The grumpy thread

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I know that emotion. you have my sympathy.

[beko1987]

Skype:  I've got some updates, would you like them?

 

Me: No thanks, I'm busy right now.

 

Skype: OKAY I'M INSTALLING THE UPDATES

 

Me: le sigh.

 

At work I get exactly the same, but 10 minutes later a big error as it can't install due to no privelidges on this machine! JUST FUCKING LEAVE IT AS I TOLD YOU when I pressed no STUPID PROGRAM

[Rocket88]

The power of dreams - stuff of nightmares more like.

So I've got this Honda CR-V thing and the brake pedal goes away from you when the engine's running.

I've bled it and bled it and bled it with no joy.I clamped the flexi-hoses and the pedal still goes away when started.

Hmm, master cylinder it is then, even though it looks brand new.Fitted a s/h one with the same results...ARGH.

A look online suggests bleeding the ABS pump,I've gravity bled it and the pedal is the same.

Can't find an OBD port as another suggestion was to put the pump in run mode before attempting to bleed.

With everything turned off I pulled the fuse to the pump,cleaned the terminals and refitted.

Now the caution brake warning and ABS lights are on.....Fugg it where's that box of swan vester.

 

 

Try pressure bleeding it instead of vacuum bleeding................

[wuvvum]

The 147 failed its MoT today.  It failed on excessive play in the NSF upper suspension arm - not entirely unexpected as it was a bit clonky from the front end, and not going to be hideously expensive to fix.  It passed the emissions test comfortably, which was one thing I had been slightly worried about.  However, on picking it up from the MoT station, it started to run like a bag of shite.  It's running on 3, and every now and then the "Motor control system failure" warning will flash up repeatedly, the EML will start flashing and it'll lose almost all its power.  Then after a little while the warning and the EML will go out, and it'll pick up a bit, but still only running on three.  Then the cycle will repeat itself. 

 

I have no fugging idea what it's doing - it's not done anything like this before since I've had it, and since I erased the fault codes a week or so ago the EML had stayed off up to today.  I'm going to have to take it to get the codes read again - I don't want to start spending money on getting the suspension repaired if the engine's terminally fcuked.

[cort16]

You need to get the codes read for sure I think that motor control thing is just a general somethings not working right error message. A quick google shows swapping the battery works for some people so you could try pulling the battery out another one of your cars and dropping it in first.

[Micrashed]

i thought father ted was pog "im going to start my own forum, because your all too horrid' pogness

No, I was Father Ted, but decided to streamline my interweb alterego and rather than using different user ID's for different web sites I went with the MicraShed moniker after my ebay ID and email address and Flickr account ID and so on (ad nauseum),  AFAIK there isnt another MicraShed in Interwebland.

 

I did used to have a sig line that said I am the Shiteist formerly known as Father Ted

[SambaS]

Well started new job on Monday, Hygeine Operative for a fish smoking place, night, minimum wage.

 

Declined the job on Tuesday as I spent half the shift certain id rather die than go back. The work itself wasn't bad, the people were okay, didn't smell to bad of fish either actually, just smoke. But not for me.

 

Went for a pizza last night and asked if they needed any drivers, short story long I have a full time job driving yay.

 

Factory work can fuck off forever. One day of it is way too much.

 

I felt so bad for the people having to work there, how could that be your life...........................

 

I guess my problem is thinking too much some people can switch off I guess. I cant.

[warren t claim]

Nowt wrong with delivering pizzas.

[tooSavvy]

Well started new job on Monday, Hygeine Operative for a fish smoking place, night, minimum wage.

 

Declined the job on Tuesday as I spent half the shift certain id rather die than go back. The work itself wasn't bad, the people were okay, didn't smell to bad of fish either actually, just smoke. But not for me.

 

Went for a pizza last night and asked if they needed any drivers, short story long I have a full time job driving yay.

 

Factory work can fuck off forever. One day of it is way too much.

 

I felt so bad for the people having to work there, how could that be your life...........................

 

I guess my problem is thinking too much some people can switch off I guess. I cant.

