The grumpy thread

[Taff]

I've literally just found this out. Fucking gutted, will have to crack the box set out again tonight!

 

They are on a loop on ITV4 mate.

[Asimo]

Lad at work, not the sharpest knife in the box, has been using my ears to think his "car problems" through. This has been going on for weeks and is basically "is it worth £1000 to get my car fixed?" (immaculate 10 year old 530d with a rattling DMF)

 

And now he has ignored all of my helpful advice and encouragement and got himself into some PCP deal that will cost him his present car plus £4000 a year for three years in a miserable 1 series BMW.

[beko1987]

They are on a loop on ITV4 mate.

Yea but ive got to either watch the ads, or record it and fast forward. Or crack the dvds out and hit play all!

[Richard]

That's nearly five days!

[chaseracer]

^ 

 

"Five days?  That's proppa respect.  It's wot Arfur woulda wanted."

 

; Winchester Club>

 

 

[scaryoldcortina]

 

 

[Ghosty]

Fucking VAGCOM.

 

There's no decent freeware (VCDSLite is laggy, confusing etc), and whenever someone asks for a free version/alternative on the internet,  they get shot down by Ross-Tech employees or snobby VAG forum admins going 'buy the £££ full version, it's illegal to crack VAGCOM whinge whinge'.

 

I just want to clear the A4's service indicator/fault codes...

[MarvinsMom]

Fucking VAGCOM.

 

There's no decent freeware (VCDSLite is laggy, confusing etc), and whenever someone asks for a free version/alternative on the internet,  they get shot down by Ross-Tech employees or snobby VAG forum admins going 'buy the £££ full version, it's illegal to crack VAGCOM whinge whinge'.

 

I just want to clear the A4's service indicator/fault codes...

 

real live fire started using a match/petrol interface are guaranteed to clear all VAGshite codes, PHACTT!

[seth]

Had to drive through town today - on tube strike day. Obviously that's not my grump as the traffic was much like normal really, at the times and routes I took if not even quieter in places that I'd expected.  Trouble was I had to make the journey to attend the funeral of a really good mate (who I'd met via the blue car forum) on what would have been his 45th birthday.

[skattrd]

Ghosty - can't you use a generic code reader to clear/reset/read codes on your Audi? The stock whatever it is at my local garage works for reading/clearing faults on my boring and it's nowt fancy.

[fordperv]

I've just been speaking to a mate and hes crashed his sierra hatch

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Time for my weekly whinge about my BMW.

Just got back from a 400 mile round trip to pick up a secondhand head and cams that I thought the eBay seller had sent straight to the garage that's fixing the car. I clicked b.i.n. and paid by PayPal on Saturday and like a fool trusted the seller to do what he said he would and assumed because nobody called me to say it hadn't arrived,all was going to plan.

At 2pm today I popped into garage to see if if it would be ready tomorrow, to be told the head hadn't arrived,called seller to be told courier problems,maybe tomorrow.

The person I'm most pissed off with is.... ME!

I sometimes forget most people in the motor trade are cunts and all people on eBay are definitely cunts,so I'm the biggest cunt for not constantly been on these fucking lying retards case every 5 minutes.

On the pluss side I got some lovely fish and chips in Caerphilly and they were 25% cheaper than at home,almost makes up for the£6.50 entrance fee for Wales.

[Ghosty]

Ghosty - can't you use a generic code reader to clear/reset/read codes on your Audi? The stock whatever it is at my local garage works for reading/clearing faults on my boring and it's nowt fancy.

Nope - we have one. Doesn't work.

[Lord Sterling]

Cheers Arfur

 

I'll be busting out the old Arfur Daley camel coat for the next Cannock meet I reckon (if it ain't too warm)

[fred]

Is it just me or does old Arfur just look like Dennis Watermans dad?

 

RIP Flash Harry, True gent, war time hero, and genuine nice bloke

[twosmoke300]

Fucking VAGCOM.

 

There's no decent freeware (VCDSLite is laggy, confusing etc), and whenever someone asks for a free version/alternative on the internet, they get shot down by Ross-Tech employees or snobby VAG forum admins going 'buy the £££ full version, it's illegal to crack VAGCOM whinge whinge'.

 

I just want to clear the A4's service indicator/fault codes...

How very dare they want to get money back for all their testing / development of their software , the cheek of it ! 😄

[nebuchenezer]

A few years back I tried a bit of human body house rearranging by taking a flyer down the stairs - I was sleepily going to the loo in an unfamiliar house at one in the morning, I turned right instead of left. the resultant stitchage, bruising and stiffness was most uncomfortable for a while but I didn't do any serious damage to myself.

 

Two weeks ago a friend of mine did much the same thing - but he managed to dead himself. It is his funeral today.

 

Fucksticks.

[purplebargeken]

Sorry to hear. Stairs can be bastards. 

[beko1987]

My dad rented a house with fucking steep stairs, my stepmum went down them once. He then managed it through his letting agency a year or so later and the current renter did the same, but managed to splatter her skull over the wall at the end. Dad said it wasnt pretty.

