The grumpy thread

[Craig the Princess]

2 hours ago, xtriple said:

Wash your car you lazy twats, keep the salt off, ruin a car dealers holiday in the Maldives   

I don't think Cavcraft is going to get that far if I need a new car. He'll be lucky* to get a round trip to Wrexham.

[myglaren]

Reminded that I have missed yet another opportunity to consume the christmas pudding I bought five years ago.

I'm sure it will survive until next christmas though. even if I might not.

[Crackers]

Focus going in for rear springs job tomorrow. Not at the garage who quoted £350.

No no. Going to my dad's tame mechanic who "will be much cheaper" despite not having actually given us a quote.

Keep posted for what I'm driving while the Fookus is away.

[auntiemaryscanary]

My street is in a residential area but a major cut through - no drives so cars both sides leaving single file traffic only. We often get face-offs we're people won't give way. Often the drivers get verbal and on occasion violent. 

The whole road needed re-surfacing years ago but since austerity this happens every winter. That's the sub-base next to vehicles. I guess the yellow circle means the Council will be round to put a crude patch of tarmac in bag down at some point - it won't last long.

[AndyIggs]

8 hours ago, Crackers said:

Focus going in for rear springs job tomorrow. Not at the garage who quoted £350.

No no. Going to my dad's tame mechanic who "will be much cheaper" despite not having actually given us a quote.

Keep posted for what I'm driving while the Fookus is away.

Usually ends up being more ?

[twosmoke300]

Bet he wont be setting the rear wheel alignment up !!!

[Snipes]

27 minutes ago, twosmoke300 said:

Bet he wont be setting the rear wheel alignment up !!!

Probably seized anyway, either the bolt in the bush or the adjuster head against the subframe.

[BorniteIdentity]

21 hours ago, Lord Sterling said:

No. I gave up long ago. Thankfully here in the Midlands there are more than a few hand car washes available for as little as £2.50.

Hoorah for modern slavery!

I’m partially joking. I’m sure they’re paid minimum wage. I’m also fairly sure they have big deductions made for meals, sustenance, boarding, laundry, ablutions etc. 

Then again - if you’re at a hand car wash for 10 hours a day, 7 days a week, what use is money anyway??

As you’ve probably figured, I’ve stopped using them. The whole thing makes me feel uneasy. There’s an IMO in town where everyone appears to be happy, and a hosepipe on my driveway! 

[Kiltox]

Isn’t IMO just a franchise? Suspect you could find the same working conditions with a fancier sign above the door if so. 

[loserone]

10 minutes ago, BorniteIdentity said:

a hosepipe on my driveway

Wish I had this.

[Craig the Princess]

Tbh I normally use the ARC drive through because I'm a big kid and like the machine.

[sierraman]

48 minutes ago, twosmoke300 said:

Bet he wont be setting the rear wheel alignment up !!!

Wouldn’t you just be able to compress the spring in situ with one of those sort of one sided compressors that have a cup either end? Avoid touching the lower arm bolt?

[BorniteIdentity]

12 minutes ago, Kiltox said:

Isn’t IMO just a franchise? Suspect you could find the same working conditions with a fancier sign above the door if so. 

It is. But the three lads there I know of from around town. They all stuck money in and seem to be doing alright out of it. 

I don’t want to sound like a sanctimonious old virtue signaller. People should do wtf they want. It’s just something that nags at my conscience. 

[Kiltox]

4 minutes ago, BorniteIdentity said:

It is. But the three lads there I know of from around town. They all stuck money in and seem to be doing alright out of it. 

I don’t want to sound like a sanctimonious old virtue signaller. People should do wtf they want. It’s just something that nags at my conscience. 

A £2.50 hand car wash does seem a bit off tbh 

[strangeangel]

On 1/3/2020 at 12:57 AM, Rovorsche said:

I have a Humax freeview recorder, its a few years old and has the odd sulky moment but it mostly does iPlayer/Netflix/AmazonPrime but it does sulk, enough to make me look for something newer.

 

 

I've had two of those. The first went back to Richer Sounds because it kept turning itself off and on, and the replacement lasted just past the warranty period. If you put it into standby it lost all it's reservations etc. If you tried to circumvent this by leaving it on all the time it simply locked up after about a week. Not wanting to buy another heap of shit, I bought a second-hand Topfield off Bumtree for £15 as a stop gap while I did some research. That was about five years ago and the Topfield is still here - easier to use, far more reliable and the only potential downside for some might be that it's too old to receive HD broadcasts.

 

[mrbenn]

Surely it depends on the level of car wash.

If they're running a sponge over it then rinsing it's only going to take a few minutes and they might be doing quite well out of it. Sell cheap, wash many.

If they're doing a pre-rinse, TFR spray, contact wash, cold rinse, spray wax then buff then £2.50 seems a bit light. But I'd wager they're not.

There is one that costs £18 near me and people queue literally down the road.

[twosmoke300]

1 hour ago, sierraman said:

Wouldn’t you just be able to compress the spring in situ with one of those sort of one sided compressors that have a cup either end? Avoid touching the lower arm bolt?

