The grumpy thread

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Car insurance.

Having been on classic policies for a number of years I've had some issues insuring the Kia of much hoon due lack of No Claims. I don't understand insurance at all - I was cheaper insuring a 24v 3.0i Senator than I was for a 1.4 Cavalier for example - but can anyone understand this at all?

Tesco via Tesco website: £2158.89

Tesco via Compare the Market: £1533.68

Tesco via Insure Supermarket: £419.71

Am I missing something? I've put exactly the same info on all the pages.

[quicksilver]

^ You're missing the fact that insurance quotes are created by a random number generator and bear no relation to who you are, where you live, what car you drive or anything else us humans might consider relevant. It's no use trying to apply logic because there  isn't any.

[cort16]

The high insurance is because of the KIA prides extensive use on the drift scene.

[320touring]

The high insurance is because of the KIA prides extensive use on the drift scene.

That and the fact this one is registered on the

 

:GAUN LIEK FUCK" list

[Tetleysmooth]

What a poxy week.

 

That's all I've got to say about it really.

[hairnet]

insurance thing happens here

 

bike that does 150 mph and 4 secs to 60 77 quid a year comp

 

basic 1.0 kia c1 alto or even billehs 205 600 quid plus

 

even tho been on the old gits policy for 10 years on the xant and now the honda and its 40 quid or so to put me on

 

WTF

[hairnet]

irish radio peugeot ad

 

pronounced as pew joe

 

even tho after he says it theres a french woman that says it and correctly

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[Pillock]

The receptionist at the Renault dealer in my town used to answer the phone with "Hello, Wheatley's Ren-Ult".

[xtriple]

Acquired more little dents on the doors of the car, think the seagulls are attacking it with little hammers in the dead of night! Off to see the 'dent - man' on Monday to get them all taken away. He's a good lad and does a first rate job so I hope he doesn't need too much cash for the summer holidays!

[quicksilver]

Had a pretty shit week at work but that's not the main reason for the grump. I was cheered up by bumping into the girl I've mentioned before who used to own the Proton, we had a brief chat and then both decided to head home. After crossing the road I remembered it had been raining and my usual route would be wet so I opted to take the alternative route, which was the same way she was going. By this time I was several metres behind her and followed her all the way down the road but couldn't catch up. Why the hell didn't I call out to her so we could walk together? It would have been the perfect chance to have some rare time alone with her. I'm such an idiot when it comes to women

[EssDeeWon]

At least you played it cool quicksilver and didn't do this

 

[MrDuke]

I was several metres behind her and followed her all the way down the road but couldn't catch up.

 

I'm sure if she'd noticed you, it wouldn't have creeped her out at all.

[quicksilver]

I'm sure if she'd noticed you, it wouldn't have creeped her out at all.

Well possibly, but there wasn't any creepy intention and it was pure coincidence she was using my best route to get home. Had I not had so many worries on my mind after the shittiness of this week I would have realised that was the best route straightaway so we would have ended up walking together. What annoys me most is that I probably won't see her for several weeks now as she had just finished her last exam and is almost certainly going home for the holiday and won't be back until next term.

[tooSavvy]

I got the Girl, I got the Proton....

 

I got the Proton much later... but it was at her suggestion.

 

I will not be weighing HER in

 

 

TS

[HillmanImp]

I am in a Virgin media area where its actually on cable yet if I switch to them, they are insisting on charging me £16.99 for a phone line too, despite the fact it the GR8 thing about cable is that you don't need the phone line.

 

Now, I don't mean to suggest that Virgin Media really have not got a clue what they are doing but several years ago they were the first lot to introduce on demand TV as at the time the satellite providers did not have the technology to provide this.Totally missing chance to steal customers away from the other providers, instead of offering this service for free or incorporating it into their overall cost spread across their entire customer base, Virgin decided they best idea would be to charge people through the nose for the one thing that they could offer that others couldn't, so that only a small percentage of people actually accessed the service reeling in what I imagine was a minimal profit on what could have been a massive coup for them. 

