The grumpy thread

[cobblers]

22 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Realistically, I think many of us on here are. 

We're like pistonheads only without the big budget or the ability to comfortably make eye contact while talking to people

[chaseracer]

That's our new marketing strategy, right there.

[cobblers]

i hope it doesnt work very well

[High Jetter]

7 hours ago, NigeT said:

After several years without selling a car, I've advertised Rover in all the standard places and I'm astounded at the number of absolute cuntwombles wasting my time. Just as well I'm dealing with it for my old man (who suffers from social anxiety) or it would probably be the end of him.   

Have you tried selling it on here?

[Garythesnail]

1 hour ago, Gerrymcd said:

which is why I always take a 2-seater

Genius

[NigeT]

Just now, High Jetter said:

Have you tried selling it on here?

Yep, it’s for sale on here. Roffle had some initial interest which then totally died out. Can’t be that many running, driving, MOT’d cars around for under £750. 

[artdjones]

3 hours ago, cobblers said:

Having my entire weekend wasted - I'm being dragged to an incredibly ill advised party hosted by my wife's mates who are in the middle of an awkward divorce, but for some reason she has suggested having "one last party" in their marital home.  It's a couple of hours drive away and it will fuck up most of my Saturday, then we won't get home til 3AM on Sunday so that's yet another day wasted as I'll be too exhausted to really get anything done. I'm driving so can't even have a drink to take the edge off, I barely know any of these people and my presence is completely pointless other than to avoid my wife having to make some excuse as to why I'm not there - "He's very busy with work and really needs to work all weekend to try and keep on top of things" for example. It wouldn't even be a lie.

Realistically, not one of these people actually gives a shit if I am there, and they will only even ask where I was out of politeness or to demonstrate that they've remembered I exist.

I find prolonged social gatherings like that incredibly stressful - I'm fine for a couple of hours, but these things always go on and on for hours longer than is reasonable, so by the time we do leave I'll have been deep in a state of despair for some time.

I'm probably on some part of the autistic spectrum for sure, but even so I do honestly think that if you went round and in confidence asked everyone at these kind of parties if they actually genuinely wanted to be there, I would predict at least 80% of attendees would very much rather be sat on their own sofa in their pyjamas instead of being stood awkwardly around someone else's house waiting for the earliest polite opportunity to fuck off home.

I wish we could make it acceptable to be honest and sincerely say "Look, thanks for the invite, I appreciate the thought but I would really not enjoy that at all, in fact it is pretty much my own personal hell, nothing personal though"

 I think if you told the hosts that they might not be that offended. Whether your wife would accept it is probably a different story.

Could end like Abigail's Party.

[Zelandeth]

One week on...still testing COVID positive.

Joy.

If this could fuck off now I'd be fine with that.

[RoverFolkUs]

6 hours ago, sierraman said:

Someone has had their money’s worth on this Transits tyre...

Must've taken a good-year or two to get to that stage..... 

 

...... 😬😅

[AnnoyingPentium]

10 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Must've taken a good-year or two to get to that stage..... 

 

...... 😬😅

You are @High Jetter, AICMFP.

[mitsisigma01]

15 hours ago, Wack said:

This is how some railway track I posted with hermes arrived , I'd wrapped it in 3 layers of card 

good luck 48.28 kB · 0 downloads

 

Being an ex courier handler problem solver , what were the maximum dimensions and weight allowed for your price ..... Why not package it to the max , maybe shitloads more cardboard or even thin plywood strips , something to add rigidity. Yours I'm afraid to say would fail a drop test and be deemed to be insufficiently packaged .😕

[mitsisigma01]

7 hours ago, cobblers said:

It's a couple of hours drive away and it will fuck up most of my Saturday,

Drop her at the party , go out lazy car spotting, go for fish n chips on the beach or the cinema or anywhere more interesting than a crap party you don't want to be at , then kip in the car til she's ready to go . Result

[RoverFolkUs]

25 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

You are @High Jetter, AICMFP.

Had to get in there first yano... Couldn't leave it too (ling)long to make a tyre related pun

[High Jetter]

Just now, mitsisigma01 said:

Drop her at the party , go out lazy car spotting, go for fish n chips on the beach or the cinema or anywhere more interesting than a crap party you don't want to be at , then kip in the car til she's ready to go . Result

I'm guessing you're not married? 

