The grumpy thread

[Remspoor]

1 minute ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Maybe somebody has not installed the wear sensors (or cut the wires to same?) (or fitted pads with no sensors?)
This may* have happened to a friend* on a car bought from a reputable* dealer. Clue is when the steel backing plate gets spat out of the caliper, piston hits disc, wife rings up and shouts at friend*.
Friend learned a lesson.

No cables is what I was told. Still it is time to get on and find something else. I don't want a wet belt, I do not really want a 3 cylinder. We both would like an estate and both would like a glass roof. We  have had the car since 2012. It does not owe us in terms of purchase price.

This is what i mean about the crap Spanish market place. This is obviously not a SW.

https://www.milanuncios.com/peugeot-de-segunda-mano/peugeot-407-sw-529351491.htm?filteredProvinces=all

or this one 5000€ for a car with a broken engine. What the brokenness is a mystery.

https://www.milanuncios.com/coches-de-segunda-mano/peugeot-308-529210046.htm

 

[cms206]

@Inspector Morose it is not ideal and I am aware of your plans being norther but if you require it my executive mobile* palace is off the market and on the driveway and is available if you need a place to crash... sadly no spare rooms in the actual inn but the offer is there. It's not massive but it's got gas, cooking facilities, a fridge and if I can find the three pin adaptor it can have electricity and heating too.

 

Never, ever be stuck.

 

FWIW in Scotland at least if you're over 50 and declare yourself homeless you have more choice for housing as there are dedicated housing areas specifically for the 50+ clientele. I can try to do some digging on this if you want?

[Lord Sterling]

On 15/11/2024 at 00:46, Inspector Morose said:

I’m not allowed it apparently. Stupid as it seems, a wife who earns more than the bare minimum, even though she wants a divorce so wont be a beneficiary.

I want to get out of where I am, I’m a country bit at heart and have lived in cities/built up areas for nearly 30 years. It’s destroyed me so my option is to get out of it for my mental health if nothing else. But how?

because of the unique* nature of my illness, I have to rely on others to such an extent that they think I'm bullshitting/perfectly capable of doing stuff that I really aren’t capable of. Being dismissed as fine is part and parcel for more of my life than tou could ever imagine. It’s a curse and it’s biting me hard right now. I’ve been living on my savings so far but that’s now over. Where do I go? What do I do now? I can’t stay, I can’t move, I cant even stay the same. The only option left to me is to remove myself from society.

I’m drinking pretty hard right now in the hope that I don’t wake up the next morning and yet I see others being fawned over due to their second house/flat that they’ve been given isn’t quite what they want.

Am I losing it? Yup, I’ve got to that line where enough is enough.

@Inspector Morose - Oddly enough, I have just been asked about a place someone wants to rent out. It's here in Bewdley and a one bedroomed flat. I know it's quite what you want but would it do for a short term? You've at least got us (me, @chaseracer / @catsinthewelder / @red5 etc...) around you.

On fact, I think there are 2 available. The one above me hasn't been lived in for a while and the lad who owns it now lived with his girlfriend in Kinver or something. I could speak to him as I've already said I can find him a tenant. 

[Inspector Morose]

8 minutes ago, Lord Sterling said:

@Inspector Morose - Oddly enough, I have just been asked about a place someone wants to rent out. It's here in Bewdley and a one bedroomed flat. I know it's quite what you want but would it do for a short term? You've at least got us (me, @chaseracer / @catsinthewelder / @red5 etc...) around you.

On fact, I think there are 2 available. The one above me hasn't been loved in for a while and the lad who owns it now lived with his girlfriend in Kinver or something. I could speak to him as I've already said I can find him a tenant. 

Thanks for the offer Mo, but sadly it’s not where I want to be. There’s a thing about certain parts of Scotland that calm my mind plus the ability to go and watch the water for five really makes the fact that I’d be living miles away from where I am now. I know it doesn’t make sense to some but, as I’ve found out over the past year, if I don’t make my life better for me, there’s no other mental health safety net available to me. Nor financial help, nor housing help, the list goes on…

Look, sorry folks for yesterday. Sometimes you just need to give a guttural roar of frustration out at the world. Life is what it is, I know that but sometimes I just don’t know how many punches I can take, especially when you see people around get the fundamental things that feels like I have to fight tooth and nail to get nowhere with.
 

Jealousy? Sure, a bit but when it relates to the basics in life, it certainly kicks you when you’re already down.

