The grumpy thread

[Eddie Honda]

13 hours ago, HH-R said:

Not had that fucking Jazz a month yet and the bastard exhaust has snapped. £270 FFS. Every month there's some unexpected shit to pay for, isn't there? Makes you wonder what the fucking point is sometimes.

 

Snapped where? What Jazz (GD? GE?) and what exhaust? (front?/middle?/rear?/full?) Seems a lot, but some garages are lazy bastards when it comes to splitting front/middle.

[HH-R]

It's a GD I think? The early one. The garage quoted for back and centre section but I can't see a hole in the back bit anywhere. It's snapped just where the pipe comes out of the centre silencer. I'm gonna try somewhere else and see if they will just do the centre.

[155V6]

Just dropped Miss_155 off at home.She was going to be helping out at a charity cake sale this morning,but has just found out that her eldest son was randomly beaten up on the way home early this morning,& needs to go to A&E.It doesn't even look like anything was stolen.

 

 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

13 hours ago, New POD said:

What would it cost them if he said no? 

There's a reason why occasionally hourly rates go through the roof in engineering.

Penalty clauses for not hitting a deadline. 

 

I don't know but they'd probably get a slightly smaller quote from somebody that they don't know, doesn't know the equipment and isn't DBS checked  (this is a public event including dozens of child performers).  Either way, it's a fuckton of hassle if they do say no to me - but I don't really care.  In the last six months they've taken advantage of my kindness and haven't even bothered to acknowledge me handing my notice in - short of advertising for my job.  I've been there nearly three years, and the Grand Overlord knows exactly who I am - I just think he's a rude prick.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

1 hour ago, 155V6 said:

Just dropped Miss_155 off at home.She was going to be helping out at a charity cake sale this morning,but has just found out that her eldest son was randomly beaten up on the way home early this morning,& needs to go to A&E.It doesn't even look like anything was stolen.

 

 

Oh dear.  I do hope everything turns out ok and they catch the bastard that did it.

[chaseracer]

21 hours ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

...I might decide to charge the full MU rate.  I don't really care if I do it or not...

This.  

Don't undervalue yourself.

[xtriple]

Just used my brand new Chinese extending hose to wash the car. Guess who's soddin' soaked now after it split and fell apart?

[Bobthebeard]

As a taxi 'owner' driver working for Whiteside Taxis I recently joined the team that does the long distance airport and corporate account work rather than just the local jobs. My car is a 19 reg Dacia Logan MCV diesel. Apparently these come with 3 years or 60,000 miles free AA breakdown cover but mine had no windscreen sticker/contact number or indeed any evidence that it did. Clearly doing airport jobs means that customers need to get there on time and any breakdowns etc need fairly immediate assistance.The manager at Whiteside rang Arnold Clarke who supplied the car and was told that I just needed to call in to get the car registered as it did indeed have full breakdown cover. 

I called in to the dealer, explained the situation and was greeted by blank looks from the receptionist. "Errr, hang on, I will get Paul"

Paul shows up after five minutes, speaks to the receptionist and they both rummage in a drawer looking for the windscreen sticker, find one and head over. The receptionist stops Paul, tells him the phone number is for Renault and not Dacia so back he goes....

Paul goes to a nearby Dacia in the showroom to look at the window sticker, crosses out the number and writes a new one in felt tip pen on my sticker.

"Stick that in your window mate, just ring if you break down" 

Hardly inspires confidence does it? Cheers Arnold. As I have my own personal breakdown cover I am not overly concerned, but really? 

[somewhatfoolish]

40 minutes ago, xtriple said:

Just used my brand new Chinese extending hose to wash the car. Guess who's soddin' soaked now after it split and fell apart?

Chester and Phoebe?

[GrumpiusMaximus]

1 hour ago, chaseracer said:

This.  

Don't undervalue yourself.

Without banging on about it too much, that’s not a rate for what I’m doing.  If I were a musician I would definitely angle for that.  I appreciate your point though.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, xtriple said:

Just used my brand new Chinese extending hose to wash the car. Guess who's soddin' soaked now after it split and fell apart?

This book may be of interest

[Floatylight]

Oh feck..

Sent from my Moto G (5) using Tapatalk

[chaseracer]

Needs MOAR boost? ?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

39 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

Needs MOAR boost? ?

Needs MOAR stronger!

[xtriple]

1 hour ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

This book may be of interest

In my own defence, the listing said it was coming from London. However, the reciept said China... didn't know they had started copying our towns and cities but as they copy everything else, I guess I shouldn't be surprised!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

35 minutes ago, xtriple said:

In my own defence, the listing said it was coming from London. However, the reciept said China... didn't know they had started copying our towns and cities but as they copy everything else, I guess I shouldn't be surprised!