[mitsisigma01]

1 minute ago, High Jetter said:

I'm guessing you're not married? 

Doesn't make any difference, a piece of paper... Their usually miserable b...... if you go with them or not . 

[RoverFolkUs]

Just quoting this post from my thread in the modern section, because being a 1997 it's not modern so may deserve a spot in the main section...

What pisses me off is when manufacturers are not capable of doing logical things... Putting foam in an airbox after the air filter, what else do they expect to happen after X number of years other than for it to disintegrate and get sucked into the engine?! 

5 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Ok, here's another one. Not really modern, (1997) but who do you think is the best contending manufacturer to do something as utterly daft as this...! 

Correct guess wins a custard cream from your own biscuit tin... 

If you can't tell what's going on here, this is the air box, filled with foam, presumably for acoustic management... 

Except for the fact this is the TOP of the air box, AFTER the air filter, air from here goes straight into the intake manifold 😬

See that clean area? I hadn't hoovered it out, (yet) - that's all been sucked into the engine!

After 25 years it's all disintegrated, best way I can describe it is like Oasis flower foam! At the slightest touch it just collapsed into a pile of dust

Took a video... will try and upload it... 

 

[Fumbler]

3 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Just quoting this post from my thread in the modern section, because being a 1997 it's not modern so may deserve a spot in the main section...

What pisses me off is when manufacturers are not capable of doing logical things... Putting foam in an airbox after the air filter, what else do they expect to happen after X number of years other than for it to disintegrate and get sucked into the engine?! 

 

I'd presume they'd only make sure it lasts as long as the vehicle's design life. I can't imagine many engineers would be thinking about 20 years in the future when a car is designed to last 10 or 15.

[RoverFolkUs]

1 minute ago, Fumbler said:

I'd presume they'd only make sure it lasts as long as the vehicle's design life. I can't imagine many engineers would be thinking about 20 years in the future when a car is designed to last 10 or 15.

Thing is, it doesn't need to be in there at all. Absolutely pointless. 

Every last spec of it is in the hoover now..

[Fumbler]

1 minute ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Thing is, it doesn't need to be in there at all. Absolutely pointless. 

Every last spec of it is in the hoover now..

Like you said, it was probably an acoustic management thing which is why it's there. It could even be an afterthought. At least it's foam specs that are being sucked into the engine and nothing else like dust or sand.

[AnnoyingPentium]

12 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Just quoting this post from my thread in the modern section, because being a 1997 it's not modern so may deserve a spot in the main section...

What pisses me off is when manufacturers are not capable of doing logical things... Putting foam in an airbox after the air filter, what else do they expect to happen after X number of years other than for it to disintegrate and get sucked into the engine?! 

 

Not going to lie, I thought those were those Shreddies cereal things.

[RoverFolkUs]

3 minutes ago, Fumbler said:

Like you said, it was probably an acoustic management thing which is why it's there. It could even be an afterthought. At least it's foam specs that are being sucked into the engine and nothing else like dust or sand.

Removing it certainly hasn't made any difference

Anyways, it's gone now!

[Back_For_More]

Just spent most of the day with the jetwash and soap etc.... because of a sodding thieving twat farmer........

I put the Lada, XJR and Triumph into storage - covered and dry barn type with other vehicles and caravans etc,,, - at a relatively local farm after a colleagues recommendation. Cue work madness and then pandemic lockdowns etc.... long time no see - but paid for of course.

I dropped in to the farm after 3+yrs as the GF is starting driving lessons so I was planning on re-commissioning the Lada for her to pootle around locally in. Cue a load of stalling and bullshit excuses as to why he couldn't find the key to the main lock for the hangar. something not right here...... 

Got around the side and wandered down looking for an open window or similar..... get to the back end et voila - lo and behold - all 3 cars (along with other punters caravans and motorhomes) are out back under the fucking trees out in the open. MOTHER FUCKER!

Lada now outside, XJR around the corner and Triumph should be here tomorrow..... I was so pissed off I stormed out before I lamped the thieving old fucker. Washing it today I've now noticed both the roof and boot have dents in them where something has obviously been dropped on them at some point.....

This was after I brushed the damn thing down with a soft broom -

 

It's cleaned up now - took bloody ages - proper lookover in the morning and get on with finishing cleaning the Jag and then the Triumph once it gets here......

That's the weekend sorted then I reckon.