 

+2 'factory work'

 

WVM F.T.W. [that is BRAND NEW WV, mind..lol]

 

tooSavvy

[Mr Lobster]

Not car related but thiss morning I took the difficult decision to have the cat we've had for 21 years euthanased.  Suddenly, it hurts an awful lot.

 

 

I know exactly how you feel. Its bloody awful.

[Cavcraft]

Turning down £130's worth of piss easy overtime because if I'd stayed any longer I'd have probably been forced to insert a stapler, several reams of A4 paper and as much photocopying machine as possible up one of the odious, snivelling ooh-boss-you're-sooooo-funny-tee-hee fucking bastards arses.

 

I expect people do get promoted some times because they're hateful, arse licking wankers who've sold their last bit of dignity so they could buy the same car/join the same golf club as the big cheese but I tell you what, I'd rather tie my fucking cock to a the rear of a speedway bike, strip my clothes off and cover myself in glue and then ask to be dragged round the track for several hundred laps before changing myself into a suit made of beef and going crocodile wrestling in Chester bastarding zoo, than ever be a snivelling cock flap at work.

[SambaS]

Nowt wrong with delivering pizzas.

It'll do until something decent comes up!

 

Have applied to loads of other places for driving jobs and will keep at it

[twosmoke300]

With reference to the crv with the sinking pedal. Has it got vsa ?

because if it has, it's normal. It's to protect the vsa unit from over pressure.

No special bleeding reqd on crv's.

[retrogeezer]

M'coli, on 14 Jun 2013 - 10:09 AM, said:

Not car related but thiss morning I took the difficult decision to have the cat we've had for 21 years euthanased.  Suddenly, it hurts an awful lot.

 

 

I know exactly how you feel. Its bloody awful.

 

 

Me too, awful empty feeling.......it does get less painful over time but you never forget them.

[cobblers]

Last year I broke a t25 van and sold all the back windows, sliding door and the surrounding metal from round the windows (to weld into a panel van and make it a window van) for about £200 the lot, and that took some selling! 

 

Now I've got my own panel van in a million pieces and am sufficiently good at welding to make a nice job of cutting the sides out of it and welding window recesses in, I can't find the same stuff for anything less than £650. FFS.

 

Along those lines, not long after I sold that lot I gave away a diesel pump for a 1.9 vw engine (along with the engine!). Guess what I had to spend £100 on this afternoon after mine started pissing fuel out?

[155V6]

Really sorry to hear that M'coli,lost mine like that nearly 5 years ago & still miss him

[Lord Sterling]

Sorry to hear about your Cat M'Coli. I'm not sure it has ever really hit me how my Cat suddenly disappeared a couple of years ago, but it does hurt, I suppose not really knowing what happend to her is easier than seeing/knowing that he/she has passed away.

 

It'll get easier, but its just a question of time.

[maxpower]

I went and picked up a 1998 nissan micra, yrs ticket full service etc blah blah blah, takes the lad with me to collect the car.. which for an ® reg was spotless apart from a dent in the drivers door.

get from s.e london to one street away from my house(east london) and the knob jockey of a son decides he cant be arsed waiting behind the bus at the bus stop so pulls out even though there is on coming traffic.

doesn't judge it well enough so clips the bus, smashing the passenger side wing mirror and a big red "fuck off scrape" down the passenger side  of the car going from middle of front passenger's door, back passenger's door and ends at the rear wheel arch.

the first thing he says "oh it's just a mirror and that will t-cut out" A fckin T-CUT YOU CNUT!!!

i had to walk away before i seriously lost the plot and because his car has been off the road he says it was " a while" since he drove... well fcukin tell me that and i could have used public transport to get car. i have told i am taking the car to a mechanic mate who does resprays and he can pay the bill, even if it means selling his car which he hasn't paid me back for yet. i know it's an old car but if it means he learns not to take chances with other people's things then it is a lesson learnt..... wtf is up with young people today??....... RANT OVER.

