sdkrc Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 £176 for an off-peak return train ticket to London leaving at 4:30am. Took me an hour to get to the station including a 30min walk through Glasgow. No trivial feat at 3:30am with all the pissheads and junkies. The woman checking the tickets sends me and a Chinese student away for having off-peak tickets 10mins before the train is due to set off. I have to bring up the website on my phone and argue with her that Friday is not peak. She refuses to budge. I even have a seat reservation for this very train... I have to force her to read her company page which she reads incorrectly and says "no, you'll need to wait for the next train". Her colleague radios in and says we're good to go 3mins before departure. What a donkey. No sign of the Chinese guy who is probably waiting for the 5:33am "off-peak" train. If your job for the day is checking tickets, make sure you know how to check tickets. horriblemercedes, loserone, Rust Collector and 5 others 1 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goosey Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 Happy Friday the 13th be careful out there….. myglaren and richardmorris 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 On 10/10/2023 at 18:55, Pieman said: I will admit, in a situation like that I just do 70 along lane 1 and undertake the lot of them. I'm past caring these days. Nothing illegal continuing driving along that lane if you were already in it iirc. Thats filtering through traffic rather than undertaking. Undertaking would be in the middle/outside lane and moving into that lane, then accelerating past all the traffic and pulling in further up. Thats frowned upon/illegal by the police (driving dangerously/without due care iirc). Pieman and horriblemercedes 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horriblemercedes Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 2 minutes ago, SiC said: Nothing illegal continuing driving along that lane if you were already in it iirc. Thats filtering through traffic rather than undertaking. Undertaking would be in the middle/outside lane and moving into that lane, then accelerating past all the traffic and pulling in further up. Yep, undertaking and continuing in lane are different things and just as you describe myglaren and richardmorris 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocket88 Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 29 minutes ago, SiC said: Nothing illegal continuing driving along that lane if you were already in it iirc. Thats filtering through traffic rather than undertaking. Undertaking would be in the middle/outside lane and moving into that lane, then accelerating past all the traffic and pulling in further up. Thats frowned upon/illegal by the police (driving dangerously/without due care iirc). It would be nice to see plod actually enforcing the law occasionally then….. it never seems to happen myglaren and Shite Ron 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talbot Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 Well fuck. Merc-o-barge has broken down. Alternator failed on the M54 near Telford. Went from charging fine to dead in about 20 miles. Premium paid for emergency breakdown cover, as 99% of the time I don't have it and don't need it. Called around a load of local motor factors, and nothing on the shelf. Tomorrow is the soonest they can do. Couldn't have failed near home could it? No, of course fucking not. Cock. Wibble, horriblemercedes, myglaren and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talbot Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 Don't suppose there is anyone near Telford who can lend me some wheels is there? Recovery is looking to be bloody expensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remspoor Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 On 12/10/2023 at 12:16, horriblemercedes said: I need to buy a new washer/dryer. £500 rough budget. I'm absolutely bewildered by the range of stuff on sale and no idea which features I do or don't want, which retailer to choose and which brands are good and bad. This must be what it's like for people to choose a new car if they have no interest in them! On 12/10/2023 at 14:56, cobblers said: Sort by price, scroll down til you see an brand you've heard of. Unless you spend a fortune then they're pretty much all made in the same few factories in turkey anyway. Don't get a Beko dryer with "Anti crease" because the fucking thing will kick on and run for a few seconds every 15 minutes, all day and night after it's finished a load of washing and there's no way to disable it. Under the cover of Covid when we could not really get out we purchased a Candy drier via the junglesite. It was on ultra special low price offer. so lack of shops open and this price meant we bought it. The Drier does the job, just. Sometimes the water tank needs emptying halfway through a cycle. Or the filter gets blocked and need cleaning. Avoid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metal Guru Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 55 minutes ago, horriblemercedes said: Yep, undertaking and continuing in lane are different things and just as you describe TBH I can’t be arsed with lane 1 and 2. Too many HGV swerving out without warning and the 65mph middle lane hoggers. I tend to keep in lane 3. @80-85 mph , move over if anything faster comes up behind. I actually have time to check my mirrors because I’m not avoiding Lithuanian lorry drivers trying to kill me. Never hold anyone up or get in the way of anyone wanting to go faster though no doubt people will criticise me for driving like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fumbler Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 