The grumpy thread

[twosmoke300]

Almost . I always think the Korean cars are Jap tech just a year or two behind. But there is less and less difference now.

[Jamie]

28 minutes ago, twosmoke300 said:

But everyone knows mondeos are shit , you dont get everyone wobbling on about how good they are like bloody german cars.

German stuff is no better or worse than a ford/ vauxhall or renault now . But still over hyped and over priced.

Only one country to head for if you want a reliable car and it sure as hell aint Germany.

LOL no Suprise you'd be the first to jump to his defence.

 

You'd think we were living in 1996 where everyone thinks there the dogs bollocks cos they drive a 318i with pov spec. No one thinks they are so good, find me a post on here where anyone recently has said German cars are superior. They aren't 

A Mk4 mondeo is an old banger much as is a e60 bmw where the price differential is no longer a big gap. You don't pay a premium for a German car anymore per se. 

 

Look at a mondeo vignale compared to a 320i, its probably more expensive 

 

 

[Zelandeth]

Apparently the regulator attached to the compressed air tank heard me mentioning that it was a piece of rubbish and I was planning on replacing it with a better quality one in a more accessible location (i.e. not needing to get the ladder out to get to it).

Heard something bounce off the ceiling then roll off the roof of the car.  I was nowhere near it and there wasn't even any air in the system.

Threads have completely stripped out of the body and the spring tension popped the adjuster knob off, which is what I heard bounce off the ceiling.

Well I guess I know what I'm doing this weekend then, will be getting a replacement in and set up. 

[Agila]

4 hours ago, Parky said:

Quality stuff.

Just wanted to say you're on top form with the posts recently.

Properly funny, quality stuff. 👍

[anonymous user]

18 hours ago, mintwth said:

Could go for a reverse approach....

The shower won't be on the same circuit breaker as the lights. Flip/pull breakers till you find which are the lighting rings.

Leave the lighting rings on and everything else off, then the shower *should* be safe to work on.   

Which reminds me of when my friends moved about 20 years ago. I gave them the video of "The Moneypit" amongst many other bodges (The house looked immaculate but the old lady who had lived there previously had been ripped off several times) the shower was leaking when switched off. My mate is quite practical so thought he'd replace it. Turned off the circuit breaker marked shower, but had the sense to check and found it was still live, but the cooker had gone off. Turned off the one marked cooker,  the shower was still live, but a double socket in the kitchen had gone off. Eventually found it was wired into the downstairs ring main.

They put a new circuit breaker and circuit in. The house has since been completely rewired. The previous owner had paid for a rewire, but someone had cheated and just replaced bits of cable and socket fronts, with hidden chocolate block connections to the old cables.

[sierraman]

2 hours ago, Jamie said:

LOL no Suprise you'd be the first to jump to his defence.

 

You'd think we were living in 1996 where everyone thinks there the dogs bollocks cos they drive a 318i with pov spec. No one thinks they are so good, find me a post on here where anyone recently has said German cars are superior. They aren't 

A Mk4 mondeo is an old banger much as is a e60 bmw where the price differential is no longer a big gap. You don't pay a premium for a German car anymore per se. 

 

Look at a mondeo vignale compared to a 320i, its probably more expensive 

 

 

Christ it was an attempt at humour you don’t need to run off to the dinner ladies! 

[Jamie]

18 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Christ it was an attempt at humour you don’t need to run off to the dinner ladies! 

Ah, a bit like my response to you then yeah? 🧐

I addressed all the points made which make a mockery of the beef people seem to have with German cars, and you make a mockery of it. Standard 😁

[mintwth]

*Teacher mode activated*

Gentlemen, it's your own time you're wasting with these petty squabbles. 

*Teacher mode de-activated*

 

Fight! Fight! Fight! 

[Jamie]

5 minutes ago, mintwth said:

*Teacher mode activated*

Gentlemen, it's your own time you're wasting with these petty squabbles. 

*Teacher mode de-activated*

 

Fight! Fight! Fight! 

It's OK I'll let them both toss each other off over their hatred of German brands. It's no skin off my nose 👌

[twosmoke300]

Obviously not 😂😂😂

[Jamie]

4 minutes ago, twosmoke300 said:

Obviously not 😂😂😂

I've said my piece, your the one with a chip on your shoulder, ironically the only car I've had an ftp in the 170 odd cars I've owned is a mk4 modeo 😂😂😂

 

The fact you've not acknowledged any of the valid points I raised speaks volumes 😂😂😂

[twosmoke300]

You don’t keep any long enough to break down . 

[Jamie]

1 minute ago, twosmoke300 said:

You don’t keep any long enough to break down . 

True. The mondeo I bought broke down the way home from buying it 😀

[artdjones]

The one car that made a big thing of its Germanness in Ireland was the Opel Insignia. I'm not quite sure what that says.

[junkyarddog]

The only car I had an FTP in was German....it was also the most needy of any car I've owned.

[Barry Cade]

I'm saying nothing..

