The grumpy thread

[alf892]

I always get the new Transit mixed up with the LDV Maxus when I see one.

a quick drive will fix that..........attractive though the Maxus may be as shite they were pretty shit for their day.

 

Transit is nice to drive .....................not a bad place to spend your working day imo

[drum]

Flappy bird

[castros_bro]

I was there moons ago but was threatened with eviction when the curious incident of the Morris Oxford engine rebuild in the night time went a bit wrong. Now I always drain the old sump oil out before getting pissed and carrying engines up college stairs.

 

Somerset broken again. Tried to drive to Chelmsford and had to turn back after a couple of miles due to very bad misfiring. Investigation reveals the entire ignition system is filled with those crappy Chinese made "Lucas" branded components, which are brand new, and to top it off, a red rotor arm. Rotor arm and dizzy cap contacts very burnt and the points gap has closed up. I have a NOS rotor arm and an original condensor but only a modern set of points. It is so frustrating that Lucas get away with selling this crap nowadays, it's all the specialists sell and NOS parts are getting harder to find.

 

Also, University. There's a trip to the House of Commons towards the end of March before PMQ's, with limited spaces that I really wanted to go on. I emailed the lecturer in charge of the trip ages ago asking to be put on the list and he never responded, I now find out all the places have been filled. F*cking cheers for letting me know, dickhead.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Somerset broken again. Tried to drive to Chelmsford and had to turn back after a couple of miles due to very bad misfiring. Investigation reveals the entire ignition system is filled with those crappy Chinese made "Lucas" branded components, which are brand new, and to top it off, a red rotor arm. Rotor arm and dizzy cap contacts very burnt and the points gap has closed up. I have a NOS rotor arm and an original condensor but only a modern set of points. It is so frustrating that Lucas get away with selling this crap nowadays, it's all the specialists sell and NOS parts are getting harder to find.

 

What's wrong with the red rotor arm? I thought they were the only good ones. They've always been the first thing I've put on my cars after having one of the shite riveted black ones shatter at 70mph, leaving me picking fragments of bakelite out of my distributor on the hard shoulder. 

[plasticvandan]

i fit electronic into any lucas dizzy i get hold of in a car,cant stand bloody points!

[HillmanImp]

The bloody O/S headlight on the Visa is French and the lift is on the wrong side. 

 

Have wanged these on both lights. Do we think it will be an MOT pass or not like this? have put one on both sides so they both look the same?

 

[fordperv]

As long as you can get the beams in prescribed areas in the m.o.t light box it should pass, we used to sell l.h.d headlights to customers who had Talbot express campers we informed them that they were l.h.d but there wasn't a problem come m.o.t time

[dollywobbler]

The internal speaker in my BlackBerry has gone all buzzy. Today, I finally relented and called Orange tech support. Where a gentleman in India and I embarked upon a seriously frustrating discussion. He actually did ask me if I'd tried rebooting. I wanted to reboot whoever wrote that question's face.

 

He kept putting me on hold. I was them bombarded with horrible pop music. Eventually, I got through to someone in this country, who told me to try a factory reset. Oh yes. Because that's likely to work. Even he didn't sound convinced. I proceeded anyway and sure enough, it didn't fix it and now my phone is bloody useless because everything has been reset. I could try reinstalling everything again, but seeing as the advice was to take my phone to a shop so it could be sent away, it seems a waste of time. Ugh!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

My Argenta has passed a couple of MOT'S with those beam bendaz fitted.

[michael1703]

Grumpy that I'll have to wait a year until its the year that Marty mcfly went to in back to the future 2

 

Me: film was in 1985,20 years that's 2015 I wonder what the exact date is

Her: but its 2014

Me: looked on google, shit the bed its 21st October! How exciting

Her: but its 2014

Me: yeah in October

Her:next year

Me: arsebiscuits

[michael1703]

Just had two spirit crushingly boring days on a VOSA course, I'm now an AEDM, my head is full of odd numbers beginning with VT

 

My life is officially over

[twosmoke300]

All Vosa courses are just brain rottingly boring . I actually nodded off in my nt course

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

My dad got a text message from his Volkswagen dealer telling him it was time for the car's cam belt change. Pretty sure the 1.4TSI they sold him has a chain. 

