The grumpy thread

[Zelandeth]

Been away over the weekend.  Had a great time, just on the road heading home now (being a passenger in your own car is really weird).  Just had a message from the in-laws who have been house (and dog) sitting for us: Apparently we have no heating this morning.  Great!  

Why can't we ever just have something nice without there being a sting in the tail at the end?

Hopefully it's just the random once every year and a half or so occasion when the pilot light has gone out for no readily explicable reason.  Though they are utterly non technical people so are being told to just turn an electric heater on if needed (there's a good reason I've kept a few) and wait.

[Royale80]

Went out to Rover to discover crack in windscreen. 

£115 excess so not too bad.

[LightBulbFun]

2 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

(being a passenger in your own car is really weird).

somehow I dont see myself having this particular experience! (not unless shenanigans at the FoD are involved, which to be fair is quite likely LOL)

[Datsuncog]

Bing bong bollocks.

Corner of the frame on my glasses just snapped (not the hinge), while I was gently cleaning them. Not dropped, not abused.

Only bought them new in June...

[Metal Guru]

1 minute ago, Datsuncog said:

Bing bong bollocks.

Corner of the frame on my glasses just snapped (not the hinge).

Only bought them new in June...

Should’ve gone to Specsavers! Oh, you did!

[comfortablynumb]

Swombo had this on a pair of hers, took them back.

' oh sorry it's a manufacturing fault, we'll fit another frame'

Took about a week, and sorted, worth a try?

[iainrcz]

Fucking around with waste pipes on the new sink.  None of it will fucking work.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

35 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Bing bong bollocks.

Corner of the frame on my glasses just snapped (not the hinge), while I was gently cleaning them. Not dropped, not abused.

Only bought them new in June...

Jack Duckworth quick fix? 

[myglaren]

9 minutes ago, Dick Cheeseburger said:

Jack Duckworth quick fix? 

Fixed my daughter's with "Tree Frog Oily Glue"

Wasn't expecting it to last five minutes but has held for about three weeks now.

I have said that I will buy her new ones but she is dragging her heels.

[Datsuncog]

38 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

Swombo had this on a pair of hers, took them back.

' oh sorry it's a manufacturing fault, we'll fit another frame'

Took about a week, and sorted, worth a try?

Yes indeed, I've been on to the optician - they agreed that they should have lasted longer than six months, and say they'll order me up a new set of frames and then be in touch to bring the old ones and swap the lenses around - "about five or six days".

Fingers crossed!

[Datsuncog]

30 minutes ago, Dick Cheeseburger said:

Jack Duckworth quick fix? 

It could come to that... I'm back wearing my old set to finish up at work, and my goodness I hadn't realised just what a difference the varifocals make.

[Zelandeth]

6 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Been away over the weekend.  Had a great time, just on the road heading home now (being a passenger in your own car is really weird).  Just had a message from the in-laws who have been house (and dog) sitting for us: Apparently we have no heating this morning.  Great!  

Why can't we ever just have something nice without there being a sting in the tail at the end?

Hopefully it's just the random once every year and a half or so occasion when the pilot light has gone out for no readily explicable reason.  Though they are utterly non technical people so are being told to just turn an electric heater on if needed (there's a good reason I've kept a few) and wait.

Involved messing about with this lot...

But we have working heat and hot water again.  One of the zone control valves has failed (spectacularly) electrically.  So it's been disconnected, manually opened and the terminals for the integral switch (16-18) to tell the system it's open.  It's a bodge but will do for now.

[hairnet]

so the grump about stuttgart up there...........

was looking at info for it and like the french one you have to give details

so i log into mot checker.........to find......................

mot due tomorrow - FUCK (i thought it was april when the car was registered) im leaving this evening.........

rang normal place - no full

via hossy passed a place that been driving past for 20 years - no full till tuesday

tried a place ive set foot in till the previous fellas retired 13/14 years

fingers crossed

yeah come back at 5 ill be here till 6

they fit me in

only advisory - binding brake on one side although it passed the roller test - taking it for mega outings (one before xmas) there was no issues

YAY

he gets beer when i come back on monday

is the brake likely a clean and grease - wont be caliper as every thing else was fine??

[alcyonecorporation]

Accepted a lift from a friend of a friend with a Tesla. 