 

. but if there were an FTP Olympics of cars on the back of my truck, then the first song  being played after a shift  would be Deutschland Uber Alles..

 

[twosmoke300]

Does soggihull have an anthem ?

[Barry Cade]

2 minutes ago, twosmoke300 said:

Does soggihull have an anthem ?

It does, but no ones ever heard it because the infotainment doesn't recognise the format. 

See your dealer.

[twosmoke300]

“ just park it on death row spot 96 please sir “ 

 

[barefoot]

Does anyone know the answer to this?

I've begun clicking this, & similar links obsessively because they never, ever tell you why you should do the thing with the bag. I've just clicked 'next' about thirty five times for 35 pieces of utter crap advice and still, no sign of the fucking ziploc bag story!

[jamescarruthers]

51 minutes ago, barefoot said:

Does anyone know the answer to this?

I've begun clicking this, & similar links obsessively because they never, ever tell you why you should do the thing with the bag. I've just clicked 'next' about thirty five times for 35 pieces of utter crap advice and still, no sign of the fucking ziploc bag story!

Is the answer not that they want you to view as many adverts as possible so they get some money?

 

Click-bait, I think it’s called. 

[sdkrc]

1 hour ago, barefoot said:

Does anyone know the answer to this?

 

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ziplock-bag-car-mirror/

Ice!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

17 hours ago, twosmoke300 said:

.... soggihull ....

Never heard it called that before!!

[twosmoke300]

You are welcome 

[Sham]

1 hour ago, sdkrc said:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ziplock-bag-car-mirror/

Ice!

Doesn't pretty much every car or van made in the last 20 years have heated mirrors?

[New POD]

4 minutes ago, Sham said:

Doesn't pretty much every car or van made in the last 20 years have heated mirrors?

No.

 

[sdkrc]

2 hours ago, Sham said:

Doesn't pretty much every car or van made in the last 20 years have heated mirrors?

Just the ones without bags on 

[Ghosty]

For some reason the M1 was awful today. Everyone sitting in the outside lane, middle lane moving faster. Been sitting in middle/outside lanes. 

Got stuck in the outside lane behind a black Transporter full of blokes in hivis, after a while I moved to the middle lane as there was more space. They give me a weird look and speed up a bit. Sat back behind them to overtake some people. 

This guy can't hold his speed it turns out. Went to move back into the middle lane as it was clear and this Transporter just swerves to block me, so I correct to the right and they swerve back. Dropped a gear and passed them on the inside to get away then decided to stay in the middle lane. Transporter fucks off up the outside lane, then moves into the middle lane and sits in some dead space and slows down to about 60. I just sit at 70 and obviously catch up, as I'm passing them I notice the drivers window is open -  as I was passing a fucking milk bottle comes out of the window and bounces off my windscreen. Mercifully it was raining and it only made a small splat at the top of the screen which didn't affect me at all, just quickly hit the wipers and it was gone. 

 

No bloody words. 

[eddyramrod]

I have interest in the Astra.  Fine, it can go, I'm not attached to it although it seems like a pretty nice example.  Not a Grump at this stage.

Someone posted Huggy up on the Dark Wob and former members from here have been volunteering donations "to get Huggy fixed up, properly."  Which kind of misses the point!  He's on ebay to be sold, not to be crowdfunded.  But still not a Grump, even if a point being missed irritates me pretty badly.

And here is the point of all this.  After a lifetime of "dealing with" old cars and investing vast amounts of love and care in them, I've had enough.  I'm very VERY seriously thinking about not replacing either of my cars when they go, reducing the fleet to just MrsR's Motability car.  In so many ways it won't satisfy me but it should relieve a shitload of stress that I really don't need.

I don't like giving up, nobody does.  This is a world I've known since primary school, so over half a century, and I'm thinking about walking away from it.  I can't believe this is happening.

[BorniteIdentity]

8 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

I have interest in the Astra.  Fine, it can go, I'm not attached to it although it seems like a pretty nice example.  Not a Grump at this stage.

Someone posted Huggy up on the Dark Wob and former members from here have been volunteering donations "to get Huggy fixed up, properly."  Which kind of misses the point!  He's on ebay to be sold, not to be crowdfunded.  But still not a Grump, even if a point being missed irritates me pretty badly.

And here is the point of all this.  After a lifetime of "dealing with" old cars and investing vast amounts of love and care in them, I've had enough.  I'm very VERY seriously thinking about not replacing either of my cars when they go, reducing the fleet to just MrsR's Motability car.  In so many ways it won't satisfy me but it should relieve a shitload of stress that I really don't need.

I don't like giving up, nobody does.  This is a world I've known since primary school, so over half a century, and I'm thinking about walking away from it.  I can't believe this is happening.

I would sell up and see how you feel after six months cold turkey. Only then will you know. It’s not a life sentence; if you want another car then you’ve saved up some pennies. If you don’t then you’ve saved some pennies. 

You can’t lose. If you really mean it, get the car on eBay auction and it’ll all be over soon.

Keep truckin man.