The grumpy thread

[daveb47]

Alternator fucked on volvo,stopped for petrol,wouldnt restart.

got home eventually but thats me fucked till i can afford a replacement.

[EssDeeWon]

Good point. The car is 10 years old. I do like it, but I'm not bothered if it gets written off, as long as I get the right money. If I'd been in the Rover instead, I reckon it'd be curtains, and then I would be jolly pissed off.

 

Following the recent cases on the Rover 75 forum the general concensous now is to keep hold of your car keys after a minor bump and dont let them take the car away, because as I say some fellow owners had their very nice 75s written off and not returned. And for really minor bumps / scrapes. Then offered peanuts for their pride and joy cos all 75s are worthless in the insurers eyes.

 

[ruffgeezer]

Alternator fucked on volvo,stopped for petrol,wouldnt restart.

got home eventually but thats me fucked till i can afford a replacement.

 

What volvo do you have now then Dave?

[D Spares & Tyres]

I really want my car to be written off in a minor way. Had a 306 I had just cleaned up to sell. A truck scraped both doors. Was his first day on the job!   They paid me out £500 and I kept the car.

 

Put more doors on and sold it for £400

 

They said they would of given me more but it was already a cat d write off when I bought it.

 

Could do with more accidents like that

[Lord Sterling]

Forgot my phone at work, went back after I'd noticed it had gone and the place was shut. And this isn't just any day, this is bank holiday weekend.

[strangeangel]

Could do with more accidents like that

 

Bought Skoda Felicia for £500. Car was complete dog shit, persevered with it until some utter cabbage put a crease all along one side of it trying to force her way back in after a very fast, ill-advised overtake. Insurance offers £1450   I accept. I buy the car back for £140 but they never ask for the money. Clutch fails (surprise sur-fucking-prise) a couple of months later and I weigh it in for £80. Yes, sometimes accidents can be your friend.

[fordperv]

The whole accident thing reminds me of my old pepper red 1.8si escort, i paid £400 as a cheap trade in, an old fella ran a junction and crashed into it damaging the bumper, bonnet and headlight, got cat C paid me £1100 and the car, I already had a spare bonnet, bumper and light in the right colour from one i broke so put them on drove it around and sold it a bloke I know who needed a cheap car for £450 what a winner that was

[michael1703]

This evening and now with a fully charged battery, after several minutes of cranking it finally splutters into life. Take it for a run round the block (about a mile and a half all in), glance down at the gauges on getting home and the temp gauge is almost in the red. My first thought is that it's pissed out all its water while it's been sat, but flicking the fan on reveals that the heater is blowing hot so it can't be that low. Left it for a while to cool down and took the rad cap off - turns out it was low on coolant (it drank about two litres before it was full again), but the rad is also full of a nasty-looking brown sludge, which I'm pretty sure wasn't there before. So now I'm worrying that I have early-onset OMGHGF, although there's no sign of water in the oil. I'm going to take it for a spin tomorrow night and see if topping up the coolant has sorted it, but I'm not holding my breath. It's due for its MOT in a couple of weeks too.

Brown sludge isn't too bad the rad cap isn't a rad cap but a header tank cap, try filling from the plug on the thermostat housing

[UmBongo]

 

 

Mr Fat Man got out of the van with a fucking SAUSAGE in his hand. "Sorry mate didn't see you!"

 

 

Surely if he was eating a sausage while at the wheel that's classed as careless driving?

 

The stupid fat bastard should have been strangled at birth.

[STUNO]

Headline n today's paper.

Man spent $15 million at casino while on dole.

 

Can I get on the dole too please ?

F*%k off, you stay on the pension matey.

Fortunately it was the report on a major drugs cartel members trial.

 

And on a different theme I will be feeling sad for the way fellow local shiter jon will be at about this moment, he is taking part in a firefighters charity race wearing full gear and carrying 25kg of equipment running up the stairway of Auckland Sky tower. That is serious pain !

