chaseracer Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 ^ "Five days? That's proppa respect. It's wot Arfur woulda wanted." ; Winchester Club> beko1987 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryoldcortina Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 The Moog, mk1_4dr, fred and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 Fucking VAGCOM. There's no decent freeware (VCDSLite is laggy, confusing etc), and whenever someone asks for a free version/alternative on the internet, they get shot down by Ross-Tech employees or snobby VAG forum admins going 'buy the £££ full version, it's illegal to crack VAGCOM whinge whinge'. I just want to clear the A4's service indicator/fault codes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarvinsMom Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 Fucking VAGCOM. There's no decent freeware (VCDSLite is laggy, confusing etc), and whenever someone asks for a free version/alternative on the internet, they get shot down by Ross-Tech employees or snobby VAG forum admins going 'buy the £££ full version, it's illegal to crack VAGCOM whinge whinge'. I just want to clear the A4's service indicator/fault codes... real live fire started using a match/petrol interface are guaranteed to clear all VAGshite codes, PHACTT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seth Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 Had to drive through town today - on tube strike day. Obviously that's not my grump as the traffic was much like normal really, at the times and routes I took if not even quieter in places that I'd expected. Trouble was I had to make the journey to attend the funeral of a really good mate (who I'd met via the blue car forum) on what would have been his 45th birthday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skattrd Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 Ghosty - can't you use a generic code reader to clear/reset/read codes on your Audi? The stock whatever it is at my local garage works for reading/clearing faults on my boring and it's nowt fancy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fordperv Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 I've just been speaking to a mate and hes crashed his sierra hatch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkNWeigh Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 Time for my weekly whinge about my BMW.Just got back from a 400 mile round trip to pick up a secondhand head and cams that I thought the eBay seller had sent straight to the garage that's fixing the car. I clicked b.i.n. and paid by PayPal on Saturday and like a fool trusted the seller to do what he said he would and assumed because nobody called me to say it hadn't arrived,all was going to plan.At 2pm today I popped into garage to see if if it would be ready tomorrow, to be told the head hadn't arrived,called seller to be told courier problems,maybe tomorrow.The person I'm most pissed off with is.... ME! I sometimes forget most people in the motor trade are cunts and all people on eBay are definitely cunts,so I'm the biggest cunt for not constantly been on these fucking lying retards case every 5 minutes.On the pluss side I got some lovely fish and chips in Caerphilly and they were 25% cheaper than at home,almost makes up for the£6.50 entrance fee for Wales. fred 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted August 6, 2015 Share Posted August 6, 2015 Ghosty - can't you use a generic code reader to clear/reset/read codes on your Audi? The stock whatever it is at my local garage works for reading/clearing faults on my boring and it's nowt fancy.Nope - we have one. Doesn't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sterling Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 Cheers Arfur I'll be busting out the old Arfur Daley camel coat for the next Cannock meet I reckon (if it ain't too warm) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 Is it just me or does old Arfur just look like Dennis Watermans dad? RIP Flash Harry, True gent, war time hero, and genuine nice bloke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twosmoke300 Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 Fucking VAGCOM. There's no decent freeware (VCDSLite is laggy, confusing etc), and whenever someone asks for a free version/alternative on the internet, they get shot down by Ross-Tech employees or snobby VAG forum admins going 'buy the £££ full version, it's illegal to crack VAGCOM whinge whinge'. I just want to clear the A4's service indicator/fault codes...How very dare they want to get money back for all their testing / development of their software , the cheek of it ! 😄 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebuchenezer Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 A few years back I tried a bit of human body house rearranging by taking a flyer down the stairs - I was sleepily going to the loo in an unfamiliar house at one in the morning, I turned right instead of left. the resultant stitchage, bruising and stiffness was most uncomfortable for a while but I didn't do any serious damage to myself. Two weeks ago a friend of mine did much the same thing - but he managed to dead himself. It is his funeral today. Fucksticks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplebargeken Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 Sorry to hear. Stairs can be bastards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beko1987 Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 My dad rented a house with fucking steep stairs, my stepmum went down them once. He then managed it through his letting agency a year or so later and the current renter did the same, but managed to splatter her skull over the wall at the end. Dad said it wasnt