The grumpy thread

[quicksilver]

I'm used to lowlifes stealing my photos from Flickr and passing them off as their own, and accept it as par for the course, but I would have expected better from a reputable high-end auction house. I looked at Coys' website to see what happened to the Stondon Peugeot 104 and the photo of the very next lot looked strangely familiar. They've blanked the registration and done a spectacularly bad job of photoshopping out the bins (check the brickwork on the wall!) but that is clearly my photo and they never contacted me to ask permission.

 

Coys' photo:

 

My original:

1971 Triumph Herald 13/60 convertible by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

Maybe I should send them an invoice for reproduction of my copyrighted material. I'm sure they can afford it.

[Lord Sterling]

Picked up this brand new Transit today. People at the yard in Widnes were I picked up the van where the most unhelpful bunch of arseholes I had the misfortune to meet. Left me hanging about until they could be arsed to pull the Transit. When I asked them about it 30 minutes after arriving they started moaning at me that they were 'pulling' the van out for me.

 

Eventually I got the bloody thing out there only to run out of fuel in Stockport near to where I was supposed to drop off. To be fair I should have known and kept an eye on the fuel. But 50 minutes and £12 of my own money later I was back in business.

 

Getting fuel into this thing was a right arsehole too. Vans are pissing me off now.

 

Also, just found out I'm taking an Iveco van home for the weekend. Fun

[Richard]

There should be a little plastic funnel thing in the glove box for filling from a can.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Sat I the pub trying to watch the rugby. Three stupid bitches come I and sit in front blocking the screen. Mrs Shrimp says were watching the game and can she move over for a bit please,

"but we can talk then, if we're in a line" comes the reply. Fucking wanker

 

There's a quiz in a bit. It's in two parts and now the wankers are cheating on the first bit, what's the point???

 

Edit: well fuck them as I won a very nice bottle of wine . Turns out both me and Mrs Shrimp used to work with one of the wankers a few years ago. We didn't know that until she got called out for sticking her fingers up behind her hand. What a fucking child...

[Timewaster]

Coys are really bad at Photoshop.

 

4/10

[Sloth in a bowl]

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...

 

 

This why a traditional motor factors is useful, take in the part, they take it out back and cut you out a personalised gasket for £1.50. 

Hope the place in Bearwood doesn't close.

[scaryoldcortina]

Bloody hell!

 

I've had a shit of a day welding up a 15 year old LWB sprinter for test (sills!) which is the sort of job I'd prefer to knock back but can't afford to. I got next to no sleep last night and still have chronic toothache so I'd gone to bed already, and not in a good mood either.

 

I just got knocked out of bed by a guy I know from down the street. He wanted to borrow money! I'd told him he woke me up when I answered the door but he still went ahead with tapping me for a bloody loan. Obviously, he got the sort of answer that should disuade him from ever talking to me ever again.

 

I hate everything. I'm going back to bed.

[HH-R]

2nd grump of the day: MiO dashcam suction mounts are absolute fucking arse gravy.

[beko1987]

There's someone local selling refurbished dysons on facebook. That's my money making scheme gone to shit then! Can't undercut them as I sell them cheap anyway, any cheaper and there's no point in doing it

 

Which is a shame, as selling dysons is the only think keeping Amy on side with me collecting vacuums as I 'Make Money'*

 

 

*Man maths may apply

[Lord Sterling]

There should be a little plastic funnel thing in the glove box for filling from a can.

There was, 'cept it was floating about cubby hole in the door.

[andy18s]

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

 

FUXAKE!!!

 

 

* Not Billy, obvs... 

 

 I've had more people pulling out on me in the last 2 weeks than in the last 5years........

It seems a green Rover is just too hard to see,especially when someone is busy texting with Both hands resting on the rim of the steering wheel.....

[Craig the Princess]

I pulled out on a huge big Kia thing earlier. Looked right at the junction but somehow missed seeing a huge blue thing.

 

Luckily it was being driven by the local garage mechanic on a test drive just as I was driving to the garage. He may have taken the piss alot.

[HH-R]

Drive an old Kia in resale silver and you're invisible. Quite often get pulled out right in front of multiple times on the same roundabout, I think people just assume it's being driven at 10 MPH by an old giffer.

[Danblez]

I got pulled out in front of when doing 70 in the outside lane of a dual carriageway. They were doing about 30 and were turning right and didn't even use the slip road, pretty much just stopped dead in front of me, never leant on the horn or brakes as hard before. They were totally oblivious.

[Richard]

The third shower we've had in the nine years we've lived here has just blown. I don't have time to fart about with it today so I'm going to have to buy another one the same and replace it again in a couple of years. Why is everything made of cheese now?

[chaseracer]

Maybe I should send them an invoice for reproduction of my copyrighted material. I'm sure they can afford it.

 

Yes, you should.

[Rocket88]

Yes, perfectly legal, but if it's a class 2 lorry, it becomes a class 1 with a car on a spec.

Still driveable on a Class 2 if you have "grandfather" rights............specced a 25ft car transporter last night because it was too long to fit on the bed.............

[dollywobbler]

I'm used to lowlifes stealing my photos from Flickr and passing them off as their own, and accept it as par for the course, but I would have expected better from a reputable high-end auction house. I looked at Coys' website to see what happened to the Stondon Peugeot 104 and the photo of the very next lot looked strangely familiar. They've blanked the registration and done a spectacularly bad job of photoshopping out the bins (check the brickwork on the wall!) but that is clearly my photo and they never contacted me to ask permission.

