Jamie Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 Changing discs n pads on the wife's new a3 in the rain is not fun beko1987 and louiepj 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louiepj Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 This is one needy corsa it's been 5 months since clutch was changed and new driveshafts, anti roll bar links oh and the weeping radiator were replaced.I did new brakes all round when we got it 2 years ago including wheel cylinders and drums so hopefully just some adjustments and cleaning needed.Bloody floor on drivers side is wet as wellbut apparently tadts!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 Wet drivers side floor is 100% a leaking master cylinder to bulkhead seal. Well documented on the forums, the ex's old one had the same issue, which worked in my favour as the carpets were fucking spotless after countless drying with a wet vac, the last one being 20 minutes before we departed to part ex it against the meriva... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twosmoke300 Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 Easy enough to bodge up with sealer and a short bristled brush from the outside! louiepj 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeR Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 5 hours ago, beko1987 said: Popped to the car to get a few quid out to lend to a mate for some beers as his missus has gone out and he doesn't get paid until Monday and... Someone's been in my car and taken the few quid I had in the ashtray... Nothing else taken, I guess it's why I keep it unlocked as I didn't loose a window for it but keep your ashtrays closed folks! (unless their full of fags). Its locked now, I'll go check on it again later. Nothing else taken, so I'm trying not to be too grumpy when the kids were little , they had mobile phone toys ... and hand bags etc not the thing to leave lying on the back seat , I would always be thinking about having a window popped for a couple of quids worth of plastic . heads got chewed a few times over it ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cobblers Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 Dropped my van off with a mechanic I know last week - Dropped it outside his house and gave the key to his wife. Not heard anything about it for about a week, I rang him up today "Oh yeah, sorry, my mrs left the key on the side and my daughter had picked it up and put it in her dolls house so we couldn't find it, I'm going to have a look at it today" I'm usually quite forgiving of ridiculous excuses, but there is about a -9000% chance of that actually happening. Just tell me the truth, that it looks a bit of a ballache and you chose to do the "non-ballache" work instead! Remspoor, Coprolalia and Split_Pin 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louiepj Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 Easy enough to bodge up with sealer and a short bristled brush from the outside!I just looked up the correct repair for this which involves removing wipers,scuttle, battery etc and then brake master cylinder and servo to replace a paper bloody gasket.So a bodge with tiger seal will be definitely be done, after I fix the rear brakes. Then I looked on ECP as their listings are easily found and they list four bloody parts to the brake cable!!! So that needs further investigation. beko1987 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 Yea, i guess by easy I mean comprehensive... I agree with @twosmoke300. I did attempt a sealent bodge but tried to bead it. Didn't really work. He's right, you need to strip as much out the way as you easily can, then paint layers of something thick over the whole fucking lot then reassemble... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted November 28, 2020 Share Posted November 28, 2020 2 hours ago, louiepj said: I just looked up the correct repair for this which involves removing wipers,scuttle, battery etc and then brake master cylinder and servo to replace a paper bloody gasket. So a bodge with tiger seal will be definitely be done, after I fix the rear brakes. Then I looked on ECP as their listings are easily found and they list four bloody parts to the brake cable!!! So that needs further investigation. What's up with the brakes? If it's the rears sticking are your handbrake cables cracked and perished? The old meriva used to do that and we've had a few mornings this week where I'd be out with the kettle, then tell Amy to dump the clutch and crack, off they went and away to work she could go! Cans of plus gas on a warm day made it fixed. louiepj 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supernaut Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 Thought I'd be a flash git and treat myself to a new computer chair. It's all shiny and new and comes with a lumbar cushion and a neck cushion and everything. It looks comfy but it's really not! Maybe I'll get used to it...? Bah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louiepj Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 What's up with the brakes? If it's the rears sticking are your handbrake cables cracked and perished? The old meriva used to do that and we've had a few mornings this week where I'd be out with the kettle, then tell Amy to dump the clutch and crack, off they went and away to work she could go! Cans of plus gas on a warm day made it fixed. 4 cables nope I was wrong its 5 bloody cables on the car but only four need replacing and you were right about the cable cracking and perishing. They go through quadrants on the rear beam and hide this damage: myglaren and beko1987 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twosmoke300 Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 Make sure the new ones are well lubed and that they get clicked into those guides on the axle correctly ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
face Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 Innocently and completely fucked up car insurance for me for life. Hit a deer with my Golf. Going through insurance as fair bit of damage. Decided to buy a second car a couple of days later. Went on GoCompare, found a decent quote and took it. I entered a claim from a couple of years back, went to enter this very recent one and it wouldn’t let me proceed without a monetary amount. The Golf hadn’t been collected at this point, let alone examined and quoted for the work. So I left it off as I assumed as it had t been paid out, it wasn’t completed. That’s wrong I now know. New car insurance company run the CUE check, see I’ve had this recent claim and subsequently cancelled my policy, giving a weeks notice. That’s me royally fucked for life. I’m going through the complaints procedure as it was an innocent oversight. But I doubt I will get it overturned. I’ve never not paid anything I should be paying or even considered fraud. If I was pissed and ran somebody over, that would eventually drop off my record. But not this. Im stupid and that life-long red mark is cuntish at best. Remspoor, myglaren, Christine and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cort1977 Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 15 hours ago, face said: Innocently and completely fucked up car insurance for me for life. Im stupid and that life-long red mark is cuntish at best. That's unfortunate but i would hope you could get that reviewed and overturned. Have you spoken to them? It may have been cancelled without any oversight at all. I would write them an actual letter, explaining the circumstances and asking politely for it to be reviewed. You wont get far with call centres but on the face of it they should be able to fix your fairly minor mistake. face 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
face Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 3 minutes ago, cort1977 said: That's unfortunate but i would hope you could get that reviewed and overturned. Have you spoken to them? It may have been cancelled without any oversight at all. I would write them an actual letter, explaining the circumstances and asking politely for it to be reviewed. You wont get far with call centres but on the face of it they should be able to fix your fairly minor mistake. Yeah they have a complaints procedure. The call centre could do fuck all as it was the underwriter who cancelled it. Still they were nice enough. Next step is a letter documenting what happened. If they fuck that off then I can refer it to the financial ombudsman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cort1977 Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 OK, well I hope the letter to the underwriter will sort it out. face 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruffgeezer Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 No progress finding a reasonable automatic. Also got my sister in laws car to fix for mot which is proving to be a pain in the arse (well not the car as yet, just dealing with the various parties involved.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainagain Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 7 hours ago, Nyphur said: Ah man that is an absolute bastard. Hope you can get it overturned. My grump - supposed to be moving house today, collect keys from letting agent at 9:15. Turn up "we're still waiting for the landlord to sign some documents before we can give you the keys - can you come back at 11:15". Ok... Phone call 10 minutes ago "They still haven't signed the documents, can you come in this afternoon instead?" Yeah sure, I've got all the time in the world love. Not like they've had 2 weeks to get this shit sorted. I had similar shit with the first house I purchased. I was massively excited and had swapped shifts so I had the day off. I skipped down to the estate agents, the woman took the keys out her drawer and was about to hand them to me, when her colleague shouted over saying they were still waiting on one signature from the current owners, who were the previous owner’s kids. It was like the bit in bullseye when they brought out the speedboat you could have won. She just tossed them back in the drawer and told me phone back in the afternoon. It ended up it wasn’t until the following day I got them, when of course I was working a late shift. myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Moog Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 No progress finding a reasonable automatic. Also got my sister in laws car to fix for mot which is proving to be a pain in the arse (well not the car as yet, just dealing with the various parties involved.) Northern monkey has got an Auto Astra that I think he will be moving on Sent from my Pixel 5 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 Of they've given you a weeks notice cancel it NOW. Then it's not down as they cancelled it. Had to use that many years ago when one too many direct debits bounced in a row... