The grumpy thread

[HH-R]

Booked the car into a garage to be looked at since the EML came on and it was reeking of petrol, didn't fancy buying a new cat so didn't drive it for a couple of days until I could get it seen to.

 

Bloody light has switched itself off in the meantime! Took it in anyway and explained it's been misfiring for months but been to a few different places, leads and plugs renewed, crank sensor replaced. Only happens when it's cold though.

 

Didn't even get 20 mins down the road and get a call: "it's driving fine, can't find a fault".

 

Just wanted to bang my head off the wall. I had JUST finished saying it only happened when cold. Told em to keep it and try starting it today, I bet the damn thing fires striaght up. Annoying as I can't get anyone to have a proper look at it! They look at it when it's hot, replace bits when it's still warm and then say it's fine. As soon as the engine cools, shite. Close to driving it into a river.

[Parky]

What car is it HHR? Sounds similar to my Fiats coil pack issues but as it only does it under load I doubt if the garages diagnostic equipment will pick it up

[HH-R]

A 09 Fiat Panda funnily enough! I've had it 11 months and it's been hands down the worst car I've ever owned. I changed the coil packs on my last Panda to cure the same problem so they're easy enough to do.

 

Not heard from them today yet so I'm hoping they've found some sort of fault.

[Parky]

I will wager a virtual fiver that it is coil pack

[DVee8]

In a department store yesterday,she was buying some sunglasses,went to pay with her card,card declined she tried again declined again.I tried my card for that bank and declined again. Payed for the glasses with another card.

 

Our lass is fuming as it is her business account,so off she goes to ring the bank.20mins later she is still on the phone face like thunder.

 

Now part of our business is a hire company and we take a £500 deposit on hire items,any damage comes off the deposit,but most of the time the £500 goes back.As most weeks £500 comes in,the £500 goes back out a few days to a week later.So the bank decided that she is laundering money and froze the account,without any contact to her.

 

More phone calls later to the fraud departments it is all cleared and everything is fine very sorry about any inconvenience to you.

Last night she tried to send a deposit back to a client account frozen,another 25mins on to the fraud department with "i am closing the account and moving it " or no you don't need to do that.

.It is sorted out or is it.

[Doctormop]

People who do not pay what they owe are making me very grumpy indeed.

My wife is a self employed accountant, she rents an office, pays one part time member of staff, has various clients that she goes out of her way to keep happy, seriously I've known her work past midnight to get work done that the client 'needs for 9am tomorrow' (this request usually comes at 3.30pm the day before) yet when it comes to getting paid for work done its always; 'I'll post you a cheque next week/ thought I'd paid you/it's been a slack month" or 101 other excuses time after time. Do these peolple think that the world just owes them something and they are doing her a favour by considering paying for work done?

 I can't really say anything as it's not me that they owe, officially I shouldn't even know anything about it but on what precise date did it become perfectly acceptable to stop paying professional fees for services rendered because I must have been otherwise occupied when that paticular law was passed.

[dugong]

People who do not pay what they owe are making me very grumpy indeed.

My wife is a self employed accountant, she rents an office, pays one part time member of staff, has various clients that she goes out of her way to keep happy, seriously I've known her work past midnight to get work done that the client 'needs for 9am tomorrow' (this request usually comes at 3.30pm the day before) yet when it comes to getting paid for work done its always; 'I'll post you a cheque next week/ thought I'd paid you/it's been a slack month" or 101 other excuses time after time. Do these peolple think that the world just owes them something and they are doing her a favour by considering paying for work done?

 I can't really say anything as it's not me that they owe, officially I shouldn't even know anything about it but on what precise date did it become perfectly acceptable to stop paying professional fees for services rendered because I must have been otherwise occupied when that paticular law was passed.

 

I ran a recording studio. Among the many reasons it went bump was because of people owing money. I feel your pain., 

 

Did *some* freelancing and getting people to pay \ getting people to understand the concept of money for services was extremely difficult on several occasions. 

[UmBongo]

Can you burn the seagulls that have been shitting all over my car instead?

 

It's not the little white ones that clean off easily, it's great big cakes of solid brown shit.

 

Kill those flying rats verrrry slowly - I hate them.

[EssDeeWon]

People who do not pay what they owe are making me very grumpy indeed.

My wife is a self employed accountant, she rents an office, pays one part time member of staff, has various clients that she goes out of her way to keep happy, seriously I've known her work past midnight to get work done that the client 'needs for 9am tomorrow' (this request usually comes at 3.30pm the day before) yet when it comes to getting paid for work done its always; 'I'll post you a cheque next week/ thought I'd paid you/it's been a slack month" or 101 other excuses time after time. Do these peolple think that the world just owes them something and they are doing her a favour by considering paying for work done?

 I can't really say anything as it's not me that they owe, officially I shouldn't even know anything about it but on what precise date did it become perfectly acceptable to stop paying professional fees for services rendered because I must have been otherwise occupied when that paticular law was passed.

 

My girlfriend is self employed and is forever waiting on people to pay her, even regular clients can take the pizz. As you say DM, the excuses are 'Oh sorry thought I had paid that' or 'Oh sorry forgot, will sort it by the weekend'

 

At times she is skint but owed hundreds because 'some' people are so lax about paying.

[Junkman]

We regularly fell on hard times when people didn't pay my parents' invoices (both self employed).

My father had an office for civil engineering and once did a very large project for a property developer.

After a considerable sum had accumulated, he committed suicide, which is generally not a bad thing for

a property developer to do, but my dad thus never saw a penny for all his work.

[gordonbennet]

Bloody strange innit, my dad was the other way (no not THAT other way inclined silly), he was never happy owing a bean, i'm exactly the same, and my son has in turn inherited the gene.

