The grumpy thread

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Okay so still thinking about my precious spanner I thought about taking the driver's seat out tomorrow just so I can have a proper look underneath. Let's have a search of the Rover forum to see how easy the seats are to remove. 

 

 

 

it's what your Snap-on 1/2" ratchet ring is made for...

 

arghhh

[Barry Cade]

I'm starting to like Bini's. Off for a bath in bleach. Soz.

[Cavcraft]

Billy, keep in mind we have one here for breaking if you need owt.

 

 

Ah, bollocks. Just bought one on line for a rather bargainous £10 inc. postage, would rather have lobbed you the money but never mind. Have you got a lock set (non-central locking) at all? Be interested in matching lock set with not chewed up driver's barrel!

[hairnet]

I'm starting to like Bini's. Off for a bath in bleach. Soz.

broken man there i think

[ShiteRider]

Road tax reminder/death threat from the dvla waiting for me at home, opened it and low and behold both the cortina and fiesta are due at the same time. Bollocks.

[hairnet]

had that here thought it was due end of april but its end of march

 

arse

[trigger]

Snap, I want to tax the Cortina at the end of the month and the Focus is also due, this year I have the option to tax the Focus for 6 months, normally it's only yearly so that's not quite so bad.

[Keymaster]

Date of test: 06/03/2014

Certificate issue refused (Fail)

 

Reason(s) for refusal to issue Certificate

Nearside Rear rear brake recording little or no effort (3.7.A.5a)

Offside Rear rear brake recording little or no effort (3.7.A.5a)

 

Bah! I thought my birthday was going too well....

[Asimo]

^^^That reads much like my school reports.

[vulgalour]

Oh... the water is coming out of the water pump!  Yeah, thanks for that, car.

[vulgalour]

Tracking done, fuel pump leak cured... and now there's air bubbles in the expansion bottle so I reckon OMGHGF has happened... unless it's sucking air in through the leaking water pump... is that even a thing?

 

I am not very happy about this.  What with the welding that's needed, the MoT, the tax and the insurance all arriving together, even if I was doing exceptional well with work (things are reasonable, at present) I'd struggle to resolve all this.

 

Time to call it quits?  I do hope not.

[Lankytim]

Ordered a set of plates on Monday, need them tomorrow for towing duties. Have they arrived? Have they arse!

[fordperv]

^ was that local or on tinterweb?

[Lankytim]

Twas internet, ebay infact.

[vulgalour]

Oh fucking perfect, Paypal now doesn't believe I'm me, won't accept my personal details as correct for me and won't release my account which really makes it very difficult indeed to make any money!  Bastard fucking wankers I could do without this.

[hairnet]

cancel go local

[tooSavvy]

FCUCK!!  Contract has arrived in the post - Full Time (£*****) + Overtime, Holidays & Overnight allowance....

 

I own a car that cost me nowt but Tax/Ins + MOT....

 

FCUCK!!!

 

 

anyone selling anything cheap + bankrupting???

 

..nah  I'll stick with $hite ML Krap, Ta!!

 

 

TS

[Cheggers]

FCUCK!! Contract has arrived in the post - Full Time (£*****) + Overtime, Holidays & Overnight allowance....

 

I own a car that cost me nowt but Tax/Ins + MOT....

 

FCUCK!!!

 

 

anyone selling anything cheap + bankrupting???

 

..nah I'll stick with $hite ML Krap, Ta!!

 

 

TS

Dammit, just when I thought I was becoming fluent...

 

 

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[KruJoe]

need plates for towing duties

 

Did you order a number plate for a trailer/a-frame?

 

If so, when you hitch up, just unscrew your back plate from the car, and tape it to your trailer board for that job. Done that a few times myself.

[tooSavvy]

Dammit, just when I thought I was becoming fluent...

 

 

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Dammit... FCUCK

 

TS

[MrDuke]

My new ticking time-bomb of a van, while in excellent nick for its age, has truly appalling seats. The driver's seat cushion is half as thick as it should be and ripped to hell, and the other two seats have a decade's-worth of grease and plaster dust ground into them.

As the rest of the interior is fairly nice (or will be, when I've finished deep-cleaning it) I thought it'd be worth replacing them, and started perusing eBay.....

 

£250??!!  For used van seats??!! I don't want them re-upholstered in leather and alcantara, with electric heaters and massage pads, I just want some bog-stock jobbies with minimal damage and working adjusters, please!!

Admittedly, I have found some slightly damaged ones (still much nicer then mine) for around £100, but they either want collection or are charging half as much again for delivery, vut iss point?

[ruffgeezer]

What sort of van is it?