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 3 hours ago, rainagain said: I had similar shit with the first house I purchased. I was massively excited and had swapped shifts so I had the day off. I skipped down to the estate agents, the woman took the keys out her drawer and was about to hand them to me, when her colleague shouted over saying they were still waiting on one signature from the current owners, who were the previous owner’s kids. It was like the bit in bullseye when they brought out the speedboat you could have won. She just tossed them back in the drawer and told me phone back in the afternoon. It ended up it wasn’t until the following day I got them, when of course I was working a late shift. My parents had similar. Verbal and an email go, I had the day booked off, was 2 weeks into lockdown 1 too. We'd moved a big van load and emptied it, and we're halfway through the 2nd when the call came that it was off. So I spent the afternoon trespassing and hastily unloading the garage back onto the drive. I've never seen my stepdad cry since his mum died... We laugh* about it now since it sorted itself out 3 weeks later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruffgeezer Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 2 hours ago, The Moog said: Northern monkey has got an Auto Astra that I think he will be moving on Sent from my Pixel 5 using Tapatalk Even I've got standards, darling. 😋 The Moog, catsinthewelder, NorthernMonkey and 3 others 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 Apparently I'm not allowed to be be grumpy. Not allowed an opinion either. It's all shite today. myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clayts450 Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 Fuck winter. Look at the plummetting MPG in me van: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 Picked my Saab up from the specialist complete with new balljoint (apparently the cause of the creak)... the grump is that when I got there the guy showed me some very worn brake pads and said that he couldn’t leave them one he’d seen how worn they are and had changed them.... now they desperately needed doing that’s no quibble .... I have a set in the garage ready... but to change them without calling me is a bit off... that was an extra £95... just before Christmas... there are times in my life when that would have been impossible. What if I couldn’t have afforded it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floatylight Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 7 minutes ago, brownnova said: Picked my Saab up from the specialist complete with new balljoint (apparently the cause of the creak)... the grump is that when I got there the guy showed me some very worn brake pads and said that he couldn’t leave them one he’d seen how worn they are and had changed them.... now they desperately needed doing that’s no quibble .... I have a set in the garage ready... but to change them without calling me is a bit off... that was an extra £95... just before Christmas... there are times in my life when that would have been impossible. What if I couldn’t have afforded it? I'd have been livid, not difficult to make a phone call! myglaren and Remspoor 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownnova Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 Can’t say I was best pleased... but as I’m so very British I didn’t make a fuss... He’s my go to guy for Saabs... but I’ll specify that I want a phone call before any work IF I go there again... chaseracer and Floatylight 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robinmasters Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 Went onto town earlier. Stopped beside a space, into reverse, car behind pulled up close behind me. I started reversing, was of it wasn't what clear enough what I was doing. Car beeped, but reluctantly moved. When I got out, the cars window went down and there were two uniformed police in it. 'Didn't you look before you reverse?' 'Yes, you were stationary.' 'You got that close to my bumper' By now I'm fucking seething inside. This berk wasn't paying attention and got too close to me. 'Why are you driving around in an untaxed car? It's not insured either' 'It's taxed and insured' Cue conversation about who I'm insured with (I don't know) and how I pay for tax (also don't know offhand). 'You're not helping much.' (I'm not doing anything wrong, you jobsworth bellend) His colleague then says he'll check 'the other one', as he's doing so I check .gov website on my phone-car shows as taxed. Colleague then confirms his double checking had revealed that the car is in fact both taxed and insured. 'Some times it takes a while to update'. Fucking double check before making accusations then. TL:DR chinless little prick takes revenge on his school bullies by treating me like a criminal for five minutes davehedgehog31, Coprolalia, Remspoor and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Jetter Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 When you stopped initially, had you already started indicating? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New POD Posted December 2, 2020 Share Posted December 2, 2020 10 hours ago, New POD said: Apparently I'm not allowed to be be grumpy. Not allowed an opinion either. It's all shite today. It got worse. Just find got back from taking the cat all the way to the *nearest out of hours vet in St Helens only 35 mins in the car. I found her in the corner of the garden, both rear legs had failed. About 10:40. She's been put to sleep now. Prognosis was it would be pointless trying to fix her. 17 or 18 years old. GrumpiusMaximus, ChampionRabbit, yes oui si and 15 others 1 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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