On the A14 the stupid piece of shit mistook a gantry for a wall and phantom braked. 
'Oh yeah, it does that sometimes,' he said. 
Oh, really? Well, I'm not OK with that. A lorry nearly flattened us, and you're willingly driving around* with this thing freaking out at gantries?!

Not getting in a Tesla again. Fuck that. 
The bloke driving didn't even say sorry. 
Perhaps you can get the self-drive to take you to EMR Metals, mate, then forget to get out, yeah? Perhaps it'll crash into a gantry/wall on the way there, and you can save everyone the hassle. 

*By the way, before theTesla apologists come on and point out that you can turn said system off, I really couldn't give a fuck.
People are so bastarding lazy when they drive these days that for every so-called self-aware EV driver, there's 10 more in Model 3s on tick relying on systems that are barely Alpha tested. Keep your shit 1:1 Tamiya cars; I fucking hated them before and hate them even more now. It tried to kill us, I don't care what your 'counter' is. If it can't fucking tell a gantry from a wall, it shouldn't be on the car. 


 

[Metal Guru]

9 minutes ago, alcyonecorporation said:

Accepted a lift from a friend of a friend with a Tesla. 

On the A14 the stupid piece of shit mistook a gantry for a wall and phantom braked. 
'Oh yeah, it does that sometimes,' he said. 
Oh, really? Well, I'm not OK with that. A lorry nearly flattened us, and you're willingly driving around* with this thing freaking out at gantries?!

Not getting in a Tesla again. Fuck that. 
The bloke driving didn't even say sorry. 
Perhaps you can get the self-drive to take you to EMR Metals, mate, then forget to get out, yeah? Film it for Lord Elon, stick it on Twitter, bit of bootlicking? Good metrics.  

*By the way, before theTesla apologists come on and point out that you can turn said system off, I really couldn't give a fuck.
People are so bastarding lazy when they drive these days that for every so-called self-aware EV driver, there's 10 more in Model 3s on tick relying on systems that are barely Alpha tested. Keep your shit 1:1 Tamiya cars; I fucking hated them before and hate them even more now. It tried to kill us, I don't care what your 'counter' is. If it can't fucking tell a gantry from a wall, it shouldn't be on the car. 


 

Go on, tell us what you really think!

[Zelandeth]

17 minutes ago, alcyonecorporation said:

Accepted a lift from a friend of a friend with a Tesla. 

On the A14 the stupid piece of shit mistook a gantry for a wall and phantom braked. 
'Oh yeah, it does that sometimes,' he said. 
Oh, really? Well, I'm not OK with that. A lorry nearly flattened us, and you're willingly driving around* with this thing freaking out at gantries?!

Not getting in a Tesla again. Fuck that. 
The bloke driving didn't even say sorry. 
Perhaps you can get the self-drive to take you to EMR Metals, mate, then forget to get out, yeah? Perhaps it'll crash into a gantry/wall on the way there, and you can save everyone the hassle. 

*By the way, before theTesla apologists come on and point out that you can turn said system off, I really couldn't give a fuck.
People are so bastarding lazy when they drive these days that for every so-called self-aware EV driver, there's 10 more in Model 3s on tick relying on systems that are barely Alpha tested. Keep your shit 1:1 Tamiya cars; I fucking hated them before and hate them even more now. It tried to kill us, I don't care what your 'counter' is. If it can't fucking tell a gantry from a wall, it shouldn't be on the car. 


 

VW's accident avoidance software isn't any better I'm afraid.

[Rustybullethole]

17 minutes ago, alcyonecorporation said:

Accepted a lift from a friend of a friend with a Tesla. 

On the A14 the stupid piece of shit mistook a gantry for a wall and phantom braked. 
'Oh yeah, it does that sometimes,' he said. 
Oh, really? Well, I'm not OK with that. A lorry nearly flattened us, and you're willingly driving around* with this thing freaking out at gantries?!

Not getting in a Tesla again. Fuck that. 
The bloke driving didn't even say sorry. 
Perhaps you can get the self-drive to take you to EMR Metals, mate, then forget to get out, yeah? Perhaps it'll crash into a gantry/wall on the way there, and you can save everyone the hassle. 