 

My grump is that now I seem to have released the funds from the Frontera, I now cannot find anything I'm even remotely tempted by, perhaps my £550 budget is too low.

[Lankytim]

Did you order a number plate for a trailer/a-frame?

 

If so, when you hitch up, just unscrew your back plate from the car, and tape it to your trailer board for that job. Done that a few times myself.

 

 

I think that's what i'm going to do. I still have a bit of hope that they will show up tomorrow morning, fingers crossed!

 

On the same note, I have just returned from the inlaws after picking up scrap XM I'm weighing in tomorrow. It was already on the trailer ready to go, all I had to do was hitch it up. First of all I needed to move the inlaws cars out the way so I could drag the trailer off the drive. I parked the XM up on the road outside and went to get the keys. On my return to the drive I was treated to the sight of my XM rolling away down the hill on which the inlaws house is situated, I ran after it but it was just too fast! I had mentally resigned myself to a second scrap XM to weigh in and a insurance claim for whatever damage was caused to third parties, luckily the neighbour had just gone out in his 57 plate Astra and the pilotless XM ploughed across the road where the Astra had been not 2 minutes previously, over the pavement, up a steep grass bank and came to rest against a "for sale" sign. Unbelievably zero damage was caused! Well, apart from the neighbours lawn being chewed up but nobody saw it and i'm not admitting to anything.

 

I can only put it down to hot front discs contracting and letting the handbrake slip. I must remember to park it in gear from now on!

 

The XM I'm weighing in tomorrow rolled away from outside the inlaws house when I first collected it too, that ended up in the middle of the road with cars dodging round it. That was 100% my fault though, no hydraulics, no brakes and a steep hill.... frigging scary..

[MrDuke]

What sort of van is it?

 

My grump is that now I seem to have released the funds from the Frontera, I now cannot find anything I'm even remotely tempted by, perhaps my £550 budget is too low.

 

It's a 'Mk2' Renault Master, although corresponding Vauxhall Movano seats would do.

 

I know the feeling of frustration - the one and only time that I had a grand to spend on something old, there was literally nothing that fitted my (un-demanding) needs, despite my having seen at least 20 candidates over the preceeding month. I ended up spunking far too much money on something out of desperation, and lost most of it when I sold it on. Hurrah for shiteing!!!

[cort16]

Lucky escape!

[Inspector Morose]

^^ Over here in the middle Midlands many years ago there was a bus company called Midland Red who used to build their own, quite advanced for the time, buses. One of their many features was a handbrake made up of a disk mounted on the propshaft instead of the usual because they used disk brakes on their buses. Problem was the very same that happened to your XM in that the driver applied the handbrake, the disk cooled and shrunk and the driverless buss trundled off in whatever direction it fancied. A driver mate of mine who used to drive these beasts came back to his brand new Maxi one day after a shift only to find the rear of an S14 dry humping the bonnet. Luckily due to the back of the bus contained very little in the way of anything really and was lightly built damage was relatively minor and the car was hurriedly taken away by the company to be repaired, who knows where.

[Ghosty]

I've got a mate that lives on the next street, but I've not seen/heard from him lately, and my parents haven't seen him either - he often used to pass our house doing errands.

 

Turns out he'd been in hospital and he's got Crohn's disease.

[MrDuke]

Ugh, that's harsh. Truly horrible condition. 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Somehow, while moving a car 69 meters, I have lost my best 1/2in ratchet spanner. I tightened a couple of bolts, got in the car, moved it 69m, noticed I didn't have the spanner before I even got out of the car. But where has it gone?

 

I spent half an hour pulling up the carpets, moving the seats about, even walking back to where the car was parked twice. I might just have to come to terms with the new gap in my only complete spanner set

 

SPANNER FOUND!

 

I pulled both seats out, the runners and all the carpets. No spanner. Eventually turned out it had slid behind the speedometer and then sort of moved forwards a little bit, so it looked and felt like there was nothing there. How the hell it did that on a 69m trip at 15mph I have no idea. 

 

I also found where the water is getting into the cabin. All four doors. I can't decide whether it's just the door seals or the doors are mis-aligned. The seals are a bit tired, but there's only about 1mm contact area where they're leaking. This has apparently been going on for some time, because both sills are utterly ruined. 

 

Still, finding that spanner cancels out the bad news because it was driving me crazy.

[vulgalour]

Okay day, I don't like you and you clearly don't like me but I'm going to get these brakes done.  Ratchet handle for factory jack explodes.  Spare ratchet handle doesn't ratchet any more.  Not to worry, I'll use the trolley jack I keep in the boot.  Under the rear cross member, rear jacking point jack free, let the car down and then discover there is absolutely nowhere to jack under at the front that the jack can reach that isn't so low the jack won't go under it.