The grumpy thread

[reb]

2 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

very easy to do yourself

What kind of phones are you buying that changing the battery doesn't involve fucking around with bonded glass?

[Split_Pin]

1 minute ago, reb said:

What kind of phones are you buying that changing the battery doesn't involve fucking around with bonded glass?

Just a basic Samsung thing, I dont know the model number. 

[reb]

Just now, Split_Pin said:

Just a basic Samsung thing, I dont know the model number. 

Must be fairly old then, even the billy basic A series involves removing glass that's not really designed to be removed without specialist equipment these days.

[Marina door handles]

32 minutes ago, Westbay said:

In the true spirit of AS - fit a new battery !

I have done that around 3 years ago, I was tempted to do it again.... But I find myself sat naving a lot with the phone, it struggles to keep a good GPS lock and can be a bit wacky at times.  Also the camera is crap and I use that a lot. So it really is time to man up and get a new one. 

[castros_bro]

33 minutes ago, Marina door handles said:

I need a new  mobile phone, my old phone wont hold charge anymore. I hate phone shopping even more than I hate clothes shopping mostly because I find phones tedious... Wish me luck! 

Hi,

What's the phone ?    Some have battery glued in (warm with hair dryer and prize out with old credit card/guitar pic) and connected by flat cable n plug so worth trying yourself.  Even if you get a new phone it's worth trying on the old one just to learn stuff.  Or sent it to me.

[Marina door handles]

Just now, castros_bro said:

Hi,

What's the phone ?    Some have battery glued in (warm with hair dryer and prize out with old credit card/guitar pic) and connected by flat cable n plug so worth trying yourself.  Even if you get a new phone it's worth trying on the old one just to learn stuff.  Or sent it to me.

Cough! See reply just above yours! 

[castros_bro]

2 minutes ago, Marina door handles said:

Cough! See reply just above yours! 

My excuse is It took me 4.5 mins to write that.

[Westbay]

While my original post was a bit 'tongue in cheek' there is a more annoying aspect nobody has mentioned ... the operating system changes and some of the apps no longer work as they should/used to - the company named after a fruit are 'good' at this ...😡

[chaseracer]

It's the AS conundrum: try as we may to keep things going long past their intended lifespan, sometimes the only option is replacement.

 

[Sir Chocolate Teapot]

17 hours ago, Jazoli said:

Either buy off here or privately if you have to, I didn’t think a dealer supplied £1400 car existed any longer.

there’s an XC90, a Corsa, a Blingo, an X Type, a Polo, a Panda, an SX4 etc, I’d take a chance on any of them rather than a 1500 bombsite banger.

So very correct.

And I need at some point a panda in my life.

I have bought 2 from here, both been fine steeds and as expected

It was a car I have wanted to try for a long time and looked good in the ad and over the phone, in keeping with the title of this site, a mk1 skoda fabia estate with the 1.9 tdi.

[myglaren]

2 hours ago, andy18s said:

Shell petrol stations were a cloning hotspot not too long ago..

I had mine cloned at a Shell station.  That was probably twenty years ago though.

Bank saw it and stopped the card then emailed me about it and refunded the fraudulent purchases.

[sdkrc]

Was out running in the park today and ran past a youngish family, mother, father, young child. Their dog came belting out of the woods and started to run at me, then around me whilst growling aggressively. It wasn't a big dog, more of a medium/small dog and I felt in zero danger.

It barked and growled and then chased after my feet, trying to bite my shoe. I caught him in the head slightly with a soft heel. 

I stopped and turned to the family, namely the fat lass with a long head and stared at her. She said "he's so annoying". No attempt to curb the behaviour or apologise. I shouted aggressively at her "put him on a fucking leash then" followed by "you fat retard". 

The rest of my run was spoiled but I got to thinking. What would happen if I just kicked the dog as hard as I could? Is that an appropriate reaction? Genuine question. My dad did that once to a jack Russell back in the 90s. Nothing annoys me more than shit dogs and room temperature IQ owners. 

[Bren]

Have the lurgy. Started sneezing a few days ago - this has developed into a nasty productive cough and a hoarse voice.

My peak flow is 300 - if it gets any lower it's hospital. Silly for going in work last night.

[Marina door handles]

4 hours ago, Westbay said:

While my original post was a bit 'tongue in cheek' there is a more annoying aspect nobody has mentioned ... the operating system changes and some of the apps no longer work as they should/used to - the company named after a fruit are 'good' at this ...😡

You still have a Banana phone? 🙃

[chaseracer]

1 hour ago, Marina door handles said:

You still have a Banana phone? 🙃

It's in Transit.

#sorry

[adw1977]

4 hours ago, sdkrc said:

What would happen if I just kicked the dog as hard as I could? Is that an appropriate reaction?

No, because it's not really the dog's fault.  Kicking the owner as hard as you could, though...

[sdkrc]

I disagree. Punching the owner doesn't neutralise a dog trying to bite me.

Don't get me wrong, I fully acknowledge the behaviour is the responsibility of the shit owner but that doesn't stop it being a shit dog trying to bite me. 

I guess if it properly went for me I'd have punted it into the lake. I'll save that kinda action for more extreme cases.

