The grumpy thread

[Inspector Morose]

It seems the golden slug doesn't like warm and wants to overheat in a similar fashion to Cort16s P6. Today was pencilled in so SWMBOs Panda decides to break down on the way to work. Recovery and a gentle probing (of the car) resulted in sod all amiss and it started and ran fine so Christ knows on that score. Well, a few hours late after taking her to work and catching the bus back home, the CX is started and rises to the challenge of taking me to the farm. No, it wants to run on three for some reason. Hmm. Plugs out and cleaned, dizzy cap off and dried out, all back together and away we go.

 

More hours late now and the temp gauge is rising but it gets to the yard. Will the thermostat nuts shift without destroying things? Will they bugger. Dosed up and left till sunnier days I.e tomorrow. I know I'll just blez the exhaust blow. Welder packs up. Ah! All is not lost, tappets are ticking so a quick check with the feelers. No, I've left them at home. FOR FUCKS SAKE! Car buttoned up and driven home again with heater full on.

 

Tonight's meal of tofu in black bean and garlic sauce turns to shit as the sauce (from my friendly Chinese supermarket) contains more salt than the Atlantic - I was surprised the jar lid hadn't rusted out. Wash it down with my nightly Chardonnay? No, run out so walked in the pissing rain round the corner to the local food emporium for a grossly inflated priced bottle of ethylene glycol enriched grape juice.

 

I believe today has conspired against me. It can now piss off and stop bothering me until the sun rises over the horizon.

[cort16]

Can you get one of those tester things to see if it's exhaust gases in the coolant?

 

 

I think that's the next step. It drives great as well when it's not blowing 4 litres of boiling water out the overflow.

[Station]

If I'm still awake and in pain at 0600 that sounds like a reasonable option.

 

This stuff works, but probably too late for an absess.

 

 

What are the symptoms prior to this? I cracked my tooth at the back, and have a swelling. It only occasionally hurts but is very bearable, but hoping to see the dentist ASAP.

[doobietoo]

Re Rover.... 1 change rad cap make sure you have the right one there are overfow and non-overflow types depending on if you have an overflow bottle  

 

2 fill rad using following instructions... run the engine until the stat opens with the rad cap off, then once the stat is open, rev the engine to 12-1500 rpm, watch the coolant level in the rad drop, and top up to within 2" of the top of the rad, with the engine at that RPM, and then with it still at that rpm, fit the cap

 

3. check for air by doing this...with engine running but cool slightly loosen top heater hose until water comes out...

[cort16]

That;s a new radiator cap on it. I followed pretty much those instructions to fill the coolant I found via google. I even jacked the front of the car up but no matter how long I seem to run it, it's still spitting and bubbling.

 

I'm pretty fucked off with it tbh, I suspect HGF may have occurred when it overheated on the way to Glasgow that time and all the problems I've had since then have been a result of that.

[doobietoo]

Have you done a compression test?

[cort16]

No, not done anything yet. I've only just accepted it may be the head gasket.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

why not tape an upturned pop bottle with the bottom sawn off into the filler hole and see if it pumps it out of there, it might need a small head of pressure for the circulation to work properly. Plus if its capable of pumping the water up to a height of 18" or whatever you can be failry certain its pressurising the cooling system and can buy some head gaskets in advance.

[MarvinsMom]

i was wondering that if you were to take the king lead off and also take the rad cap off, then get an assistant to crank the engine over if you were to see bubbles in the coolant (or even have the coolant start to jump out) whether that would be enough to indicate HGF?

 

when i really REALLY cooked the engine in a company focus some years ago (there was a geezer of steam out of the back of the engine, it was kippered...) the AA guy, when he eventually arrived did just that. the water in the expansion tank was bubbling like a mad thing when i turned the engine over, and he used that as a confirmation of OMGHGF.... or i could be typing twaddle!

[BavarianRetro]

.... or i could be typing twaddle!

No, I've seen that on an M52 engine - just turning the starter caused spitting and gushing at the expansion tank.

