The grumpy thread

[Bobthebeard]

More investigations on recently bought 944.....

 

Arrrgh.!!

[hairnet]

central birmingham

 

on the upside rain stopped at teh motorway and only hour and half home

 

and to repeat the other post from yesterday

 

CAN ALL THA RICH COONTS STOP BUYING THE CARS WE WANT

 

must go back to the auction tomorrow to see about a xsara with laquer peel

[Cavcraft]

 

 

must go back to the auction tomorrow to see about a xsara with laquer peel

 

Don't invite Wat.

[Tetleysmooth]

I've just done a 12 hour shift. Absolutely knackered, but I thought 'I can't take this for much longer'. It's got worse, so I went straight to A&E from work. 'They'll prescribe some antibiotics'. Did they bollocks. I've got to go back after 10 today. WTF is going on?

I should have made this a thread all of its own.

I went back to the 'urgent care centre' again yesterday, told the nurse behind the window that I'd been there in the morning, about 5.30am, and I'd been booked in already, and if I came here later, I'd be seen straight away. You guessed it. Not booked in. Start all over again. The place was rammed. I told the nurse I'd go to my dentist in the morning. All she said was 'Yeah, ok'.

God bless Queens Hospital, Romford.

I reckon I could get a bar of gold bullion easier than a course of antibiotics.

[KruJoe]

...and I'm back in the room.

 

We're without land-line or internet for TWO FUCKING WEEKS !11!!!!!1111

...

so without mobile coverage either. Brilliant. Nice move.

 

 

I was wondering where you were Joe.......as I was going to try punting the Audi onto you 

Thanks but no thanks!

I have more on the go than I can shake a stick at. Shite fund empty too.

 

 

Joe - I very much feel for you. BT Openfarce are an absolute shower of shit. 

We also consider 3Mbps as pretty bloody fast.

Thank you DW.

 

We're only re-connected because we went and confronted the engineers face to face when we spotted them down the road. They had been sent to replace the line for the Orange relay station at our place. That was all they had on their job sheet. They took pity and tied up our line too (temporarily). So all our hours battling through call centres did bugger all!

Orange / EE and BT / Open Reach can FRO

EE were already in our bad books for their absolutely shocking service.

Does anyone have advice about getting compensation out of them?

[Tetleysmooth]

Like I've said on here before, I've resisted all urges to sell my Grand Voyager, and now this comes along:

 

http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/157830/black-lexus-gs300-south-wales

 

It's making me grumpy because I want it.

Better than a Merc in my opinion, unless you lot know different

[STUNO]

Like I've said on here before, I've resisted all urges to sell my Grand Voyager, and now this comes along:

 

http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/157830/black-lexus-gs300-south-wales

 

It's making me grumpy because I want it.

Better than a Merc in my opinion, unless you lot know different

One of the best cars money can buy, seriously underrated and at pounds 450 a good buy !

I am surprised that something does not work on it. No idea about the likelyhood of corrosion underneath though!

[cort16]

More investigations on recently bought 944.....

 

Arrrgh.!!

 

Ouch! Is this the one you bought with recently restored sills?

[gdhaydock]

...and I'm back in the room.

 

 

 

Thanks but no thanks!

I have more on the go than I can shake a stick at. Shite fund empty too.

 

 

Thank you DW.

 

We're only re-connected because we went and confronted the engineers face to face when we spotted them down the road. They had been sent to replace the line for the Orange relay station at our place. That was all they had on their job sheet. They took pity and tied up our line too (temporarily). So all our hours battling through call centres did bugger all!

Orange / EE and BT / Open Reach can FRO

EE were already in our bad books for their absolutely shocking service.

Does anyone have advice about getting compensation out of them?

 

I assume its a BT line, if so compensation varies between whether the line is residential or business, start by raising a complaint with BT and when that (inevitably) goes nowhere, approach the regulator. (more scope for compensation if the line is a business line and you can provide supporting evidence of losing work)

 

In terms of broadband, also living in a remote area, we used to have ADSL which synced at just under 1mb, not brilliant, but usuable. The snow and wind 2 years ago brought the line down and when BT re-connected it, they had re-routed it which made the line too long to support ADSL!

