The grumpy thread

[GrumpiusMaximus]

10 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

My Mum had the same issue going from the 2010 Auris to the new Duster. Obviously the Auris had a CD player and she had all of her music on CDs, and the Duster didn't. You can guess whose job it was to transfer them all... 😂

See, this is why 90s cars are brilliant.  Mine has a CD, decent AM/FM radio, cassette player and I've added an aux in.

Still working on the 8-track, mind...

[AnnoyingPentium]

5 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

See, this is why 90s cars are brilliant.  Mine has a CD, decent AM/FM radio, cassette player and I've added an aux in.

Still working on the 8-track, mind...

What if you can get your mitts on an 8-track portable? Then just run it through the aux input?

[GrumpiusMaximus]

1 minute ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

What if you can get your mitts on an 8-track portable? Then just run it through the aux input?

I was going more for the 'TechMoan Stack'.
 

 

[Markeh]

My new Qashqai does away with the CD player and also surprisingly the 3.5mm aux in! Nuisance if someone else wants to play music in the car, as I don't want their phone connected via BT/CarPlay/AA.

[Talbot]

9 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Wasn’t that close, seen a lot worse.

 

9 hours ago, New POD said:

No you didn't. There was loads of room. 

Nothing wrong with that. Obviously the actual speed would get an instant ban, but as an overtake? Perfect. 

 

4 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Yup, no swerving. braking or other avoidance measures needed.

Given that none of you were actually driving, I really don't see how you can comment.  A video doesn't ever give the full story.

If the OP says it was close.. you know, the person who was actually driving and actually there, then surely you should believe them rather than looking like youtube commenters from about 2010.

[jakebullet]

Observe this photo. How much are the hot cross buns?

If your answer is 2 for £2 then you are WRONG!

The traditional ones that are somewhere else in the shop and not on the entrance display are 2 for £2. Displayed ones are full price with no multibuy offer.

[NorthernMonkey]

1 hour ago, jakebullet said:

Observe this photo. How much are the hot cross buns?

If your answer is 2 for £2 then you are WRONG!

The traditional ones that are somewhere else in the shop and not on the entrance display are 2 for £2. Displayed ones are full price with no multibuy offer.

My local Booths are sods for doing this...every week, we get overcharged because of some crap POS. To be fair though, they always honour their mistakes, unlike Tesco who would fight tooth and nail to get that extra 20p out of you, hence my studiously avoiding Tesco and all their subsidiaries for several years now. That and their ridiculous overcharging of people who don't wish to use a Clubcard. 

[Noel Tidybeard]

On 09/03/2022 at 17:00, RoverFolkUs said:

What year Civic? I can't remember exactly off the top of my head but there's a certain module on the spaceship Civic that's prone to staying 'awake' and draining the battery 

bluetooth handsfree module- lives in the panel above right knee/fusebox

[jakebullet]

40 minutes ago, NorthernMonkey said:

My local Booths are sods for doing this...every week, we get overcharged because of some crap POS. To be fair though, they always honour their mistakes, unlike Tesco who would fight tooth and nail to get that extra 20p out of you, hence my studiously avoiding Tesco and all their subsidiaries for several years now. That and their ridiculous overcharging of people who don't wish to use a Clubcard. 

Woman on customer services rolled eyes and said it's only on traditional ones. Guessing we was number 300 of the day to ask. She was delighted* when we came back 5 minutes later with reduced cheese charged at full price. 

We wasn't super impressed last cafe visit when person on the till is wearing a lanyard saying "I have autism and may be slow. Please be patient". Not a nice way to treat your staff at all.

Prolly a good job we don't go to Ilkley that often.

[RoverFolkUs]

40 minutes ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

bluetooth handsfree module- lives in the panel above right knee/fusebox

That sounds like the one, chap 😁

[Zelandeth]

Did I miss somewhere that today is Drive-like-a-complete-asshole Day?

I seriously need to get a bloody dashcam fitted before I get wiped out by some tit who's too busy looking at their phone to see the car in front of them. 

Or Audi Q7driver  who just makes the assumption that everyone will get out of their way.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

Dickhead mower fella who cuts the grass of the neighbour has strimmed right next to the MR2 again. The car is plastered in grass from the strimmer head - all along the side, on the windscreen and even on the roof. He's clearly not held back.

The neighbour's garden runs alongside one edge of our driveway and I've had polite chats in the past about not using a strimmer right next to my car. A mower would do the job fine and wouldn't spray the side of my car with shit.

