The grumpy thread

[bramz7]

As ever, I am considerably impressed by your internet detective skills but the seller hasn't even put it in the advert listing. Couple that with a short MOT and it's not worth it.

[Richard]

The seller's attitude would be a red flag for me. Buying cars from wankers rarely goes well.

[LightBulbFun]

8 minutes ago, bramz7 said:

As ever, I am considerably impressed by your internet detective skills but the seller hasn't even put it in the advert listing. Couple that with a short MOT and it's not worth it.

yeah the fact he is cagey to provide a registration also makes me a bit suspect!

and I cant claim full credit for this one!

it was @clayts450 doing it how I found out about it (although being the computer nerd I am, does help with spotting it in other places and understanding how it works )  

On 12/7/2019 at 8:28 PM, clayts450 said:

R495ULM (base 64 decode from VRM info from 'Get the vehicle status report' link)

MoT history not too bad, TBF.

and checking the forums search function when trying to find the above post I can find reference to it as far back to 2015 with @Conrad D. Conelrad doing it  (and as I mentioned in my response to the post I quoted above, seeing how the web page is right out of 1998, people have probably been doing this for near 20 years now LOL)

On 10/27/2015 at 10:40 PM, Conrad D. Conelrad said:

 
Plate covered in every photo.
 

 
... but of course.
 

 
Anyway, despite their enduring popularity*, this might be the last Numberplate Obfuscation Award from me. Calamity James on Pistonheads spoiled it forever by demonstrating how you can extract the numberplate for any car, hidden or not. 
 
In case you're interested:

• In the Item Specifics box, click the "Get the Vehicle Status Report" link.
• Copy this bit of the URL: 
  
• Paste it into the a Base64 decoder, like this one: base64decode.org
• Voila: 
  

 

[plasticvandan]

Only one reason to hide the plate on a scruffy cheap micra...shocking mot history and LIES. No one is cloning k11 micras to do bank heists. Any ad with obscured plates I won't even open,even if I want the car.

[HMC]

1 hour ago, bramz7 said:

Spotted a car I liked for sale on eBay. Numberplate blanked off. 

 

Fair enough, I'll send a message asking what it is, for insurance. 

The reply was you don't need to know it. Which is true, but still put me off. 

Would me too.  Whatever underlies the response it also closes off mot history checking and just sends out a bad vibe to me as well.

[Cord Fourteener]

1 hour ago, bramz7 said:

Spotted a car I liked for sale on eBay. Numberplate blanked off. 

 

Fair enough, I'll send a message asking what it is, for insurance. 

The reply was you don't need to know it. Which is true, but still put me off. 

I need to know it if I'm going to view the car as I like to know the milage and mot history as it helps me make an informed choice. People who don't give you the info you want don't gett their cars viewed by me.

[Cord Fourteener]

So my ECU has changed it's mind. I bought a new camshaft sensor before realisin it's easy to test if it works. Both my old one and new one seem to work. Now the computer is telling me it's the crank position sensor, which you need to be and ant or a spider to get to. I've jacked the car up and in the freezing cold stuffed my arms up into the private spaces of the engine and I can touch the sensor but I can' see or get the wires out, god knows how I'm going to get it done, I'm thinking trailer it to the garage. Or go out there in my t shirt in the freezing winds and try...

Oh well, only a bit of warmth to loose I spose.

[HMC]

The metro vendor left the paperwork in the glovebox (I had it transported to me) I got a scrap of the v5 that was filled out when current vendor bought the car; hand filled in and lacking the new keeper bit. I messaged the vendor and didn’t get much back. Where was the current v5? How could I tax it? He’d have a look.
 

on a hunch I entered the doc ref number of the bit of the old v5 I had and it was recognised. Hence the keeper the vendor bought the car off 6 months back hadn’t informed the dvla. This was probably news to the vendor who was selling a v5 less car essentially and one he was not the registered keeper of; because the last keeper didn’t do his stuff.

