The grumpy thread

[Pete-M]

Be fun to watch though

[vulgalour]

My computer. I have sound for Mp3 and video player programmes but no desktop noises and no internet noises, so I can't watch iPlayer and the like. On trying to reinstall sound drivers to attempt to fix the issue, the installer (whichever site I use) crashes. Then Flash crashes. Then my computer goes on a Go Slow and I have to restart. I also have to restart the computer at least once every 24 hours because Flash will crash, new install or not. I can't play computer games at all, not even the most basic ones, because Flash crashes. The mouse double-clicks when I don't want it to and sometimes won't click at all, because it's fucked. The USB ports don't always work.

 

Everything was fine with this computer until I moved into my parents' gaff, then it cooked it's motherboard because it had filled up with dust and animal hair in a matter of weeks (I clean it out regularly now, never had to before) and ever since I've had nothing but trouble with it. I can just about upload photos and use car forums so that's something, but for everything else its crap. I'll take it back to tech bod mate to fix it again when the Princess is back on the road but I reckon it's going to be new computer time before the year is out. Maybe I'll get a laptop instead.

[barrett]

BUGGER

 

The Standard is ALREADY broken

 

I hate old cars

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Better there than half way to Northwich. What's it done (or not done)?

[barrett]

o/s/r leaf spring has snapped. OMG STANCED. Fucking thing.

 

[STUNO]

Too much bouncy bouncy in the back seat already ?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

To diagnose any problems just connect it to a ËœCharles Babbage analytical engine' via the local telephone exchange and read off the fault codes. "Hello Caller. The fault code you have requested is P0053: Loss of British sovereignty in India"

[cobblers]

I know this is hardly news to anyone on here, but the DVLA really are a bunch of useless bastards. They have spelled my name wrong in a variety of different ways on my last 4 or 5 V5s (It's not that hard, I'm not foreign or anything) and being the upstanding citizen, I've actually corrected them on this and kept things in order.

 

Latest one - I sent the tax off my van for a refund about 7 weeks ago. Today I've just got a letter saying that they can't issue me a refund because they can only pay refunds to the registered keeper.

This letter is addressed to my first name and middle name - they've completely omitted my surname. Quick check of the copy I took of the form I sent to them, and yes - I had filled it in correctly.

 

Apparently they will "normally only refund from the date they receive a response to this letter" so that's just cost me two months tax. Absolutely fucking useless, the lot of them.

[skattrd]

ebay sellers not replying to messages.

On Wednesday I hit BIN on some wheels in Nottingham, hoping to collect them on the way home from work one evening this week. I wanted to get them and fit them to the car before driving over to Chumley. I've messaged the guy twice and have yet to get a response ... I don't think the seller wants my money, I've not paid by paypal, I was going too do cash on collection.

[chaseracer]

Cobblers - complain. It's their cockup, so you shouldn't lose out.

 

https://emaildvla.direct.gov.uk/emaildv ... k_108.html

[Cavcraft]

ebay sellers not replying to messages.

On Wednesday I hit BIN on some wheels in Nottingham, hoping to collect them on the way home from work one evening this week. I wanted to get them and fit them to the car before driving over to Chumley. I've messaged the guy twice and have yet to get a response ... I don't think the seller wants my money, I've not paid by paypal, I was going too do cash on collection.

 

 

V. frustrating, but some sellers are quite slow. I was badgering some geezer over a bike the other day as I had a fairly limited window where I could collect. He couldn't seem to be arsed answering e-mails or text message and took an age to eventually answer the 'phone. Anyhow I whizzed up to collect a couple of nights ago and you couldn't have met a nicer fella, I think he was just one of those people that didn't rush anything.

 

Incidentally if I think someone's getting twatty about an item not making what they wanted,I usually pay by Paypal (if it's not too expensive] as it a) generally pisses them off due the fees involved and I honestly think it sometimes forces their hand to sell to you.

[cort16]

old cars r shit. I spent the afternoon welding up the big hole in the floor of the sd1 and it rewarded me by conking out about 500 yards from my house. It's not getting fuel so I think the fuel pump's chucked it. I was supposed to be taking it to a show tomorrow. Not anymore!

[andrew e]

To diagnose any problems just connect it to a ‘Charles Babbage analytical engine’ via the local telephone exchange and read off the fault codes. “Hello Caller. The fault code you have requested is ‘P0053’: Loss of British sovereignty in Indiaâ€Â

 

Herr Boll's you BARSTEWARD. I have just had a "or near offer" death experience involving the above post and large toblerone

[retrogeezer]

frigging weather for tomorrow looks awful.

