The grumpy thread

[Junkman]

VW Twatever

 

EFA

[purplebargeken]

I was trying to be polite but have realised the error of my ways. Fuck it. 

 

[purplebargeken]

And another thing. I had to drive to fucking Norwich from North London today as the tenants in the flat seemingly cannot differentiate between a 'severe damp problem' and frigging mildew caused by condenfuckingsation.  A 210 mile overall journey that saw me in Norwich for 23 minutes or so. Then they wouldn't believe it was condensation so hopefully they will believe the independent bloke going in at the end of the week.

 

Close the bathroom and kitchen doors, open the windows and don't pile all of your shite up against the walls. No the 50p sized patch of 'alleged severe damp' stain on your lumpy, knackered and disgusting 4 year old futon mattress has not ruined it. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr.

[purplebargeken]

Just spotted the reason why my journey back from Norwich was delayed by the OMGtraffickaos...... a burning Lamborghini something or other. Why, oh why didn't I bring the marshmallows. Why would you buy a car that is known to have a nasty habit of burning itself to a crisp. More money than brain cells methinks. 

[purplebargeken]

Fuck, I am a posting tyrannosaur tonight!!!!!

[Craig the Princess]

MoT failure on the Rover Coupe, brakes and suspension mainly but a pain in the arse to sort.

 

On the plus side no-one stole it when I left the keys in the ignition all day when parked in the village with the passenger side door unlocked

[cort16]

I've had a right pisshole of a time getting back on here. Lets hope the ship has steadied as all this up and down is making me feel sick.

[Danblez]

I've had a right pisshole of a time getting back on here. Lets hope the ship has steadied as all this up and down is making me feel sick.

 

Me too, its been a difficult 18 hours.......

[Cavcraft]

I've had a shit week this week, but there was one little thing to keep me going, which was a new motor on the horizon. Collection trip was prebooked, tickets in hand, all ready to go for early next week.

 

Then, on top of myriad other problems I'm having at the moment I had a 'phone call from home: The DVLA have been round. So that's £100 fine and I've had to tax the car today therefore losing 3 weeks of tax. Yeah, my fault and all that but it pisses me off they came onto where it is to clamp it as it's not on a highway, or even the road technically. Obv. I got the grand daughter of Eva Braun on the 'phone and the silly fucking cow was in 'full bastard' mode.

 

Oh, the result of this means I can't get the motor I was after as I'm pretty much on my arse now.

[RedSparrow]

Is that not on private property?

[Cavcraft]

Council property which, according to the silly bint at DVLA, is the same as the highway. 

[autofive]

accessible to the public = the road, or so the dvla thinks

[Cavcraft]

I hope the stupid snotty tart I was on the 'phone to is one of those losing her job when the local offices shut. I hope even further that the day she leaves, she slips over in dog shit in pouring rain and drowns in a pool of her own self importance. Or fanny batter.

[dollywobbler]

Yup. They like playing that trick. Really annoys me. If you're not driving a car, you should be able to rescind the tax. Even if it's on a private (business) car park, the DVLA will still clamp you. Once more, it's a great* idea that ends up punishing innocents while still being ignored by those who have no intention of paying (they just find new ways to get around it).

[purplebargeken]

That is not a pretty sight. Not what you needed mate.

[Cavcraft]

Definitely not. I'm sat here looking at 'that' train ticket too, which isn't helping my frame of mind right now. 

 

I asked what my options were and have to confess I came to within an nth of telling them to take the car, as that would have meant no charges. I was then going to take the cat and battery off, stove every panel and window in, loosen/remove all the wheel nuts and paint DVLA WANKERS down both sides.  

Obviously just to help* matters further I checked the MOT which I though expired late October but it's actually next month so I expect I'll have to retest it before it'll sell. It shouldn't want much (if anything) but it's another expense all the same.

 

Obv. it is my fault for not taxing it and checking the 'laws' on where you can/can't keep untaxed motors so it's my fault really and I'm just moaning again. 

[vulgalour]

I think you're entitled to moan all you like, that's a shit turn of events.

[jakebullet]

Couldn't you have introduced mr. clamp to mr. angle grinder?

 

Nah dvla, must have been a mistake. No clamp on my car ,my car is stored at a secure off road location.

[autofive]

and the photographs they took? how do you explain them?

[cort16]

Has someone clyped you into do you recon? I thought they normally just sent abuse by post unless some reports it. It happened to my mate and the took it off to the pound and tried to charge him a fortune in storage (it was a week before he noticed it was gone). He just told them to keep it and shove it up their arse.

[jakebullet]

and the photographs they took? how do you explain them?

 

You wait till their photographer has gone before cutting off the clamp

 

Highly desirable* cars get cloned all the time you know.

[jakebullet]

I'd like to have a grump about the interweb, as it's all gone to shit for me lately. Last week some twat faked a transfer request and stole one of my domain names. (got it back since). N just noticed today that my hosting bloke has decided to charge 10X the agreed price, and is rather reluctant to give the money back even though he admits it's his cock up.

[Cavcraft]

Thanks, but it's not highly desirable though and I don't want to get into a debate about 'internet ideas' like cutting the clamp off etc. It's not going to happen, I'm just mad because I got blasé, didn't check that I shouldn't have left it there and got done.

[cms206]

The bastards clamped a load of untaxed cars in my old work's car park, including my Cavalier SRi, despite airport bylaws being in effect and the car being in a barrier controlled car park only accessable via a minimum of three "red roads". I drove down at 2am, checked the clamp and the chain wasn't attached to the car. Knocked it off, didn't* fit the plates and disc from another Cavalier and drove it home, leaving the clamp propped up in the space. Wrote a very strongly worded letter. Got an apology by post.

 

In other news, a lass I grew up with's mother passed away on Friday, followed by an ex colleague I really got on with yesterday morning. Shit week so far.

[vulgalour]

All these lovely, affordable, interesting cars that are for sale on AS and the wider internet will all be gone by the time I have the Golf sorted and ready for sale and/or cash in my pocket.  *shakes fist at Sod and his law*

[Junkman]

The bloody driver's window regulator in the bloody Pig-O did a Peugeot.

[chaseracer]

I think this chap's approach to the situation is admirable...

 

 

[cobblers]

Nobhead painter has been pissing me around for weeks now, and almost just had me wasting £60 on a tow when he hadn't got room for the van he said he'd paint 6 weeks ago.

 

I'm at my wits end with the arsehole now, but I can't afford to pay anyone else to do it (and I've already given him £250 to buy the paint which he's obviously already spent on some other fuckers job)

[vulgalour]

Small claims court?  Name and shame?  Internet vigilantism?

[cobblers]

He'll eventually do the job, eventually. And it'll be a reasonably good job, too. He's just laughably disorganised due to painting vehicles in 2k paint without a mask in a single garage behind his house for the last 30 years.