I added an extra digit to the main document reference number to allow me to access the ability to tax it at the point of a keeper change; as if I had the v5c/2. Obviously I also put myself down as the new keeper. 

I checked online to see if it was taxed prior to all this- it said it had lapsed at the end of last year (wasn’t down as SORN) 

So what a shit show! Anyway it’s basically all sorted but it amazes me how stuff can go so awry. I’m certain there’s no intent to mislead it was just people not doing stuff and other people not picking up on it. What about the untaxed and unsorned gap? That would fall back on the last but one owner (technically the keeper until yesterday)  WTF

 

[anonymous user]

I have just cut my finger picking up bits of broken wine glass, whoever designed the packaging for sticking plasters obviously didn't think what it would be like for someone trying to open it with a bleeding hand. And just had to dash outside to retrieve the extension lead and shut the boot on the Mx5 as it's started pissing down again, like it did yesterday as soon as I try to charge the battery 

[DVee8]

What a 4kin day,Father in law had a stroke this morning.The paramedics where fantastic.

Mrs V8 is beside herself.

He is going to be ok it was a small bleed but the right side has been affected.

 

[New POD]

46 minutes ago, HMC said:

The metro vendor left the paperwork in the glovebox (I had it transported to me) I got a scrap of the v5 that was filled out when current vendor bought the car; hand filled in and lacking the new keeper bit. I messaged the vendor and didn’t get much back. Where was the current v5? How could I tax it? He’d have a look.
 

on a hunch I entered the doc ref number of the bit of the old v5 I had and it was recognised. Hence the keeper the vendor bought the car off 6 months back hadn’t informed the dvla. This was probably news to the vendor who was selling a v5 less car essentially and one he was not the registered keeper of; because the last keeper didn’t do his stuff.

I added an extra digit to the main document reference number to allow me to access the ability to tax it at the point of a keeper change; as if I had the v5c/2. Obviously I also put myself down as the new keeper. 

I checked online to see if it was taxed prior to all this- it said it had lapsed at the end of last year (wasn’t down as SORN) 

So what a shit show! Anyway it’s basically all sorted but it amazes me how stuff can go so awry. I’m certain there’s no intent to mislead it was just people not doing stuff and other people not picking up on it. What about the untaxed and unsorned gap? That would fall back on the last but one owner (technically the keeper until yesterday)  WTF

 

As long as you have a paper (electronic trail) you have no need to worry. Screen shots of the advert, emails with vendor, receipt from transport company. 

[Craig the Princess]

Bought a set of instruments in eBay to give a haircut to replace the ones which have stopped working in the Volvo 940.

But obviously the ones from a 1996 car has totally different plugs to a 1992 car despite looking the same on the front.

£75 pissed up the wall, I'll have to bung then back on eBay.

[bramz7]

As a part two to my numberplate grump the seller messaged me it out of the blue....

Unfortunately Footman James won't cover it. They seem awfully picky with Volvo's, I'd checked two TD ones a touch older and they'd have covered both, but not this one. Good thing I didn't bid I guess. 

[mitsisigma01]

6 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

The reply was you don't need to know it. Which is true, but still put me off

I had a similar thing also with a Micra except I asked for checking mot history, "the registration number will be supplied on completion of the purchase" 

Fkin twat, it was still for sale last time I looked ?I might try the method mentioned way above and send it to him just to see what they say

[Crackers]

Car insurance quotes ending with "unable to quote" are a surefire way to spend your evenings depressed. 

[HillmanImp]

Company I work for has just been bought out by a rival. Not sure what this means for my role. I'll be fine in the short term but there might be long term implications I guess. 

Not what I need when I'm looking at buying a new house. 

[mitsisigma01]

The day I received my mortgage application, I also received notice of redundancy, glad I didn't open the redundancy one for ages after?

[New POD]

13 hours ago, Crackers said:

Car insurance quotes ending with "unable to quote" are a surefire way to spend your evenings depressed. 

You are 19 aren't you? Try a jazz 

[HillmanImp]

25 minutes ago, mitsisigma01 said:

The day I received my mortgage application, I also received notice of redundancy, glad I didn't open the redundancy one for ages after?

