The grumpy thread

[Bren]

Susanna Reid interviewing the clown. Describes how a 77 year old gets on a bus to keep warm.

The clown takes credit for introducing freedom bus pass.

He simply gets worse.

[RoverFolkUs]

4 minutes ago, Bren said:

Susanna Reid interviewing the clown. Describes how a 77 year old gets on a bus to keep warm.

The clown takes credit for introducing freedom bus pass.

He simply gets worse.

"She should be grateful for her bus pass" .... !! (In a sense that's what he said 🙄)

[PhilA]

56 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

"She should be grateful for her bus pass" .... !! (In a sense that's what he said 🙄)

That really has echoes of West Germany / USSR.

 

Not good echoes, either.

[PhilA]

Need a wheel balanced.

Can't get it balanced because the tread is near the wear bars.

Tire is worn because shock absorber is faulty.

Shock absorber is faulty because fuel pump was leaking.

Steering is off and wearing tire on one edge.

Front suspension needs rebuild.

Steering box lower bush needs changing.

Only full rebuild available, no spares for steering box.

 

 

For the want of a nail, the war was lost.

That, coupled with walking outside and looking at everything here has put me in a "screw it, sell it all" kind of mood

[omegod]

2 hours ago, Bren said:

Susanna Reid interviewing the clown. Describes how a 77 year old gets on a bus to keep warm.

The clown takes credit for introducing freedom bus pass.

He simply gets worse.

The c*nt who gorged himself on 27k worth of takeaway food during lockdown, he wouldn't know struggling if it smacked him on the arse   

[Zelandeth]

Do people around here have to go on some special training to learn to drive like such assholes, or does it come naturally?

Also, what is the deal in the last couple of months with people turning off roundabouts while still signalling right? 

If you're going to make such a mess of signalling, just don't.  I can make a judgement call and guess where you're going then based on vehicle position etc...

Just seems to have started happening really regularly this last couple of months.

[Remspoor]

16 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Do people around here have to go on some special training to learn to drive like such assholes, or does it come naturally?

Also, what is the deal in the last couple of months with people turning off roundabouts while still signalling right? 

If you're going to make such a mess of signalling, just don't.  I can make a judgement call and guess where you're going then based on vehicle position etc...

Just seems to have started happening really regularly this last couple of months.

Please get a dash cam so we can all enjoy.🤣

[Zelandeth]

37 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

Please get a dash cam so we can all enjoy.🤣

Given how near a near miss I was involved in just a few minutes ago on the A5 I am once again seriously considering it.

Takes a special kind of idiot to nearly cause a serious incident on a perfectly straight stretch of dual carriageway.

No surprises that they were driving an Audi TT.

Just really wish installation of a camera wouldn't be such a gigantic faff.

[Talbot]

Modern dashcams can be very easily installed.  They're not the enormous faff they used to be.

[andyberg]

47 minutes ago, Talbot said:

Modern dashcams can be very easily installed.  They're not the enormous faff they used to be.

I concur. Most have a simple suction cup for the windscreen and plug into the cigarette lighter. Oh wait most modern cars don't have such old fangled things as a cigarette lighter 🙄

[Zelandeth]

1 hour ago, andyberg said:

I concur. Most have a simple suction cup for the windscreen and plug into the cigarette lighter. Oh wait most modern cars don't have such old fangled things as a cigarette lighter 🙄

I guess part of it is that I have an absolute seething hatred of "stuff" strewn about the interior of my car.  Having cables running off from the 12V outlet is an absolute non starter.

Hence why basically half the interior would need to come apart for the install.

[andyberg]

Must admit I'm the same. I wired my dashcam in properly I guess it took about an hour. Haven't used it yet, but judging by the amount of times my boss downloads our coach dash cams it won't be long. It's amazing how we get the blame for some misdemeanor on the road until my boss suggests to the accuser that he will check the cameras all around the coach. Then things go very quiet and he Nevers hears back from them.

[Zelandeth]

14 minutes ago, andyberg said:

Must admit I'm the same. I wired my dashcam in properly I guess it took about an hour. Haven't used it yet, but judging by the amount of times my boss downloads our coach dash cams it won't be long. It's amazing how we get the blame for some misdemeanor on the road until my boss suggests to the accuser that he will check the cameras all around the coach. Then things go very quiet and he Nevers hears back from them.