[Low ontime]

4 hours ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Maybe somebody has not installed the wear sensors (or cut the wires to same?) (or fitted pads with no sensors?)
This may* have happened to a friend* on a car bought from a reputable* dealer. Clue is when the steel backing plate gets spat out of the caliper, piston hits disc, wife rings up and shouts at friend*.
Friend learned a lesson.

All the above plus brake fluid topped up as the pads got low / brake pedal travel increased to knock  out the “ last chance” red brake pad light on dash 

[High Jetter]

1 hour ago, Lord Sterling said:

. The one above me hasn't been loved in for a while 

Be thankful for that 😃

[Yoss]

12 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Went to Tesco last night to get a fiver of petrol in a can.  The kiosk had closed so I did pay at pump.  They took the usual £120 pre-authorisation, but they still haven't released it back into the account.  Good job I checked my banking app early this morning - I've had to transfer money into the account otherwise my rent payment would have bounced, for the first time in nearly 17 years in this house, which would have caused all sorts of shit.

Now I need to go to the bank to try and sort it out - thankfully the mobile branch is in town this morning, otherwise I'd be spending ages on the phone to then probably be fobbed off by a disinterested call centre employee.

I regularly use the pay at pump at our local Sainsburys and they don't have any such policy. Or if they do it's out and back in my account so quickly that it doesn't show up on my account. 

I really try to avoid Tesco at if at all possible for anything and this does nothing to change my opinion of them. I think if they were demanding £120 off me just for the pleasure of spending my money with them I would simply go somewhere else. I've been even more determined not to use them since they put the prices of everything up unless you have a club card and now you've made me even more determined. 

[High Jetter]

8 minutes ago, Yoss said:

I regularly use the pay at pump at our local Sainsburys and they don't have any such policy. Or if they do it's out and back in my account so quickly that it doesn't show up on my account. 

I really try to avoid Tesco at if at all possible for anything and this does nothing to change my opinion of them. I think if they were demanding £120 off me just for the pleasure of spending my money with them I would simply go somewhere else. I've been even more determined not to use them since they put the prices of everything up unless you have a club card and now you've made me even more determined. 

I hear you, but using various loyalty cards reduces costs. At a price, obs

[sheffcortinacentre]

1 hour ago, Inspector Morose said:

Thanks for the offer Mo, but sadly it’s not where I want to be. There’s a thing about certain parts of Scotland that calm my mind plus the ability to go and watch the water for five really makes the fact that I’d be living miles away from where I am now. I know it doesn’t make sense to some but, as I’ve found out over the past year, if I don’t make my life better for me, there’s no other mental health safety net available to me. Nor financial help, nor housing help, the list goes on…

Look, sorry folks for yesterday. Sometimes you just need to give a guttural roar of frustration out at the world. Life is what it is, I know that but sometimes I just don’t know how many punches I can take, especially when you see people around get the fundamental things that feels like I have to fight tooth and nail to get nowhere with.
 

Jealousy? Sure, a bit but when it relates to the basics in life, it certainly kicks you when you’re already down.

I know exactly what you mean , manys the time I blow my top as I feel so frustrated at the basics.

I have the last two days as now you can only book a docs appointment online.

 Basics you do admin online about why you want to see doc, few hours later your texted a code ( which lasts 7 days) , you then go back online ( different sites each time you have to prove who you are) then you pick from avl appointments .simples

At each step you could be refused if the comp doesn't like you. Plus your reminded you CANNOT phone,or go to surgery & ask for an appointment.

I got all the way to last stage (had my code) then it just kept sending back to begining, rang surgery  several times they knew exactly what I'd been doing ( on screen Infront of them) but all they could do was give me an alternative site to try!( Constantly reminding me THEY CANNOT give me an appointment)Same again ( plus Thurs was half day closing) finally this afternoon crying down phone begging for an appointment  (58 year old man) I was told a doctor will ring you with an appointment sometime today ( but only once) , they texted an hour later appointment next Friday's.

This method is far more efficient for patients!!! 

O what did I want to see doc for??????

Anxiety & depression,

I'm crap with IT my cousin ( one of only 2 relatives I've got) is great with them, he would only text me the last two days as I was a miserable pain In the arse bugging him everything  doesn't go wrong for me, just kept saying just keep trying.

I'm bugging you because I'm scared  ( but then that's not manly) like you  & your biker, footbally, drinking manly mates.

Thanks a fucking lot ,Mr gets everything with jam on it  without even trying. like you say I m not jealous i just want a fair crack of the whip.