 

Coys' photo:

 

My original:

1971 Triumph Herald 13/60 convertible by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

Maybe I should send them an invoice for reproduction of my copyrighted material. I'm sure they can afford it.

Absolutely send them an invoice! I will ask if I can use photos, even if I can't afford to pay for them. No company should just nick photos from the Web.

[Richard]

The third shower we've had in the nine years we've lived here has just blown. I don't have time to fart about with it today so I'm going to have to buy another one the same and replace it again in a couple of years. Why is everything made of cheese now?

 

New shower installed now. I'm getting good at fitting them now, with all the practice I've had.

[Slappy]

Argh, 3 times this week I've had either people cut me up or pull of me on the same section of the same roundabout. Usually, it's about 1 in 20 occasions, so I'm used to it, but WTF is going on this week!?

 

First 1 one was a brand new VW Transporter with bling wheels who tried to cut from L2 into L3 right where I was. Horn leant on. He then pissed off round the corner, and then when he was a suitable distance away, sportingly wound his window down to show he could count to 1. I was genuinely surprised his intellect was that high...

 

The other 2 were late pull outs which both required a swift slam on the anchors. I wasn't even taking the roundabout that quickly either (especially last night when a 7.5 tonner had a go).

 

That being said, the 4th day this week, I met my lunatic Robin driver (grin thread), so swings and roundabouts...

[Matt]

Further to the fucked Clio wheel bearing saga my sisters employer kindly offered her use of the spare work car in exchange for her working on her day off in the mean time. It's a 2002 307 HDI 90 and it's also bloody unusable... It didn't occur to him that the things MOT expired in November before letting my sister drive off in it yesterday! It's also full of dog hair, mould, the oil is over filled, the service light is on and sometimes you have to "fiddle with something" to make it start.

 

Verdict: Shitheap.

[Rocket88]

Further to the fucked Clio wheel bearing saga my sisters employer kindly offered her use of the spare work car in exchange for her working on her day off in the mean time. It's a 2002 307 HDI 90 and it's also bloody unusable... It didn't occur to him that the things MOT expired in November before letting my sister drive off in it yesterday! It's also full of dog hair, mould, the oil is over filled, the service light is on and sometimes you have to "fiddle with something" to make it start.

 

Verdict: Shitheap.

Standard modern Peugeot then

[Supernaut]

 It's a 307

 

Verdict: Shitheap.

 

Any Peugeot ending with a number higher than 6 is like this.

 

 

My grump? Just as I have sold my only car for a tiny bit less than I would have ideally liked... all the nice cars for sale have fucked off! There's nothing on the market within 150 miles that appeals to me at all!

 

Piss off Tayne.

[tapir]

Absolutely send them an invoice! I will ask if I can use photos, even if I can't afford to pay for them. No company should just nick photos from the Web.

 I agree, send an invoice that's totally unacceptable. If your looking on the website to buy a car you expect to be looking at the actual car your buying,

 

ps - photoshopping of the bins is amusing none the less!

[320touring]

Any Peugeot ending with a number higher than 6 is like this.

 

 

My grump? Just as I have sold my only car for a tiny bit less than I would have ideally liked... all the nice cars for sale have fucked off! There's nothing on the market within 150 miles that appeals to me at all!

 

Piss off Tayne.

happy to view/deliver any auld scrap doon this way if needed:)

[Lord Sterling]

Also, just found out I'm taking an Iveco van home for the weekend. Fun

So, got to BIRKHEN'ED DOCKS LAA! Iveco turns out to be a rather wrecked and rusty LWB Mercedes Sprinter auto, seemingly once a Tesco delivery van, similar to this, but utterly wrecked:

 

 

Brilliant thinks I, where the hell am I to put this bloody thing? I live in a market town, not country house with a huge driveway. I did get lucky and find somewhere to put it. On the way home (which didn't hit a single major motorway and nice for it) for a minute or so I lost all drive in the gears, it just revved like it was in neutral, thankfully I was going down hill. There was a car behind me and we were on a country road. Thankfully though, as I used the momentum to get up a hill it suddenly found drive again and carried on. I pulled over, selected all the gears and all seemed well so I carried on home.

[Lacquer Peel]

Any Peugeot ending with a number higher than 6 is like this.

 

 

My grump? Just as I have sold my only car for a tiny bit less than I would have ideally liked... all the nice cars for sale have fucked off! There's nothing on the market within 150 miles that appeals to me at all!

 

Piss off Tayne.

Adding to 320t's comment, if you see anything over Inverness way I'm happy to look at it.

 

https://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/peugeot-305-panel-van-classic/1169142869

 

This looks ideal*

[chaseracer]

Any Peugeot ending with a number higher than 6 is like this.

 

The exception that proves the rule...

 

 

[MarvinsMom]

The exception that proves the rule...

 

 

but that is not a REAL peugeot, but a talbot.....  

[Coprolalia]

Been meaning to put an update on for the Scirocco, got a fresh MOT with no advisories, new carb and back in daily service.

 

Grump because did my first days commute in it today and it got me home (at least) but left a trail in the road and shat out it's coolant from the expansion tank. Oil ok. Think it's pinking but not sure as I've never heard pinking before. Sounds like a load of marbles rattling around in the cylinders.

 

Really it's just shakedown problems as new carb and new timing set up, but even so, why is nothing on this car ever easy.

 

Fucking dick car, ungrateful bastard.