[maxxo]

night before last ended up only have an hours worth of sleep

yesterday was the most ill i have been in a long time

sickness, the shites, cold, flu etc

12 hours of kip last night

feeling a fait bit better today, ended up going out for food with my parents so chose to get pizza and bring what i couldn't eat home (dinner tomorrow looking forward to it)

but fuck me

i feel ruined, knocked out, not so much sick now just full of cold really and i'm sick of it

in other news

had a knock at the door this morning from the next door neighbour on the other side

sorry to bother you, but i noticed you left your keys in your car and handed me them, cue much thank you's

so i'd left the keys in the ignition of the XM for about 24 hours

no one took it thankfully

[Spiny Norman]

Once again, one of First Bus Glasgow's professional* bus drivers has attempted to turn his double decker into a cabriolet on a bridge with no warning signs on it whatsoever.

[Metal Guru]

5 hours ago, sdkrc said:

I disagree. Punching the owner doesn't neutralise a dog trying to bite me.

Don't get me wrong, I fully acknowledge the behaviour is the responsibility of the shit owner but that doesn't stop it being a shit dog trying to bite me. 

I guess if it properly went for me I'd have punted it into the lake. I'll save that kinda action for more extreme cases.

We used to have a very timid dog that wouldn’t really defend itself against other dogs. Once out for a walk, a terrier of some sort got it by the throat. Pretty sure it would have killed or at least seriously hurt our dog, so I intervened with my size 13s. 

Needless to say the owner wasn’t happy and I just said “I didn’t kick it that hard”, to which my brother added (helpfully *) “ well you’d have got 3 points if it was on a rugby pitch”.

[New POD]

20 hours ago, Marina door handles said:

I need a new  mobile phone, my old phone wont hold charge anymore. I hate phone shopping even more than I hate clothes shopping mostly because I find phones tedious... Wish me luck! 

Back market. 

[New POD]

8 hours ago, maxxo said:

 

sorry to bother you, but i noticed you left your keys in your car and handed me them, cue much thank you's

so i'd left the keys in the ignition of the XM for about 24 hours

no one took it thankfully

Certain cars have their own anti theft properties which put all self respecting joyriders off. 

[New POD]

20 hours ago, Split_Pin said:

Just a basic Samsung thing, I dont know the model number. 

For ages I had a Galaxy ACE.  Had 3 removable batteries because my daughter and wife had previously also had one each and had upgraded.  Which meant I always had a spare fully charged in the car. 

[Yoss]

2 hours ago, New POD said:

Certain cars have their own anti theft properties which put all self respecting joyriders off. 

I was going to say much the same thing as owner of two Škoda Favorits. And whilst the XM is several leagues above my cars it still has that Bertone look that would just confuse the fuck out of most people. 

I don't want to state the obvious but I keep the front door key on the same ring as the car key so you have to take it with you to be able to get back in the house. 

[Sunny Jim]

I do too for the same reason. Just don't do what I did recently and leave the house key on the key ring when you drop the car off at the garage - I only realised after the hours walk home in the pouring rain...

[Morris 63]

15 hours ago, maxxo said:

had a knock at the door this morning from the next door neighbour on the other side

sorry to bother you, but i noticed you left your keys in your car and handed me them, cue much thank you's

Sorry to hear about the sickness - and hope the pizza was good.

Sound neighbours though - that's a good thing when you read some of the stories on here.

[hairnet]

Ffs

 

We should be in it going the other way

Fuck it its ice cream time

[Yoss]

How can an apparently simple job go so catastrophically wrong? 

I shall put the full run down in my own thread at some point but at the moment I just can't sum up the enthusiasm. 

The exhaust manifold started blowing on blue (standard) Favorit. I wasn't sure if it was manifold to head or manifold to downpipe but it looked an easy enough job to take it off and do both. 

First thing that went wrong was two of the studs in the head snapped when I tried to undo them. So I thought I may as well get new studs for the whole head and while I'm at it I may as well get new nuts. 

Long story short, having new nuts meant I didn't notice one of the old ones was missing. Put it all back together, started it and there was a nasty mettalic rattle from inside the engine. 

I think we can see the problem. 

 

Do you want to look a little closer? 

 

As you can see here, the piston is near the top of its stroke so I thought I'd turn it over and see what state the bore was in. It still looked okay until I started cleaning it up. 

Well that's fucked then. 

 

The only good thing is our friends at Škoda Díly have complete brand new piston and liner sets available. 

Along with the brass sealing rings for the bottom of the liner in three different thicknesses. 

Okay so they are made in China but what choice do I have? It's good that they've had the foresight to make them at all, along with practically every other moving part for the Favorit engine. Only slight problem is they do two different types and I'm not sure which type I need. One set is €87 and the other €93 which is stupidly cheap. At close of play today I've just got the sump hanging off and can see that if I remove the oil pump pick up pipe I should be able to get to all four con rods with the engine still in place. 

All this from a blowing manifold. This is why I will never work on other people's cars even when they know I do all my own work. Because if I fuck up my own car I can just shut the garage door and walk away. 

I the meantime Triumph has been pressed in to daily service in all weathers and times of day or night. 

[cort1977]

2 hours ago, Yoss said:

How can an apparently simple job go so catastrophically wrong? 

 

 

I was about to post about the bother I had with a bottom arm on the berlingo today but i feel lucky now!

Hope you get it sorted soon.

[Yoss]

7 hours ago, cort1977 said:

 

Hope you get it sorted soon.

I will somehow but it might take a while. I'm not going to rush putting it back together.