I'm happy with my possessions they get replaced when they're broken with another budget brand item not when I'm bored,not fashionable,etc like him & there lass who hates me going to there semi in upper working class area as I remind her she's from same background ( unless it's to get her inherited  low mileage bini through MOT cheaply).

Well fuck off from now on then .

Arghhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

[Split_Pin]

Crank sensors. Almost a service item, right? I've had a few fail in me over the years, Corsa B and MK1 Megane spring to mind (both because my wife was there and not amused at the no- start 😂). Really easy to change, less than 5 minutes.

Not so on an Audi 4 cylinder TDi. I've potentially got this issue with the red A4 as it did a no-start on me yesterday. Just turned over as normal but wouldn't fire. The crank sensor is buried behind the oil filter housing and it's got to come off to get to it. As the oil cooler is integral with it, all the associated pipework has to come off too. 

Thanks VAG!

At least the car is small enough that there's room around it to work on it in my garage.

[beko1987]

13 hours ago, maxxo said:

Grump 

i caved

it’s just too bloody cold tonight 

yes I know the clock is wrong

Oooh I've got the same controller! Next year I want to get 2 switchbots and control it all through home assistant and have it do no timing at all. 

Every thought of wafting a spray of elbow grease over that? 🧐😬

[EyesWeldedShut]

35 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

Oooh I've got the same controller! Next year I want to get 2 switchbots and control it all through home assistant and have it do no timing at all. 

Every thought of wafting a spray of elbow grease over that? 🧐😬

Ditto - last one died on Christmas Eve, Mr, Ebay and RM had me a replacement by 27th December and it's just a case of two screws, unhinge front bit and drop the new bit on.

(or it would be if ours wasn't tiled up to such that the two bottom screws were inaccessible without a hammer and chisel, who does tiling like that)?

I've put one of these wireless thermostats on it which is handy as 99% of the time we use it to heat only our two 'offices' upstairs.

[Tickman]

10 hours ago, Inspector Morose said:

There’s a thing about certain parts of Scotland that calm my mind plus the ability to go and watch the water for five 

Just pulled this bit put as I feel exactly the same. It has taken quite a lot of years to get to understand how much this makes a difference but now I can walk out of the house and five minutes later get this as my own personal therapy.

That was this morning's dog walk.

It will be worth the upheaval.

Rant away if it does help.

I'm up in Monifieth just east of Dundee so another who won't be too far away if you need anything. Fingers crossed for the next steps.

[horriblemercedes]

9 hours ago, Yoss said:

I regularly use the pay at pump at our local Sainsburys and they don't have any such policy. Or if they do it's out and back in my account so quickly that it doesn't show up on my account. 

I really try to avoid Tesco at if at all possible for anything and this does nothing to change my opinion of them. I think if they were demanding £120 off me just for the pleasure of spending my money with them I would simply go somewhere else. I've been even more determined not to use them since they put the prices of everything up unless you have a club card and now you've made me even more determined. 

Sainsbury's does exactly the same things. Reserving an amount on the card and discounts for Nectar card use

 

Usually the amount is very quickly given back to the card. This could be a bank or Mastercard delay rather than Tesco. Either way, Sainsbury's doesn't offer any advantage in this scenario 

[Yoss]

10 minutes ago, horriblemercedes said:

Sainsbury's does exactly the same things. Reserving an amount on the card and discounts for Nectar card use

 

Usually the amount is very quickly given back to the card. This could be a bank or Mastercard delay rather than Tesco. Either way, Sainsbury's doesn't offer any advantage in this scenario 

Okay, fair enough, I had no idea this happened, there's certainly no mention of it in my bank statements. 

[cort1977]

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

Crank sensors. Almost a service item, right? 

Thanks VAG!

VAG are a pain in the arse for this. Had it on my 5 cylinder transporter last year, couldn't even see it, let alone put a spanner on it.

Garage had to remove a load of stuff and jack it off the engine mount apparently, poor design.

 

[horriblemercedes]

2 minutes ago, Yoss said:

Okay, fair enough, I had no idea this happened, there's certainly no mention of it in my bank statements. 

It won't show in your bank statements - usually it disappears in seconds. 

 

Just sometimes it can be held up, as in this case. It won't show on the statement 

[maxxo]

1 hour ago, beko1987 said:

Oooh I've got the same controller! Next year I want to get 2 switchbots and control it all through home assistant and have it do no timing at all. 