[Mr Lobster]

A minor grump compared to some but I'm still pissed off so what the hell -

 

Wondering if I should sell my R4. Don't want to but I'm fed up of never getting chance to use it. Wanted to go to Chumley / Arley / Northwich today but as youngest child spent the night being ill (and awake) thats a no go now. Half the weekends through summer I'm working at other shows so hardly ever get chance to get to a show that I actually want to go to.

 

Doesn't help that I've just seen one of the neighbours rumbling off somewhere in his Mk2 Escort.

[Mr Lobster]

frigging weather for tomorrow looks awful.

 

Just looked, it does a bit doesn't it.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/cw9

[Partridge]

I hate children. All they over do is be sick, trash your car and eat.

[vulgalour]

Cars are better than children because... you don't get your cars taken off you if you shut them in a garage for months on end.

[Negative Creep]

Cars are better than children because... you don't get your cars taken off you if you shut them in a garage for months on end.

 

 

Plus you can poke them with a screwdriver when they don't do as they're supposed to

[wuvvum]

Me and engines really do not mix. I bought a scooter yesterday - it was advertised as a non-runner but the price was right. Got it home and been out playing with it this afternoon. It has a spark, compression and fuel - all that should be needed for a two-stroke single to run - but will it fire? Will it bollocks like. I've even tried spraying Easy Start straight into the carb - still not a cough. The starter motor sounds like someone is disembowelling a cat (probably needs stripping and greasing, but it's a PITA to get to) so I've been using the kick start, but even that should be enough to get it at least attempting to start. It's a Honda, too, so no weird Chinese won't-run-for-no-apparent-reason shenanigans should apply here. Arse.

[trigger]

I've had to turn down the chance of being on live TV with my Cortina on BBC breakfast news Tuesday because it's being filmed in Manchester, most annoying (although the thought of me doing a interview on live TV is suicidal.)

[Cavcraft]

Me and engines really do not mix. I bought a scooter yesterday - it was advertised as a non-runner but the price was right. Got it home and been out playing with it this afternoon. It has a spark, compression and fuel - all that should be needed for a two-stroke single to run - but will it fire? Will it bollocks like. I've even tried spraying Easy Start straight into the carb - still not a cough. The starter motor sounds like someone is disembowelling a cat (probably needs stripping and greasing, but it's a PITA to get to) so I've been using the kick start, but even that should be enough to get it at least attempting to start. It's a Honda, too, so no weird Chinese won't-run-for-no-apparent-reason shenanigans should apply here. Arse.

 

 

Please don't take this as a granny/egg sucking interface, but it's not one of those stupid bloody 'peds that need a working brake light bulb to make the engine start is it? I've seen a couple now (albeit Shin Break Dueto Summer Days Glorious Crash Chinese shit) that refused to start because you have to hold the front brake lever in then fire it up and broken bulb=no worky.

[Richard]

I don't think it can be that if it's making a spark.

[tooSavvy]

I've had to turn down the chance of being on live TV with my Cortina on BBC breakfast news Tuesday because it's being filmed in Manchester, most annoying (although the thought of me doing a interview on live TV is suicidal.)

 

Cortinas in News.... because?

 

tooSavvy

[freebird]

I've had to turn down the chance of being on live TV with my Cortina on BBC breakfast news Tuesday because it's being filmed in Manchester, most annoying (although the thought of me doing a interview on live TV is suicidal.)

 

Cortinas in News.... because?

 

tooSavvy

Never mind all that.

Are you saying that you have turned down the possibility that you MIGHT get within range of sniffing Susanna Reids drawers?!?

Holy shit, no!!!!!

[trigger]

I hadn't thought of that, even worse! Keith Adams asked me, he's doing a feature about endangered cars on the BBC breakfast show Tuesday morning and wanted to interview me and have my Cortina there, I've found him another chap now to fill the slot. Imagine waking up and seeing me on the box, that would fuck your whole day up!

[freebird]

I hadn't thought of that, even worse! Keith Adams asked me, he's doing a feature about endangered cars on the BBC breakfast show Tuesday morning and wanted to interview me and have my Cortina there, I've found him another chap now to fill the slot. Imagine waking up and seeing me on the box, that would fuck your whole day up!

No, you are ok by me fella.

Im only sorry I wasnt available to fill her slot.........

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

The Cortina is 'endangered'? WTF, I bet they've never even heard of the Tagora- or, for that matter, the Denem, the Argenta, the Charmant, the Gamma...

[retrogeezer]

yeh, I did think that too...

 

There are probably more Mk1 Escorts than Mk3's for instance. There certainly is at car shows!

 

Cool that you got asked Trigger...

[trigger]

This is Keith doing the feature, he knows his cars better than anyone, the thing is everybody knows what a Cortina is but if you ask the average person what a Tagora is they will think it's some kind of shower gel, It's about making it interesting for the masses i would say.

 

Cool that you got asked Trigger...

 

I was very flattered when he messaged me the other day.