Big patch of lacquer just peeled off. Arse. Burnside 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandeth Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 (edited) To the guy I was just following for several miles watching YouTube on his phone in the middle of the windscreen in busy traffic, I hate you and hope karma catches up with you soon. Edited October 13, 2023 by Zelandeth Edited to be slightly less provocatively worded. Burnside, Quintus, Remspoor and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floatylight Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 2 hours ago, Talbot said: Don't suppose there is anyone near Telford who can lend me some wheels is there? Recovery is looking to be bloody expensive. How far you got to go? Try az in stafford Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fumbler Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 1 hour ago, Fumbler said: Big patch of lacquer just peeled off. Arse. Ope, it looks like the bootlid's been resprayed in the past. That might explain why it's all suddenly bubbling off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adw1977 Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 On 12/10/2023 at 11:16, horriblemercedes said: I need to buy a new washer/dryer. £500 rough budget. I'm absolutely bewildered by the range of stuff on sale and no idea which features I do or don't want, which retailer to choose and which brands are good and bad. This must be what it's like for people to choose a new car if they have no interest in them! If you want to avoid a company that sold dangerous appliances and then refused to refund owners, instead making them wait months for a repair or replacement, avoid Whirlpool! They also make Hotpoint and Indesit branded products. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/nov/01/whirlpool-condemned-for-silencing-customers-over-tumble-dryer-fires Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelandeth Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 33 minutes ago, adw1977 said: If you want to avoid a company that sold dangerous appliances and then refused to refund owners, instead making them wait months for a repair or replacement, avoid Whirlpool! They also make Hotpoint and Indesit branded products. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/nov/01/whirlpool-condemned-for-silencing-customers-over-tumble-dryer-fires We had one of the affected units replaced under the recall. The only way I could see for lint to get into the hot area on the drier was if the drum bearings failed, allowing it to drop and compromise the front seal. Otherwise there's no reason for it to happen...it pulls cool air in from out the back, blows it through a heater and into the drum. When the bearing fails, the front of the drum drops, opening up a gap around it which will let air exiting the drum vent into the case rather than going out the exhaust duct. This theory was supported by the fact that the drum bearing design was biblically cheap and nasty, and I'd already replaced it twice. When I looked inside our machine (as they were estimating several months to get a replacement to us under the recall) it was near spotless, despite being seven ot eight years old. New machine was identical to the old one. What had they done to "address the issue?" Changed the load rating down by 1kg. That's it...the machine was otherwise identical inside and out, and the same poxy bearing failed again after less than two years in exactly the same way. myglaren and Richard_FM 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aston Martin Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 These wanks who break on eBay and never get back to you. Remspoor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talbot Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 Well, the premium paid for AA turned out to be worse than useless, the lady selling me the product essentially lied on the phone. Utter cretins. So got a hire car instead. A petrol focus estate. About 1/8th the cost I was quoted to get home! Now I have to go and recover the car. Bollocks. Burnside, Remspoor, loserone and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floatylight Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 13 minutes ago, Talbot said: Well, the premium paid for AA turned out to be worse than useless, the lady selling me the product essentially lied on the phone. Utter cretins. So got a hire car instead. A petrol focus estate. About 1/8th the cost I was quoted to get home! Now I have to go and recover the car. Bollocks. If I can help shout up, I'm fairly local, welcome to fix it here if you want, I'll be driving up from Crawley Tue PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 Bottle of wine , film sorted, food on the go ..... Now panic .. !!! Were the f are the wine glasses , the Mrs has had a clear up .. Took me 5 mins to find them . That was scary ... richardmorris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 41 minutes ago, Talbot said: Now I have to go and recover the car. Bollocks. 