 

Should probably book it in and see how far that goes. 

[twosmoke300]

I had a customer tell me that the local Vw dealer sent him a letter to say his.transporter needed a cambelt. Given that it's a 2.5 t5 with gears or chains it was a bit cheeky.

[chaseracer]

I wonder how much the stealer would charge for stripping it down, realising there's no belt, then nailing it all back together approximately as before...?

[fred]

As all of the above,

Life is rather like a bent branch, spend the first 30 odd years enjoying doing silly things, bending the etherial branch back, hit forty and the bloody thing comes back and twats you square in the face

thusly spending the rest of you mortal coil cussing pretty much everything and everything

[Richard]

All Vosa courses are just brain rottingly boring . I actually nodded off in my nt course

I think all work related courses are like that. The catering is often quite good though.

[Richard]

All Vosa courses are just brain rottingly boring . I actually nodded off in my nt course

I think all work related courses are like that. The catering is often quite good though.

[beko1987]

Bonus letter has arrived, we nearly have enough money for a deposit. Is there anywhere to rent now? Is there fuck!

[Ghosty]

I've installed Helvetica on my computer, and now every website without a set font is inexplicably showing up in it and it looks rather odd.

[DVee8]

Took the boys out mountain biking this afternoon.

The oldest lad complaining that something is not right with his bike.

Lets have a look says i coudn't see anything so jumps on to give it a spin gears/back wheel locks up sending me over the handle bars in to a heap on the floor.

The handle bars dig into my left hip close to somewhere soft,skin my right knee and left palm.Fucking too old for this shit.

[brickwall]

Went out a wee while ago and have just found out the passenger side of my C70 is totally crumpled. I have no idea where it happened as I never use the passenger side. Car may be fucked. Bastard. Shit. Twats.

[DVee8]

^^ and i thought i was a bit pissed off.

I was going to hit the like button     so have double sad's

[brickwall]

It's really annoying grrrr! :-(

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I wonder how much the stealer would charge for stripping it down, realising there's no belt, then nailing it all back together approximately as before...?

 

I'm genuinely curious whether they would:

 

a: say "whoops, sorry you shouldn't have got that message"

b: say "whoops, sorry you shouldn't have got that message, but while you're here you should have your [brake fluid/tyres/pollen filter] changed, your air con serviced and pine tree air freshener regassed"

c: outright fraudulently charge for a fictional belt change

 

I'm 95% sure it would be option B, and that's why I'm still trying to discourage my dad from 'popping in to check' on his way past on Monday. 

[dugong]

The answer is C. It's always C in the world of Watchdog and OUTRAGED columnists. 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Time to go all Cook Report on them.

 

[andy18s]

Just put the better half's Outlander through it's mot

New tyres all round (225/55/18's),£400 thanks to a family friend

New discs around,£100

Tbh,it's the only time we've had to spend too much in the 3 yrs she's had it

And it flew thru !

Tester mentioned it looked in good tidy nick underneath

Maybe time for a re-map and stuff seeing as it uses the VW 2.0DiD engine

[EssDeeWon]

Grumpy that I'll have to wait a year until its the year that Marty mcfly went to in back to the future 2

 

Me: film was in 1985,20 years that's 2015 I wonder what the exact date is

Her: but its 2014

Me: looked on google, shit the bed its 21st October! How exciting

Her: but its 2014

Me: yeah in October

Her:next year

Me: arsebiscuits

 

20 years from 1985 is 2015?

[hairnet]

20 years from 1985 is 2015?

 

'michael wished he hadnt started.......'