The grumpy thread

[Parky]

Tile cracked on the kitchen floor. Thought I must have dropped a pan on it or something.

 

Week later, another one. Then another. Then the damp smell appeared around the sink and tonight further investigation revealed a tiny water leak from a plastic union. Pulling the plinth out revealed a huge puddle of water which has permeated about half way through the kitchen so it's been like that for a while.

 

So that'll be replacement floorboards and new tiles then. Bollocks. Annoyingly the union that has leaked is one my Dad reused when we did the kitchen six years ago and I remember telling him to fit a new one. Moral? If you want a job cocked up properly, do it yourself thus avoiding resentment towards family members in future.....

[CortinaDave]

Hermes.

 

I ordered a fuel pump last Saturday express delivery because I needed it ASAP as I'm carless meantime.

 

Was getting a bit ratty that it hadn't arrived yet when a guy id never met before five doors up came round and told me hermes delivered it to him on Tuesday.

 

No card through my door, fuck all.

 

Am I supposed to be a bloody mind reader?

[andy18s]

Don't start me on Hermes,and their bunch of illiterate,inbred,retarded fuckwit nobjockeys who "claim" to be drivers........

 

Even the Mrs,who is usually 1 of the most tolerant of people,called the last 1 who lied both to her face And his "manager" on his phone a twatwafflingcockwomble.........

[Parky]

A Hermes driver delivered my wife's new iPhone a couple of months back and dropped it on the floor right in front of me.

 

Good thing those things are well wrapped. Fucking idiot

[CortinaDave]

They most certainly are cock wombles.

 

Any time I ever have a hermes delivery it's always arsed up/smashed etc.

 

Today's "ah well it's the same town so it'll do" delivery was a new low even for them.

[willswitchengage]

Help to Buy.

 

Thanks for overnight inflating the housing market to an unaffordable bubble, pricing out those who had shown responsibility with money by saving for a sizable deposit and instead rewarding irresponsible borrowers with larger mortgages.

 

I look forward to the market crash when they all end up in negative equity and default.

 

Recession caused by reckless borrowing in an over-inflated housing market? Solution: over-inflate the housing market by helping people to borrow recklessly.

[Ghosty]

I've had a Hermes delivery driver show up before now in a battered 2001 Accord with missing wheeltrims etc.

Wtf?

[philibusmo]

The Hermes delivery driver in my area is an old woman in a V**xh*ll Meriva with a false leg that's a bit to short. Oh how I laughed incredibly cruelly as I watched from an upstairs window as she carried a full set of springs and shock absorbers or the Fiesta down the drive.

[Bobthebeard]

  On 12/09/2014 at 20:18, willswitchengage said:

Help to Buy.

 

Thanks for overnight inflating the housing market to an unaffordable bubble, pricing out those who had shown responsibility with money by saving for a sizable deposit and instead rewarding irresponsible borrowers with larger mortgages.

 

I look forward to the market crash when they all end up in negative equity and default.

 

Recession caused by reckless borrowing in an over-inflated housing market? Solution: over-inflate the housing market by helping people to borrow recklessly.

History may* repeat itself.....

[vulgalour]

  On 12/09/2014 at 20:54, philibusmo said:

The Hermes delivery driver in my area is an old woman in a V**xh*ll Meriva with a false leg that's a bit to short.

 

How do you fit a false leg to a Meriva?

[philibusmo]

  On 12/09/2014 at 21:15, vulgalour said:

How do you fit a false leg to a Meriva?

Oh fuck. Poor sentence construction and the wrong use of 'to' all in one post. I'm off to hang my head in shame.

[Bobthebeard]

  On 12/09/2014 at 21:15, vulgalour said:

How do you fit a false leg to a Meriva?

Take said Meriva to a Vauxhall dealer and just get them to fit it. Labour will be around £560. Coding the false leg to the ECU will be around another £80. If it then goes into 'Limp mode' just take it back...... Slowly.

[HillmanImp]

  On 12/09/2014 at 20:18, willswitchengage said:

Help to Buy.

 

Thanks for overnight inflating the housing market to an unaffordable bubble, pricing out those who had shown responsibility with money by saving for a sizable deposit and instead rewarding irresponsible borrowers with larger mortgages.

 

I look forward to the market crash when they all end up in negative equity and default.

 

Recession caused by reckless borrowing in an over-inflated housing market? Solution: over-inflate the housing market by helping people to borrow recklessly.

Its only going to get worse for the next couple of years. TBH the HTB has not really been much of a success and has not really inflated prices. However, next year when the new pensions legislation comes in and all these pensioners will be wanting to invest their money the lower end of the housing market will go crazy as all these oldies get buy to lets. I see it rocketing for a year or so until the rental market gets flooded driving down rental income and making the buy to lets a poor investment. At that point all these buy to lets will flood the market and house prices will collapse. I am planninh on selling my rental property in April 2016 to be safe.