25 minutes ago, Floatylight said: If I can help shout up, I'm fairly local, welcome to fix it here if you want Same. Shout out if I can help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adw1977 Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 2 hours ago, MikeR said: Bottle of wine , film sorted, food on the go ..... Now panic .. !!! Were the f are the wine glasses , the Mrs has had a clear up .. Took me 5 mins to find them . That was scary ... Surely every vessel is a wine glass in that situation. Stanky, Remspoor, richardmorris and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 3 hours ago, MikeR said: Bottle of wine , film sorted, food on the go ..... Now panic .. !!! Were the f are the wine glasses , the Mrs has had a clear up .. Took me 5 mins to find them . That was scary ... That is worrying. Drinking vessels should be ready, in case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 12 hours ago, goosey said: Happy Friday the 13th be careful out there….. A widowmaker; anything else bent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gm Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 4 hours ago, Talbot said: Well, the premium paid for AA turned out to be worse than useless, the lady selling me the product essentially lied on the phone. Utter cretins. So got a hire car instead. A petrol focus estate. About 1/8th the cost I was quoted to get home! Now I have to go and recover the car. Bollocks. you’ll be towing your own car home with the hire car, i presume ? 3VOM, GrumpiusMaximus, Talbot and 3 others 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted October 14, 2023 Share Posted October 14, 2023 On 12/10/2023 at 18:07, Burnside said: That's a shame to hear Vauxhall don't have the interchangeability of previous generations, but then I suppose it's the same with most manufactures now. All on the Delta II platform pparently. Even the PCD on the wheels are different from GTC to 5 door. The GTC is essentially a coupe version of the Cascada. Which interestingly* can be obtained as a Buick in the USA. *something I realised watch the series Get Shorty" with that Irish actor from The IT crowd. Christopher O'Dowd Burnside 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myglaren Posted October 14, 2023 Share Posted October 14, 2023 15 hours ago, MikeR said: Bottle of wine , film sorted, food on the go ..... Now panic .. !!! Were the f are the wine glasses , the Mrs has had a clear up .. Took me 5 mins to find them . That was scary ... Wine cups and mugs available in the absence of glasses. Pint glasses work well too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goosey Posted October 14, 2023 Share Posted October 14, 2023 11 hours ago, somewhatfoolish said: A widowmaker; anything else bent? Luckily just popped the sill trim out and bent the wing bracket, both of which I’ve managed to repair, also had to order a new jacking point. My own fault as i was rushing and just wanted to quickly throw the spare wheel on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metal Guru Posted October 14, 2023 Share Posted October 14, 2023 Letter from Nationwide building society. “We’re owned by the members, we do everything for the members, profits go back to the members (after the board award themselves footballer salaries), and all that BS”. Expected it to be a rise in saving rates but no, for no good reason other than to waste money, we’re changing our logo. They forgot to add “we were going to give savers another 1/2%, but we’ve spent it on a new logo that’s very similar to the old one except from a distance it looks like a bird and not a house”. Lower case letters throughout including first N. Illiterates. AnnoyingPentium, myglaren, outlaw118 and 1 other 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunnySouth Posted October 14, 2023 Share Posted October 14, 2023 3 hours ago, Metal Guru said: Letter from Nationwide building society. Lower case letters throughout including first N. Illiterates. WAnKERS! 🙄 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gm Posted October 14, 2023 Share Posted October 14, 2023 On 24/09/2023 at 17:51, gm said: @DVee8 came round this afternoon and we had a go at diagnosing the bini - my initial suspicions of the drive shaft were close, the noise was coming from that area, but was not as we thought a ruined cv joint but a rather poorly looking crank pulley dancing around on top of the driveshaft ! how the hell has this happened ? the pulley is 6 months old and was only fitted last month ! i was so astonished at finding this i forgot to examine the cv joints but there’s enough of the pulley still fitted that the car still drives - which makes it much simpler to get it to a garage tomorrow On 28/09/2023 at 12:43, gm said: tuesday morning the postie left me a red card of doom, this time i had to collect my parcel from the local post office instead of the usual depot in town. as the girl was handing it over, she commented on how heavy it was - i said something like “it’s bits to fix my engine” and ended up chatting to her colleague for ten minutes about the lotus esprit he is restoring - not sure the queue behind me appreciated it Fragile ? well, yes, the old one certainly was my problem here is the threaded holes for removing the pulley are part of the bit already off the car i tried a few tentative grinder cuts then set about making a puller. i drilled and tapped threads in the remains of the pulley and got stuck in nope - that pulley is only coming off in pieces which it did being extra careful not to damage the end of the crank well, i did my best i wonder if the supplier will want this sent back ? now to get the new one on and that belt fitted all done and to celebrate, the number plate fell off again all seems to be well so far, on the test drive i heard a clonk from under the car - i bet that’s the 16mm socket i dropped earlier aye, that’s the one this lot can go in the bin definitely a job i should have taken to a garage but it’s done now - let’s hope this one lasts a bit longer un-be-fucking-lievable ! yes, that is the replacement one that i fitted two weeks ago ! a stroppy email will be sent to the supplier - it failed in exactly the same way as the previous one myglaren, Rust Collector, Remspoor and 7 others 1 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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