 

I had no choice but to go with a satellite solution, i'm now with a company called  "tooway" I'm on the 2nd up from the basic service - 20mb download speed, 6mb upload, download quota is 20gb / month during peak times, but unlimited overnight. Only downside is it costs a bit more than ADSL (£40 per month), it can suffer from dropouts during snow or thunderstorms, but compared with the sporadic ADSL service we had it has been superb 

[chaseracer]

Arrrgh.!!

 

This has GOT to be one for Trading Standards. If they haven't been shut down...

[Bobthebeard]

Ouch! Is this the one you bought with recently restored sills?

The very one! The guy I bought it from ( a good friend, and all round decent bloke ) bought it in good faith believing the work had been done properly. He is going round to have a word with the garage that did it! He was pretty cross. He has asked me to send the section of outer sill that I cut out to take with him and confront the garage. We will see...

'Twas just expertly applied filler over stuck on patches. No welding at all.

 

Meanwhile I have bought several sheets of Zintec steel and some more gas for the MIG. Happy days.

[Tetleysmooth]

 

I should have made this a thread all of its own.

I went back to the 'urgent care centre' again yesterday, told the nurse behind the window that I'd been there in the morning, about 5.30am, and I'd been booked in already, and if I came here later, I'd be seen straight away. You guessed it. Not booked in. Start all over again. The place was rammed. I told the nurse I'd go to my dentist in the morning. All she said was 'Yeah, ok'.

God bless Queens Hospital, Romford.

I reckon I could get a bar of gold bullion easier than a course of antibiotics.

Yay, that's the end of that!!!

Went to the dentist today, and he pulled the offending tooth out.

I didn't think they could do that with an infection, but apparently they can.

End of a very frustrating saga.

[cort16]

It's worse when you buy something you think is solid and it turns out to be rotten. If you buy something rotten at least you expect the worst. Do these have dirt traps around the sill areas as the sills and wing bottoms are the only bits you seem to see rotting out on them?

[Bobthebeard]

It's worse when you buy something you think is solid and it turns out to be rotten. If you buy something rotten at least you expect the worst. Do these have dirt traps around the sill areas as the sills and wing bottoms are the only bits you seem to see rotting out on them?

Having bought my original 944 knowing it needed new sills etc to restore myself, must admit I did assume this one was solid. Came as a bit of a shock after some poking around.

Anyhoo, having learned to weld acceptably and do all the necessary repairs on the original car, this one will hopefully be an easier* task! Although it does look to be in worse condition.

No real dirt traps as such, but they do seem prone to water/moisture in the sills and rust horribly from the inside out in those areas after twenty years or so. Even though the cars were galvanised.

Fair enough I suppose.

[Junkman]

Having bought my original 944 knowing it needed new sills etc to restore myself, must admit I did assume this one was solid. Came as a bit of a shock after some poking around.

Anyhoo, having learned to weld acceptably and do all the necessary repairs on the original car, this one will hopefully be an easier* task! Although it does look to be in worse condition.

No real dirt traps as such, but they do seem prone to water/moisture in the sills and rust horribly from the inside out in those areas after twenty years or so. Even though the cars were galvanised.

Fair enough I suppose.

I'm a bit surprised, because yes, those are galvanised, so I always presumed rust isn't a concern with these.

Then again, the zinc coat isn't really a protective layer, it just serves as the sacrificial anode. Once used up in certain areas, they probably rot there worse than any Alfasud.

[Junkman]

GS sale is going brilliantly*

Is it on Ebay now, and if yes, where is your unashamed self-promotion?

[ShiteRider]

GS sale is going brilliantly*

Could be worse mate, BMW has a date with the with the cutting torch friday :'(

[skattrd]

Wat - the GS has only been for sale for a couple of days.

It appears to me that anything that isn't "megabarg" takes a while to sell ...  my Saab 900 took months before it eventually sold.

 

I have decided that the HPE needs to go and I'm not expecting that to be sold in 2-3 days. That reminds me, I need to wash & photograph it for the advert.