It seems to be listened to for a while then forgotten again. Unfortunately I'm now at work when the bloke visits so won't be able to catch him face to face. Note in the car window I guess? I'm thinking something along the lines of 'Don't use a strimmer next to my car you daft twat'. 

Bloody annoying, either way. 

[AnnoyingPentium]

3 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Dickhead mower fella who cuts the grass of the neighbour has strimmed right next to the MR2 again. The car is plastered in grass from the strimmer head - all along the side, on the windscreen and even on the roof. He's clearly not held back.

The neighbour's garden runs alongside one edge of our driveway and I've had polite chats in the past about not using a strimmer right next to my car. A mower would do the job fine and wouldn't spray the side of my car with shit.

It seems to be listened to for a while then forgotten again. Unfortunately I'm now at work when the bloke visits so won't be able to catch him face to face. Note in the car window I guess? I'm thinking something along the lines of 'Don't use a strimmer next to my car you daft twat'. 

Bloody annoying, either way. 

Would even have been nice if the twit had asked you if you could move the car before he started doing it?

[New POD]

3 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Dickhead mower fella who cuts the grass of the neighbour has strimmed right next to the MR2 again. The car is plastered in grass from the strimmer head - all along the side, on the windscreen and even on the roof. He's clearly not held back.

The neighbour's garden runs alongside one edge of our driveway and I've had polite chats in the past about not using a strimmer right next to my car. A mower would do the job fine and wouldn't spray the side of my car with shit.

It seems to be listened to for a while then forgotten again. Unfortunately I'm now at work when the bloke visits so won't be able to catch him face to face. Note in the car window I guess? I'm thinking something along the lines of 'Don't use a strimmer next to my car you daft twat'. 

Bloody annoying, either way. 

Ask the neighbour for his name and address because you are looking for a gardener, then send him a bill for a valet. Say £20. 

[AnnoyingPentium]

Fabia's electrics are less than Fab once again. Keeps cutting out at idle, usually when steering. Thinking dicky battery (although recording a voltage that's correct and charging okay) or dicky alternator... maybe. Parts darts here we goooooo. Grrrrrr.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

1 hour ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Would even have been nice if the twit had asked you if you could move the car before he started doing it?

The MR2 is off the road at the moment hence sitting on the drive while I'm at work. It's the lack of basic etiquette which boils my piss though. 

1 hour ago, New POD said:

Ask the neighbour for his name and address because you are looking for a gardener, then send him a bill for a valet. Say £20. 

Not a bad idea. I think I'll catch our neighbour and ask her to pass on my best wishes* in the meantime. I'll then try and catch the knobhead when I've got a holiday in a few weeks time.

I've looked again and he's clearly been a proper prick - a load of grass cuttings are sat along the full length of the garage door lower edge where a leaf blower has blown them across. It's bizarre really as last season he was behaving himself and took on board my previous comments about not being a dick. 

[grogee]

32 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Fabia's electrics are less than Fab once again. Keeps cutting out at idle, usually when steering. Thinking dicky battery (although recording a voltage that's correct and charging okay) or dicky alternator... maybe. Parts darts here we goooooo. Grrrrrr.

What do The Internet/Fabia Lickers Forum nerds say?

[Crackers]

It hasn't been a good few days for my hands. Saturday I ended up with a fairly big blood blister on my right thumb, from trying a bit too hard doing some karting.

Then, today I've slashed a pretty deep slice in my left forefinger which bled like all hell, and is now wrapped up in dressing and medical tape to immobilise it so it has some chance of healing. It genuinely didn't hurt an ounce, which is honestly a little confusing as it's a bit of a grizzly wound!

[RoverFolkUs]

1 hour ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Fabia's electrics are less than Fab once again. Keeps cutting out at idle, usually when steering. Thinking dicky battery (although recording a voltage that's correct and charging okay) or dicky alternator... maybe. Parts darts here we goooooo. Grrrrrr.

Fabias have electric power steering, I think? My finger of blame is pointing at the electrics of that interfering with something. Any fault codes, or rather any way of reading for fault codes without paying £40 and your left kidney for a garage scan? 🙂

[AnnoyingPentium]

1 hour ago, grogee said:

What do The Internet/Fabia Lickers Forum nerds say?

I haven't made a post on Briskoda yet. I had messaged one of the fellas though and he pointed towards the alternator wire beside the gearbox, or at least that's where I think it is. Or a dicky battery, which when checked with a multi-meter is reporting slightly lower than standard before the car is started, but is charging fine once the engine is running.

