The grumpy thread

[Kiltox]

Doctor - bridge it and buy the Avensis that bub is selling. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Feckin' battery (all of four months old) is smelling like rotten eggs and the sides are bulging. CX Swapmeet attendees think it's being overcharged, but a multimeter test (engine running) showed 14.1 / 14.2v.

If it isn't one electrical thing, it's another.

[Spottedlaurel]

3 hours ago, ruffgeezer said:

I should not have sold my Datsun, I am having real regrets about it and am unlikely to be able to afford another cool 70s estate.

Who ended up with it? Does it appear to have a viable future?

[Bren]

Our hoover washing machine is dying. Been repaired already. Sick of spending £300 on washing machines that only last around three years.

Does anything last these days?

[Fumbler]

10 minutes ago, Bren said:

Our hoover washing machine is dying. Been repaired already. Sick of spending £300 on washing machines that only last around three years.

Does anything last these days?

Hoover machines made after manufacturing left the UK aren't brilliant. You will find some things but a lot if not all of things I use have an expected lifespan and do break in hilarious* ways after that time has expired.

 

 

In other news my sister has separated with her fiancee after being together for many years. She is living with us. Again. For an unspecified amount of time. Luckily, this time, she's already sorted a house which is why her stay here is unconfirmed.

[strangeangel]

On 9/7/2019 at 5:38 AM, paulplom said:

i was talking to my joiner/plasterer mate yesterday. He's quite a car nut. He's pcp'd cars for a few years now and after handing a couple back, swapping them and other bad decisions he's now paying £400 a month for a 2013 gashqai. It's the old shape as well. Just under 3 years to go as well although he can hand it back half way through with more penalties....

Fuck that for a laugh.

 

The only logic I will apply to my on-going ownership of old (French) cars is derived from scenarios like this. I bought the BX of Many Shiters for three hundred quid. Some folks in similar situations to myself spend that in a month on PCPing/buying a modern. Logic* dictates, therefore, that if I spend less than £3600pa on repairs I am winning.

 

I am winning

[purplebargeken]

Buy another car for a few hundred quid, something will go wrong, get rid of it, repeat ad infinitum.

Buy a car for a few hundred quid, if something goes wrong but you really like the car, it drives well, it's comfy and does the job well enough then take the plunge and get it fixed properly, enjoy the car thereafter.

After over 600 cars I finally have reached that point with the Rover. It's a fine car, I will get it fixed if it fucks up. Am not going to spend thousands on it mind, but will get it fixed for normal shite stuff. 

[The Moog]

Doctor - bridge it and buy the Avensis that bub is selling. 

This is amazing advice... As long as you don't try and change car after 5mins

[loserone]

Don't bridge it.  You like it, you want it, get it sorted.

[artdjones]

2 hours ago, Bren said:

Our hoover washing machine is dying. Been repaired already. Sick of spending £300 on washing machines that only last around three years.

Does anything last these days

Washing machines were around £300 35 years ago.Which is the equivalent of £900 today.So it's not surprising that they lasted longer.

[Tamworthbay]

20 hours ago, strangeangel said:

 

The only logic I will apply to my on-going ownership of old (French) cars is derived from scenarios like this. I bought the BX of Many Shiters for three hundred quid. Some folks in similar situations to myself spend that in a month on PCPing/buying a modern. Logic* dictates, therefore, that if I spend less than £3600pa on repairs I am winning.

 

I am winning

Our Drummer is spunking out £290 a month for a focus. After 3 years it will owe him over £10k and yet he will own 0% of it as he will hand it back and get another. My Volvo stands me just less than £1500 with everything I have done to it, that’s 13 months in. So I am already £2400 up. Apart from being able to select the colour of the dash and a stereo that connects to his phone (like a give a shit about those) I can’t see what it has that’s better. He wouldn’t be seen dead driving my Volvo, more fool him. It means I can run a second fun car (he would also hate the 205) and still pay out shit loads less than him a month.

[myglaren]

2 hours ago, Fumbler said:

Hoover machines made after manufacturing left the UK aren't brilliant. You will find some things but a lot if not all of things I use have an expected lifespan and do break in hilarious* ways after that time has expired.

Wonderful news!

My son bought one a couple of months ago and it seems OK so I bought one for my daughter a couple of weeks ago

[The_Equalizer]

1 hour ago, artdjones said:

Washing machines were around £300 35 years ago.Which is the equivalent of £900 today.So it's not surprising that they lasted longer.

You can still spend £900 or more if you like. Still makes me chuckle that my parents' washing machine cost more than my drophead Benz.

[ruffgeezer]

3 hours ago, Spottedlaurel said:

Who ended up with it? Does it appear to have a viable future?

Chris champion on Datsun owners.

He is going to fit a turbo engine and paint it.

[Tamworthbay]

7 hours ago, HarmonicCheeseburger said:

 What happened to the Dyson washing machine? I remember only seeing one, and how it sorted coins into a collection tray was very cool.

 

Probably cost more then a Invacar Hayabusha conversion though.

They were overpriced shite like all the other Dyson products, once the fashion wore off no one was interested.

[Tamworthbay]

13 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Feckin' battery (all of four months old) is smelling like rotten eggs and the sides are bulging. CX Swapmeet attendees think it's being overcharged, but a multimeter test (engine running) showed 14.1 / 14.2v.

If it isn't one electrical thing, it's another.

14.2v is bang on what you would expect. If the battery is newish it should be under warranty?