[AlsoMike]

+1 on the annoying neighbours. Mine turned up late last night shouting, slamming doors and winding his dog up so it barked. Again. Spoken to him several times now, it goes in one ear and out the other. Think I might have to call the noise pollution bods at the council. Not that that will do much.

[cort16]

My overheating problem isn't fixed. Good view though.

 

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I just noticed that there's so much pressure in the cooling system the petrol cap has popped open .

[MarvinsMom]

+1 on the annoying neighbours. Mine turned up late last night shouting, slamming doors and winding his dog up so it barked. Again. Spoken to him several times now, it goes in one ear and out the other. Think I might have to call the noise pollution bods at the council. Not that that will do much.

sadly some folks are just ignorant scum

 

we have the same thing with bald baboon ignorant streak of piss that's next door to the FiL.

 

been a dirty animal he's been put into the shed, which means we get his fuckin' music most of the time up to 9pm, cos he has rights...

 

the rights to sit around, on his arse getting drunk and sponging off of the state. last weekend it was 70's disco that we got to listen to, joy....

 

I would dearly love to kick his balls into is mouth, before ramming that stereo down his neck, or just set the wanker on fire, but unfortunately that is frowned upon.

[M'coli]

I was rudely woken up an hour before the alarm this morning by a pair of black-backed gulls having a domestic on the roof of the house across the street...

[andy18s]

sadly some folks are just ignorant scum

 

we have the same thing with bald baboon ignorant streak of piss that's next door to the FiL.

 

been a dirty animal he's been put into the shed, which means we get his fuckin' music most of the time up to 9pm, cos he has rights...

 

the rights to sit around, on his arse getting drunk and sponging off of the state. last weekend it was 70's disco that we got to listen to, joy....

 

I would dearly love to kick his balls into is mouth, before ramming that stereo down his neck, or just set the wanker on fire, but unfortunately that is frowned upon.

surely the council would be interested in someone living in a shed?

[strangeangel]

Fugging bastarding Fugging fail to proceed bollocking feckin wiring fire. Waiting for recovery as I type...

[MarvinsMom]

surely the council would be interested in someone living in a shed?

its a housing association house, and frankly they couldn't give a toss.

 

the rent is paid (housing benefit) so that's all they care about.

 

plus mrs streak of piss won't have him in the house, much, given his low standards of cleanliness. she's too busy sat on her arse watching telly to care much about anything.

[oldcars]

I have 'restored' two of the wheels on my Mazda. They look really good but I had to quit after two 'cos knackered. I have wanted to get the other two sorted ever since, but guess what? Its fucking rained every day since. Narked....

 

Went on the internet to buy a cordless buffer so I can try and sort out the water spots on my dollop and they seem to be few and far between and are either 'Mickey Mouse' or a tad pricey! Did buy a cordless drill though.... which I didn't need or want. I are twat.

Cordless ones are a bit gutless to be fair. If its watermarks best bet is if its clean to use something like Autoglym rapid detailer and a microfibre, but only if the cars clean.

[trigger]

I've had a strange experience this afternoon, I was following a brand new Porsche 911 GT4 in the outside lane on the A14 who was behind a Car transporter truck with a crash damaged Citroen DS3 being A frames on the back facing the traffic.

 

As we was going along a shit lot of plastic and trim strated flying across the carriageway, the porsche got hit, i swerved to avoid it all (I was in the Audi and thankfully no one was in the left lane) and a Mondeo with a elderly couple in nearly punted me up the arse!.

 

Next thing the Porsche races off to catch the truck before pulling back and asking me if i minded pulling over as a witness, after a mile or so we all pull over into the layby, i walk over and the two people in this truck come over asking what the problem was, the passenger, who was a complete and utter bellend turns round and go "so you're following a crash damaged car and are surprised when bits full off" at this point I'm getting pissed off, The poor chap with the Porsche has a smashed carbon fiber splitter and this cock womble is making out like it his fault!.

