The grumpy thread

[RoverFolkUs]

  On 08/05/2022 at 22:05, Back_For_More said:

This is just bizarre,,,,,,, can't legally sue the muppets who employed the kid who couldn't use a manual gearbox. Their insurance will be paying it though - so why not just name them in the suit? Pointless legislation ......

Michigan car owner sued after Jeep kills mechanic during oil change (yahoo.com)

 

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That's absurd... Surely by taking your car to a dealer it's their responsibility against its misuse, and you'd hope they're competent! (wishful thinking I know...)

I cannot fathom how it makes sense to put the blame on the car owner 🤔

[DavieW]

  On 08/05/2022 at 22:51, RoverFolkUs said:

I cannot fathom how it makes sense to put the blame on the car owner 🤔

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Because it's the US.

[Ghosty]

Went to my first post-Covid family do. 

Turns out my mums adoptive cousin (a right laugh: him and his son, who was my age, were who I'd usually talk to) went on holiday to Australia not long before Covid and decided to stay there (he is natively Australian). Bugger.

Further to that another of my mum's cousins had a mental breakdown and fucked everyone off quite aggressively, then moved quite some distance away. She cut her daughter off from us too on questionable terms.

 

So the family is a fair bit smaller now. Well that's bloody nice. There's now nobody close to my age in the family, and everyone is doing better than me. There are reasons for that, but even so it makes me feel like shit. 

[captain_70s]

  On 08/05/2022 at 19:25, Quintus said:

There are few things more irritating than having a leaky car.

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I said I wouldn't put the interior back in my Volvo until I figured out how the footwells were filling with water. It still has no interior months later...

[JMotor]

  On 08/05/2022 at 21:50, AnnoyingPentium said:

They were original on my Granda's Punto at 84k when it went to the pearly gates.

It's tempting, wonder if @JMotor will sell up when he's done the welding on his...

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Oooft! 

You're in for a wait like. 

Keep finding more rot, that I've stopped looking now. 

Anyway, I've promised the previous owner first shout. 

Little does he realise, there's gonna be a huge box of the crap I've cut off it going with it 😀. 

[AnnoyingPentium]

  On 09/05/2022 at 07:33, JMotor said:

Oooft! 

You're in for a wait like. 

Keep finding more rot, that I've stopped looking now. 

Anyway, I've promised the previous owner first shout. 

Little does he realise, there's gonna be a huge box of the crap I've cut off it going with it 😀. 

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Nae worries. Looking on the Autotrader for one and I'd need £3.5k to get someone else's modded CDX. 😬

[castros_bro]

Ooooooooo. Not good

 

[JMotor]

  On 09/05/2022 at 07:36, AnnoyingPentium said:

Nae worries. Looking on the Autotrader for one and I'd need £3.5k to get someone else's modded CDX. 😬

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Och tae f*ck wie that!

Is that how much some are going for now?! 

Seen a Ph2 GeeSSSaye for less on bookface. About £2.7k iirc?

Then I'd still be checking to make sure it wasn't rotten too. 

[AnnoyingPentium]

  On 09/05/2022 at 14:23, JMotor said:

Och tae f*ck wie that!

Is that how much some are going for now?! 

Seen a Ph2 GeeSSSaye for less on bookface. About £2.7k iirc?

Then I'd still be checking to make sure it wasn't rotten too. 

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I don't care whit the trim is, LS would do me nicely as long as it has air con really. There's an Envoy belonging to someone in Ayr, on an S-reg. Spotted it a couple of times. Still quite rust free, might leave a note on it next time I see it.

[JMotor]

  On 09/05/2022 at 14:25, AnnoyingPentium said:

I don't care whit the trim is, LS would do me nicely as long as it has air con really. There's an Envoy belonging to someone in Ayr, on an S-reg. Spotted it a couple of times. Still quite rust free, might leave a note on it next time I see it.

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Jeez!

A 1.6 8v one! 

Proppa misery spec that!

[AnnoyingPentium]

  On 09/05/2022 at 14:32, JMotor said:

Jeez!

A 1.6 8v one! 

Proppa misery spec that!

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At least it's got ABS, hiy! 😂

[myglaren]

What on earth is this shite and how can it be legal?

Insane!

 

 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Non car-related grump.  Trial in Canterbury today for a prominent event that happened just over a year ago.  The bastard is denying murder, despite brutally killing the victim.  Without giving away too much, the bastard lived quite close to me and I wish I could go back in time and throw him in the river...

[RoverFolkUs]

  On 09/05/2022 at 14:33, AnnoyingPentium said:

At least it's got ABS, hiy! 😂

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When ABS used to be such a selling point and something to brag about it got its own badge on the back 😂

I'm looking at you GM!! My Daewoo Tacuma was blessed with a sticker with ABS written on it on the rear window from factory. 

I remember a 'birthday cake neck' dealer valuing it once (£50!?) and he said "Ooh its got ABS" as he waddled around the car puffing a cigar. 

What went through my mind, but I sadly kept quiet - "Yes it does have ABS, and no I'm not accepting £50 for it, now get away from me with your mouth full of sausages you prick!" (thanks to Sierraman for that phrase  )

[AnnoyingPentium]

Been applying to some jobs and I now can't find the bit of paper with my NI number on it. Fuck.

