The grumpy thread

[Fumbler]

I'm not having much luck as of late.

It's the Micra's turn this week. Expansion tank riddled with cracks on top. Breathing on it caused this hole.

Made a temporarily permanent repair with gaffa tape. It took two attempts: I applied too much pressure and went straight through. Fortunately the tank's designed so that it's never under pressure, so this'll be OK for the time being... until it begins leaking, that is.

[MikeR]

3 minutes ago, Fumbler said:

I'm not having much luck as of late.

It's the Micra's turn this week. Expansion tank riddled with cracks on top. Breathing on it caused this hole.

Made a temporarily permanent repair with gaffa tape. It took two attempts: I applied too much pressure and went straight through. Fortunately the tank's designed so that it's never under pressure, so this'll be OK for the time being... until it begins leaking, that is.

On my wife's Micra this mod let the gutter on the wing refill the bottle ,took me a while to find out why it was always full !!!

[hairnet]

Do these cure stress

[reb]

This sort of thing kind of annoys me:

I would argue that they're both skills that could take years to properly master. Surely we should just be happy that people are still into cars at all in a world that it's becoming increasingly unfashionable to be actually into cars?

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, Fumbler said:

Breathing on it caused this hole.

Wtf had you eaten?

[Fumbler]

1 minute ago, High Jetter said:

Wtf had you eaten?

Ha ha... It was all the angry hot air from the thought of yet another thing breaking.

[HillmanImp]

Mrs Imp had to take the Mazda 6 into the garage yesterday for a new clutch at 40k. We've had it from 20k.

Garage even said 'thats early for a clutch' but for her thats good she managed to destroy the clutch on her Mazda 2 in 10k from new and similarly with the Megane. 

She's finally coming round to the idea of getting a Mills-o-matic. However, last time I let her drive my Jag, I was following her and her left foot was on the brakes the whole journey as the lights were lit up. 

I don't know what to suggest. She won't ride a pushbike she prefers to drag her clutch for 2 miles to the gym every day and ride a static bike there instead for an hour. 

Reckon if I can get her to keep her left foot in check a wafter is the way forward.

[cobblers]

Stressed out, didn't sleep well. Not firing on all cylinders,  I drove 8 miles with my handbrake on this morning and didn't notice til I put my brakes on and the pedal went to the floor.

FFS

 

[loserone]

13 hours ago, Fumbler said:

this hole.

Ours did this

 I plastic welded a patch in quite neatly.

[anonymous user]

32 minutes ago, HillmanImp said:

 

Reckon if I can get her to keep her left foot in check a wafter is the way forward.

I suggest that you stamp on her left foot/kick her in the shin before letting her drive. I'm sure she would soon get the hang of it. 

(Or more likely kick you back/out)

[Dyslexic Viking]

It has suddenly become warmer here which is nice except that the road salting has increased because of it, and this is the result after a trip to the store (the car was quite clean before this).

I hate road salt.

[reb]

I've only done a few hundred (maybe up to 2k) miles since I got my new Volvo and it's still absolutely caked in salt and grime. I'll wash it at some point I suppose. So far all I've done is wiped off the number plate so I don't get in trouble for it being unreadable.

[AnnoyingPentium]

Are any of yous able to play this album?

Ooooh it embedded. Nice! Anyway, I can't get this to play, or anything released by Big Country between 1995 and 1999 (and obviously the US release above from 2002 which is an expanded 'Driving to Damascus'). Certainly, I could just go back to my shitty iTunes rips from way back, but that's not the point. Damned copyrights or whatever.

[myglaren]

Nope!

 

[Wack]

You can't fix stupid 

[Lankytim]

Does anyone remember those NOS Austin A30/A35 door handles I was given a month or so ago?  I sold them on eBay and sent them out via Royal Mail who immediately lost them. Those handles had been in storage for 50 years odd and now they're gone, presumably destroyed. 

I've submitted a claim to RM but it turns out I was only insured up to £20 and not the £40 I sold them for, my own fault as I didn't check, although I did explain the situation to the Postmistress who advised on the best service. I often use Hermes but decided to use RM as I didn't want these items to go missing and RM have a very low loss rate. Seems I was one of the unlucky ones! The customer is pretty upset about it all too. 

[AnnoyingPentium]

On 2/16/2022 at 10:59 AM, myglaren said:

Nope!

 

Thanks for checking!

[Spurious]

British Gas screwed me over big time today. 

Tried paying for fuel on the way to work. Card bounced. Twice. 

Ended up paying with the credit card. 

I'd paid off a bill at the start of the month, 700 odd pounds of a bill. The balance was 0 for 14 days at least. 

They then deducted the same amount through direct debit today. I was absolutely fuming. BG then say it could take up to five days for a refund. 

Rang the bank and explained the situation and they recalled the direct debit in a couple of hours. 

The serious incompetence taking money after the balance was 0. I've actually wrote a letter. And I've printed it off and will send them a physical complaint letter.  If the market wasn't such a volatile mess right now I'd move company. 

[sierraman]

21 minutes ago, Spurious said:

British Gas screwed me over big time today. 

Tried paying for fuel on the way to work. Card bounced. Twice. 