 

Porsche man says but the front grill of this Citroen has smashed my car and this passenger go "So what?" Fuck me i flipped at him telling him how it's his responsibility to have a secure load on road and he then asks "Who the fuck are you?!"... I just responded that I'm the man who nearly got taken out because of him and how I'm going to report to his bosses about his behaviour.

 

I walked off after that, Mr Porche came over and took my details and was really annoyed with the mans attitude and said he'll be taking it further, I hope he does! 

[Richard]

Is it even legal to use an A frame/spectacle lift on a car transporter?

 

It's definitely a lorry driver's (any driver in fact) responsibility to secure his load, it's not hard to go round with a roll of duct tape. He'll get humped for that.

[Timewaster]

VOSA take a very dim view of insecure loads.

 

And it doesn't matter if it damaged a brand new 911 or pikeys Transit.

[Barry Cade]

Is it even legal to use an A frame/spectacle lift on a car transporter?

 

It's definitely a lorry driver's (any driver in fact) responsibility to secure his load, it's not hard to go round with a roll of duct tape. He'll get humped for that.

Yes, perfectly legal, but if it's a class 2 lorry, it becomes a class 1 with a car on a spec. Most places use that super sticky clear vinyl to wrap up damaged cars now

[HH-R]

Moaned on here about a month ago that the twat next door is getting workmen to turn up after 5pm every night (so probably on the cheap/fiddle) and making a racket for hours, well the fucker is STILL doing it. There can't be anything left to drill or hammer, it must just be an empty shell by now. Going to blow my top soon.

[trigger]

Mr Porsche has e-mailed me, Nice to know an old Audi can still impress a £100k Porsche driver!

 

 

Thanks for stopping this afternoon, really appreciate the help. Got back home and saw some scuffs on the right-side of the car. I cleaned it this morning and know it’s definitely new. But! Grabbed the t-cut and polished them all out so all solved. Shame the folks in the towing truck were not a little more polite, could of all been solved at the road-side. Either way, all sorted.

Love the Audi BTW, very rapid. 

[Inspector Morose]

Well, another days fettling the CX sees no difference at all. Thermostat was stuck partially shut but even without one (hey folks, you'll never guess what. The motor factors supplied the wrong thermostat! Who'd have thought it, eh?) the temp hovers around the nervous mark on the gauge. Okay, it's a hot day so I'll run it and see.

 

Having gasket paper at work is a godsend as many thermostats come without them nowadays. However, when work clear up and throw e paper away thinking it's only a bit of old card leaves you with a bit of a sticky situation.

Top tip - the lining in the lid of a generic 3/4" socket set can be used to make a reasonable gasket combined with my sealant of choice (wellseal - used to make gaskets stick and never come off).

 

Etc etc, shit day tired and dirty grumble moan hot mumble etc...

[vulgalour]

Ran out of welding gas shortly after getting the first of the repair tacks in on the Renault's roof.  How annoying.

 

Also, what ARE the birds around here eating?  Their poop is like concrete  and has even taken some of the paint off the roof of the Rover!

[cort16]

I've hit the bottle

 

 

Get the pot noodle ready, after the bottle level went down it just did this.

 

[beko1987]

Stuff flying off stuff annoys me too, the amount of times I've had to swerve around a bit of wood on the a404, then see it all wee getting smashed into progressively smaller bits of wood.

 

Saw a flatbed on Tuesday with bits of polythene rubbish flying off, and a big massive bit flapping in the wind in an ominous way. I quickly joined l3 with the audi wankerz to get past then went back into l1

[cms206]

We've lost two windscreens on our 14-plate Temsa in the last four weeks due to shit falling off skip wagons - £1280 each, plus VAT.

 

Personal grump: fucking toothache. Went to my own dentists today to see if I could get it looked at. I left with an appointment for next Friday. Tossers.

[chaseracer]

Do people in Cheshire* EVER check their mirror before changing lanes, or is a white 205 completely invisible?

 

FUXAKE!!!

 

 

* Not Billy, obvs...