 

I have to pay up, if my MB indy is late doing a bill for me, quite normal that cos he's always bloody spannering, i have to go and pay him roughly what the bill will be on account.

 

 

Conversely i bloody detest spongers and other bastards who don't pay up what they owe, so i send a virtual pox on those arse holes who owe the above people money.

[Cavcraft]

Non-payers are bastards. I knew a smashing bloke with a diesel pump specialist company who got taken for thousands and thousands by some twat. Anyhow the debtor went bust and then the bloke back the following Monday and asked him to carry on as before. When asked for what he owed from the last time he just said 'oh, that company has gone bust, you won't get anything'

 

He was rightly told to FRO, cheeky twat.

[cort16]

The front ball joint on the avantime is rattling like fuck, which is making my new motorway commute a little nerve racking.

Once more my expert mechanical skills have paid dividends. It's the strut top mount. Needless to say it's mind bendingly expensive.

[saucedoctor]

My business partner was driving Ian Callum yesterday. I wish I'd known - I could have got him to ask "Why did you let Wayne Burgess make such an almighty fuck up of the Jaguar X Type's headlights?"

[chaseracer]

...such an almighty fuck up: the Jaguar X Type...

 

Let me fix that for you

[mercrocker]

The city nearest to where I live (I refuse to align myself with it by saying "my home town") used to have a Mayors Car with an original, locally issued, two letter, one number registration plate.  Its been on mayoral limousines for donkeys years until some twat got elected in and said we must stop this, brethren, it does not become a man of the people or some such Orwellian shit.   So the Daimler was flogged and as far as I recall some pish was bought from a local wide boy dealer (it may even have been something Korean FFS).   Anyway, I never saw the number plate again and assumed they had flogged it.   Nope....I saw it today.  On a "community" minibus "donated" by Ford for the good of the people.  Hooray!   This would be the same Ford, I suppose, that shat on the town's workforce by shutting the Transit plant and fucking off to Turkey.  Where this new minibus was presumably built.   Grunt-futtocking cobblers, all of it.

[saucedoctor]

I'm told by a pal @ Desmond Motors (Londonderry) that the new Ford Transits are, quote "keek malojin".  That's Derry-speak for "utter fucking shit".

[saucedoctor]

Let me fix that for you

HARSH. An acquired taste, maybe.

The XE should have been the next Rover.

 

Actually, it's just as well I don't do any of the driving - I'd have had poor Mr Callum tortured - cock-eyed X Type, XE/Rover, the DISGRACEFUL arrangement of bushings on the original Aston Martin Vanquish back axle (maybe not his fault). However, the strength of the doors on the DB7 saved my ex-girlfriend's life when her car was clouted by a bus.

[Cavcraft]

I hope the noisy wanker in the next tent to us last night with his radio on at 3.00am enjoyed whatever the birds left behind after I emptied a few packets of crisps, a couple of slices of bread and some digestive biscuits around it. My missus talked me out of filling a bottle full of gypsy's kiss and launching at you by the way, you fat midlands knobhead.

[Inspector Morose]

, you fat midlands knobhead.

I'll have you know I'm big boned.

[chaseracer]

Yow bay as haither as me, me owd mucker 

[Negative Creep]

Companies that never reply to your job application. I know I'm hardly unique in that, but not only does it feel like your attempt was so lousey they couldn't even be bothered to say thanks but no thanks, but you have no idea where you went wrong to improve things

[purplebargeken]

You fucking ungrateful, rude, ignorant wanker. You can now wait like everyone else and no, I couldn't really care any less.

 

Oh that is MUCH better

[overrun]

Companies that never reply to your job application. I know I'm hardly unique in that, but not only does it feel like your attempt was so lousey they couldn't even be bothered to say thanks but no thanks, but you have no idea where you went wrong to improve things

Usually it's poor and spelling and lack of punctuation, mate.

[dugong]

The eBay case with the 3 scrubbed tyres rumbles on.

 

What chance have I got of getting what I want? Three of the tyres were scrubbed slick and unusable. The wheels balanced up straight. I don't want to return them because they're attached to my van - and I've had three new tyres fitted. I want to give the seller £50 (out of the £102 sale price) because the wheels were as described. The tyres were not.

 

The seller is being a knobhead and called me a liar over the state of the tyres ('you could have got them from anywhere, they don't look like my tyres') and offered a full return and refund or FRO.

 

I can escalate the case on August 3rd. What chance have I got of getting what I want? I have photographic evidence and the tyre place is willing to sign off on it.

 

Why is it never easy?

[Inspector Morose]

As Douglas Adams once said, "people are a problem"

[Junkman]

Why is it never easy?

 

What do you expect in an age, where men wear fucking red trousers?

 

http://lookatmyfuckingredtrousers.blogspot.co.uk/

[Lord Sterling]

you fat midlands knobhead.

Hey, that sounds a lot like me! Your not in Belguim by any chance are you?

 

What do you expect in an age, where men wear fucking red trousers?

 

http://lookatmyfuckingredtrousers.blogspot.co.uk/

Says the man who wears Yellow trousers?

 

 

[Cavcraft]

You're bollocksed I reckon, Jon. You'll either have to accept them as they are or return for a full refund, eBay/Paypal aren't going to be arsed about your incurred costs (i.e having new tyres fitted then removing them and putting old ones on) they'll just want to reimburse you for the set and you'll have to get them back to the seller.

[dave21478]

The eBay case with the 3 scrubbed tyres rumbles on.

 

What chance have I got of getting what I want? .......

.....I don't want to return them because they're attached to my van - and I've had three new tyres fitted. 

 

No chance at all now that you have changed the tyres. Sorry.