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Planned to go to two local car shows this weekend, both have been postponed* due to the Queen, even though the govenment's own website says there's no need to cancel events off the back of it. Look, if people want to stay indoors, dress as Ms Faversham and stare blankly out of a drizzle-spattered window for the next 10 days, fine. The rest of us would like to keep calm and carry on, and I reckon that's what Her Maj would have wanted as well.


* I say "postponed", but since both events require road closures, they almost certainly won't be able to request another set of closures at short notice so I expect they'll be canned entirely.

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26 minutes ago, brownnova said:

I even sent you a fucking picture so you wouldn’t get confused by it’s being an import. 

I think sadly thats where you went wrong, because until that point, it would of just been seen as a Pontiac Estate on their computer system (as thats what its registered as with the DVLA) and probably would of just gone through no problems as I dont think anyone would blink twice at an estate car

the fact you explicitly sent in pictures probably made some jobs worth stop and fuck with your application sadly,

although you may be able to use this to your advantage in the appeal by showing them that its NOT a Van and here is proof by way of the V5 clearly stating "ESTATE"

 

and its worth noting at least that it is also properly registered under the DVLA's make code for Pontiac, K8, so should you have to deal with this sort crap again, at least you should not have  to worry about any issues in future with it being an import, (there is no model code however but that just means it will simply just show up as Pontiac or Pontiac Unknown thats all :) )

 

I do love the wifes email suggestion :) very much something my mum or her SO would send me if I was in a similar situation LOL

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7 hours ago, mitsisigma01 said:

Truss and her asslickers 🇬🇧😞

That's not a nice image.

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1 hour ago, LightBulbFun said:

I think sadly thats where you went wrong, because until that point, it would of just been seen as a Pontiac Estate on their computer system (as thats what its registered as with the DVLA) and probably would of just gone through no problems as I dont think anyone would blink twice at an estate car

the fact you explicitly sent in pictures probably made some jobs worth stop and fuck with your application sadly,

although you may be able to use this to your advantage in the appeal by showing them that its NOT a Van and here is proof by way of the V5 clearly stating "ESTATE"

 

and its worth noting at least that it is also properly registered under the DVLA's make code for Pontiac, K8, so should you have to deal with this sort crap again, at least you should not have  to worry about any issues in future with it being an import, (there is no model code however but that just means it will simply just show up as Pontiac or Pontiac Unknown thats all :) )

 

I do love the wifes email suggestion :) very much something my mum or her SO would send me if I was in a similar situation LOL

I think… the useless bastards have googled “Pontiac TransSport” and seen the words minivan.

1 hour ago, chaseracer said:

Alex: tow the bin, in the trailer, behind the Dustbuster, into Mold and dump it all on the steps of the council offices.  That should get their attention.

Though I prefer Siân's idea...

😁

If they fail to collect my bin tomorrow… that will likely be the case. 

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3 hours ago, brownnova said:

Flintshire County Council Streetscene department are absolutely fucking shite!!!

I applied for a trailer permit to go to the tip 8 weeks ago. It said it would take a maximum of 15 working days to arrive. You had to state the car which would be towing it and there were certain vehicles which were not permitted, namely vans, pickups and campervans. I applied using my only vehicle with a tow bar, the 7 seat people carrier, the Pontiac. Having waited the requisite 15 days I started calling and got told it was in hand etc etc… On day 37 (!) I got an email saying that I could not have a trailer permit as my vehicle is not a permitted vehicle… they said it was a van. 

Its a fucking people carrier you dense morons! I even sent you a fucking picture so you wouldn’t get confused by it’s being an import.  It has windows and 7 fucking seats! It’s not a van or a pickup. I’ve emailed to explain in language they might understand… “it’s similar in size and layout to a Vauxhall Zafira” literally the hardest words I’ve ever had to type.