[Negative Creep]

104 watchers and 0 bids on the 944 so far. Awesome*

[phil_lihp]

Car selling seems to be a strange thing right now.  A £60 Metro attracts only insulting offers, a £100 fully functioning, MOT'd Rover attracts barely one interested party on each of the 3 occasions it's been offered and even on here there's a plethora of cheap, sub-£500 practical and roadworthy cars which are not finding homes, either on here or elsewhere.  It's no surprise that anything closer to £1k which promises to need further investment isn't finding a new home quickly.  That's no downer on the GS or 944, they're both good cars which are probably well worth the asking price to the right person, I suspect however that that right person, while still out there, is a harder chap to find than he was before.  Maybe old cars are scaring off the general public who now expect the computerised safety of a relatively modern car.  It can't be that everyone is broke from the recession, that surely would produce the opposite effect given the price of these cars.

[Bobthebeard]

104 watchers and 0 bids on the 944 so far. Awesome*

I am just hoping* that the values of 944's will go up soon! Hence owning two of them. Convinced Mrs Beard that they are an 'investment' so she allowed the purchase of the recent (rusty) one.

[Bobthebeard]

Car selling seems to be a strange thing right now.  A £60 Metro attracts only insulting offers, a £100 fully functioning, MOT'd Rover attracts barely one interested party on each of the 3 occasions it's been offered and even on here there's a plethora of cheap, sub-£500 practical and roadworthy cars which are not finding homes, either on here or elsewhere.  It's no surprise that anything closer to £1k which promises to need further investment isn't finding a new home quickly.  That's no downer on the GS or 944, they're both good cars which are probably well worth the asking price to the right person, I suspect however that that right person, while still out there, is a harder chap to find than he was before.  Maybe old cars are scaring off the general public who now expect the computerised safety of a relatively modern car.  It can't be that everyone is broke from the recession, that surely would produce the opposite effect given the price of these cars.

Suspect that vanity and 'lifestyle' has had a massive impact on the desirability of older chod. If it's not new or fashionable no one wants it.. If a new movie was released featuring a GS or a 944 etc the values would go up.

Such is the shallowness of today.

[ShiteRider]

Ditto, i need it gone and i need to mitigate my losses.

Sentimentality won't pay my bills.

[Junkman]

If there really was a recession, people at the receiving end would buy cheap cars in droves, and the winners of the crisis would invest in real assets, which classic cars without doubt constitute.

I suspect the problem is slightly different at this time and we are currently facing a kind of market saturation for affordable classics in general.

What I mean by that is that each classic car has a number X people interested in it. If everyone out of X bought one, than the remaining ones will be hard to sell, of course.

So maybe currently everybody who wants a GS or 944 or 900 already has one? Or two? Or three?

 

Apart from this, it has always been tough to sell project cars, when MoT-ed runners can still be had for reasonably little money. People rather spend a bag or two on a runner, than a few hundred quid on a fixer upper.

[Cavcraft]

It's not worth a 5,000 word essay on why things do/don't sell at any given time. It's market forces, time of year, money etc.

[overrun]

Missed out on a 2007 Clio DCi with knackered pump. £600.

[Negative Creep]

Suspect that vanity and 'lifestyle' has had a massive impact on the desirability of older chod. If it's not new or fashionable no one wants it.. If a new movie was released featuring a GS or a 944 etc the values would go up.

Such is the shallowness of today.

 

 

Unless you fancy another one (with less rust) for your previously offered cheeky amount?

[Cavcraft]

Missed out on a 2007 Clio DCi with knackered pump. £600.

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/3563-what-makes-you-grin-antidote-for-grumpy-old-men-please-add/

[inconsistant]

I suspect that in these difficult* times people want certainty more than cheap cars. Even if that certainty is more expensive, at least it's safe and predictable.

 

And once house prices start going back up we can all remortgage and take equity out and spend it on... Etc etc.

[overrun]

http://autoshite.com/topic/3563-what-makes-you-grin-antidote-for-grumpy-old-men-please-add/

Turning a grand profit after repairing it would have had me posting in the other thread.