pretty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavcraft Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 Why don't wasps just fuck off? nebuchenezer, fred, Timewaster and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taff Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 Going back to George Cole, Dennis Waterman was being interviewed on 5Live last night and he sounded gutted. No soundbites, just genuine warm emotion. I watch Minder almost every weekday, I record them off itv4 during the day and watch them while I eat my tea. I'm 45, so when they were first aired I was 9 years old and wasn't allowed to stay up past the 2nd adverts (remember when hour-long stuff on ITV only had two advert breaks?). So as a result, I hadn't seen the end of very many of the episodes. It's been great making up for that. EssDeeWon, tooSavvy, DVee8 and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 All these funerals I'm beset with shitty neighbours at the moment too. It's making working from home very difficult. Yesterday I found myself going out and staying out to avoid it but that's not exactly conducive to meeting deadlines. I guess this is the downside to working from home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtriple Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EssDeeWon Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 Minor grump but why do garages never call you when your car is ready? Recently I have had to leave the 75 at a couple of garages for MOT and other work, I always leave them my landline number and ask if they can call me once the car is ready. "Yes sir no problem" so 12, 1, 2, 3pm comes and goes and nothing so I call them and ask when the 75 will be done, its always the same response "Hi yeah its all ready" As I say a minor grump, but annoying when your waiting around to do other things. Im only asking them to tell me when its done, not do a rain dance on the bonnet. purplebargeken, Angrydicky and Dippy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fordperv Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 Couriers take the piss, i was at work today came in this evening to find this card It was chucked on the floor by my front door which is set back from the wall, i don't have a porch, guess what no actual parcel though, dicks! I'm going to have to see what doesn't turn up this week and go from there as I've tried entering the card number and my postcode on their website and no info is there.Well I've found out what parcel is missing, it was the polybushes I ordered when I was at fordfair which were for my 3 door sierra, spoke to a lovely lady at flo-flex who chased it all up for me, told me she would ring within the hour, 10 minutes later she rung me back, couldn't be more apologetic about it all, fantastic customer service, her manager just has to give the couriers an ear bashing then send me a replacement out. myglaren 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-Rod Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 All these funerals I'm beset with shitty neighbours at the moment too. It's making working from home very difficult. Yesterday I found myself going out and staying out to avoid it but that's not exactly conducive to meeting deadlines. I guess this is the downside to working from home.I went through a similar thing - the girl who lives above where my office is (new build, everything's jumbled onto the smallest plot of land possible) loves listening to Now albums at top volume. Sometimes it's so loud, the walls vibrate. When I've mentioned something, she's used the excuse 'oh I'm a bit deaf'... *rant warning* Don't fucking lie. You just like to play music loud. I play in a band - I like playing my guitar loud too. There's nothing wrong with listening to music loud but seriously, if I politely ask you to turn it down as it's doing my head in as it's been like that ALL FUCKING MORNING, don't say 'I'm a bit deaf' and insult my intelligence by thinking I was born yesterday! Just say, 'sorry! I'll knock it back a bit' and all will be cool. Got it!? *rant over* So yes, I feel your pain. vulgalour 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave21478 Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 I went into le B&Q to buy some rawl plugs and the place was being screamed down by a small child. As I walked around I found the source of the noise....a woman casually browsing the kitchen taps and on the crook of her arm was a baby so young it looked like she might have given birth to it in the lightbulb aisle. And I appear to have missed a new government directive, because apparently its now obligatory for everyone to do 40mph in car parks now. EssDeeWon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 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. myglaren, forddeliveryboy, mouseflakes and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 IIRC pre-2001 made plates are exempt from the plate spacing/font rule, that should be a pass. chaseracer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red5 Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 And yet... Musical Offspring applied for his provisional licence on Tuesday; it arrived this morning. Go figure, as they say in the colonies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EssDeeWon Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 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. AlabamaShrimp, The Moog, hennabm and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pillock Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 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. myglaren and Ghosty 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryoldcortina Posted August 7, 2015 Share Posted August 7, 2015 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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