The grumpy thread

[Sir Chocolate Teapot]

My 2009 petrol ford focus in tank no inspection hole under seats replaced 18 months ago by ford with genuine ford part at great expense fuel pump that needs petrol tank taking of car to remove has bloody failed again 100kms from home in the dark and cold with 2 hungry kids on board.

The end for it could be near i fear.

Monday will speak to the official italian ford garage who replaced it last time, but i guess any guarantees will easily be voided by waffle.

I had just decided to keep this car and spend €600 booked for tuesday for its 10 year lpg heath check up, see thread about brand new skoda fabia 1.0 tsi long term ness.

Ohhh, and i had just bought 2 sets of 2nd hand winter tyres and steels for the bloody thing. Double grump now.

Just need to organise collection of stranded car now, great sunday ahead.

Sir Chocolate Teapot, tired, pissed off, angry, prospect of dealing with 2nd hand italian car dealers and insane bureaucracy and €500 change ownership admin tax fees grumpy face and helping kids with homework. 

Have a great sunday all.

[Tamworthbay]

15 minutes ago, Sir Chocolate Teapot said:

My 2009 petrol ford focus in tank no inspection hole under seats replaced 18 months ago by ford with genuine ford part at great expense fuel pump that needs petrol tank taking of car to remove has bloody failed again 100kms from home in the dark and cold with 2 hungry kids on board.

The end for it could be near i fear.

Monday will speak to the official italian ford garage who replaced it last time, but i guess any guarantees will easily be voided by waffle.

I had just decided to keep this car and spend €600 booked for tuesday for its 10 year lpg heath check up, see thread about brand new skoda fabia 1.0 tsi long term ness.

Ohhh, and i had just bought 2 sets of 2nd hand winter tyres and steels for the bloody thing. Double grump now.

Just need to organise collection of stranded car now, great sunday ahead.

Sir Chocolate Teapot, tired, pissed off, angry, prospect of dealing with 2nd hand italian car dealers and insane bureaucracy and €500 change ownership admin tax fees grumpy face and helping kids with homework. 

Have a great sunday all.

Can you not just do the old hole saw under the back seats trick?

[paulplom]

Did this with my metro gti

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[Fumbler]

Grandmother Fumbler's Rav4 was taken down the road to local garage yesterday to replace battery because she would have had to pay for a new one either way. I'm still very surprised a Yuasa 3000Ah battery would be killed dead in just over 12 months.

[High Jetter]

Did it have a 1 year g'tee?

[Kiltox]

Yuasa batteries are shit - one in my van died in 18 months. Halfords said it wasn’t a manufacturing fault and by rights the warranty wouldn’t cover it but they replaced it “as a goodwill gesture” anyway. 

[Tamworthbay]

In the wrong conditions you can kill lead acid batteries in a few days. They are very fickle things that hate being sat flat or being overcharged. I am surprised they still put a guarantee on them at all but I guess they have no choice. And equally they can just keel over for no reason whatsoever. AGM type batteries are far superior in every way. 

[chaseracer]

30 minutes ago, Kiltox said:

Yuasa batteries are shit - one in my van died in 18 months. Halfords said it wasn’t a manufacturing fault and by rights the warranty wouldn’t cover it...

Maybe so; but the Consumer Rights Act 2015 certainly would.

[Fumbler]

23 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

Maybe so; but the Consumer Rights Act 2015 certainly would.

Indeed

 

I forgot to add that this was in response to my post on here on Friday, where the car wouldn't start thanks to the battery being deadded thanks to a door left open last week etc. I knew warranty wouldn't cover it because it was run completely flat. Once batteries like this are run completely flat they're not the same again, so either through the AA or not, Grandmother would have to pay for its replacement. At least, this is what I've been told.

[Cavcraft]

'Is this still available'

 

(Ignores that)

 

'Can we come and view it?'

 

Yes, no problem, when would you like to come?

 

'Tomorrow morning'

 

Ok, message me when you're ready.

(Today, 3.00pm)

 

'Can I come and see car before it gets dark?'

 

Yeah, no worries (tells her roughly where we are)

 

"Jane has left the group"

 

 

What's the fucking point of that? She can get to fuck, another one blocked.

[MikeR]

My son has just done his remembrance day march with the cadets , it went well

but some people who were told  by the police to park up and wait for the march to go past ,

muttering and tuttering away because they had to wait  !!!

[willswitchengage]

Spotted down my road this afternoon. Really?

 

[Cavcraft]

A s you move on in life, you like to think you're a good judge of character and can read people well. Oh, how that's bitten me on the arse. 

[New POD]

I'm a dick head.  Getting on well with wife and I gave her a weird "oh god you are going to talk shit again" type look and she's gone to bed after telling me how nasty I am. 

It was a weird grimace to be honest but not meant in any particular way.  I'm such a dick

 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

11 hours ago, ruffgeezer said:

How about a cheap, leggy, Scenic?

She's going to call the garage tomorrow to see if they can recover and assess.