Ended up paying with the credit card. 

I'd paid off a bill at the start of the month, 700 odd pounds of a bill. The balance was 0 for 14 days at least. 

They then deducted the same amount through direct debit today. I was absolutely fuming. BG then say it could take up to five days for a refund. 

Rang the bank and explained the situation and they recalled the direct debit in a couple of hours. 

The serious incompetence taking money after the balance was 0. I've actually wrote a letter. And I've printed it off and will send them a physical complaint letter.  If the market wasn't such a volatile mess right now I'd move company. 

They won’t give a flying fuck about a complaint, why would they? It’s not like customers can up and leave to another provider. 

[mitsisigma01]

Try getting hold of a human at EDF , fuckin impossible ,I'm up to about 8 hours on hold , for up to an hour on many occasions , live chat isn't ..it's a bot , can't answer questions ... Followed the main website "contact us" ...no fkin reply . Facebook EDF page ...no fkin reply . Requested a telephone call many times ...Get an email saying I must contact them on the telephone number that they never fkin answer ......😡😡😡😡

[Spurious]

20 minutes ago, sierraman said:

They won’t give a flying fuck about a complaint, why would they? It’s not like customers can up and leave to another provider. 

No but it'll make me feel better. Someone will have to open the letter, read it and post out a contrite reply. Point of principal really. 

[neil1971]

On 2/13/2022 at 6:45 PM, Spiny Norman said:

Talking of eBay, I sent a message to someone selling a car last night and when the copy appeared in my email it had my full name, email address and phone number showing as part of the message, guy I was speaking to confirmed he could read it too.
Tried to contact eBay to sort it out and spent 45 minutes on chat getting passed around from one disinterested script reader to another so no use there either,

Breach of GDPR, surely?

Pretty ironic given that eBay bend over backwards to block any messages with contact information in them, in case they get cut out of the deal and miss out on their fees!

[captain_70s]

Ordered second hand Volvo heater blower motor off eBay.

DHL takes possession the following day.

While I am at work it is delivered and signed for by somebody who isn't me. I receive this picture:

That isn't me. That isn't even my building from what I can tell. Asked them to clarify and apparently it'd been left with a neighbour at flat 1/1. Except it hasn't, because that isn't my building.

Also, Christmas jumper, in February...

[GMcD]

25 minutes ago, captain_70s said:

 

That isn't me. That isn't even my building from what I can tell. Asked them to clarify and apparently it'd been left with a neighbour at flat 1/1. Except it hasn't, because that isn't my building.

Also, Christmas jumper, in February...

If you find the neighbour maybe take some hauners with you when collecting. 

50% chance they are a student and it's laundry day ..or they're a serial killer 😐

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, Spurious said:

No but it'll make me feel better. Someone will have to open the letter, read it and post out a contrite reply. Point of principal really. 

Good. Actual paper mail likely to be a rarity, and will be dealt with 

2 hours ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Try getting hold of a human at EDF , fuckin impossible ,I'm up to about 8 hours on hold , for up to an hour on many occasions , live chat isn't ..it's a bot , can't answer questions ... Followed the main website "contact us" ...no fkin reply . Facebook EDF page ...no fkin reply . Requested a telephone call many times ...Get an email saying I must contact them on the telephone number that they never fkin answer ......😡😡😡😡

I've sacked off both BG and EDF in the past, but the winner of the incomptence award in by book was nPower by a country mile.

[High Jetter]

Saying that, I had some invoices today from Southern Water for 2 of my shops. Most duplicated in the same envelope, some even triplicated. For some months in.....2009!

[mitsisigma01]

Post Office Telephones, now owned by Shell Energy, mis-sold a telephone contract to my elderly neighbour , sent letters demanding payment for £27 , when I got through to them to explain he was in intensive care dying with cancer , they refused to let him out of the tariff without speaking to him ... When asked how else they could get out of the contract ....they said send them a death certificate !!!!!

Edit; He wasn't even dead when they said that !!

Absolute cunts

[Datsuncog]

12 hours ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Absolute cunts

I used to work for Post Office Homephone back in the mid-2000s, or at least was employed at one of the many disjointed subcontractors that made up their somewhat chaotic patchwork of service provision.

Can confirm.

[Bren]

Storm Eunice has turned my gates into matchsticks. Seen some wrought iron ones on market place. Will have to get the trailer out as the vectra, despite being an estate, doesn't have much of a boot - the opening is only around 40" wide.

When you think how big the likes of  volvo 740/940's are you realise car design lost it's way a bit - some estates are no better than useless in terms of boot space.

 

[goosey]

conversion I had on-site with some bell end this morning 

 

Customer-

we would like to cross-section the high pressure Material Hoses on this machine to check their internal condition 

Me- 

is there an issue with the Machine?

Customer -

No, we just want to cross-section the high pressure hoses to check them internally then re-fit them back on the machine 

Me-

Cross-section? As in cut them in half ? 
 

Customer-

Yes! Correct 

Me- 

If you cut them in half, you will need new high pressure hoses

Customer-

why?!!!

Me-

if you cut the High Pressure Material Hoses in half they will leak because they will be in 2 halves they will be scrap 

Customer- 

(Walks away in a huff)