The grumpy thread

[chaseracer]

They want you to pay them NOT to deliver it...? 🤔

[beko1987]

Flipping car! Was out the door before 7am this morning, cleared the morning most off the windows and set off, everything clearing nicely. 

6 miles up the road, with the fans still in the entire car suddenly fogged right up instantly. Windows down, air con on full tilt and it eventually cleared, I've not had that happen before! 

Was watching the temp needle like a hawk, I even felt around the carpets incase the matrix had gone pop. Popped the bonnet when I got to work and all was fine. 

Was very strange, I guess leaving it parked for 5 days in cooling weather than driving it made the air inside flip out 

[artdjones]

1 hour ago, beko1987 said:

Flipping car! Was out the door before 7am this morning, cleared the morning most off the windows and set off, everything clearing nicely. 

6 miles up the road, with the fans still in the entire car suddenly fogged right up instantly. Windows down, air con on full tilt and it eventually cleared, I've not had that happen before! 

Was watching the temp needle like a hawk, I even felt around the carpets incase the matrix had gone pop. Popped the bonnet when I got to work and all was fine. 

Was very strange, I guess leaving it parked for 5 days in cooling weather than driving it made the air inside flip out 

Look under the scuttle grille and make sure there's not a few pints of water sloshing about.

[PhilA]

That'll happen here, usually right before you drive into the rain that the cold air is carrying.

Sharp edge weather fronts are rare in the UK but not impossible; a much more common occurrence here, I find, where the air temperature will drop suddenly maybe ten degrees or so.

Phil

[mintwth]

2 hours ago, beko1987 said:

with the fans still in the entire car suddenly fogged right up instantly.

Sure it was on the inside? I had the same happen to me last night but it was water condensing on the outside of the glass.

Giveaways being the wing mirrors fogged at the same instant and I could clear the 'fogging' with wipers and washers. 

[beko1987]

1 hour ago, mintwth said:

Sure it was on the inside? I had the same happen to me last night but it was water condensing on the outside of the glass.

Giveaways being the wing mirrors fogged at the same instant and I could clear the 'fogging' with wipers and washers. 

Was both tbh, now you mention that yes the wing mirrors both went foggy in an instant! 

Screenwash and keeping the wipers on low helped on the outside, aircon on full whack on the windscreen did the inside

[Fumbler]

Specialist who was going to look at the BX is off ill. Damnit. Luckily, I'm home next weekend as well and the car should be seen to by then at least.

[Crackers]

Back to uni (2nd year) tomorrow.

Balls.  

[Crackers]

On the flipside I guess I'll get to sit down for a day.... my phone reckons I've walked over 30km so far this week at work. Christ!

[High Jetter]

Uni student. Not wanting to get away from home. Again. Does not compute.

[Pieman]

2 hours ago, Crackers said:

Back to uni (2nd year) tomorrow.

Balls.  

Are you alright?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

11 hours ago, Crackers said:

Back to uni (2nd year) tomorrow.

Balls.  

Not freshers' balls, then.

[iainrcz]

Why do our local bin men empty our bins and then shove the cunts in to another postcode, so you've got to launch an appeal on TV asking for help finding it? 

It was sat neatly on my driveway waiting to be emptied.

Can't it go back there? Or is it a council ruse to get us out for some exercise?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

51 minutes ago, iainrcz said:

Why do our local bin men empty our bins and then shove the cunts in to another postcode, so you've got to launch an appeal on TV asking for help finding it? 

It was sat neatly on my driveway waiting to be emptied.

Can't it go back there? Or is it a council ruse to get us out for some exercise?

Maybe @dozeydustman has a theory that explains this 🤔

[dozeydustman]

59 minutes ago, iainrcz said:

Why do our local bin men empty our bins and then shove the cunts in to another postcode, so you've got to launch an appeal on TV asking for help finding it? 

It was sat neatly on my driveway waiting to be emptied.

