The grumpy thread

[Zelandeth]

It's 0436.

I have now had the hiccups for a little under six hours.

Getting very fed up now.

[paulplom]

BOO!!!!!  ^^^^^

[Lord Sterling]

Well. Looks like the Micra won't be going to the IoW today;

Going in the Vectra which I didn't want to do, but its faster and more comfy and I can come back in the car straight home. 

I was looking forward to coming back on the train but hey ho. ?

Currently waiting for RAC to come down and determine whether its battery or alternator related. Fucking embarrassing if its battery as I supplied it from work, a Varta one aswell.

Whatever, Micra will get sorted and I'll pop to the IoW with the Micra at the end of September.

[Minimad5]

DVLA - Got my first 'fine' from them.

Paperwork clearly states it will only be £40 if paid before 29th September, aah alright thinks I.

Go online - NOPE £84 odd, ooh and the phone number supplied is only a Monday to Friday outfit.

Ooh, and I can't tax it online either, as its saying it was sorn or taxed within the last few days. Yay ... don't fancy ringing them up as no doubt the 0300 number will be ££ per minute.

[Lord Sterling]

GAH!

I just want to go the Isle of Wight for a nice relaxing weekend but every car I'm using is NOT FLIPPING HELPING....

[purplebargeken]

^^ You weren't meant to go obviously. 

[Lord Sterling]

Got to. Ma is starting new job on 2nd so we got time. Its just me that doesn't. I have to come back to tomorrow as I have work on Monday.

[chaseracer]

My kidney has flared up again.

OW.

[Aston Martin]

Two cars. Not one has fuel.

[Inspector Morose]

OW goes my spine in sympathy.

The midlands massiv are dropping like flies - SEND HELP.

[Cavcraft]

Went to Jag, interior lights come on but battery too flat to start it. Fair enough, it needed more charge so I can live with that, plus I was going to buy a new battery anyway, just to be on the safe side.

Went to Europarts in a stress, bloke behind counter also in stress. Can't match on-line prices, so had to go outside and order battery (and a mirror glass for the Astra) on the net. Confirmed, re-join queue, can't get them yet, takes 15 minutes. Waits 15 minutes, coming home every dickhead driver on the road in front of me.

Rolls into car park, put new battery on Jag and smile to myself just before I turned the ignition on. Turn ignition on, interior lights come on again, but still nothing.  Jiggled battery leads, nothing. Put boost pack on, nothing. Jiggled leads again. Nothing. Ponders ringing my lad. Gets back in car, sit down. Looks at immobilisor connection, remembers I hadn't put immob. fob on it. Put immob fob on it, dash lights come on, car starts.

Ponders own fucking stupidity, de-stresses a bit listening to that engine. 

 

 

*Edit: Went to get scooter out to go for a blast. Garage door fucked again. Shuts it (takes ages) and decide not to open again in case it comes off its hinges. Block off with van and cars, come inside then remembered the wheels/tyres I was going to try and drop off with someone going to Chumley. Guess where they are? IN THE FUCKING GARAGE THAT PROBABLY WON'T OPEN OR CLOSE AGAIN. Bollocks.

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

^^

Not your day, is it?

[beko1987]

How the fuck can a part with the same part number as the old one not fit? 

Thought I'd swap the fuel sender sealing ring over, old one had cracked on the glue line again

New one would not spin on, would not catch the thread. Its raining here... So I did what I should have done months ago and stuck a big cable tie around the old one

Which is now clamping better than it did before. 

[Lord Sterling]

Well. Thanks to the Highways boys (and girl) we finally got on our way and now in Southampton;

What a fucking disaster of a day with cars its been....

[dean36014]

7 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

How the fuck can a part with the same part number as the old one not fit? 

Thought I'd swap the fuel sender sealing ring over, old one had cracked on the glue line again

New one would not spin on, would not catch the thread. Its raining here... So I did what I should have done months ago and stuck a big cable tie around the old one

Which is now clamping better than it did before. 

I had exactly the same problem with my xsara van! Tried three or four different rings and none would fit. The correct part number one wouldn't go on more than quarter of a turn. I ended up cutting it and using a massive jubilee clip and copious amounts of sealant. It was like the tank threads had swollen up some how

[beko1987]

Glad I'm not going nuts then! I'll splash £30 in on my way to Mr Cats in a bit, that'll make it stink if it's not sealed, and I can burn it down to where it doesn't stink up the m40 with the windows open

[Cavcraft]

Hope it goes better for you now @Lord Sterling you deserve a break, mate. Sorry about the Vectra hand book pack, I'm bound to come across another again at some point.

[Lord Sterling]

51 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:

Hope it goes better for you now @Lord Sterling you deserve a break, mate. Sorry about the Vectra hand book pack, I'm bound to come across another again at some point.

Lol! No worries. I'm in Southampton now waiting for the ferry which is now late.

I've bought a book pack for the Vectra now. Thanks anyway!

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Drove from Exmouth back home to near Canterbury yesterday in a hire VW Crafter (Lutheran Protestant Spec.).