 

Now we are here again. Virgin are the one provider who are able to provide services without a landline and they are insisting on using a landline. 

 

I don't want a landline thanks. That takes my monthly bill to £20 more than my current provider talktalk, which is absolutely adequate. Having all the same channels, possibly slightly better broadband (as opposed to my perfectly good broadband) is not worth £240 a year.

 

I am just going to go elsewhere to somewhere cheaper.

[Parky]

The receptionist at the Renault dealer in my town used to answer the phone with "Hello, Wheatley's Ren-Ult".

Local place diversified into Kia and Seat. I have a Seat and needed some service bits so called them up.

 

"Which department do you need?"

"Say-at parts please"

"Sorry sir, we don't do them. We cover Ford, Mazda, Kia, and SEET"

 

If you can't pronounce the name it kind of dents confidence, doesn't it? Might go all Fonejacker on them and tell them my APP-LAY IP-HONE won't connect to my UsBa

[HillmanImp]

Have signed up with Sky for the first time. Will see how that pans out. 

[Pillock]

 

Have signed up with Sky for the first time. Will see how that pans out. 

 

Probably fine, I've been on them for 6 months now and once I'd had all thirteen phone calls to ask me to sign up for extra services (including one woman who kept asking what I liked to watch, favourite films, really trying to be overenthusiastic before launching into a Sky Broadband sales pitch) it was alright.

 

They will try every trick to upsell you though. Even through "well, you own the equipment so have you considered accidental damage cover". "What, for the box that sits in a closed cabinet under my TV? I can't even see it let alone spill water on it or drop it down the stairs". "It also covers you for breakdown" "So do various bits of legislation..."

 

And don't sign up for a "free" trial of Sky Go Extra. It's free for a month, but there's a thirty day cancellation period so they're guaranteed one month's payment.

[beko1987]

We have Sky and unless Virgin get their arse in gear will probably stay for now.

 

Was a bit of a hoo ha cancelling the hd to save £15 a month but saying no 8 times worked and he cancelled it!

 

We've had the breakdown cover pitch, I declined as should the worse happen I can replace the hard drive/buy a whole 'new' box for less than 3 months payment... A full planner rebuild sorts the issues out that occur after it pulls a software update down...

[AlabamaShrimp]

Have signed up with Sky for the first time. Will see how that pans out.

They they've just ballsed up my Internet. Been with them for years and it's really slow so decided as it's 6 months free I'll upgrade* to fibre. Date for the change over its the 22nd. Except today they've switched off my broadband at about 4 o'clock.

 

No light on the router, wife on the outer for ages messing with things, just to be sure*,and they insist they haven't turned it off. Shame I used to fix computers and know they are talking crap. Needless to say they are getting someone cleverer to ring back tomorrow

[Pillock]

I've got Virgin internet/phone and Sky TV - because it was the cheapest way of doing it. I originally tried to cancel my whole Virgin package, I was on a half price staff deal but they've been sneaking it up by a fiver a couple of times a year, to the point I was only paying about seven quid a month less than non-offer prices. At that point we got a Sky deal at work, half price, so I called Virgin to cancel everything and I was going to pay full whack Sky broadband and phone too - they were quite honest, they couldn't beat £16.50 a month for all the TV channels but they could do me 100Mb broadband and a phone line for £21. Which is better than Sky Fibre was, so I stayed. It does mean I have fallback systems - if Sky dies, I can watch Netflix/iPlayer etc.

 

Pisses me off that Virgin now demand that you take a phone line to get broadband - it's not a necessary part of their system, the broadband signal is completely separate unlike ADSL which actually needs the phone line to get to your house. It's just fucking greedy. As of 1st July 0800 numbers are free from all mobiles, so that's the one last reason I ever used a landline out of the window.

[UmBongo]

Attention insects!

 

Stop having sex on my car, you disgusting little mutants.