20 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Fabias have electric power steering, I think? My finger of blame is pointing at the electrics of that interfering with something. Any fault codes, or rather any way of reading for fault codes without paying £40 and your left kidney for a garage scan? 🙂

You're right. Hydraulic PAS was a standard fitment on all Fabias. It does seem like something electric is pissing off things. I've got a basic OBDII fault reader, will try for experiment's sake to see if it pulls anything back. Thanks.

[RoverFolkUs]

13 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

I haven't made a post on Briskoda yet. I had messaged one of the fellas though and he pointed towards the alternator wire beside the gearbox, or at least that's where I think it is. Or a dicky battery, which when checked with a multi-meter is reporting slightly lower than standard before the car is started, but is charging fine once the engine is running.

You're right. Hydraulic PAS was a standard fitment on all Fabias. It does seem like something electric is pissing off things. I've got a basic OBDII fault reader, will try for experiment's sake to see if it pulls anything back. Thanks.

Hang on we've contradicted each other there 😅

You're saying Hydraulic PAS, I'm 99% sure they're electrically driven hydraulic pumps. (Like Fords of that era) but not fully electric like Vauxhall's of that era. 

When steering at idle that's a lot more force needed, so if the pump is working hard and sapping energy it's possibly, as you say, pissing other things off! 

Whether that issue lies with the steering electronics or the battery/alternator needs further digging. 

Check all the fuses for damage, even if they aren't blown, I've seen a Fabia before with random electrical issues (intermittent side lights being one of them) and the problem turned out to just be a slightly overheated fuse that was damaged and  causing a poor connection. 

Have you checked the alternator under load? I.e you should be seeing at very least 13.8v, ideally 14.4v with every auxiliary electric thing switched on imaginable.

Faults codes would be helpful if present 

Parts darts would not be helpful 😉😁

[AnnoyingPentium]

3 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

You're saying Hydraulic PAS, I'm 99% sure they're electrically driven hydraulic pumps. (Like Fords of that era) but not fully electric like Vauxhall's of that era. 

Aye that's what I meant! I'm not long out of the swimming it's knocked seven bells out of me... 😆

4 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

When steering at idle that's a lot more force needed, so if the pump is working hard and sapping energy it's possibly, as you say, pissing other things off! 

Whether that issue lies with the steering electronics or the battery/alternator needs further digging. 

Check all the fuses for damage, even if they aren't blown, I've seen a Fabia before with random electrical issues (intermittent side lights being one of them) and the problem turned out to just be a slightly overheated fuse that was damaged and  causing a poor connection. 

Have you checked the alternator under load? I.e you should be seeing at very least 13.8v, ideally 14.4v with every auxiliary electric thing switched on imaginable.

It's 14.4v to the battery IIRC. My Grampa checked it while I ran the car with air con, heated mirrors, and other unnecessary shite. I'll check fuses as well.

I'll see what comes back re: fault codes, as well. I'm at wits end, it knows I've not long been paid as well...

[RoverFolkUs]

15 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Aye that's what I meant! I'm not long out of the swimming it's knocked seven bells out of me... 😆

It's 14.4v to the battery IIRC. My Grampa checked it while I ran the car with air con, heated mirrors, and other unnecessary shite. I'll check fuses as well.

I'll see what comes back re: fault codes, as well. I'm at wits end, it knows I've not long been paid as well...

Hmm, ok, 14.4v is ok really. Next thing to check would be the cranking voltage, get someone to start the car and see what the lowest reading is on the multimeter. It shouldn't drop much below 10.5v, if it goes significantly below then that means a cell is probably goosed. 

I've seen (petrol) cars that crank, start, then cut out after about a second due to a low battery, normally you'd think if it has enough juice to crank, it would run, but alas not always 

Would be interesting if nothing else to see if there's any faults pinged up. Given it correlates with steering, it'll be sods law its in a module other than ECU that a generic scanner will refuse to talk to 

[AnnoyingPentium]

3 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Hmm, ok, 14.4v is ok really. Next thing to check would be the cranking voltage, get someone to start the car and see what the lowest reading is on the multimeter. It shouldn't drop much below 10.5v, if it goes significantly below then that means a cell is probably goosed. 