Not enough room . There is a sykes kit available that compresses through the centre but it cost about twice what any mk1 focus is worth

[mrbenn]

The garage that looks after my Focus made reference to a kit they have for doing springs without taking everything to bits, must be something like that.

[sierraman]

13 minutes ago, twosmoke300 said:

Not enough room . There is a sykes kit available that compresses through the centre but it cost about twice what any mk1 focus is worth

One of these types? 

Which way do you normally do them avoiding the bottom arm bolt? Undo the drop link and the shocker bottom bolt then pull it down? 

[Lord Sterling]

BMW is to be repaired, finally. But again as usual its gonna cost which I could really do without. I'm gonna sell it/roffle it when its done because I need to raise money very quickly for the Visa ...again... 

Also, just to be clear on the car wash front; I either use IMO as I used to work for this outfit or other car washes, I am aware that it is often a joint business. Maybe I should start re-washing my own cars again and stop being lazy and unfit.

[xtriple]

Even though I live in a (extremely grotty) flat I have a hose pipe. It cost me £7 from Amazon (and yes, I do hate them but cheap) with a sprayer thing on the end. It is 75 feet long extendable jobby and I bought a tap connector for another £5 or so. I connect it and wash the car whenever I want then abandon it in the garden(Ha! Garden... that's a laugh). I stopped using the Polish guys when I realised how little the poor sod was getting while freezing his tts off outside wet in January. I gave them such bg tips ( a tenner a time on top) that it was costing me a fortune to have a cheap car wash! Also, the Bentley lost a vital and expensive piece of trim when one of the guys was a bit over-zealous with the pressure washer.

Buying the hose etc cost less than one wash and now it costs me pennies. As a bonus, I get to do it properly (or, if i miss bits, there's no on to whinge at except me) and I can do it whenever I like. Plus, while I whinge like the vitch I am about doing it, I think I secretly LIKE washing my own car. Shame I don't feel the same about hoovering the flat....

[twosmoke300]

13 minutes ago, sierraman said:

One of these types? 

Which way do you normally do them avoiding the bottom arm bolt? Undo the drop link and the shocker bottom bolt then pull it down? 

Would you like the job ? ?

[sierraman]

9 minutes ago, twosmoke300 said:

Would you like the job ? ?

Not if I could help it no. ?

Not a job you’d attempt without the benefit of a rattle gun and a blow torch... 

[Saabnut]

I have loaned my rusty scruffy beat up 52 plate Yaris to a friend as her car is off the road. Sunday morning it was parked in town (Stonehaven) while she was at work 

Two hours later she returned to find someone had stolen one of the front wheels ( a rusty steel)

FFS

[Pieman]

Nearly everyone I know has had their vehicles nicked or damaged recently.  Are Greta's followers just randomly taking it out on vehicles to make themselves feel smug?

[twosmoke300]

1 hour ago, sierraman said:

Not if I could help it no. ?

Not a job you’d attempt without the benefit of a rattle gun and a blow torch... 

And new arms / bolts 

[Supernaut]

1 hour ago, Saabnut said:

I have loaned my rusty scruffy beat up 52 plate Yaris to a friend as her car is off the road. Sunday morning it was parked in town (Stonehaven) while she was at work 

Two hours later she returned to find someone had stolen one of the front wheels ( a rusty steel)

FFS

Sorry for the laugh react, but I did indeed laugh.

I didn't think Stonehaven was that bad!

[Fumbler]

Today has been rather hectic for the Fumbler Household. This morning, Grandmother Fumbler dislocated her replacement hip, fell on the ground and was wailing in agony. Paramedics arrived an hour after the 999 call and propped her up off the kitchen floor. They asked if she was physically fit, "oh yes yes" she said when she isn't. In fact, with every replacement she's had, she's run a cart and horse through the physio rulebook and ignored doctors' advice. Mother Fumbler tries to find all the prescriptions Grandmother has to explain all the pills she has. No, finds nothing and instead finds loose pills, empty packets and nothing else.
 She is in so much agony the paramedics have to pump her full of morphine so she's as high as a kite and cannot answer to anything. She's carted off to hospital. At 1:00, Mother Fumbler calls to ask if everything is well. The hospital says everything is fine for now but Grandmother is being trnasported through the building so no active status can be given. Fair enough, that's fine, so Kother Fumbler does a ring-around to explain the situation to all the family.
We call at 3:00 and get directly to Grandmother Fumbler. She's said she's properly dislocated her hip and is being transported to the operating table in the next 20 minutes. Bollocks, that means she will be immobile, using a Zimmer frame and everything for another month because she'll be at the same stage as she was when she had her hip done. Will she listen to excercise advice and what the doctors say this time around? Probably not!

[MikeR]

F in taxi cuts in and nearly takes a coat of paint with it .

Drivers points at mirror and suggests i am in the wrong ..

I point at my car cam and he fuks offf .

[Inspector Morose]

2 hours ago, Saabnut said:

I have loaned my rusty scruffy beat up 52 plate Yaris to a friend as her car is off the road. Sunday morning it was parked in town (Stonehaven) while she was at work 

Two hours later she returned to find someone had stolen one of the front wheels ( a rusty steel)

FFS

#STONEYLIFE