The grumpy thread

[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.

[chaseracer]

And yet...

 

Musical Offspring applied for his provisional licence on Tuesday; it arrived this morning.

 

Go figure, as they say in the colonies.

[EssDeeWon]

405 failed its MoT due to the utterly road safety relevant fact that the numbers on the rear numberplate are incorrectly spaced. 

 

Blimey thats harsh! When you see some of these daft 'private' plates with the letters and screws arranged to give some wanky nonsense plate like ML55 HDT made to look like MISS HOT! 

 

Those are the plates that should be pulled and frizby'd into the nearest field.

[Pillock]

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

Aaah, but Ghosty was talking about free alternatives rather than a pirate copy.

 

Eg, don't want to pay for Office, get LibreOffice.

Don't want to pay for Photoshop, get Gimp.

There's loads of free OBD software for other makes, there was one for my Focus that was just as comprehensive as VADGECOM but free. Ross-tech need to perhaps think about making more money by charging less.

[scaryoldcortina]

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

 

Sorry but no. Pre 2001 plates are only exempt from the honeycomb background rule.

 

Having said that, I don't think I'd be failing the original dealer plate for mis-spacing, sounds like a tester on a mission to fail stuff. Boo.

 

Go back and quote him this bit from section 6.3 of the manual.

 

 

 

Size of Characters Testers are not required to physically measure the characters or their spacing and the following information is provided for guidance only.  Registration plates should only be rejected for character dimensions or spacing if they are clearly incorrect

[EssDeeWon]

Come on show us this ill spaced plate junket man.

[mrbenn]

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?

I had this fairly recently, problem was to do with the user profile. Seemed to have corrupted in some way.

 

A system restore was a good call, fingers crossed it shouldn't happen again.

[plasticvandan]

Club spares schemes.yes I've joined your club.yes you have the monopoly of being near enough the only supplier.But please can you move into the 21st c3ntury,just a little bit? I've just had my posted order form returned,because I hadn't signed the cheque.seeing as its the first time I've used one in 10 years,that's not surprising.as they only sort orders for 2 hours every Wednesday,I've got another week to wait.I swear they see the fax machine as the work of the devil,Let alone PayPal!

[Taff]

Sorry but no. Pre 2001 plates are only exempt from the honeycomb background rule.

 

Having said that, I don't think I'd be failing the original dealer plate for mis-spacing, sounds like a tester on a mission to fail stuff. Boo.

 

Go back and punch him in the face, as hard as you can

 

Fixed, invoice the angry man

[cobblers]

You know when normal beer goes stale it's quite minging isn't it? Well home brew is like 100x worse, I presume cos it's still yeasty and has no preservatives in.

I should know better because I've done it before - left half a pint on the side in the workshop for a few days then come back in and wondered what was stinking the whole place out, followed my nose to the pint pot and gave it a good sniffing to see if that was the problem. Violent gagging confirmed that it was the beer. I've never smelled anything even nearly as instantly wretch inducing as old home brew.

 

Anyway today I was carrying a dozen empty bottles down from the workshop, in a plastic crate. The smaller neck of bottles usually means the smell doesn't get out so some of these have been festering in the heat for a week+.

Halfway down the stairs the dog trips me up, I stumble and manage to pour the dregs out of most of these bottles all down myself, some splashed up my face and in my mouth, it was fucking rank man, I absolutely stink and so does the carpet on the stairs but I can't stomache going anywhere near it.

[DeeJay]

I'll bet your dog is still laughing its tits off.

[Bren]

Left Dawlish at 1020. Arrived Warrington 1640. Fucking joke.

 

Wrecked cars all over the place.

 

I wish people would concentrate- people get killed when you don't.

[Pillock]

Aye, I came back from Bristol to Leicester last week, Friday so I guess a busy day for holidaymakers coming or going - used the M5 and M42.