I've seen (petrol) cars that crank, start, then cut out after about a second due to a low battery, normally you'd think if it has enough juice to crank, it would run, but alas not always 

Would be interesting if nothing else to see if there's any faults pinged up. Given it correlates with steering, it'll be sods law its in a module other than ECU that the scanner will refuse to talk to 

I'm back over at my Grampa's on Saturday so I'll investigate the issue further then. I took the car up to the swimming pool car park and it was mostly okay. Only threatened to cut out once but it picked itself back up. Was doing about 20mph, clutch in, and braking for a junction. Had headlights, and an indicator on... and also the stereo, A/C, and heated mirrors. Wasn't giving the steering any input at that time though.

[RoverFolkUs]

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLP52uM1/

What a complete and utter prick this idiot is

Bragging and finding it absolutely hilarious that his bald, illegal tyre blew out while doing 80mph on the motorway. 

Doesn't matter to him because it's a "works vehicle" 

Makes my blood boil that ignorant pondlife like him speed along in deathtraps putting other people's lives at risk 

[RoverFolkUs]

3 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

I'm back over at my Grampa's on Saturday so I'll investigate the issue further then. I took the car up to the swimming pool car park and it was mostly okay. Only threatened to cut out once but it picked itself back up. Was doing about 20mph, clutch in, and braking for a junction. Had headlights, and an indicator on... and also the stereo, A/C, and heated mirrors. Wasn't giving the steering any input at that time though.

The car did swimmingly well to not FTP in that case 

[/gets coat]

Anyway...

Worth checking the earth connections too actually. There's a gazillion on Fabias, one on the gearbox, one under the drivers headlight, a few under/behind the passenger headlight all off the top of my head 👍

[AnnoyingPentium]

Just now, RoverFolkUs said:

The car did swimmingly well to not FTP in that case 

🤣

Just now, RoverFolkUs said:

Anyway...

Worth checking the earth connections too actually. There's a gazillion on Fabias, one on the gearbox, one under the drivers headlight, a few under/behind the passenger headlight all off the top of my head 👍

I had issues with the one that's connected at the inner wing... it used to cause the PAS and ABS to pack in suddenly at low speeds and for all the electrics to just keel over and die, also sending the central locking into a wild frenzy. Went to take it off at one point and it sheared clean off. It's now mounted to the top of the strut tower with a second earth strap pinched off of an old Nova going down to a mounting area near the PAS pump on the same side. 

[RoverFolkUs]

5 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

🤣

I had issues with the one that's connected at the inner wing... it used to cause the PAS and ABS to pack in suddenly at low speeds and for all the electrics to just keel over and die, also sending the central locking into a wild frenzy. Went to take it off at one point and it sheared clean off. It's now mounted to the top of the strut tower with a second earth strap pinched off of an old Nova going down to a mounting area near the PAS pump on the same side. 

The more I think of it the more it sounds like an Earthing issue more than anything else to be honest.

When it cuts out/almost cuts out, do the rest of the electronics cut out as well like radio for example? 

Even if not, if you've got a poor ECU earth, since all engine management systems usually run on the switched earth principle, if the ECU loses its Earth then all sensors, coils, injectors lose power too. 

Switched earth/switched live doesn't make any difference, if you lost one then things are still going to stop working but worth a mention anyway.

Assuming you know how to check the quality of an earth connection - check resistance between the negative post and the earth point itself, should be as close to 0 as possible. 

Although given that it's intermittent, it could be loose Earth connection rather than a poor one

Steering may just happen to be coincidental

Aren't modern cars fun!

[AnnoyingPentium]

1 minute ago, RoverFolkUs said:

When it cuts out/almost cuts out, do the rest of the electronics cut out as well like radio for example? 

Nope. It's as if it's sitting on the second position when you turn the key. As if I've never started the car!

1 minute ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Even if not, if you've got a poor ECU earth, since all engine management systems usually run on the switched earth principle, if the ECU loses its Earth then all sensors, coils, injectors lose power too. 

Switched earth/switched live doesn't make any difference, if you lost one then things are still going to stop working but worth a mention anyway.

Assuming you know how to check the quality of an earth connection - check resistance between the negative post and the earth point itself, should be as close to 0 as possible. 

Although given that it's intermittent, it could be loose Earth connection rather than a poor one

Steering may just happen to be coincidental

Will check that, thanks!

2 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Aren't modern cars fun!

I'm honestly at wits end... I could see myself doing a Basil Fawlty with it.

[sheffcortinacentre]

9 hours ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

What if you can get your mitts on an 8-track portable? Then just run it through the aux input?

Got some.