Chinese traders usually have stock all over the place. They also manipulate processes to evade VAT and other inconveniences. 

[Tamworthbay]

4 hours ago, Bobthebeard said:

As a taxi 'owner' driver working for Whiteside Taxis I recently joined the team that does the long distance airport and corporate account work rather than just the local jobs. My car is a 19 reg Dacia Logan MCV diesel. Apparently these come with 3 years or 60,000 miles free AA breakdown cover but mine had no windscreen sticker/contact number or indeed any evidence that it did. Clearly doing airport jobs means that customers need to get there on time and any breakdowns etc need fairly immediate assistance.The manager at Whiteside rang Arnold Clarke who supplied the car and was told that I just needed to call in to get the car registered as it did indeed have full breakdown cover. 

I called in to the dealer, explained the situation and was greeted by blank looks from the receptionist. "Errr, hang on, I will get Paul"

Paul shows up after five minutes, speaks to the receptionist and they both rummage in a drawer looking for the windscreen sticker, find one and head over. The receptionist stops Paul, tells him the phone number is for Renault and not Dacia so back he goes....

Paul goes to a nearby Dacia in the showroom to look at the window sticker, crosses out the number and writes a new one in felt tip pen on my sticker.

"Stick that in your window mate, just ring if you break down" 

Hardly inspires confidence does it? Cheers Arnold. As I have my own personal breakdown cover I am not overly concerned, but really? 

Good old Arnold Shark! Who says customer service is dead?

[New POD]

4 hours ago, Bobthebeard said:

As a taxi 'owner' driver working for Whiteside Taxis I recently joined the team that does the long distance airport and corporate account work rather than just the local jobs. My car is a 19 reg Dacia Logan MCV diesel. Apparently these come with 3 years or 60,000 miles free AA breakdown cover but mine had no windscreen sticker/contact number or indeed any evidence that it did. Clearly doing airport jobs means that customers need to get there on time and any breakdowns etc need fairly immediate assistance.The manager at Whiteside rang Arnold Clarke who supplied the car and was told that I just needed to call in to get the car registered as it did indeed have full breakdown cover. 

I called in to the dealer, explained the situation and was greeted by blank looks from the receptionist. "Errr, hang on, I will get Paul"

Paul shows up after five minutes, speaks to the receptionist and they both rummage in a drawer looking for the windscreen sticker, find one and head over. The receptionist stops Paul, tells him the phone number is for Renault and not Dacia so back he goes....

Paul goes to a nearby Dacia in the showroom to look at the window sticker, crosses out the number and writes a new one in felt tip pen on my sticker.

"Stick that in your window mate, just ring if you break down" 

Hardly inspires confidence does it? Cheers Arnold. As I have my own personal breakdown cover I am not overly concerned, but really? 

Although the terms and conditions of the warranty probably disallow a taxi.  And they'll tell you that after the £2k gearbox replacement. 

 

[Kiltox]

4 hours ago, Bobthebeard said:

As a taxi 'owner' driver working for Whiteside Taxis I recently joined the team that does the long distance airport and corporate account work rather than just the local jobs. My car is a 19 reg Dacia Logan MCV diesel. Apparently these come with 3 years or 60,000 miles free AA breakdown cover but mine had no windscreen sticker/contact number or indeed any evidence that it did. Clearly doing airport jobs means that customers need to get there on time and any breakdowns etc need fairly immediate assistance.The manager at Whiteside rang Arnold Clarke who supplied the car and was told that I just needed to call in to get the car registered as it did indeed have full breakdown cover. 

I called in to the dealer, explained the situation and was greeted by blank looks from the receptionist. "Errr, hang on, I will get Paul"

Paul shows up after five minutes, speaks to the receptionist and they both rummage in a drawer looking for the windscreen sticker, find one and head over. The receptionist stops Paul, tells him the phone number is for Renault and not Dacia so back he goes....

Paul goes to a nearby Dacia in the showroom to look at the window sticker, crosses out the number and writes a new one in felt tip pen on my sticker.

"Stick that in your window mate, just ring if you break down" 

Hardly inspires confidence does it? Cheers Arnold. As I have my own personal breakdown cover I am not overly concerned, but really? 

They might well not provide that cover for taxi/private hire use anyway - definitely check 

[Tamworthbay]

Fuck fuck fuck, managed to forget that the 2cv  I was watching on eBay finished this afternoon, it only fecking sold for £770 and looked an easy fix. Buggery bollocks.