In less irritating news, I've lost an earbud bit to one of my earphones. Feck.

[myglaren]

  On 09/05/2022 at 20:49, AnnoyingPentium said:

Been applying to some jobs and I now can't find the bit of paper with my NI number on it. Fuck.

In less irritating news, I've lost an earbud bit to one of my earphones. Feck.

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If you have a P45 or P60 it will be on there IIRC

[AnnoyingPentium]

  On 09/05/2022 at 20:51, myglaren said:

If you have a P45 or P60 it will be on there IIRC

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These are the first jobs I've ever applied for since I'm off of university until September, before now it's been voluntary work. So no such thing kicking about. Think I'll have to phone them tomorrow.

[Skut]

On a walking holiday with a mate on Mull. When I awaken after an unplanned snooze in our hotel I find she's had about 6 lagers in the bar and now very worse for wear. She proceeds to very loudly ask me and rest of the bar about the possibility of a shag later. Interrogates me as to why I don't fancy her. When the fish and chips arrive I'm alarmed to see she can't use a fork. She stabs at the mess with such violence that tartare lands on her nose and forehead.  When we getup to leave there's fish everywhere and her seat is effectively destroyed.  FFS

[New POD]

  On 10/05/2022 at 03:37, Skut said:

On a walking holiday with a mate on Mull. When I awaken after an unplanned snooze in our hotel I find she's had about 6 lagers in the bar and now very worse for wear. She proceeds to very loudly ask me and rest of the bar about the possibility of a shag later. Interrogates me as to why I don't fancy her. When the fish and chips arrive I'm alarmed to see she can't use a fork. She stabs at the mess with such violence that tartare lands on her nose and forehead.  When we getup to leave there's fish everywhere and her seat is effectively destroyed.  FFS

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A trip to the Distillary planned ? 

[chadders]

  On 09/05/2022 at 20:53, AnnoyingPentium said:

These are the first jobs I've ever applied for since I'm off of university until September, before now it's been voluntary work. So no such thing kicking about. Think I'll have to phone them tomorrow.

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Sometimes it's on NHS letters etc., at least it is in England along with your NHS number.

[JMotor]

  On 09/05/2022 at 20:40, RoverFolkUs said:

When ABS used to be such a selling point and something to brag about it got its own badge on the back 😂

I'm looking at you GM!! My Daewoo Tacuma was blessed with a sticker with ABS written on it on the rear window from factory. 

I remember a 'birthday cake neck' dealer valuing it once (£50!?) and he said "Ooh its got ABS" as he waddled around the car puffing a cigar. 

What went through my mind, but I sadly kept quiet - "Yes it does have ABS, and no I'm not accepting £50 for it, now get away from me with your mouth full of sausages you prick!" (thanks to Sierraman for that phrase  )

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My Nexia has not only ABS, but AIR BAG on it's rear window!

With a TWIN CAM 16v!!!111!! badge in all.

The bastid is badged tae fuck eh! 😆

[Zelandeth]

Lady, if you're considering "dispersible" to be too big a word for you to understand might I suggest that a pharmacy maybe isn't the best place for you to be working...

[chaseracer]

Don't get me started on fucking pharmacies... 🤬

Annnnnd breathe.

[AnnoyingPentium]

  On 10/05/2022 at 09:08, JMotor said:

My Nexia has not only ABS, but AIR BAG on it's rear window!

With a TWIN CAM 16v!!!111!! badge in all.

The bastid is badged tae fuck eh! 😆

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Posh, innit. 

Does it hae air con, or wid that hae goat it's ain badge tae? 🤣

[High Jetter]

  On 10/05/2022 at 14:12, chaseracer said:

Don't get me started on fucking pharmacies... 🤬

Annnnnd breathe.

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I initially read that as ...pharmacists...

[chaseracer]

In this case, no.  Just... NO.

[DavieW]

My wife's Rover Mini makes me grumpy just now. It randomly won't start or cuts out when driving. A local garage has had it 3 weeks and it's never displayed the symptoms with him.

[5speedracer]

  On 04/05/2022 at 18:09, Zelandeth said:

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.

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There are cables available to plug it into the OBD port. I have it plugged in then up the windscreen pillar and tucked in the front of the headlining.

[5speedracer]

  On 08/05/2022 at 23:01, DavieW said:

Because it's the US.

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The country where you can legally drink and drive as long as you have mastered a straight walk.

[Kiltox]

  On 09/05/2022 at 20:40, RoverFolkUs said:

When ABS used to be such a selling point and something to brag about it got its own badge on the back 😂

I'm looking at you GM!! My Daewoo Tacuma was blessed with a sticker with ABS written on it on the rear window from factory. 

I remember a 'birthday cake neck' dealer valuing it once (£50!?) and he said "Ooh its got ABS" as he waddled around the car puffing a cigar. 

What went through my mind, but I sadly kept quiet - "Yes it does have ABS, and no I'm not accepting £50 for it, now get away from me with your mouth full of sausages you prick!" (thanks to Sierraman for that phrase  )

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