We had an honest conversation about potential replacements.  Options being we either get a new car on PCP (not an option given monthly outlay and mileage limits - both of us are high-mileage drivers), or buy something older and second-hand that might be unexciting.  We'll have a look at what comes of it all and see how much she wants to spend if the garage say it's a goner.

I've been trying to persuade her to get an Alfa.  After all, our garage is an Alfa specialist and has occasionally sold them once they've been fixed...

[Split_Pin]

Self inflicted grump today.

I always check fluids weekly on all my cars but I do inadvertently tend to regard screenwash as non critical. Nevertheless I always keep a healthy supply at home of cheap stuff which does a grand job.

 I learned today that this is of course foolish as the Mini ran out of it when we were out in Linlithgow. It was a salty road day so I couldn't risk being rendered blind should a we pass a lorry on the motorway. 

I was fuelling the car so picked up a 5l bottle of unpriced 'Unipart' stuff from the forecourt.

SIX FUPPING PUN! It was close to zero in parts so didn't want to risk putting plain water in it, rendering me in a worse position than before.

But that's not my grump.

Once I replenished the screenwash on the forecourt, I restarted the car, it worked through its bongs and reminded me of the dead o2 sensor, the bulb out (connector), the overdue service (already done but can't turn it off), the low temperature and LOW FUPPING SCREENWASH. It could have told me this at home and saved me SIX FUPPING PUN!! It is now still coming on at every start up too.

This car hates me and thats after be spending 90 quid on a good Bosch o2 sensor for it!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

..... LOW FUPPING SCREENWASH. It could have told me this at home and saved me SIX FUPPING PUN!! It is now still coming on at every start up too.

This car hates me ...

Tell it to fup off.

[Split_Pin]

The FUPPING BAXTERED that it is!

[anonymous user]

Which era MINI is it? By use of Google I was able to reset the service indicator and the daft warning, that shows the car on a lift, after the local garage did the service and brakes on my mate's Cooper S Clubman. It can't have been too difficult or I couldn't have done it.

[New POD]

2 hours ago, New POD said:

I'm a dick head.  Getting on well with wife and I gave her a weird "oh god you are going to talk shit again" type look and she's gone to bed after telling me how nasty I am. 

It was a weird grimace to be honest but not meant in any particular way.  I'm such a dick

 

And she's just woken up and spent a whole hour ranting the same fucking shit about our relationship which she always rants, and which I will never fix. 

She makes herself ill.  I have no words or actions to fix it. But it only makes me sad, because there is very little need for her to be so distraught.  She really is sad.  Blaming me for that is very easy. 

[hairymel]

14 hours ago, Sir Chocolate Teapot said:

 fuel pump that needs petrol tank taking of car to remove

Never used a hole saw but back seat base out and application of aviation snips enables replacement of the fuel pump from above.

YouTube videos are available 

[anonymous user]

I wish I could sleep. 

[Split_Pin]

3 hours ago, anonymous user said:

Which era MINI is it? By use of Google I was able to reset the service indicator and the daft warning, that shows the car on a lift, after the local garage did the service and brakes on my mate's Cooper S Clubman. It can't have been too difficult or I couldn't have done it.

Its an R56 2006 to 13.

The symbol just says 'SERVICE' with a car silhouette. I have tried all sorts to erase it but to no avail. 

[Split_Pin]

1 hour ago, anonymous user said:

I wish I could sleep. 

Me too. Turned in at about five to 11, awoke at 12:45. My mind is hurtling along at 125mph, as it does several times a week in the middle of the night.

[hairymel]

7 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Its an R56 2006 to 13.

The symbol just says 'SERVICE' with a car silhouette. I have tried all sorts to erase it but to no avail. 

Afaik the mini uses similar hardware /software to a 1 series bmw.  Some obd codes bring up the service light.

Perhaps you need to fix some of the broken stuff as well as giving it oil ?

[Split_Pin]

On the list of stuff to do as noted elsewhere

[Bren]

Ordered gear oil for the passat last tues on the basis it would be delivered fri/sat and I could do the job over the weekend. I am still waiting for it to arrive.

[Pieman]

Last night, joining a very wet M6 at Knutsford, we are behind a small silver hatchback which pootles down the sliproad at about 35mph, brakes as it joins the motorway, then moves straight into the second lane of four and sits at the same speed despite us and another car flashing our lights repeatedly at it.

Cocksucker.

[MikeR]

I queued to get to work ... It was only just after 8 am and the main road was really backed up . never seen it so bad . so I dawldled the back way in . and along the motorway ... And when i got to work all the traffic had gone that was normally about ... Then Mid Day on the way back ... Incident in the woods .. Traffic backed up .  lorry turning in town .. Traffic backed up ...despite it  Pissing down and gale force winds all but one parking space was full in town  ! .  Now i read a tree is to come down in the morning closing a lane with 2 way lights and chaos  ....when i want to travel . 

[barefoot]

Here's a current (16:20)  picture of the M1 northbound between 26 & 27

There's a broken down vehicle just short of J 28 - expected to clear 16:45 - 17:00

Good old smart motorways, eh?