That's why the one vehicle of mine that does have one is the camper.  It's the one which seems to be the biggest magnet for idiots...plus is the least likely to be able to evade trouble.

Plus it was the easiest to get apart for installation being basically a 70s commercial vehicle design.  Windscreen being about three and a half feet tall meant I could tuck the camera away behind the rear view mirror so it's basically invisible.

I get the feeling that getting the Caddy apart to install it will be more of a pain, because 90s VW.

[sheffcortinacentre]

Re state of roads in the UK it's down to the fact that like everything else maintenance has been cut into the bone, a survey recently said that in syorks that if not one bit got worse it would take 10 years  at the current rate to fix them all !!!

[Remspoor]

3 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Just really wish installation of a camera wouldn't be such a gigantic faff.

Any "car" person can do it.

https://www.thedashcamstore.com/advanced-dashcam-installation/

What is the best Dash-cam?

https://dashcamtalk.com/

 

[Split_Pin]

Mair Marketplace fannies.

I posted up on Friday that I had been offering a single bed and mattress for free on Marketplace. SUZANNA promised to come at 6 to collect. After dismantling the bed and howfing  it down my awkward stair for her, I was royally patched.

So my wife thought she'd have a go at offering it on Marketplace for free instead. GEMMA said she'd be delighted to have it as she found herself in temporary housing and it would be for her 8 year old child. My wife also offered to throw in some very nice cushions for her. She thought she was doing someone a good turn. GEMMA said her brother would come for it in his Jeep at 7. Half past came and went and no further messages were read by her or responded to.  Patched and that was the second time today as well but I can't be arsed telling that story.

We've got a skip coming next week  and we are having a massive clear out. Since it seems to be impossible for me to try and help these people without them taking the cunt,  I'm planning on being fucking ruthless with stuff I don't want.

What's wrong with people?

[High Jetter]

2 hours ago, sheffcortinacentre said:

Re state of roads in the UK it's down to the fact that like everything else maintenance has been cut into the bone, a survey recently said that in syorks that if not one bit got worse it would take 10 years  at the current rate to fix them all !!!

Yep, but they will, of course, become rough tracks in those 10 years! At least some of our sink potholes get patched, after contact.

[RoverFolkUs]

2 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Mair Marketplace fannies.

I posted up on Friday that I had been offering a single bed and mattress for free on Marketplace. SUZANNA promised to come at 6 to collect. After dismantling the bed and howfing  it down my awkward stair for her, I was royally patched.

So my wife thought she'd have a go at offering it on Marketplace for free instead. GEMMA said she'd be delighted to have it as she found herself in temporary housing and it would be for her 8 year old child. My wife also offered to throw in some very nice cushions for her. She thought she was doing someone a good turn. GEMMA said her brother would come for it in his Jeep at 7. Half past came and went and no further messages were read by her or responded to.  Patched and that was the second time today as well but I can't be arsed telling that story.

We've got a skip coming next week  and we are having a massive clear out. Since it seems to be impossible for me to try and help these people without them taking the cunt,  I'm planning on being fucking ruthless with stuff I don't want.

What's wrong with people?

Theres a council-run charity down my way called furnihelp who will pick up furniture and distribute it to people in genuine need. Anything like that in your area?

I know charity shops have a track record of being ridiculously fussy, but these guys will take anything as long as its usable and has a fire label 

[Split_Pin]

If there's no takers on here I'm going to try Recap in Cumbernauld.

It's madness.

[sheffcortinacentre]

Mate recently picked up a hospital bed only been used for training ( was like new) from a supplier they'd offered it various charities Inc Ukrainian ones.

All wanted it delivering to them or weren't interested!! 

[High Jetter]

Even beds can't get shelter! The NHS must have enough. Oh, wait...

[AnnoyingPentium]

12 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

If there's no takers on here I'm going to try Recap in Cumbernauld.

It's madness.

There's the Furniture Scheme in Dalmellington, but that's mibbie a bit of a trek.

https://gift-furniture-scheme.weebly.com/

 

[beko1987]

That is a slight benefit of a large car, large bulky items on marketplace are easy! 