[Cavcraft]

Why don't wasps just fuck off?

[Taff]

Going back to George Cole, Dennis Waterman was being interviewed on 5Live last night and he sounded gutted. No soundbites, just genuine warm emotion.

 

I watch Minder almost every weekday, I record them off itv4 during the day and watch them while I eat my tea. I'm 45, so when they were first aired I was 9 years old and wasn't allowed to stay up past the 2nd adverts (remember when hour-long stuff on ITV only had two advert breaks?). So as a result, I hadn't seen the end of very many of the episodes. It's been great making up for that.

[vulgalour]

All these funerals

 

 

I'm beset with shitty neighbours at the moment too.  It's making working from home very difficult.  Yesterday I found myself going out and staying out to avoid it but that's not exactly conducive to meeting deadlines.  I guess this is the downside to working from home.

[xtriple]

Anyone know about computers? My laptop would not allow me to 'log on' this morning. Password was correct and has worked for the past 5 years but it said 'the profile service service has failed log in'.

 

After about a million attempts I started it in safe mode and did a system restore to a week ago and bugger me, it worked. But, now I'm worried as to why it happened... is my laptop about to die?

[EssDeeWon]

Minor grump but why do garages never call you when your car is ready?

 

Recently I have had to leave the 75 at a couple of garages for MOT and other work, I always leave them my landline number and ask if they can call me once the car is ready. "Yes sir no problem" so 12, 1, 2, 3pm comes and goes and nothing so I call them and ask when the 75 will be done, its always the same response "Hi yeah its all ready"

 

As I say a minor grump, but annoying when your waiting around to do other things. Im only asking them to tell me when its done, not do a rain dance on the bonnet.

[fordperv]

Couriers take the piss, i was at work today came in this evening to find this card

 

 

It was chucked on the floor by my front door which is set back from the wall, i don't have a porch, guess what no actual parcel though, dicks! I'm going to have to see what doesn't turn up this week and go from there as I've tried entering the card number and my postcode on their website and no info is there.

Well I've found out what parcel is missing, it was the polybushes I ordered when I was at fordfair which were for my 3 door sierra, spoke to a lovely lady at flo-flex who chased it all up for me, told me she would ring within the hour, 10 minutes later she rung me back, couldn't be more apologetic about it all, fantastic customer service, her manager just has to give the couriers an ear bashing then send me a replacement out.

[J-Rod]

All these funerals

 

 

I'm beset with shitty neighbours at the moment too.  It's making working from home very difficult.  Yesterday I found myself going out and staying out to avoid it but that's not exactly conducive to meeting deadlines.  I guess this is the downside to working from home.

I went through a similar thing - the girl who lives above where my office is (new build, everything's jumbled onto the smallest plot of land possible) loves listening to Now albums at top volume. Sometimes it's so loud, the walls vibrate. When I've mentioned something, she's used the excuse 'oh I'm a bit deaf'...

 

*rant warning*

 

Don't fucking lie. You just like to play music loud. I play in a band - I like playing my guitar loud too. There's nothing wrong with listening to music loud but seriously, if I politely ask you to turn it down as it's doing my head in as it's been like that ALL FUCKING MORNING, don't say 'I'm a bit deaf' and insult my intelligence by thinking I was born yesterday! Just say, 'sorry! I'll knock it back a bit' and all will be cool. Got it!? 

 

*rant over* 

 

So yes, I feel your pain. 

[dave21478]

I went into le B&Q to buy some rawl plugs and the place was being screamed down by a small child. As I walked around I found the source of the noise....a woman casually browsing the kitchen taps and on the crook of her arm was a baby so young it looked like she might have given birth to it in the lightbulb aisle.

 

And I appear to have missed a new government directive, because apparently its now obligatory for everyone to do 40mph in car parks now.

[Junkman]

405 failed its MoT due to the utterly road safety relevant fact that the numbers on the rear numberplate are incorrectly spaced. Mind you, this is the dealer's plate that has been on the car since 1994. The sooner this ridiculous British MoT nonsense goes to where the tax disc is, the better. If I wanted to pay for comedy, I'd buy a ticket for a Henning Wehn performance.

[Ghosty]

IIRC pre-2001 made plates are exempt from the plate spacing/font rule, that should be a pass.

[red5]

The f~@king useless, pedantic, ignorant, disgraceful farce that is the DVLA.

 

Useless cunts took 4 months to sort out a V5 (after failing to send one to the previous owner).

 

Eventually applied using form blah blah blah after waiting for the chap I bought it from to receive his.

 

Sold vehicle.

 

Swapped insurance to 'new' vehicle.

 

Tried to sorn it using 2 old v5c - failed.

 

New V5 arrives (eventually) - I fill in and send off.

 

Vehicle still taxed from owner before me (he paid up front for a years tax).

 

Today received a final demand for £100 fine for not having vehicle insured (on the day I swapped it over after sale agreed)..

 

Under new rules Mot'd and taxed vehicle must be insured it seems - don't agree but hey...

 

Obviously previous letter have gone to the chap who sold it to the chap I bought it from.

 

 

Utter, utter, useless wankers.