I did ask my wife for help… her email suggestion may not have made it any better:

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Oh but there’s more!
It’s the same department who collect the bins. They missed our bin collection two weeks ago 2nd time in 4 collections… 50% miss rate, my bin couldn’t be more obvious and not be literally in the path of the double decker buses which go past the house. I reported it, they said it would be collected in 24 hours… that was 10 days ago and it’s all still here. I even reminded them 5 days later. I might get flashing lights and a huge neon arrow so they don’t miss it this week. 

Absolute useless bellend cunts. 

I like the sound of your wife.

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Can someone just nuke this fucking neighborhood from orbit?  No, scratch that.  Just take out the entire sodding town.  It would be an improvement.

One of our neighbours - the same ones who have been harrassing us endlessly about delays in sorting the boundary fence which has been delayed time and time again through issues totally outside our control - have been having a party.  Since before dinner time.  

It's now 1am, and their (shit) music is still blaring loud enough that it's making the glasses rattle in our kitchen cabinets.  From what we can see out our back door there must be 30 people in there, most of them pissed or stoned off their face (or both).  So like hell I'm going to knock on the door and politely ask them to turn the music down.  

My bedroom is on the opposite side of the house, and I have an air conditioner and a pretty substantial fan running and even with headphones on I can still hear their racket.

You can guess how enthusiastic the response from Thames Valley Police was.

God I can't fucking wait to get out of this shithole town and for our nearest neighbour to be in the order of miles away again.  Seriously, moving here has got to be one of the single biggest mistakes I have ever made in my life.

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Can someone just nuke this fucking neighborhood from orbit?  No, scratch that.  Just take out the entire sodding town.  It would be an improvement.
One of our neighbours - the same ones who have been harrassing us endlessly about delays in sorting the boundary fence which has been delayed time and time again through issues totally outside our control - have been having a party.  Since before dinner time.  
It's now 1am, and their (shit) music is still blaring loud enough that it's making the glasses rattle in our kitchen cabinets.  From what we can see out our back door there must be 30 people in there, most of them pissed or stoned off their face (or both).  So like hell I'm going to knock on the door and politely ask them to turn the music down.  
My bedroom is on the opposite side of the house, and I have an air conditioner and a pretty substantial fan running and even with headphones on I can still hear their racket.
You can guess how enthusiastic the response from Thames Valley Police was.
God I can't fucking wait to get out of this shithole town and for our nearest neighbour to be in the order of miles away again.  Seriously, moving here has got to be one of the single biggest mistakes I have ever made in my life.
Sympathising with you on this. While all is currently quiet in the immediate vicinity, it's odds on that one or other of my neighbours will have a noisy domestic dispute within the next 12 hours, most likely loud enough to wake me up when I'm trying to lie-in. Then one of the four separate scrapmen will make their rounds, if I'm unlucky it'll be the one with a loop tape played through a PA system. Later, there will be hooning around the estate of monkey bikes (not road legal), lowered Zafiras (mostly legal, though probably not taxed), modified Golfs (legal if not totally accurately described to their insurers) and noisiest of all, straight through exhaust, hilifted, end of life Discovery's, which will neither be taxed, tested or insured.

All the perpetrators of the above can get right to fuck.
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50 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

It's now 1am

Go and join them , is it a bring a bottle or two party ...fish oil and chlorine , it would be a shame if they both leaked out all over the house 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤭🤭

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8th Folsom annual car show tomorrow, and by the very nature of my luck, I cannot go.

 

Wonderful. I think I'll stop putting these things on my calendar and pretend they don't exist instead.

Posted
9 hours ago, Soundwave said:

Planned to go to two local car shows this weekend, both have been postponed* due to the Queen, even though the govenment's own website says there's no need to cancel events off the back of it. Look, if people want to stay indoors, dress as Ms Faversham and stare blankly out of a drizzle-spattered window for the next 10 days, fine. The rest of us would like to keep calm and carry on, and I reckon that's what Her Maj would have wanted as well.