[wuvvum]

I plugged the Alfa into an OBD2 reader this afternoon and it said "missfire on cylinder no.1".  I'd kinda worked out the missfire bit, but it was useful to know which pot was misbehaving.  I suspect the coil pack may be at fault (as is often the case on Fiat stuff), but I'll whip the plug(s) out of that cylinder tomorrow anyway just to see if they are causing the problem.  I have a feeling that oil contamination may have something to do with it - I topped the car up with oil the day after I bought it and forgot to put the fugging oil cap back on, and after I'd driven 15 miles with it off the engine bay was fairly well sprayed with oil - and cylinder 1 is the one nearest the oil filler.  We shall see.

 

Commiserations re your cat M'Coli - 21 years isn't a bad run for a moggy, but I suppose the longer they've been part of your life the harder it is when they go...

[SambaS]

I work 495ft down the road from my home, do I drive to work tonight? I'm thinking yes.

[wuvvum]

Just had my insurance renewal through.  No claims or accidents in the last year, no points on my license, and yet the premium is over £250 up on last year.  WT actual F?

[retrogeezer]

What happened with that mate that borrowed your car and stacked it Wuvvum?

[meggersdog]

With reference to the crv with the sinking pedal. Has it got vsa ?

because if it has, it's normal. It's to protect the vsa unit from over pressure.

No special bleeding reqd on crv's.

 

Don't think so as there's no light for it and it's a 1999 car.

If it is fitted then it doesn't work as there was 15 psi in one front tyre when I got it home.

[wuvvum]

 

 

What happened with that mate that borrowed your car and stacked it Wuvvum?

 

 

That was over a year ago - last year's premium went up because of it as I lost some NCB (although my insurance didn't pay out AFAIK).  This year nothing untoward has happened at all.

[retrogeezer]

blimey, time flies eh!

[RedSparrow]

Do I leave that wheel seller on eBay negative \ neutral feedback or not? I don't think I'm being unreasonable given that he deliberately didn't photograph the other two badly kerbed alloys, and conveniently forgot to mention that on one the rim's out of shape.......

 

If he goes mental I couldn't care less. He should have checked the damn things before sending them out and charging £35 to have them sent by Citylink where they've no doubt had the shit kicked out of them from the SW up to me. 

 

Have you contacted him? Try and get a few quid out of him maybe - you never know he might be feeling guilty about it!

But otherwise yeah, if he bullshits any more neg the fucker.

[Hendry]

Just had my insurance renewal through.  No claims or accidents in the last year, no points on my license, and yet the premium is over £250 up on last year.  WT actual F?

This happens to me every year, I simply go on to my insurers website, do a new quote as if I were a new customer which is not only a couple of hundred quid less than my renewal but a couple of hundred cheaper than last year, phone them up and they match my renewal to that price.

[twosmoke300]

Nope, no vsa on 99 crv. Unusual to have brake prob's with them tho.

Pull abs fuses for 30 secs to clear codes. Small under bonnet fuse box

[Skizzer]

Have you contacted him? Try and get a few quid out of him maybe - you never know he might be feeling guilty about it!

But otherwise yeah, if he bullshits any more neg the fucker.

 

You could give it a go, but don't expect much since he claimed in the Q&A that they are 'all in good nick' and that's plainly a flat out lie since one is clearly buckled.  I'd neg the fucker.  I see you wouldn't be the first.

[M'coli]

Do I leave that wheel seller on eBay negative \ neutral feedback or not? I don't think I'm being unreasonable given that he deliberately didn't photograph the other two badly kerbed alloys, and conveniently forgot to mention that on one the rim's out of shape.......

 

If he goes mental I couldn't care less. He should have checked the damn things before sending them out and charging £35 to have them sent by Citylink where they've no doubt had the shit kicked out of them from the SW up to me. 

Was there any mention in the advert that the 4 wheels would not allow you to stick some tyres on them and drive down the road? Then they deserve a stern e-mailing and then if unresolved a big f-o neg.  2 pretty wheels and 2 really scabby wheels that hold air, hold round and can be used is still a functional "set" of wheels, but if one -just one - isn't round enough then it's not a wheel, and they're not a set of wheels...