 

[RoverFolkUs]

2 minutes ago, AnnoyingPentium said:

Not going to lie, I thought those were those Shreddies cereal things.

Yep, I see that! 😅

[Metal Guru]

7 hours ago, cobblers said:

We're like pistonheads only without the big budget or the ability to comfortably make eye contact while talking to people

Nothing like Pistonheads. No one up their own arse telling you how many Lamborghinis they have or getting you banned when you disagree with their little cliques.

[Wack]

6 hours ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Being an ex courier handler problem solver , what were the maximum dimensions and weight allowed for your price ..... Why not package it to the max , maybe shitloads more cardboard or even thin plywood strips , something to add rigidity. Yours I'm afraid to say would fail a drop test and be deemed to be insufficiently packaged .😕

It was plenty rigid , that's had a heavy box dropped on it , I didn't bother with a claim , you could drop that off a building and it wouldn't get bent like that 

[Rocket88]

On 6/9/2022 at 10:35 AM, Yoss said:

AA, RAC etc... 

After years, decades in fact, of being with one or the other their prices were getting stupid. Started looking around and  a lot of companies won't even cover cars more than 16 years old which is ridiculous, who has cars that new? Did a bit of rummaging online and found a company called Start Rescue. 

They obviously don't have their own fleet, they subcontract to local recovery people. I wasn't sure if cheap was going to mean cheap and cheerful or cheap and nasty but the reviews seemed OK so I thought I'd risk it. 

Hadn't needed a call out for years until recently when the Felicia FTP'd twice in two weeks with the same fault but for different reasons. You use the app to report your breakdown which gives your location. Got a reply within two minutes saying they were arranging things, then within five minutes to say I would be visited by Ravenscroft Motors, who are a local firm with a good reputation, and they'd arrive within two hours. First time was just over an hour, second time about twenty minutes with a phone call a few minutes beforehand to let me know.

But best of all both arrived with vehicles fitted with a T bar and after coming to the same conclusion as me hooked it up and took it home for me. The worst thing about the big companies is they'll send a Transit out fairly quickly but when they can't fix it they then have to order another vehicle even though I specifically said it will need recovery in the original phone call. Especially with the Triumph, if I can't fix it neither can they, I carry a boot full of spares and tools. This is just so they can say they have met their target of arriving within a certain time. It once took another four hours after the visit if the first bloke for a recovery truck to arrive. 

Even if you tell the AA that you have, say, a “ gearbox issue”( I.e. it’s physically fallen out of the car… ) they’ll still send a patrol to “ verify “….. then two hours later recovery truck will turn up

[Dobloseven]

On 6/10/2022 at 8:06 AM, Wack said:

This is how some railway track I posted with hermes arrived , I'd wrapped it in 3 layers of card 

good luck 48.28 kB · 0 downloads

 

That looks like its bent to fit in the drivers Audi TT! 

[bunglebus]

Invited two mates and their partners/kids over for a barbecue today. One's partner's kid wasn't well but didn't reply when I asked if he was coming with his own son, and the other has said he can't make it now. So just me and the Mrs plus my daughter. And lots of food we've bought...

[Yoss]

37 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Invited two mates and their partners/kids over for a barbecue today. One's partner's kid wasn't well but didn't reply when I asked if he was coming with his own son, and the other has said he can't make it now. So just me and the Mrs plus my daughter. And lots of food we've bought...

Where are you? You only have to say and I'm sure we can find some Shiters to help you finish it off. 

[tooSavvy]

23 hours ago, tooSavvy said:

F.F.S!! Several days ago, driving up the back lane, I spotted a 'snowdrift' of polystyrene pills lying near our rear yard door. Someone had gutted a beanny bag/duvet 🥺.

I put a 'fly tipping' email in to the council, helpfully *observing that a quick pass, with the street cleaner 'Vac Truck' could sort it 👍

NOW... A week later, my rear yard is like a Santa's grotto = inches deep in fake snow!

This morning I popped £30 for an eBay special 'garden vac' suckker upper >> that we might stop the evil white curse invading our kitchen everytime I take something out the back door. F.F.S!!

Give Me Strength

*.... Council, eh? F.F.S!!! 🤐

Short update...

GOOD = most have now blown away (... plenty left!)

BAD = F.F.S! Usually shower with VentAxia going but, this morning, opened window instead.. Bad Move 😱

Give Me Strength