The grumpy thread

[fred]

I dream of a car that hasn't got fucking fucked with wiring. I could fucking well throttle the bell end who snipped the multitude of wiring in my Astra. What a prick. It's taken a week every evening to reconnect everything up properly and I'm getting power to nothing still. All the power to the thick red wires and black ones are deader than previous owners car meddling skills, the big useless twat!

Aye had the same with a Cortina fitted with a Scorpio engine,bought it blind off fleabay, and fuck me fitted the engine fine, decided to cut every fucking wire he didnt know where to fit bloody great Joey Deakin

Spent an age working it out, got a decent amount done, but one day got that pissed off just fucked it off again - me and electrics dont marry well together

[Station]

I've soldered and shrink wrapped about 80 wires - he had snipped a load behind the dashboard. How hard is it to solder deep inside a dark dashboard? Hand burningly impossible that's how.

The 40 pin alarm/immobiliser plug had also been snipped off, there was no need to do this! I spent two nights rewiring this son of a twat up. The Saab Astra was a breeze compared to this, and that was a fucking nightmare.

[twosmoke300]

I feel your pain . I had to solder / heatshrink about 20 wires that go into the bootlid of a e61 Beemer estate . Only thing was I had to do it through a speaker hole in the headlining while lieing like a dying fly in the boot . Googles were no good when doing such fiddly work so it was dodgy as fook

[JohnDeere]

Gutted for you - hope it does'nt break the bank.

Gutted for you - hope it does'nt break the bank.

There was a thing on Watchdog about these Bimmer chains being made of licourice. Known design issue, which means they might cough up towards the repair if you ask in the right way.

[xtriple]

It's so fucking dark and raining so hard that the dogs think it's night time and have gone back to bed... I'm thinking they may have the right idea!

[dollywobbler]

Jeremy Corbyn is great, but he's going to be destroyed by the dominant right wing media in this country. All that matters is what shit-for-brains read in the Sun or Daily Mail.

If he is elected leader I hope he turns Labour into an actual opposition party instead of the Tory-lite party they've become.

 

Aye. If the major reason given by the Labour party against Corbyn is that major donors might be put off, that tells you all you need to know about how democratic democracy is in this country. And where the major parties' interests lie. No, not doing the right thing - just keeping the exceedingly wealthy happy. Given how utterly knackered the Lib Dems are, Labour could do well to steer to the left and away from the Tory-lite idiocy of Blair and co.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

There was a thing on Watchdog about these Bimmer chains being made of licourice. Known design issue, which means they might cough up towards the repair if you ask in the right way.

Unfortunately that's the 2.0 , I bought the 3.0 because they're bulletproof*. Pity I don't need it for its ballistic protection qualities,just its abilities to drive me from A-B ,like, for example, a manky old Rover that's showing almost exactly the same 180,000 on the clock

[twosmoke300]

Was it not noisy before it went ?

[wuvvum]

I have too many cars and not enough space.

 

I have just had a second chance offer on a Vel Satis which I placed a very cheeky bid on a couple of weeks ago. 

 

FFS.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Was it not noisy before it went ?

No, no rattles nothing. It was running 100% normal, with no concerns at all. I fully expected it to last for at least another 100,000, with maybe a turbo along the way. Looking on line,there are a few instances of 3.0's shitting themselves, usually 730's and often at quite low miles.

Off to garage now, they were going to have a proper look this morning.

[Noel Tidybeard]

I must admit to a rye smile,as she is normally a very careful driver and gives me shit for speed or taking a chance.

this needs to filed carefully for future use

[Noel Tidybeard]

got away from work at 1pm today, and a straight run home without any hold ups.

 

so why a grump?

 

my gaffer says i'm not allowed to fuck off early, not unless i take a 1/2 days holiday, cos apparently it upsets the natural rhythm of the drawing office, or some other such shit.

 

more likely someone has been whinging at my boss (robert fucking berry i guess)about me going early in spite of the fact that i live 145 miles away from the office and don't see home during the week.and the traffic later on in a friday afternoon on the M1 is friggin' terrible later in the afternoon.

 

i did the god damn hours needed, and all i want to do is get home, not sit on a jam for 3 fucking hours.