*By the way, before theTesla apologists come on and point out that you can turn said system off, I really couldn't give a fuck.
People are so bastarding lazy when they drive these days that for every so-called self-aware EV driver, there's 10 more in Model 3s on tick relying on systems that are barely Alpha tested. Keep your shit 1:1 Tamiya cars; I fucking hated them before and hate them even more now. It tried to kill us, I don't care what your 'counter' is. If it can't fucking tell a gantry from a wall, it shouldn't be on the car. 


 

Seen a few phantom breaking episodes on the motorway in recent years. It took me a while to realise it's not all cunts who cant drive its sometimes cunts who bought shit cars. 

[alcyonecorporation]

6 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

VW's accident avoidance software isn't any better I'm afraid.

Noted. On the 2/365 days a year I have to drive my mum's ID3, I turn it off. 
It's still not a Tesla, which is at least something it has in its favour. 

The only person crashing my SEAT will be me, fortunately, because it's too old to have that shit installed. 

Having done me for £717 in November for a new heater matrix, the fucking thing has failed. Again. 
It's Feb 2025. 

Luckily, the work came with a warranty, and I get a courtesy car. 

[beko1987]

I nearly part caused an accident this morning on the m40... Strolling up lane 2 a car dove out of lane 1 with no indication. I indicated, checked to my left and pulled into l3 mildly sharpish, just as it seems an Astra decided to do the same from somewhere behind me, but booted it, so I ended up pulling right out infront of him 😬 Saw him once he took evasive action and the prick who had pulled out had snuck back across to l1 a bit so we ended up briefly 3 abrest across lanes 2 and 3 horns ablaze😂

I gave a sheepish wave to the astra driver and needed a fag afterwards. I must learn the massive fucking blindspots this new car has, plus once I do the cambelt I could have floored it away more than I did which would have eased the situation. 

As Harry said, just like a proper qashqai driver 😂

[comfortablynumb]

Having spent the last 5 days borrowing a modern whilst the Range Rover of too many wheels is in bits ( still) I CAN'T WAIT till I get it back in one bit, hopefully tomorrow.

I don't need to be binged at constantly, or have irrelevant messages pasted all over the dash

[beko1987]

9 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

VW's accident avoidance software isn't any better I'm afraid.

Dad's hates the traffic being at a dead stop infront of it. I had it happen again on the m6 last Friday night. We went from 60 down to about 35 when it just beeped at me and stopped braking... 

I was more prepared for it this time so just braked myself but the beep made dad shit himself 🙄

If your rolling along and the speed change is gradual it's fine, but I end up covering the pedals most of the time just incase now, as my brain would have wandered off too far to catch it when it does happen otherwise. 

Plus I bet the car freaks out and goes hands off conveniently at the timing that a black box/insurance read of the ecu after the crash would out the blame solely on the driver having had "adequate time to stop within the letter of the law" despite maybe not having touched a pedal for the preceding 200 miles 😬

[beko1987]

2 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

Having spent the last 5 days borrowing a modern whilst the Range Rover of too many wheels is in bits ( still) I CAN'T WAIT till I get it back in one bit, hopefully tomorrow.

I don't need to be binged at constantly, or have irrelevant messages pasted all over the dash

By the time I've peered at the dash to work out wtf it wants the message has gone/I've already crashed usually 😂

Dad's old ioniq used to do the same beep for please coast' or 'lead car pulling away' as it does for bad things which is really fucking distracting until you get used to it. The current enyaq is better at presenting the info, but does more of it 😡

[alcyonecorporation]

'But...but, it makes fart sounds when you lock it! 
Stop calling me Hitler, I have autism!!!!!!!!111111' 

[alcyonecorporation]

Just now, alcyonecorporation said:

'But...but, it makes fart sounds when you lock it! 
Stop calling me Hitler, I have autism!!!!!!!!111111' 

'But you have to respect him, he's successful.' 

[comfortablynumb]

And at 70mph in the outside lane of the , admittedly small, dual carriageway of the A47, telling me that there's a 'handbrake fault' isn't the sort of information I require right now 🤦

[comfortablynumb]

Unless of course, because it's electronic, you've decided to put it on, on which case at 70, it's even more irrelevant to tell me with a message on the dash.

I think even I'd notice that....