The grumpy thread

[dollywobbler]

It's why I quit Birmingham. My lovely, metallic silver 306 got keyed. Twice. I had a Citroen Acadiane where a rear window got scratched and a 2CV had a headlamp wrenched off. Scum.

[Cavcraft]

You read Tim's message and you realise your grumps are minor really.

 

Personally (and obviously not aimed at Tim) but in general I'm sick to death of needy people recently. Too many precious little darlings who think the world owes them a favour and we should all fall at their feet and fawn over them. Get over yourself and fuck off with the attention seeking/poor little me routine. I must hasten to add that surprisingly* this mostly applies to Faceache.

[fordperv]

You should come to Merseyside, or more specifically, Woodchurch (or any other places in Merseyside, take your pick). They still key cars round here for no reason.

We have really malicious people living here who for some reason either don't know or don't care how much it would cost to put something like this right. I've put the car in my garage - it's taxed and MOT'd, but I'm going to put it back where it was. It is hardly used, and I think some fat, jobless retarded c*nt must have a problem with it. I'm also going to park it on a slant, because fuck you, it's completely road legal. Someone has also relieved it of it's aerial (who steals aerials?), and also it's wheel dustcaps (of course).

 

 

 

 

 

I'm going to have to respray this lot again (and also fix that lacquer peel).

 

theres still childish little fucktards who do this around stoke as well, someone decided to empty a tin of spaghetti in tomato sauce on the wing of mrs fordpervs rs turbo, the upside is they left the tin by the side of it and it was heinz so at least they bought a decent brand, i wouldve been completely pissed off if it was tesco value stuff

[Station]

The worst thing is I don't know who did it. It could've been kids or grown adults, as that's what they're like round there. I had my Nippa ran across (which still had baby footprints on when I found it), and I deduce that the MGF was keyed by someone between the height of 5'5" and 6' as there's a good lean in over the bonnet to scratch it in comfortably (and quickly).

So when it's sprayed I'm going to put one of those cheap cameras up and then park it sideways in the parking space.

[Craig the Princess]

Really hate using filler, never looks any good despite taking forever to prepare it.

After almost two days working on the Metro's rear quarter the filler is really obvious under the primer so will need to tackle it again after work tomorrow.

 

[cms206]

The housing association. Again.

My bath was replaced on March 28th - EIGHTEEN DAYS after one of the fuckmonkeys from Mears managed to screw through the side of the old one. All was well. Noticed the new bath is also leaking last Thursday. Reported it and was told it "isn't an emergency" by Loretto, so an appointment was made for Mears to come out *again* this afternoon to fix it. My long suffering MIL came to the house at 11.30am so that someone was in the house for the plumber coming. I get home from work at 5.30 to find that no plumber has been. Just phoned Loretto's out of hours office, who in turn phoned Mears out of hours number, who say that no line was issued for a bath repair today, so I have to now phone back after 9am tomorrow to speak to maintainance to make another appointment for another plumber to come out from the brainless fucks at Mears to fix my fucking bath. Again.

I can honestly say that my avatar is a pretty accurate representation of how I currently look.

[Lankytim]

The XM has had a mystery leak of fluid over the last few weeks, it would come and go away as it pleased. Today I managed to finally track down the leak! Turns out it was the injection pump but I still couldn't see exactly where it was leaking from

 

I dug out a spare knackered pump from the boot of a scrapper that I used to inspect/take to bits/ruin and found this likely culprit.

 

 

Sure enough, after moving all the pipework and wiring out the way I spotted the drip-drip of a fuel leak. Unfortunately the seal that needs changing is completely inaccessible without removing the pump. Bah! I bet it costs about 14p or something too.

[Negative Creep]

Another crappy day at work - supposed to see the Employment Support Counsellor on Friday but just realised I had my shifts wrong and here next appointment isn't for weeks. Also that MG Montego ended at £440. Knew I should have thrown a bid in

[purplebargeken]

I asked the local Plod to attend the scene at a local park lake this afternoon as the person I was triaging was very distressed, tearful and had thoughts of ending it all. How may distressed and tearful persons can there be at the local lake of a certain age and sex? Not that many as Plod couldn't find the person. I asked if they had phoned the person on the mobile number that I had provided.

 

No they hadn't. Won't be making detective any time soon then eh? Come back Gene Hunt!

[Bobthebeard]

Really hate using filler, never looks any good despite taking forever to prepare it.

After almost two days working on the Metro's rear quarter the filler is really obvious under the primer so will need to tackle it again after work tomorrow.

 

Either the filler is lifting ( unlikely ) or just not enough work gone into the preparation sadly. Been there and done that etc.

Can look fine until primer is applied, then looks awful. Just needs more sanding using a flexible block and finer grades of wet and dry. Used wet.

[twosmoke300]

LankyTim. I've done loads of those seals on Bosch pumps and it's best to change the plate and bolts too.

Our diesel injection place said it's usually caused by air ingress.

[mat_the_cat]

I was going to have a moan about the council still gritting the roads, but after reading Tim's post it seems incredibly minor. Sorry to read that

[Gerald]

My bath was replaced on March 28th - EIGHTEEN DAYS after one of the fuckmonkeys from Mears managed to screw through the side of the old one. All was well. made for Mears to come out *again* who in turn phoned Mears out of hours number, the brainless fucks at Mears to fix my fucking bath. Again.

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* Shite editing *

 

I was a storeman for a midgesknacker under eight years for Mears (North).

 

If your experience and what I know are accurate, it'll be der management of your local branch who are wholly incompetant and/or the subby cintracted to them.