 

i should tell 'em to shove the job up their collective arses and get a job stacking shelves at asda's. at least i'll be at home more.

 

wankers.

book 1/2 day and take the morning off as well

[MarvinsMom]

i've got 3 day of holidays left, so getting closer to xmas i will be having a series of 1/2 days off every other week, and as i'll have the time accrued i have every intention of fucking off home at around 10.30am.

 

the drawing office do this, and i work damn need the same hour, so fuck 'em, fuck 'em with bells on, that is what i'm going to be doing.

 

and i do hope it inconveniences them as i really love* my job.

 

wankers.

[scaryoldcortina]

Ugh, bloody mobile phone contract. I've been trying to leave my current provider for a while now, I was on a 2 year sim only contract which was fine when I had a regular "dumb" phone but weapons grade rubbish for the smartphone I've finally accepted the need for. Main problem being 15p/mb data charge.... after an eighty quid bill I tried to change that to a bundle (still a bit shit at £12.99+vat for 256mb but better than nothing) but they didn't do it, another big bill arrived.

 

I thought well F it. 3 months left, I can live with paying two sets of rental.... Went and got another sim free contract somewhere else for less money and more data (and free texts/minutes) I assumed that I could transfer my number (same since 1998) between the two, after all I transferred it in, why can't I have it back?

 

Turns out mobile numbers aren't like a personal plate. Getting and using a PAC code to move *MY* number off their poxy sim would terminate the contract and incur a £75+vat charge. I also had to give 3 months written notice to cancel or it was going to roll on for an extra year. Gits.

 

anyway, I ended up with two phones. One that takes incoming calls on my main number, and one that I make calls/do internet etc on. PITA but livable. Until last weekend, when the sim messed up - phone has signal, says it's on network but doesn't ring or recieve texts. Between thursday and monday I didn't know... Monday consisted of everyone telling me my phone was broken.

 

I complained. Their "solution" is to send me another sim for the last 3 weeks. I complained again. They still won't budge. The sim hasn't arrived, but a bill for £15+vat has. I still have no phone on my main number.

 

I complained again. I now have a PAC code to migrate my number with, but I can't use it until august 12th without getting the termination charge. I escalated the complaint again, waiting to hear back.

 

 

 

 

tl:dr - if a company called UNICOM call you offering high quality business telecomms, tell them no thanks. Or put the phone next to a car horn or something, I dunno. B'stards.

[skattrd]

tl:dr - if a company called UNICOM call you offering high quality business telecomms, tell them no thanks. Or put the phone next to a car horn or something, I dunno. B'stards.

 

My local garage use Unicom, I advised against them, and so did his wife, but hey ho ... we'll see what happens.

 

I was going to suggest getting a dual sim phone so you can have 2 phone numbers, your old SIM for receiveing and making calls and the other one for data. As there's only 3 weeks left, it's probably not worth it.

[scaryoldcortina]

My local tyre guy has just got a punycom contract - he was on the phone to them while I was there the other day. He went for the SUPER DELUXE sim and phone contract, they sent him an iPhone 4 that won't work with the sim they sent.

[Slappy]

Yeah, losing a front wiper in the middle of a cloudburst wasn't the most fun ever...

 

Fortunately I recently Rain-X'd the screen, so was able to proceed with caution to the nearest 'Frauds, oh well.

[MarvinsMom]

You know it was Thursday yesterday, right? Could have something to do with it.

 

yes, i was on holidays today (friday) cos today i am 41 years old.....

 

had a pleasant afternoon in the pub, steak an chips for me tea and some more slurps.

 

and i still hate my job and work for wankers.

[scaryoldcortina]

Belated happy birthday from me then!

 

I'm grumpy because my first early night in a while just got rudely interupted by the cat releasing a mouse into my bed.

 

Caught the mouse and released it onto the field but CATS ARE ASSHOLES.

[Pillock]

My cat has pissed on the carpet, which has soaked through to the underlay. Brilliant. Everyone* loves a piss smelling house.

[Tetleysmooth]

Had a real poxy night at work last night.

Three stores in London. Pissing hard with rain. More traffic than I've seen in a dogs' age.