[paulplom]

My cunt of an upstairs neighbor pulled me in the street yesterday. Apparently someone has shopped her to the social services and she was accusing me. They had told her her little son (around 3) was eating out of bins (true), She was locking them out of the house all day (true) and playing with broken glass and just generally making a mess and creating havoc (true). It wasn't me but I'm thinking of getting in contact and backing up the original complaint. She started shouting at 6.50 today. It usually starts between 6.30 and 7.00. Her parents are around regularly checking up and her dad's new work pick up is outside currently so there are obvious issues and they know it. She reckons ss can fuck off and they'll do nowt about it. 

While she was accusing me I checked her 3 times about her language. She actually can't say a sentence without the word fuck in it. It was amusing/shocking watching her trying not to say it.

Can I make a case to ss on line? A link would be handy.

[High Jetter]

9 hours ago, purplebargeken said:

After over 600 cars

That's dedication, much respect. Can anyone beat that, I wonder?

[Floatylight]

My cunt of an upstairs neighbor pulled me in the street yesterday. Apparently someone has shopped her to the social services and she was accusing me. They had told her her little son (around 3) was eating out of bins (true), She was locking them out of the house all day (true) and playing with broken glass and just generally making a mess and creating havoc (true). It wasn't me but I'm thinking of getting in contact and backing up the original complaint. She started shouting at 6.50 today. It usually starts between 6.30 and 7.00. Her parents are around regularly checking up and her dad's new work pick up is outside currently so there are obvious issues and they know it. She reckons ss can fuck off and they'll do nowt about it. 
While she was accusing me I checked her 3 times about her language. She actually can't say a sentence without the word fuck in it. It was amusing/shocking watching her trying not to say it.
Can I make a case to ss on line? A link would be handy.

Assuming Newcastle is your council. https://newcastle.gov.uk/services/care-and-support/report-abuse-or-neglect

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[Tadhg Tiogar]

55 minutes ago, Tamworthbay said:

14.2v is bang on what you would expect. If the battery is newish it should be under warranty?

The opinion yesterday was that the voltage regulator on the alternator had failed,  so overcharging at higher revs.

[paulplom]

37 minutes ago, Floatylight said:

Assuming Newcastle is your council. https://newcastle.gov.uk/services/care-and-support/report-abuse-or-neglect

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Cheers

[purplebargeken]

That's dedication, much respect. Can anyone beat that, I wonder?

Nope, that is just daft (hindsight is an amazing thing). I could have (read, should have) just just chosen maybe a dozen really, really good ones and saved myself a fecking fortune.

The ones I should have kept:

The London Taxi

The Land Rover 110

The white Daf 44

The Triumph 1500TC auto

The Triumph 1850HL auto

The Ford Granada 2.3GL auto

The Volvo 940 Wentworth auto estate

The odd colour blue Triumph Toledo

The black VW Beetle (modern one)

The red Ford Galaxy

The blue Mitsubishi Space Runner

One of the Mk3 2.9 Ford Granadas

Hey ho. 

 

[wuvvum]

4 hours ago, High Jetter said:

That's dedication, much respect. Can anyone beat that, I wonder?

At a guess, Bickle and Saabnut.  Possibly 6 cylinder as well?  He's been playing the game a while.

I'm only about 40 off that myself.  I reckon Bramz will have overtaken us by the end of next year mind.

[dozeydustman]

Long day at work today, only just got home. Not the grump.

Madam has been at home all day, she sent me a text to say she'd cleaned the kitchen, put some laundry on and unloaded/reloaded dishwasher. Not the grump.

She's gone out somewhere and has left her toolbox, bits of wood and cardboard packaging strewn over the lounge from building herself something she bought from Ikea at the weekend.

[Cavcraft]

You know when people mean well, but you just don't want to listen, and have told them politely so? Been a long, difficult, tiring and emotional day for personal/family reasons, yet some stupid bloody woman is constantly messaging asking how it's gone. Next time she's just going to be told to fuck right off and will be blocked from contacting again.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

8 hours ago, paulplom said:

My cunt of an upstairs neighbor pulled me in the street yesterday. Apparently someone has shopped her to the social services and she was accusing me. They had told her her little son (around 3) was eating out of bins (true), She was locking them out of the house all day (true) and playing with broken glass and just generally making a mess and creating havoc (true). It wasn't me but I'm thinking of getting in contact and backing up the original complaint. She started shouting at 6.50 today. It usually starts between 6.30 and 7.00. Her parents are around regularly checking up and her dad's new work pick up is outside currently so there are obvious issues and they know it. She reckons ss can fuck off and they'll do nowt about it. 

While she was accusing me I checked her 3 times about her language. She actually can't say a sentence without the word fuck in it. It was amusing/shocking watching her trying not to say it.

Can I make a case to ss on line? A link would be handy.

Do it.  Do it now.  Report.  Do it.  Then if she harasses  you, Police.

[mercedade]

On 9/7/2019 at 7:41 PM, BorniteIdentity said:

There is a rumour - unsubstantiated at this stage - that you can (wait for this) FIX them. IKR. Madness.

Seriously, if it’s the right car in the right spec then just fix it. It’ll likely never need doing again. 

I try to look at cars through the same prism as houses. If your roof leaks, you don’t fucking bulldoze it. Maintenance is key, as is long term ownership - and expect the odd unexpected bill. Other than that, enjoy.

I’m about to have my 165 year old house underpinned and I don’t even bloody live in it. 

If you really love something, do the right thing. 

I can put you onto a brilliant mobile Rover man who’ll have it done for £300 on your driveway. 

PM sent - I need my 820 Vitesse sorting.

[rantingYoof]

Apparently we're sharing the living room with this fucker...

Didn't spot where it ended up going so basically the living room is now cordoned off.

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[Mally]

It's only a Giant House Spider.

They come when it's cold, and flatten quite well if you can catch them.

[puddlethumper]

^^ Looks more like the British non spotted long legged leaping TARANTULA. Run for your life.?