Can't it go back there? Or is it a council ruse to get us out for some exercise?

 

7 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Maybe @dozeydustman has a theory that explains this 🤔

Because some dustmen don’t want their xmas tips or don’t take pride in their work

[w00dy]

Stuck on a train that's very late and not moving. It's packed with idiots who are loudly talking over any announcement, since they are happy drinking and aren't trying to make connections. I hate them all and I hate British trains.

[reb]

I had the opposite when they emptied the bins yesterday, they actually put them back where they were! They never do that, usually leaving them sat in the middle of the yard.

[Zelandeth]

Note to whoever designed the timing chain tensioner used on the Mercedes M.102 engine:

I hate you.

What a bloody stupidly overcomplicated faff of a setup.  Yes, it means there's double redundancy, but jeeez...if you've made it that complicated anyway would it have been too much to ask for some means to reset the damned thing without having to completely dismantle it?

 

[Bren]

The news. All of them. "News" should be substiuted with " Shitstirring".

SKY shitstirring. BBC shitstirring.

[Low Horatio gearbox]

A V5 arriving with the wrong tax braket  🎻🎻🎻🤦‍♂️

[richardmorris]

23 hours ago, Crackers said:

Back to uni (2nd year) tomorrow.

Balls.  

What are you studying ?

[Crackers]

1 hour ago, richardmorris said:

What are you studying ?

Mech Eng for my apprenticeship. 

[Barry Cade]

Christmas is ruined 😡

That's unprecedented...

FFS...

I managed 2 mins of question time before my blood pressure could be measured in BAR.. thank god someone left their lights on in their Hyundai or I would have bust.

 

Oh, and my local BP has no diesel, normal or HGV pumps..  I have a BP card for the truck and usually fill up once a day.  There are 6 BP stations in Fife. This one being the biggest. This could be interesting..

[dean36014]

Just had the same issue filling my truck up tonight on a bp fuel card. Two motorway services with no fuel, found a garage near base in the end I could squeeze the unit into.

[beko1987]

4 sail - diesel car, some mot, full tank of deisel

£4000 ovno... 

Fucking jokers! Red light was on so I waited until it was less busy to go and become one of the panic buying* sheeple so I can get to work next week

Once I got onto the forecourt though I went straight to an empty pump. Fucking idiots in fiestas and golf's blocking the joint up waiting for a nozzle on the filler side... Fucked past all of them, used the convenient hose that's attached to the nozzle to fill up (and yes I adjusted my behavior and brimmed the tank as it should last me until this blows over/the bloody media stop causing panic and alarm) 

I'm grumpy now as I feel part of the problem but don't have much choice! 

[myglaren]

Very few seem to realise that the hoses are long enough to reach across the car so it matters not which side of the pumps you go to.

I've had quite a number of astonished looks when I have done this - I usually find it easier than being squished between the car and the pump island and can see the display better, not that it matters as I only ever fill it up to the top.

[High Jetter]

Just driven past 3 supermarkets with fuel forecourts. Every one queued, blocking the main roads. Can't even get to Sainsberrys to do the weekly shop

[myglaren]

I was going to fill up today, son is taking the car over the weekend to do downhill racing somewhere, usually it is Scotland and a 500 mile round trip.

[beko1987]

10 minutes ago, myglaren said:

Very few seem to realise that the hoses are long enough to reach across the car so it matters not which side of the pumps you go to.

I've had quite a number of astonished looks when I have done this - I usually find it easier than being squished between the car and the pump island and can see the display better, not that it matters as I only ever fill it up to the top.

Yup, no end of tiny cars doing it! Which made the vans have to wait because they dont have a choice. Once I got to the pump I was under 4 minutes in and out

[Stanky]

late to the party as ever, having fixed the Daihatsu it was running on fumes so I thought I'd pop to the petrol station to top it up a bit. 45 minutes later I finally got to the pump (filling up on the 'wrong' side!). I wouldn't have minded but its half a mile away!

God almighty.