Blackfriars, Waterloo and Brixton Hill.

 

So, had my break at Brixton and decided to use the South Circular Rd to return to base. Big mistake. 11 o'clock at night by now.

Roadworks in Thurlow Park Road, near Tulse Hill. Mega traffic.

Duly queued up at the four way lights. They were taking forever.

A biker, as they do, went right to the front of the queue, not got a problem with that, but his bike promptly shat itself.

So, what did he do? Rather than just wheel his bike to tthe kerb, he just sat in front of everyone trying to start it. We missed a complete cycle of the lights while he was effing about.

A bit of common sense wouldn't go amiss mate.

[Asimo]

 

Electric cars don't have a gearbox so don't refer to their transmission as "automatic" 

If you have to put something in that box try "None".

[dave21478]

One of my neighbours is an odious right wing old cunt older gentleman from a different epoch, when slapping the wife about was de rigeur and after dinner conversation was often about "bloody fuzzywuzzies/damned arabs getting uppity".

However, he has impeccable automotive taste, with a daily 205 dizzler and in the garage two Panhard dynas, a 4CV and some kind of Simca I cant get a close look at under its tarp.

 

One of the dynas has that "recently restored" look to its paintjob, but the other is its original grey with 50 years of lovely hard earned patina and no real rot at all.

 

This morning he is outside painting it with a 4" paintbrush and a tin of hammerite. And to add insult to idiocy he is doing it parked under a pine tree on a windy day.

 

 

 

 

 

[dollywobbler]

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Electric cars don't have a gearbox so don't refer to their transmission as "automatic" 

If you have to put something in that box try "None".

 

If you're going to be pedantic, they DO have a gearbox. With just one speed.

[cort16]

Getting my Cortina in my lockup is a fucker as my Cortina doesn't fit in straight on into the lockup by about 7mm. The only way to make it fit is to reverse it in then put it on trolleys so I can move it around. The slight problem being I lent my dad (who lives 120 miles away) my good 2 ton jack. 

The result was I had to jack it up on my shitey old 20 quid 1 ton jack, which has no handle or certainly none I could find. I tried various bars and and old broom handles none of, which worked so after an hour of pissing around I had to cut a slice out the jack and weld in an old steel table leg. 

 

Seemed to work okay.

[dollywobbler]

Had my afternoon ruined by a beautiful chugger. I let my defences slip, as we were at a Carnival, and I wasn't expecting chugging tactics. Lots of bucket shacking going on by people who've made a bit of effort - and earnt their donations - that's fair enough. It's a fund-raising carnival. I didn't respond very well to having some paid bint trying to guilt trip me and a friend into handing over our bank details for the RNLI. Sob story, sob story, poor hardworking volunteers out in all weathers etc. My friend calmly asked "are you a volunteer?" I think she realised a positive result was unlikely at this point. We did throw a few quid in a bucket - happy in the knowledge that she didn't earn it. I really do find it hard to say just how much I hate chuggers. It's a lot though.

 

Also, the PA was a bit crap. Far too much bass - nasty bass. It also made a really good choir sound like someone scraping nails down a blackboard. Nice work! I gave up and went home.

[scaryoldcortina]

Dolly, if you really want to support the RNLI I suggest you buy this.

 

http://handh.co.uk/Auctions/14-10-2015-ImperialWarMuseumDuxford-1392/1960Ferrari250GTSWB-39917.aspx

 

and then use it to shop for bread and milk.

[beko1987]

Put a hoover back together that worked fine before, and the motor died. Fucking thing, means ive got to have it hanging around for longer, was hoping to advertise it soon

[Timewaster]

Not wishing to belittle their heroic efforts but I have heard from more than one source that the RNLI are not short of cash at all and that there are charities far more worthy of your hard earned.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

If you're going to be pedantic, they DO have a gearbox. With just one speed.

I use the same argument that I've had with people who claim their M5 isn't an auto it's an MSG or whatever.

If you turned up at your driving test in a Leaf,M5 or even a C- Matic GS, you would not get a licence to drive manual cars.

I have no idea what would happen with pre-selectors or old DS' with the GBH.