Good luck Jon....

EDIT... Just checked and there are 1103 steps to the top.

[Noel Tidybeard]

Alternator fucked on volvo,stopped for petrol,wouldnt restart.

got home eventually but thats me fucked till i can afford a replacement.

ah but at least that means another ovlov DID make it to work today

[Tetleysmooth]

I wish these bloody radio show presenters would stop banging on about the bank holiday weekend.

 

'Ah, we've got a nice long weekend coming up, people'.

 

Not if you're working in retail you haven't.

 

I'm working tonight (Saturday), and Monday.

 

So, radio show presenters STFU.

[quicksilver]

Has anyone else noticed Flickr's latest brilliant* idea - using image recognition to automatically generate 'relevant' tags for every photo. Great in theory but there is no opt-out and it isn't very accurate. It seems unable to identify buses and coaches and variously tags them as 'truck', 'car' or 'train' - most of my photos are of them so I now have almost 6000 photos that are tagged wrongly and there is no way to batch remove these tags, which is just GR0.

 

I work in a university department that specialises in image recognition research and the consensus from experts there is that the technology is not yet anywhere near accurate enough for uses like this so why are they imposing such a poor system on all their users? Yet another nail in the coffin of what was once a great photo sharing site before Yahoo ruined it with their 'improvements'.

[cort16]

Yahoo seems to be on a mission to make all software related to them totally unusable.

[JohnDeere]

I wish these bloody radio show presenters would stop banging on about the bank holiday weekend.

 

'Ah, we've got a nice long weekend coming up, people'.

 

Not if you're working in retail you haven't.

 

I'm working tonight (Saturday), and Monday.

 

So, radio show presenters STFU.

To be fair, radio and TV is another industry where bank holidays don't exist - so they'll have to work anyway.

[HillmanImp]

Driving up to wash the Jag this morning and a paramedic came past only to stop 200m up the road. I looked and there were a load of cars parked up and behind this LR Defender parked on the path there was a chap lying on the floor with someone pumping on his chest trying to resuscitate him. 

 

I cleaned the car and came back and by then there was another ambulance on the scheme but they were still trying, so it didn't look good. 

 

Grim as. Wish I had just left the car looking dirty now although I am very glad I didn't drive up there 10 minutes earlier.   

[TRW]

Come dine with me......I've been forced to this as Mrs TRW is into cooking. So not me, ok.

 

Perthshire tonight with spoilt cunt Jenna Black, who acts like a Princess.

 

She covered her carpet with polythene when it was her night presenting because she didn't want people walking on her newish carpet in shoes or spilling food. However, when it was a contestants night she had a hisseyfit and slammed a knife and fork end on into a fancy table that was easily five times he cost of her carpet.

 

Total bastard.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Hang on..... Are you grumping about flippin 'come dine with me'????? FFS man give yourself a shake!

[TRW]

My life is content, apart from that shower of shit on C4/E4/Moar4/Bore4 Mr Nads.

[Lord Sterling]

Lol! You're actually going to be on TV? Brill!

 

This is HAVE to watch. Old ma watches 'Come dine with me' on the ole' tellybox. I shall be keeping an eye out for a fella who likes Rovers and owner of a T***JOP plated Rover 75

[richardmorris]

Some great fat wanker in a Transit ran into my Jag this morning. Doesn't look to be any damage, but I'm getting it looked at regardless, as the van's bumper is pushed in quite a bit.

 

Mr Fat Man got out of the van with a fucking SAUSAGE in his hand. "Sorry mate didn't see you!"

 

"You weren't looking fat boy, too interested in yer breakfast by the look of it" I replied. If I hadn't had the car in P he'd have shoved me on to the main Newtownabbey-Belfast Road.

 

Dickwad.

How can you not see a bright red jag?

[Ghosty]

Yahoo seems to be on a mission to make all software related to them totally unusable.

see also Tumblr, they've buggered that up too, despite repeat complaints from the userbase, on a large scale.

