The grumpy thread

[vulgalour]

Just got some sad news from my dad - a woman I went to school with (and had a massive crush on when we were about 14) has been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour which is likely to kill her within a year. FFS, she's only 44!

That's miserable news.

[RobT]

I'll join in with the insurance grumps. Been looking at replacing the 75 with an HH-R, so a smaller car with similar giffer tendencies. Elephant want another £103 to swap it over. WTF? Their cancellation admin fee is £40 or something so I may just do that and sod off back to pre-96 land where classic insurance is a lot more straightforward, and cheaper. Shame really as the car in question is a T-series 420 being sold locally.

[tooSavvy]

..But absolutely don't put a damp items in the pile before you head to the weigh shop, if you can find one.

We have a 'weigh in' shop, just down Wallsend high street.

 

Hmmm.. A factor in my car insurance premium rating, I wonder?

 

TS

[Aston Martin]

I forgot to tell you about part of my medical. I was honest and for the first time declared that I need glasses for driving. I brought my glasses and prescription... Pointless, I assumed he'd ask me to read the usual chart at a distance. I assumed wrong, because I was honest I had to go to specsavers for a stamp.

 

My prescription was from December 22nd, "that's over 6 months, we'll have to do checks and the stamp is £10."

 

20 minutes later, I do some weird pupil squiggly line, clicker test. I try and pay and the card machine uses the phone line, all the phones are being used, so it won't go through. 5 minutes later. I'm all sorted.

 

 

I don't know who organised this racket, but I'd like to get in on it.

[UltraWomble]

TBH There is so much I am grumpy with right now I wish that I could fuck right off and live in the middle of nowhere with no one else for miles around.

 

Trouble is unless I move to deepest Wales I cant afford to do that.

[chaseracer]

I don't know who organised this racket, but I'd like to get in on it.

Everything's a feckin racket, and most people are sheep.

 

[Station]

There's power though as the clock is working. I went to try it again and nothing happened. As in no lights on the dash and no noises. The clock went off and reset.

 

Will take the battery off and charge it though I don't know why as it was fine this morning.

 

If nothing then I'll have to get an auto electrician in

Power to accessories is on a different circuit to dashboard and alternator and starter. The battery bulb goes straight to the alt.

[purplebargeken]

 

 

TBH There is so much I am grumpy with right now I wish that I could fuck right off and live in the middle of nowhere with no one else for miles around.

 

I hear you brother, do I fucking hear you.

 

Falling Down is where I am about a gnat's bollock hair from.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Power to accessories is on a different circuit to dashboard and alternator and starter. The battery bulb goes straight to the alt.

Too it off and within about 5 minutes the charger was showing a green light. Water in one of the cells was lowish so topped it up and the car started ok

 

So it's a buggered battery. As far as I know, they don't make square pins one anymore

[Sloth in a bowl]

Too it off and within about 5 minutes the charger was showing a green light. Water in one of the cells was lowish so topped it up and the car started ok

 

So it's a buggered battery. As far as I know, they don't make square pins one anymore

 

 

There's a part for that at http://www.eurocarparts.com/battery-terminal cheap to.

[cort16]

I decided to take the wing off my Cortina to make welding up the floor a bit easier.

 

Oldcarcrap by cort16, on Flickr

 

Hmm, I don't believe I ordered the crispy fried A - pillar. Balls.

 

Oldcarcrap by cort16, on Flickr

 

So I'll be taking the door off tomorrow then? I hope to fuck the door mountings are okay. 

[beko1987]

Lick its headlights, thatll show it...

[dollywobbler]

I have man flu. There, that's a proper feeble grump.

[twosmoke300]

Would you like a lemsip and a cuddle ?

[twosmoke300]

 

 

Or some of these perhaps?

[skattrd]

If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it in dictionary... Somewhere between shit and syphilis.

[dollywobbler]

Would you like a lemsip and a cuddle ?

 

My sister-in-law made me a Lemsip last night. I actually asked her if she'd put the powder in as it just tasted like hot water to me...

 

I would like a cuddle, but Mrs DW is doing a jigsaw and keeping her distance instead. Leaving me free to peruse Ebay...

[beko1987]

I had to man up and work through my cold, since sneezing all my sinal fluid out though ive been fine!

[purplebargeken]

I get one cold a year, always at fecking christmas. 100% guaranteed. 

[EssDeeWon]

I get one cold a year, always at fecking christmas. 100% guaranteed. 

 

Same here, every year. I am always dog rough in that bit between christmas and new year.

[twosmoke300]

 

 

Memememememememe

[AlabamaShrimp]

There's a part for that at http://www.eurocarparts.com/battery-terminal cheap to.

Ta will get some anyway then it doesn't matter what I get for any of the Fiestas.

 

Might get an alternator too as it sounded a bit noisy and I'm sure when it was tested a few months ago at college they said it was a bit weak

[mk1_4dr]

The fanbelt snapped on the 940. That I can't be grumpy about, I've not put a new one on in 3year/20-oddK and I've had it off and on plenty of times, no the belt snapping was just one of those automotive inevitabilities.

 

However... and I know this has been covered a 1000times but it made me grumpy nevertheless... Halfords.

 

Since when did they stop stocking car parts? Not a single fanbelt in the building, no plugs, no filters, nada. Screen wash, wiper blades, polish and oil (but no filters...!)
The chap on the counter was most apologetic, but that doesn't help me get any electric back into my car though does it? 

I know they have to diversify with bikes and camping gear to keep afloat but it seems perverse to have disregarded the core of their business model like that... I was desperate and would've handed over £15 for a belt but instead I had to walk out empty handed at half past 6 on a Tuesday evening not knowing if I was going to have to blag a night on a sofa and walk to work tomorrow.

Luckily Google and 4G conspired to save the day  pointing me in the direction of a little motor factors up the road, open till 8 had the exact part on the shelf and for a penny under a fiver.

 

Granted I should've had a spare in the car (and I will be buying one tomorrow for the boot) but it still irked me somewhat. 

 

[MarvinsMom]

is it possible to get away with a pair of tights on the alternator fan belt thing like in the old days?

 

not that it will help either yourself or me, as i live in my jeans practically full time.....

[fordperv]

If my alternator belt went I'd cut the elastic off the top of my boxers to get me emergency motoring again

[mk1_4dr]

I wasn't quite undressing-myself-in-the-street desperate. It threw the belt just before 6 so I knew I had time to hot-step home, grab a car and go to Halfords.
It was more that I had (stupidly) presumed that Halfords was a sure thing in my hour of need. I should've maybe stuck this sordid tale in the grin thread as their ineptitude has introduced me to a smashing old motorfactors operating out of a converted terrace house that appears at first glance to be cheap. Need oil and filter for the old bus so I'll pop in and investigate.

[MarvinsMom]

i try to use a proper motor factors in scarborough as much as i can.

 

this firm cannot do enough, no matter what silly, small little bit of crap i may need, they will call round their suppliers and their local contacts in an attempt to fine one of what ever it is that i'm looking for.

 

and very often they do find what i'm looking for too!

[jakebullet]

At Christmas a friend of mine bought her 11 year old an iphone that she really couldn't afford 'cos child so wanted it. Sent me a photo today, child has smashed it. But not too bad 'cos it lasted 8 months.

 

Good job it's not my child, or they would be introduced to the rugged retro delights of a nokia 3310.

[mercrocker]

Sell child, buy own I-phone.

[Bobthebeard]

Would providing a Nokia 3310 not count as child abuse nowadays?