By the time we'd driven home and driven back to the rental centre I'd been driving for near-enough 9 hours.  We looked at the A303 route and it was fucked so we went south coast to Dorchester, Southampton, up the A3 to Guildford, onto the M25.  Got onto the M26, M20 tried to get onto the M2 and it was fucking closed.  Go through a traffic jam in central Sittingbourne, re-join the old A2, join the A2 at Brenley Corner and get back that way.  As usual, bad luck at the end but there were intermittent traffic jams the whole way.

Why a grump?  Van was mostly nice to drive apart from the ASCETIC SEATING ARRANGEMENTS.  Honestly, a hair shirt would have been more comfortable.  My back was killing me by the time I got to bed and it's still not brilliant today.  Why the fuck do they design these seats that deliberately cripple you?!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, beko1987 said:

How the fuck can a part with the same part number as the old one not fit? ....

Because it came from a different manufacturer compared to the original? Also, if the existing tooling is being used but has aged, then the end product is not going to be as good....

[loserone]

Been round Chester, which seems like a nice place.

 

Ladies day at the races appears to be one of those events where comparatively poor people spend all their money trying to pretend to be rich.  Classy*

[Zelandeth]

53 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

Why a grump?  Van was mostly nice to drive apart from the ASCETIC SEATING ARRANGEMENTS.  Honestly, a hair shirt would have been more comfortable.  My back was killing me by the time I got to bed and it's still not brilliant today.  Why the fuck do they design these seats that deliberately cripple you?!

I find the same is true of any current VAG motors.  I am just patently not the same shape as the industry standard human being they have been using to model the seats.  Anything more than 20-30 minutes is downright torture.

We did a seven hour trip up north in the back of a Golf Estate a couple of years ago...it was about a week before my spine recovered.  This last year I put my foot down and took my own car...this year we'll be taking my van as I've become the designated pack mule.  We've four people's worth of a LOT of stuff to take...so it'll be three people in the car and me and all the stuff in the van on my own.

 

[Richard]

See also Transit van. After any more than a few miles I have to hang on to the door as I step out because my hips are so sore. I've just done 300 miles in the Volvo, with one short break half way, and there's no pain at all. 

It's not the seats in the Transit, although they don't help. It's got a massive snout that adds nearly a metre of dead length compared to the old model, but there's less legroom than the old one. 

[SiC]

5 hours ago, beko1987 said:

How the fuck can a part with the same part number as the old one not fit? 

Thought I'd swap the fuel sender sealing ring over, old one had cracked on the glue line again

New one would not spin on, would not catch the thread. Its raining here... So I did what I should have done months ago and stuck a big cable tie around the old one

Which is now clamping better than it did before. 

Plastic tank? I know Renault's misshape their top tank mounting ring if it has fuel in it and you leave the ring off too long. 

[beko1987]

It's been off and leaking a bit*.  Nearly a full tank later and it seems fine 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

5 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

I find the same is true of any current VAG motors.  I am just patently not the same shape as the industry standard human being they have been using to model the seats.  Anything more than 20-30 minutes is downright torture.

We did a seven hour trip up north in the back of a Golf Estate a couple of years ago...it was about a week before my spine recovered.  This last year I put my foot down and took my own car...this year we'll be taking my van as I've become the designated pack mule.  We've four people's worth of a LOT of stuff to take...so it'll be three people in the car and me and all the stuff in the van on my own.

 

My Golf is from 2005 (Mk IV) and I find the seats quite comfortable.  Not Citroen comfortable - but they're good enough for me to drive a long way without needing a break.  Lady Grumpius doesn't agree with me at all.  I'm not the shame shape as an industry standard human being either and a lot of cars don't have enough front seat adjustment because of my height.  Limits me quite a lot - but it's not like I'm obscenely tall or unusual at 6'2"...

[Roobarb]

I’m turning into my Grandfather as a word nasty. 

Why do people in a coffee shop when asked what they would like say ‘I’ll get a large latte’. 

No you bloody won’t.

You won’t get diddly squat you lying hipster.

It’s ‘I would like a large latte please’ or ‘Could I have a large latte’ or ‘Please may I have a large latte’ or even ‘Get me a large latte now!’ But you personally won’t ‘get’ anything.

You will stand there like a slack jawed idiot, unable to correctly use the English language and wait for someone else to ‘get’ you something. 

I’m probably wrong and I just jealous of their better bushy beard than I would ever be able to grow (or something like that), but to me it just sounds WRONG!

Sorry rant over. 

Just checked the dictionary definition. Damn. I’m wrong. It still doesn’t sound like good English though.  ?

[myglaren]

Yankerization is becoming far too prevalent.

They are starting to say 'Welp' instead of "Well"!

idiots.

[vulgalour]

Gotten:  A word used by lazy people who learned how to speak by watching American daytime television.

[SiC]

10 minutes ago, vulgalour said:

Gotten:  A word used by lazy people who learned how to speak by watching American daytime television.

I've just gotten use to using it.