Ha, good thinking.

For me its the fact I'd be moving from financial security with the current living situation, so I'm a bit nervous if I'm suddenly out of work at some point in the not too distant future.  I'm not too concerned about getting the mortgage, just the ability to pay it in a couple of years time.

I only found out a couple of hours ago so will have to have a proper think about it overnight. 

[Noel Tidybeard]

19 hours ago, Craig the Princess said:

Bought a set of instruments in eBay to give a haircut to replace the ones which have stopped working in the Volvo 940.

But obviously the ones from a 1996 car has totally different plugs to a 1992 car despite looking the same on the front.

£75 pissed up the wall, I'll have to bung then back on eBay.

but will the speedo come out of new clocksand fit in old clocks ergo using correct plugs

[Craig the Princess]

12 minutes ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

but will the speedo come out of new clocksand fit in old clocks ergo using correct plugs

Sadly it is the circuit board behind that is buggered rather than the Speedo itself I think.

[MikeR]

bastard speed bumps and potholes ..

not kind on a person who's insides have been stirred by a surgeon .

[Zelandeth]

Really pissed off having to drop things from the day's to do list on account of traffic being a total swine for no reason other than that it's raining.

Just took me three quarters of an hour to do what should have been a ten minute trip.

[Bren]

Not grumpy. Just a little sad.

Fiddlers Ferry power station which dominates the Widnes skyline generated it's last yesterday. Most of the factories have gone - what is for me a truly spectacular thing will soon be demolished. There are people who will be glad to see it go - just like the chemical factories - but the towns' prosperity has also gone.

You cannot replace thousands of skilled jobs with jobs at retail parks.

[New POD]

I understand that the chemical industry may have had an impact on that part of the northwest in ways that are not as positive as you might think.

The statistics on miscarriages, still births, birth defects and IQs of Widnes, Runcorn, Ellesmere Port and Warrington apparently make sobering reading.  I dont have a link or data to back that up. Just hearsay. 

 

[MikeR]

29 minutes ago, New POD said:

I understand that the chemical industry may have had an impact on that part of the northwest in ways that are not as positive as you might think.

The statistics on miscarriages, still births, birth defects and IQs of Widnes, Runcorn, Ellesmere Port and Warrington apparently make sobering reading.  I dont have a link or data to back that up. Just hearsay. 

 

never heard of the dying rooms , very rarely spoken about place were unviable babies went ...  blindness was also a big factor

[Timewaster]

Even a grim name for a grim place. 

Or local hospital had a place called Rose Cottage. 

Sounds idyllic. "Auntie has gone to Rose Cottage"..... 

Except it was a euphemism for the morgue. 

[Cavcraft]

1 hour ago, New POD said:

I understand that the chemical industry may have had an impact on that part of the northwest in ways that are not as positive as you might think.

The statistics on miscarriages, still births, birth defects and IQs of Widnes, Runcorn, Ellesmere Port and Warrington apparently make sobering reading.  I dont have a link or data to back that up. Just hearsay. 

 

 

I remember some village in Runcorn had to be (permanently) evacuated, think it was in the 1970's due to ICI allegedly just chucking whatever chemicals they couldn't be arsed with into a giant pit. Have also heard first hand about the Mersey being a dumping ground for the odd bit of excess material. 

 

Never heard of it effecting IQs though to be fair, but it could have happened in extreme cases perhaps.

[Floatylight]

Some poor soul has chucked themselves under the train I'm on between Carlisle & Preston, going to be at least until another two hours before were off the train or move..

4 blokes on the next table are quite pissed having drunk at least 30 bottles of Peroni between them. Oh joy..

Update, conducted has said its believed to be suspicious so likely to be even longer...

Going to be a long night...

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[Ghosty]

Failed my job interview, apparently my answers were 'too generic' and I lack experience in sales.

 

I went into the telephone interview telling them I wanted to start a career, and the job description refers to 'comprehensive training' and doesn't require experience. 

Fuck that then.