[HillmanImp]

I've got Virgin internet/phone and Sky TV 

 

I tried doing it that way round by mixing and matching different things as I thought it would work out cheaper but ended up getting Sky for half the price Virgin were offering pretty much the same thing. Its a 12 month contract and its 'cheap' for 12 months so at the end of the term I can just get the missus to sign up for another 12 months and so on.

 

Will see how it pans out. Have heard bad things about Skys t'interweb but I am sure that cant be for everyone. 

[beko1987]

Ours has been solid internet wise tbh. The supplied router is crap (no gbp lan port and wireless g only) but the only big outage we have had is when the main cable at hemel got cut and the whole line was off then!

 

We get 8mb, but unlimited uncapped downloads so it balances it out. Cant afford fibre, and tbh i dont think id use it to its full potential.

[Cavcraft]

Looks like I was wrong again. The third lane of the motorway IS for very important people, especially the weapons grade bellend in the white Volvo (XC?) 4x4 who was attempting to do 317mph in the absolute pissing rain/limited visibility on the M6 earlier. 

[purplebargeken]

Oh bollocks. I have nothing to grump about at this very moment! Ah, um. 

[Sigmund Fraud]

The local VW stealership has made me very grumpy today... I had ordered an (admittedly obscure) part for Mrs.F's daily. I gave them the chassis number, the part number, and even pointed at the actual part on their ETKA screen to make sure they wouldn't get it wrong.

 

They told me they would "DEFINITELY" get the correct part, there's "NO WAY" they could get the wrong part with all the information I'd given them, and it would "CERTAINLY" arrive in three working days.

 

Naturally, it's taken them three fucking weeks to get the wrong fucking part... How bloody difficult can it be ? Arghhhhhhhhh !

[Skizzer]

Picked up an official Rover workshop manual for the SD1 at the rather excellent Llangollen Motor Museum autojumble shop last weekend, and today I looked up how to change the speedo cable.

 

Sure enough, there it is in the contents: speedometer cable assembly - remove and refit, section 88.30.06.  Yay!

 

Except there's nothing between 88.30.01 and 88.30.21.  Fucksticks.  And no, there isn't a page missing, they're opposite sides of the same sheet.

 

Bloody Rover Group.  If they're not careful they'll go out of business at this rate.

[Vladimir Putin]

Picked up an official Rover workshop manual for the SD1 at the rather excellent Llangollen Motor Museum autojumble shop last weekend, and today I looked up how to change the speedo cable.

 

Sure enough, there it is in the contents: speedometer cable assembly - remove and refit, section 88.30.06.  Yay!

 

Except there's nothing between 88.30.01 and 88.30.21.  Fucksticks.  And no, there isn't a page missing, they're opposite sides of the same sheet.

 

Bloody Rover Group.  If they're not careful they'll go out of business at this rate.

 

Is not real workshop manual, is old KGB code book.  You people still not realise that SD1 was brilliant KGB plan to destablise West? 

 

Also, speedometer cable just a cable.  Run from gearbox, next to engine, to speedometer, right in front of face when drive car.  What you need manual for?  Decadent Western idiot.

[Lacquer Peel]

The local VW stealership has made me very grumpy today... I had ordered an (admittedly obscure) part for Mrs.F's daily. I gave them the chassis number, the part number, and even pointed at the actual part on their ETKA screen to make sure they wouldn't get it wrong.

 

They told me they would "DEFINITELY" get the correct part, there's "NO WAY" they could get the wrong part with all the information I'd given them, and it would "CERTAINLY" arrive in three working days.

 

Naturally, it's taken them three fucking weeks to get the wrong fucking part... How bloody difficult can it be ? Arghhhhhhhhh !

 

Have you tried tapping the part number into eBay? My local VW dealer have always been good at sourcing parts for me, might be worth trying them if you get stuck. Hawco Inverness on 01463 236111, ask for parts. They will post stuff out as well.