Can usually get a deal too, if your a nice, cohesive enquiry after a week of the above, suddenly turning up 5 minutes later in a suitable vehicle that fits it gets money off every time! 

Got the kids bunkbed that way, and a sofa or 2 in the past. Always worth owning an estate, you never know when you want it

[juular]

12 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

If there's no takers on here I'm going to try Recap in Cumbernauld.

It's madness.

Strathcarron hospice? 

Furniture Collection | Strathcarron Hospice

 

[myglaren]

Daughter was going out in her C3, saw that a tyre was soft, got her inflator out and when she was fastening the hose to the valve, the valve blew out of the wheel.

Abandoned it and went on the bus instead, told me about it yesterday when she got home, apparently her youngest son, a bike mechanic, glued the valve back in with superglue, reinflated the tyre and declared it all OK

I wasn't happy with that, siad that I would swap the spare in and have the valve replaced.

Went to remove the wheel (ten-minute job ) and the wheel bolts were solid, took a good half hour jumping on a breaker bar to get them to shift.

Bolts were rusty so wire brushed them and smear a thin coat of coppaslip on them, tried them in the holes and they refused to go in.

When I looked closer the holes in the disc didn't align with the bolt holes.

Got a mel hammer and punch and forced the disc into alignment, using the screw holes where the screws weren't, snapped off.

The discs are clearly new, had them fitted in January along with four new tyres, springs etc.

Looks like the valve was defective.  Taken it to have a new one fitted.

When I got home from dropping the wheel off I thought it best to check the tyre pressures, which were OK but the spare seemed to be leaking

Except it was jut the radiator fan running on

 

 

[vulgalour]

Oh aye, that's a completely satisfactory replacement item.  Thanks for siding with the seller on this one, eBay, you absolute bawbag.

[Zelandeth]

Apparently just buying bog standard 1.2W wedge type dash lamps in a physical shop isn't something I can do now.  Unless I want to pay £1.99 each in Halfords - and they have a total of 2 in stock.

Had expected to just buy a box from Motorserv, however they "don't do those any more" apparently.  They really are as much use as a chocolate teapot lately, no idea what it was that happened a few months ago, but overnight they went from being pretty decent to less useful than Halfords.

Great, guess I buy another pack from Amazon and see if more than 30% last longer than 24 hours in actual service this time...

[Crackers]

I have a sticky caliper somewhere on the Mazda yet again - just a few months after begrudgingly paying for the calipers to be changed. None of them are getting significantly hotter than the rest, and the problem seems to clear after a few miles.... but in stop-start traffic I can definitely feel something dragging as the car doesn't roll on like it should - it pulls up to a definite stop.

I don't really have time to be working on cars at the moment as my end-of-year exams start in 2 weeks and I should be spending my time preparing for them, but it looks like I'll have to compromise. Why can't these things just happen when I've got a little free time?! 🤬

[meggersdog]

The unit nextdoor to mine sell secondhand junk. I came in this morning and they've dragged some of their crap outside and in their parking area. This means their customers park where the car stops, if that's right across two MoT parking only signs so be it . Their first customer of the day was so indecisive .First she parked at another unit further up, then she didn't.Then the next one sideways, then forward. Then she decided to move again. I am trying to get the cars out of my unit usually reversing out and along to the side but because of her faffing about I reversed the Land Rover straight back straight into a motorbike which I didn't see in any of the mirrors as there was a truck one side and a traffic cone the other side. I'm still miffed with myself even now. 

[High Jetter]

11 minutes ago, Crackers said:

I have a sticky caliper somewhere on the Mazda yet again - just a few months after begrudgingly paying for the calipers to be changed. None of them are getting significantly hotter than the rest, and the problem seems to clear after a few miles.... but in stop-start traffic I can definitely feel something dragging as the car doesn't roll on like it should - it pulls up to a definite stop.

I don't really have time to be working on cars at the moment as my end-of-year exams start in 2 weeks and I should be spending my time preparing for them, but it looks like I'll have to compromise. Why can't these things just happen when I've got a little free time?! 🤬

Might be best to concentrate on the exams first, then deal with the car when they're over.