 

There was a VW T4 that had hopped over the armco on the M5 just north of Gloucester services - didn't really click what had happened at first, must have only been a few minutes before I arrived, but then I could see the yellow paint on the bent-over armco, and the yellow T4 was now upright on the southbound carriageway facing north. The reason I could see this is that a few folk had stopped on the hard shoulder as the woman in the van was guiding her three kids across the motorway to safety, looked like a trucker had stopped and was letting them sit in his cab. So three lanes of traffic at standstill whilst people walk across. Seems simple. Dickhead in lane 2 next to me starts trying to drive around people to get through, there's a woman in bits and toddlers on a motorway and he's worried about missing his dinner or something. I was just about to get out the car and lay into him when the trucker (6ft tall, 6ft wide, zz top beard) just stood in front of his Insignia and gave him "the look". 

 

M42 just after the M5 junction, someone was using a 4X4 to tow a discovery on a trailer. I say was, because clearly not long before I got there they'd decided to instead smear the discovery all over the road. Jacknifed trailer, hit another car in the process, debris everywhere. In fairness to them it's the southbound downhill bit before you get to the M5, it's easy to lose a trailer there.

[fred]

Went past the common up the road from me today, and bloody Pikeys have invaded it again, 30 odd caravans cars crap and hundreds of kids. Last year all the fucking manhole covers were nicked in the vicinity and Council spent 3 days removing their fucking rubbish. and the break ins went through the sodding roof. Fucksticks - Bloody Pikeys

[vulgalour]

Xantia changed hands in July, DVLA get my month's rent on it and my brother's month's rent on it because of the new rules.  Then in August they take a payment from my brother and a payment from me.  Waitaminute.

[Keymaster]

Always instruct your bank to cancel the dd when you sell a car, its the only way to be sure the dvla wont do this. They'll just send you an arsey letter instead, because they can't steal your money for a month or two to invest in god knows what while you wait for them to process the refund.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Went past the common up the road from me today, and bloody Pikeys have invaded it again, 30 odd caravans cars crap and hundreds of kids. Last year all the fucking manhole covers were nicked in the vicinity and Council spent 3 days removing their fucking rubbish. and the break ins went through the sodding roof. Fucksticks - Bloody Pikeys

Look on the bright side, now that's scrap's worth next to fuck all ,they won't be nicking the manhole covers.

Oh, that means they'll have to nick more stuff from barns and sheds instead,sorry.

[Junkman]

Come on show us this ill spaced plate junket man.

 

[vulgalour]

Smacks of "I've got to fail this old car on SOMETHING", does that.

[michael1703]

Wood pigeons, noisy little fuckers

[twosmoke300]

Fucking useless wanky met office , check forecast yesterday - full sun this weekend . So I left the windows of my newly purchased soggy Audi open to dry it out at my unit . Woke up this morning at 7 to the sound of it pissing down . Forecast now changed to overcast with showers .

I'm sure they have a man on the Isles of Scilly who looks out of his window and updates it to suit .

If any other company was so useless at their job they would have gone bust years ago .

I'm off to find the man in charge and have him lick the water out of the filthy footwell as punishment

[Lacquer Peel]

I think predicting the weather at a local level is like fortune telling.

[twosmoke300]

I realise it is difficult in cornwall but they have enough money and tech at their disposal to be able to at least get it something near surely !

I wonder if they know how much grief it causes people that have made plans dependant on the forecasts

[myglaren]

Wood pigeons, noisy little fuckers

Slugs:  Quiet but why do they have to eat my flowers and not the bloody weeds 

[scdan4]

Aye, I came back from Bristol to Leicester last week, Friday so I guess a busy day............

 

 

 

I hate the m4 round brissle. especially on fridays. It is always, always broken. Slightly different reasons, slightly different places, but always, always broken.

 

The hatred is such we now refuse to travel near it on a friday.

 

Remember kids, just say no.

[EssDeeWon]

 

Yeah that needs replacing JM, that doesn't look anything like L81 VRW at first glance.

[J-Rod]

Slugs:  Quiet but why do they have to eat my flowers and not the bloody weeds 

Because they're like that...

[Bren]

I'd love to know what it is that is causing me to cough shite up day and night and why even simple things like climbing the stairs are leaving me short of breath and rattling my chest / throat. I even struggle to sleep and I have been in the spare room for the last six months.

 

Never suffered with anything like this before, it's not asthma ( had a spirometery test) - six months ago I was running 10 k in under an hour and doing kickboxing- I should have competed in an inter club in march.

 

It has absolutely flattened me.