[Lankytim]

Busted for speeding through Welshpool in the Multipla today. 42 in a 30! Coppers were nice though, and they got me fair and square. Too fast for a speed awareness course... maybe too fast for 3 points?

[skattrd]

Busted for speeding through Welshpool in the Multipla today. 42 in a 30! Coppers were nice though, and they got me fair and square. Too fast for a speed awareness course... maybe too fast for 3 points?

 

Nope, that should be a straight 3 points and a fine ... unless rules have changed in the last 5 years

[HH-R]

Yahoo have totally bought into the web 2.0 "use java script for everything" bollocks, now flickr brings my 3 ghz quad core PC to its knees if there's more than about 5 tabs open just showing pictures. Total crock of shite.

 

I don't think there are words for how much it blows goats now.

[wuvvum]

Cars have been continuing to piss me off today.  I have now pulled every single fucking fuse and relay on the Mondeo and still can't find what's causing the current drain.  I even pulled all the block connectors out of the fuse board in case I'd inadvertantly missed a fuse, but the multimeter sat resolutely at 4.7A.  I'm running out of ideas - the only thing I can think of is the alternator, but that's nearly new so shouldn't be causing problems.  Unfortunately I wasn't able to pull the alternator cable and see if the reading dropped, as the retaining nut on the back of the alternator is impossible to get to from above, and the alternator lead is the main lead running into the battery terminal, with the starter motor lead bolted on the side, so I couldn't pull it off from the battery end without disconnecting the live terminal which would reset the current drain anyway.

 

So I gave up on that and decided to do a job I've been meaning to do for ages - get under the van for a good poke around, which I haven't done since the autumn.  Over the last 8 months or so, the back half of the nearside inner sill has completely rotted out, and the screwdriver went straight through it.  The nearside front outrigger has gone too, and the offside one is well on its way.  I feel an expensive MOT coming up.

 

I tipped a bottle of rad flush into the MG and took it for a drive - it's still behaving itself from a temperature point of view, but while manoeuvring it back into its parking spot (the neighbours had come home whilst I was out), there were some worrying clunking noises when going from lock to lock.  I'm hoping it's not worn kingpins as those are a right PITA.  It's got to go in for a test within the next few weeks so I guess I'll find out soon enough...

[beko1987]

Sometimes I wish google hadn't been invented!

 

Missus Moog has banned kippers, waffle stomping* and any other retaliation.

 

Fingers crossed will be last time I see him today. Shame I have left a manky sofa in the garden, left about 8 alloy wheels on the front lawn, Hoovers every where and the floors filthy.**

 

 

*wasn't explicitly stated that waffle stomping was out. I applied man logic

 

**I am not a gypsy. It will all be cleaned today, but after his viewings.

Hoovers everywhere sounds like an average day at mine...

[fred]

How can you not see a bright red jag?

He was pleasuring himself with sausage in a Tranny at the time

[jakebullet]

Went for a 'nice easy 3 mile walk' with my mentals group. For reasons unknown my arse now hurts a metric fuckton.

 

Exercise: just say no.

[Noel Tidybeard]

I have now pulled every single fucking fuse and relay on the Mondeo and still can't find what's causing the current drain.  I even pulled all the block connectors out of the fuse board in case I'd inadvertantly missed a fuse, but the multimeter sat resolutely at 4.7A.  I'm running out of ideas - the only thing I can think of is the alternator, but that's nearly new so shouldn't be causing problems.  Unfortunately I wasn't able to pull the alternator cable and see if the reading dropped, as the retaining nut on the back of the alternator is impossible to get to from above, and the alternator lead is the main lead running into the battery terminal, with the starter motor lead bolted on the side, so I couldn't pull it off from the battery end without disconnecting the live terminal which would reset the current drain anyway.

 

does that include any under bonnet fuses- there can be some sneaky ones hiding