[Kiltox]

55 minutes ago, Tamworthbay said:

Fuck fuck fuck, managed to forget that the 2cv  I was watching on eBay finished this afternoon, it only fecking sold for £770 and looked an easy fix. Buggery bollocks.

Most eBay sales fall through due to time wasters so you never know!

[Tamworthbay]

Just now, Kiltox said:

Most eBay sales fall through due to time wasters so you never know!

I have messaged them just in case that happens, problem is that I didn’t put a bid on so they may well go to the underbidder first.

[strangeangel]

20 hours ago, vulgalour said:

Funny you should say that because we think we found the leak earlier today. It looks like the passenger door seal is letting water in right on the a pillar to sill seam and the water is then going under the carpet and sitting right in the middle of the footwell.  It's not a lot, it only happens when its absolutely chucking it down, and checking in the car while it's raining has shown it's not coming through the windscreen or anything daft like that.  I'll pull off the seal, inspect, and reseat, see if that improves matters.  The driver's door seal is often wet around the top when it's been chucking it down but doesn't seem to let any water actually into the car, though that might explain the window on that door fogging up as fast as it does sometimes.  Old car nonsense, nothing cracking a window open can't solve most of the time.

 

When I get a minute (and I'm not busy wasting money on shipping crap Russian scooters from Latvia) the door seals on my BX will have to be replaced. Both drivers side and passenger side front door tops leak, and I think the rear ones are knackered too, as not long ago I found woodlice and some sort of mange living in the rear footwells. This car seems to have lived a charmed life with regard to rot, so I really should get on with this.

 

[DoctorRetro]

Grandma passed away this morning. Didn't even know she was ill, as I haven't been in touch for ages. 

Sad, feeling guilty and angry at my self. 

[Rovorsche]

Sorry to hear that

[Cavcraft]

Did a car boot sale with my daughter today. 99% of the people were great, but one pair of 'ladies' managed to steal a sodding £2 make up case off my daughter*, and possibly a couple of other things. They'd already attempted to haggle a whole 25p off one thing and broken something else. They didn't look poor (not that that means much, I suppose) but fancy fucking stealing stuff at a car boot sale! I'd rather give the stuff away to someone than have some dickhead steal it. The bloke in the car next to us said they were known for it and he'd tried to warn me but they were hanging around.

 

*We didn't find out until they'd gone.

[Aston Martin]

I came onto the A63, hit a bit of water and nearly went backwards into a ditch.

 

I went to upullit, the Fiats were surrounded by a foot of water and I was in the Alessi, so I was already annoyed that I was going to get the mats piss wet through. I went through passenger doors and out of drivers doors of a couple of cars to avoid the floor. 

 

I had to hacksaw a part off a Panda and sliced my finger open, I cambered through a Punto mk2 and into a Big Cunto, except the passenger side window was smashed and it looked like dried blood everywhere, which made me fucking annoyed and nauseous. So back out through the drivers door, lobbed a door card on the floor and still ended up with a wet foot. Got a plaster and had to find a different route into the Panda. 

 

 

[rusty998]

18 hours ago, strangeangel said:

 

When I get a minute (and I'm not busy wasting money on shipping crap Russian scooters from Latvia) the door seals on my BX will have to be replaced. Both drivers side and passenger side front door tops leak, and I think the rear ones are knackered too, as not long ago I found woodlice and some sort of mange living in the rear footwells. This car seems to have lived a charmed life with regard to rot, so I really should get on with this.

 

I had leaking door seals on my 106, took them off the car and soaked them I'm a hot soapy bath,  then cleaned them with a brush to get àny remaining dirt out of the gap where it pushes on to the bodywork,  once they were dry I pumped some windscreen sealer in with a fine nozzle then fitted them,  it worked a treat and the car sat outside for another winter but this time without the condensation running down the glass and filling the car with moisture,  I used this stuff as I know how good it is 

[Supernaut]

I uploaded to Redbubble two versions of an outline drawing I did (one white, one black, so you can have it on different backgrounds). It's probably the first thing I've uploaded there that I put any sort of effort into as well.

Both have been suspended for review.

 

I uploaded a block of text with swear words in it this morning (see cms' collection thread) and it didn't bat an eye. WTF?

[somewhatfoolish]

1 hour ago, rusty998 said:

I had leaking door seals on my 106, took them off the car and soaked them I'm a hot soapy bath,  then cleaned them with a brush to get àny remaining dirt out of the gap where it pushes on to the bodywork,  once they were dry I pumped some windscreen sealer in with a fine nozzle then fitted them,  it worked a treat and the car sat outside for another winter but this time without the condensation running down the glass and filling the car with moisture,  I used this stuff as I know how good it is 

Do you mean between the seal and the metal flange it grips on?