Every thought of wafting a spray of elbow grease over that? 🧐😬

it's inside a cupboard so i haven't really been too bothered

i will also say, it's probably the most common heating controller in the country

[beko1987]

50 minutes ago, Yoss said:

Okay, fair enough, I had no idea this happened, there's certainly no mention of it in my bank statements. 

I vote bank issue. The few times I've used asda pay at pump Monzo has refunded the "hold" amount before I've even put my seat belt back on

Although they don't show in my history either, although the app notifies me

Nearly a grand at asda, how grim 😂

[MorrisItalSLX]

I think I caught the sun a bit today.

All I did was wash the car!

[Supernaut]

I should probably post it in that "life" thread, but I feel the same way @Inspector Morose  Not much seems to go my way, and for over a year now (September '23) I've been back at the family farm, barely able to hold down any job for more than a couple of months. Ended up here due to total stress-induced burnout. It's like my life has just been on pause this whole time.

But hey, at least the view from the top of the farmyard is good.

I can't offer lodgings but I'm in Aberdeenshire with lots of free time and a car that costs buttons to run, so I'll help however I can.

 

 

[Tickman]

That sky is stunning @Supernaut

 

[wuvvum]

Money back in my account this morning, so all's well that ends well I suppose.  Still won't be using pay at pump in future though unless I absolutely have to.

[Black_GT]

7 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Crank sensors. Almost a service item, right? I've had a few fail in me over the years, Corsa B and MK1 Megane spring to mind (both because my wife was there and not amused at the no- start 😂). Really easy to change, less than 5 minutes.

Not so on an Audi 4 cylinder TDi. I've potentially got this issue with the red A4 as it did a no-start on me yesterday. Just turned over as normal but wouldn't fire. The crank sensor is buried behind the oil filter housing and it's got to come off to get to it. As the oil cooler is integral with it, all the associated pipework has to come off too. 

Thanks VAG!

At least the car is small enough that there's room around it to work on it in my garage.

It's a total bastard of a job on a MK3 golf too - you have to remove an engine mount and the starter motor and then pray that the crappy Allen boot doesn't round off 

[Spiny Norman]

I only ever use cash to pay for petrol after a scamming twat at a BP garage helped himself to £100.

 

[DavieW]

Had a night out in Edinburgh yesterday.

4 Huron riding idiots in the Cowgate, no lights, masks on, wheely-ing towards oncoming cars causing mayhem. 5 minutes later, same pricks in the Royal Mile, wrong side of the road again, riding over the corner of pavements to jump red lights. 

Same for the Deliveroo/Just Eat delivery muppets on Ebikes with no lights and using their phones on busy city streets. 

Need a crackdown on these un-touchables.

[richardmorris]

52 minutes ago, DavieW said:

Had a night out in Edinburgh yesterday.

4 Huron riding idiots in the Cowgate, no lights, masks on, wheely-ing towards oncoming cars causing mayhem. 5 minutes later, same pricks in the Royal Mile, wrong side of the road again, riding over the corner of pavements to jump red lights. 

Same for the Deliveroo/Just Eat delivery muppets on Ebikes with no lights and using their phones on busy city streets. 

Need a crackdown on these un-touchables.

Last time that happened in south wales there were riots! Good boys doing no harm etc.

[IronStar]

I’m paying extra in the long-term-storage garage for a parking spot which is bloody huge and has no sports to park next to it. On the one side, there’s access to some technical room, and on the other is a garage door of some flat. Sounds good, right? The great unwashed not having the possibility to keep slamming doors into your car while it’s in storage, for a bit extra. Oh hang on, what’s this on a not-a-parking then? 

Dude who has door that goes into the garage decided to park there, because smol car and its owner not being around to police it. There’s no way in hell that door is not being opened into my car, as Fiat can barely fit despite a deceptive photo, especially if I store a bigger car there.
Previously, it was also found like this

I’m paying for that you cunt, being temporarily vacated doesn’t mean you can claim it without asking!

I called my landlord, who’s really apologetic, plans to give him another bollocking, and offered me money back if the dude doesn’t fuck off, but something* tells me he doesn’t plan to stop.

What should I do? Accept the cuntish behavior? Park diagonally? Park a car that’s already bartered on his door and completely block it? Get the money back, accepting that won’t really buy me a parking I initially wanted? Something else? I’m worried that any retaliation will end up with my car keyed, with further consequences for everyone involved afterwards. 

[adw1977]

Can't you just put some random crap there so there's no room for cunt to park but still leave yourself enough room for the Mini?

[Pieman]

Borrow Wheely Big Cheese from Robot Wars if it still exists anywhere and flip the thing over.