash over to the computer whilst he/she is out attempting to buy black chalk, pass the car with 'No Advisories' whilst the tester is still logged in and drive off chortling. Happy in the knowledge that your car is now perfectly safe* for another year!  If feeling particularly impish you could adjust the mileage downwards a touch whilst you were in then clock the odometer accordingly. Maybe...

[Datsuncog]

A moderately spirited drive over the hills last night has confirmed that the Forester's going to be needing a new clutch rather sooner than later. A little bit of slippage, I can deal with - but juddering on every gearshift is not cool.

Typically, EuroCarPrats is of limited assistance in narrowing down exactly what's needed as the 'fitment detail' tabs are rather sparsely populated - but I can probably fucking guess which is the only version that fits mine...

[twosmoke300]

With ECP it will be none of the above 

[Inspector Morose]

With ECP it’ll be a waterpump for a 2003 Vauxhall Astra 1.6. 

[myglaren]

Spent ages looking for an opticians that was miles from where Google maps thought it was then coupdn't enter due to air fresheners and other stinkies - same as yesterday in Chester-Le-Street.

Did find one and have made an appointment.

Went to Lidl for my shopping and got talking to a bloke my age with a 16 year old MX-5 that looks like it just came out of the showroom - he did say he was a bit OCD with it.

Didn't do any shopping in Lidl and may be getting a £90 fine for exceeding the 90 minute parking time allowed - never usually more than 10 minutes

Did my shopping in Aldi, came home and knocked the pint of cream off the bench, which naturally exploded all over the kitchen and my best clothes.