The lads directly employed by Mears soon find out 'It's Mears way or the highway' and either stand on their morals and fuck off, get fucked off for standing on their morals or give in to easy money (espec. If theyre on price as a lot are).

 

The best response from Mears Group comes from the threat of contacting your MP and an open letter to your local and regional papers.

 

Regards, an ex Mears employee (branch closed, I closed and locked warehouse up when contract finished).

[HillmanImp]

Old choke cable on GT6 broke.

Ordered new cable for GT6 slightly different to old shit one.

Fit new cable through all the shit behind the dash and through bulkhead in a matter of seconds .

Thread on cable outer too short to fit through dash to fit it properly.

Use old cable outer which whilst pretty knackered is probably okay for as long as I will own the car.

Can't thread old cable outer though all the shit behind the dash.

After 25 attempts throw my toys out the pram and go to the pub.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Really hate using filler, never looks any good despite taking forever to prepare it.

After almost two days working on the Metro's rear quarter the filler is really obvious under the primer so will need to tackle it again after work tomorrow.

 

 

Have to agree, that looks shocking!!! Surely it needed another layer of filler and rubbing down, it looks a long way from being ready for primer.

[jakebullet]

My mate brought back the motion controller for my cnc lathe that's taken a month to fix. Plugged it all back in, fired it up, pressed the jog key and stone the crows it only bloody moves! Yes, I am an electrical genius 'cos I worked out which chip was knackered, I'd best go post on the grin thread.

 

Oh.... it doesn't move now. Investigation reveals new chip is now blown in less than five minutes. Bollocks. I'm back to owning a 4K large paperweight.

[beko1987]

Hammer a larger chip over it?

[jonathan_dyane]

I asked the local Plod to attend the scene at a local park lake this afternoon as the person I was triaging was very distressed, tearful and had thoughts of ending it all. How may distressed and tearful persons can there be at the local lake of a certain age and sex? Not that many as Plod couldn't find the person. I asked if they had phoned the person on the mobile number that I had provided.

 

No they hadn't. Won't be making detective any time soon then eh? Come back Gene Hunt!

Last time I did similar they picked up an innocent member of the public under section 136 which must have taken some explaining particularly as they looked completely different...

[dugong]

I'm going to have to respray this lot again (and also fix that lacquer peel).

Stay out of the scrapyards. They're too expensive.

[Lankytim]

LankyTim. I've done loads of those seals on Bosch pumps and it's best to change the plate and bolts too.

Our diesel injection place said it's usually caused by air ingress.

 

 

Any idea where I can get the bits to do it? Its a VP37 I think. That's if I get to that stage, although it's right at the front of the engine it looks like a real ball ache to get off. 

[mat_the_cat]

I've used Diesel Bob before for seal kits - not sure if they'll split a kit for just one seal though.

[twosmoke300]

If you look through your ye olde yellow pages under diesel injection and find your closest Bosch agent . They will prob want to have it in for testing etc but they should just supply the bits if you ask nicely

[Cavcraft]

Direct Diesels just outside Chester are very good.

[beko1987]

 

Was interested in this for a work shitter until the tiny point of no airbags came up. Isnt it illegal to sell a car with blown airbags? Or is it only an auto write off if put through the insurance?

[Mr Lobster]

Its not illegal but you can't sell it and pretend they are there although I'm guessing that that their lack of being there might be reasonably obvious.

[Ratdat]

Jesus Christ man, you'd actually NOT buy a car because of it having no airbags?! If it's still working then gaffer tape the dash back together and get going! One of my cars not only has no airbags but also no seatbelts and a nice hard metal dash to smash your face on. Eeh, you young 'uns don't know you're born. When I were a lad etc...

[Lacquer Peel]

It wouldn't put me off buying a cheap car, as long as it could be bodged through an MOT. DANGEROUS.

[beko1987]

Jesus Christ man, you'd actually NOT buy a car because of it having no airbags?! If it's still working then gaffer tape the dash back together and get going! One of my cars not only has no airbags but also no seatbelts and a nice hard metal dash to smash your face on. Eeh, you young 'uns don't know you're born. When I were a lad etc...

I'm not fussed about airbags where they are not fitted, but selling a car that's laden with them, all blown and neglecting to mention it in the initial advert.

 

I'm not buying it, no. Cost of airbags will be huge and I doubt my mate could overlook big holes where they should be and the airbag light happily shining on the dash!

[beko1987]

Saying that, a quick ebay search reveals they are quite cheap second hand. WCPGW?

 

By the time I've bought the car, replaced everything got it taxed and mot'd though I could buy a tidy ZX with rent and test though...

[meggersdog]

Total jobsworth in Euro car parts today.

I ordered a clutch from their ebay shop,paid through paypal,click and collect from the Peterborough branch.

Got a phonecall earlier "Hello it's Dan from Euro's, the clutch you ordered online is ready for collection"

"Great I'll be in later then" says I.

So I turned up just after 5.30pm (open until 6) and as usual nobody wants to leave their desk to serve a counter customer.Finally someone comes over and I explain I've got a click and collect and that Dan had phoned to say it's here.He asks how am I paying to which I reply it's paid for."what's your 4 digit order number" Erm I don't know.I explain they phoned me on my landline I'd ordered from my business account then asked to speak to Dan."He's not here,gone home.Have you got your passport as ID" What..."You phoned me" I said again."Can't let you have it without the order number or ID" he replies.

Knobhead.

 

When I got home I checked,there is no 4 digit order number.There is a 13 digit transaction number and a 17 digit transaction ID but nowhere does it state I have to bring these numbers with me as proof of payment.