* I say "postponed", but since both events require road closures, they almost certainly won't be able to request another set of closures at short notice so I expect they'll be canned entirely.

Seeing where you are made me realise one of them is probably the one I was going to take my little lad to tomorrow.  Agree that cancelling everything is unnecessary and over the top

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5 hours ago, Erebus said:

Seeing where you are made me realise one of them is probably the one I was going to take my little lad to tomorrow.  Agree that cancelling everything is unnecessary and over the top

I know it’s unbelievably annoying. Let’s just cancel everything for the rest of the year, let’s cancel Christmas while we are at it! 

My grump is in Screwfix, some absolute tit was at the front, dithering about which screws he should buy, then what fucking washers then what length. Couldn’t he have fucking figured all this out at home, then at the end it was a £1.75 sale after twenty minutes of deliberation. Off the back of this I can see why some places will only accept trade customers. 

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5 hours ago, sierraman said:

I know it’s unbelievably annoying. Let’s just cancel everything for the rest of the year, let’s cancel Christmas while we are at it! 

My grump is in Screwfix, some absolute tit was at the front, dithering about which screws he should buy, then what fucking washers then what length. Couldn’t he have fucking figured all this out at home, then at the end it was a £1.75 sale after twenty minutes of deliberation. Off the back of this I can see why some places will only accept trade customers. 

Once I was in Euro Car Parts, waiting behind a fella buying brake pads (Eicher, obvs, the red box from hell etc) and a set of wiper blades

He asked if the wipers came with fitting instructions 🤦‍♂️

I really hope he wasn't planning on fitting those brake pads himself! 

Car parts being available to the general public is a dangerous move in some cases!

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16 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Once I was in Euro Car Parts, waiting behind a fella buying brake pads (Eicher, obvs, the red box from hell etc) and a set of wiper blades

He asked if the wipers came with fitting instructions 🤦‍♂️

I really hope he wasn't planning on fitting those brake pads himself! 

Car parts being available to the general public is a dangerous move in some cases!

Used to get this all the time when I worked in the parts place.

Someone would ask for a thermostat, you'd get them the thermostat.

Do you need a gasket or any sealer with that?

Errr, I dunno? Do I? Suppose so.

What about antifreeze sir?

Errr,  do i need that then?

Well, yes if you lose the water.

Err, suppose so?

 

That is £17.50 please.

 

 Can I get that TRADE mate?

 

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4 minutes ago, Timewaster said:

Used to get this all the time when I worked in the parts place.

Someone would ask for a thermostat, you'd get them the thermostat.

Do you need a gasket or any sealer with that?

Errr, I dunno? Do I? Suppose so.

What about antifreeze sir?

Errr,  do i need that then?

Well, yes if you loose the water.

Err, suppose so?

 

That is £17.50 please.

 

 Can I get that TRADE mate?

 

PT2 :)

Attempts job -> gets stuck -> watches YouTube -> reads forum posts from 10 years ago telling you how there's only 1 mechanic in the world that has the tool to do the job -> fucks everything up -> drives to garage without any coolant -> overheats -> kippers the engine -> blames "scumbag" garage ... 🙄

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Whoever thought that power buttons on top of computer cases was a good idea clearly didn't live with cats.

Half an hour's work in Blender gone.

Little fucking wanker.

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29 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Look at these shysters... 

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Just like my neighbors MK1 Focus. Fist sized holes in the rear sills, god knows what elsewhere. Rusty front arches, undoubtedly with sharp edges. Smokes like a trooper etc. Passed with an advisory "corrosion to rear sills" 🧐 very lenient!

Yes I'm a nosy bastard, only reason I looked was because of how rotten it was and I wondered how long it had left for this world. To my surprise it passed a couple of weeks ago!

Posted
15 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Car parts being available to the general public is a dangerous move in some cases!

You're the general public, I'm the general public, most of us aren't trade customers I would guess. 

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Couldn't they find a British made hearse to carry the Queen (RIP) back to that London?

If the driver feels a strange vibration it'll be Lizzy spinning in her coffin!

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Went to change a drive shaft on the A4 today, all set up, tea made, headphones on and whole day set aside for doing a couple of other little bits as well.

Best offer up the new driveshaft before taking off too many other bits, thought I, and so I did... Naturally, it being from Euro Car Parts, the finest* purveyor of automotive bits in the land, it's the wrong chuffing one.

Now I thought I was annoyed when I discovered that out. But then I stood up and kicked my mug of tea over, and now I know what real frustration feels like. I think I might close the wrong side of my socket set later, so they all fall out of place. One may as well drink to the very dregs, and all that...

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24 minutes ago, Lacquer Peel said:

You're the general public, I'm the general public, most of us aren't trade customers I would guess. 

I'm a trade customer. Feel free to invent any conspiracy you wish about money making etc...

But I'm sick of finding downright dangerous attempts at fixing things on cars and subsequently putting them right 

A lot of plumbing suppliers will only supply boiler parts to the trade .. wonder why?? 

Wipers, sensors, lights etc no bother, crack on and fuck those things up, it's not going to kill anyone. 

But brake discs and pads? Really? Someone who has no experience or qualifications can fit counterfeit parts or genuine parts improperly and compromise their safety and that of other road users?

The internet is full of these classic examples

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Need I go on?

 

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But then the other side of the coin is traders claiming to of fitted genuine main dealer parts and yet they are shopping in ECP , also traders that claim to of fitted parts but haven't kept the old parts to show you, as requested. And when you can obviously see that parts haven't been fitted yet are invoiced..... 

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5 minutes ago, mitsisigma01 said:

But then the other side of the coin is traders claiming to of fitted genuine main dealer parts and yet they are shopping in ECP , also traders that claim to of fitted parts but haven't kept the old parts to show you, as requested. And when you can obviously see that parts haven't been fitted yet are invoiced..... 

Well that's on them, and it's a different kettle of fish eg a fraudulent misrepresentation of the service carried out and charged for. 

I'm talking about unqualified people being able to purchase and fit parts where safety could be compromised if those parts or the installation failed. 

It's against the law for uncertified people to tamper with boilers? But not taps... 

So should be the same with cars. Can't buy or fit brakes but no issue with the simple stuff

Maybe no need for qualification, just a simple certification to prove they know what they're doing..

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I'm sure there has been some folk on here that have had an experience with a shyster trader and had to change bits themselves..... Who defines what is simple enough ... 

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3 hours ago, abelw44 said:

Went to change a drive shaft on the A4 today, all set up, tea made, headphones on and whole day set aside for doing a couple of other little bits as well.

Best offer up the new driveshaft before taking off too many other bits, thought I, and so I did... Naturally, it being from Euro Car Parts, the finest* purveyor of automotive bits in the land, it's the wrong chuffing one.

Now I thought I was annoyed when I discovered that out. But then I stood up and kicked my mug of tea over, and now I know what real frustration feels like. I think I might close the wrong side of my socket set later, so they all fall out of place. One may as well drink to the very dregs, and all that...

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Your main mistake was using ECP . I say it regularly on here but I stand by my words .

Dont Fucking Use Them !!!

 

 

life will go better for you 

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I shared a yard with a recovery firm that had a contract with the AA to recover vehicles broken down on a close by section of the M6. They used the garage next door to repair these cars. After a complaint was followed up it turned out this garage was invoicing for loads of work they hadn’t done. The end result was the recovery firm lost the AA contract and ended up going out of business. 

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Not a royalist by any means but watching the cortege going through Edinburgh on the telly and every disrespectful twat has their phone cameras up recording as it goes past, no heads bowed solemnly,  just strikes me as being hugely disrespectful. It's not like it's not getting bloody televised 

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45 minutes ago, DavieW said:

Using "of" when the correct word is "have". 🤬

You could of approached the matter in a more educating way though... 

;):)

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