 

Just a prediction by me and could well be bollocks but its where i see all these pensioners putting their money when they get it, so it will just make buying for us at the lower end of the housing market harder for a bit.

[Caffiend]

  On 12/09/2014 at 19:54, CortinaDave said:

Hermes.

Yodel are just as bad. They delivered an item of mine to the right house number. In the next road. Luckily the people were honest and brought the parcel straight round. I sent a helpful* e-mail to Yodel suggesting that they taught their drivers to read street names and/or their satnavs.

 

From now on, I shall be checking which delivery companies organisations use before ordering.

[brickwall]

I got a wiper motor sent to  a garage in the wrong region thanks to Hermes. Insisted he knew the guy and goes there a lot. Of course, nobody knew anything.

[cms206]

Here we go again...

[Bren]

Offered £850 for T reg, giffer spec 1.6 auto golf.

 

It has 41 k on the clock with FSH, but only two months ticket and no tax.

 

My offer was rejected.

 

When £850 cannot buy a 15 year old, petrol engined golf you know something is wrong.

[Cavcraft]

Absolutely mental. I would like to think the fact it's an automatic made it more expensive, but sadly it's probably mostly down to clever advertising and people who buy badges.

[Pillock]

They'll still have it in three months, offer £750.

[inconsistant]

  On 12/09/2014 at 21:55, Bobthebeard said:

Take said Meriva to a Vauxhall dealer and just get them to fit it. Labour will be around £560. Coding the false leg to the ECU will be around another £80. If it then goes into 'Limp mode' just take it back...... Slowly.

 

And who foots the bill?

[Sigmund Fraud]

  On 13/09/2014 at 09:46, cms206 said:

Here we go again...

 

Argh ! Is it broken ? It was a real paragon of reliability in the two years I had it !

[cms206]

  On 13/09/2014 at 11:31, Sigmund Fraud said:

Argh ! Is it broken ? It was a real paragon of reliability in the two years I had it !

It's using water - about 3 litres a week - but I can't find where it's going! It waz showing two drips this morning and none now. Pipes are all heating up. Managed to shift the pressure in the water system... still using water. No excessive white smoke, no steam, no smell of coolant, no compression issues for starting, only a misfire when it's cold but it needs plugs/leads/dizzy done. Just don't want to spend on it if it's borked. Just trying to rule out HGF at the moment but nothing really points to that.

[TimothyClaypole]

Ebayer, offered to buy a bandsaw if he had the two missing fences, he finds one so fair enough.  I offered £230 cash on collection Sunday, piss on Ebay no fees etc.

 

Went to bed then got an email this morning saying he's added a picture and the model number, missing fence etc.

 

Oh and he wants £350 as that's less than half what it's worth...

 

A new one is £436 - and the stupid idiot already told me he paid £250 for it... now there's a reserve on it.  

 

Good luck stupid. 

[Cavcraft]

Have you still got the bike?

Yes

Where about are you?

Chester

Oh can I have it for £60 because I'm really interested? (It's up for £70)

Err, yes.

I'm in Manchester

(no reply)

What's your postcode?

Sent him postcode 

Sorry, it's too far.

 

Yeah, because I could hardly live closer to Manchester in the part of Chester I'm in, must have made all the effing difference, that   

 

And that, ladies and gents, is why I don't give my phone number out on adverts as at least with emails it's free to correspond with timewasters.

 

 

[meggersdog]

So the previous owner of my business booked his son's car in for an MOT for today.When he booked it there was nothing in for Saturday so I wrote it down and told him 9.O'clock.He wanted to do it himself to keep his MOT smartcard active but wanted me to quality control him.I don't trust the nosey old bastard anyway so I had to be there.

9.O'clock came and went so at 9.30 I put some cars away and locked up.I stopped at the top of the business park to collect my A board (MOTs open),just as I got back in the car he pulls in.I let him know how pissed off I was by swearing at him,loudly.The car he was supposed to MOT turned up 15 minutes later.

I came in to work on a Saturday morning as a favour so think it rude and inconsiderate that this person (who I don't like) would be 35 minutes late and the car booked in almost an hour late.

Apparantly he didn't like being sworn at to which I replied "well if you were on time I wouldn't swear at you".The horrible old git then tried passing the buck,his wife told their son that time.Unfortunately for him his son blurted out "nah,dad.You said about ten-ish"

And this horrible old git wants to work for me once a week..Not a chance.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Funny that he wants you to give him a job, but cant see that fucking you about wasting your time might have an impact on his prospects. Obviously has lost touch with the real world. Avoid.

[skattrd]

Somehow one of the front discs on my boring has got warped. I replaced all the discs & pads when I got the car and even though they've done 60k the discs and pads had loads of life left in them. I mainly do motorway miles, and I use the gears to slow down more than the brakes,

This means next weekend when I was planning on playing with the Lancia I'll be replacing discs and pads that have got loads of wear left on them.

[Lankytim]

After swapping a couple of dodgy injectors on the Multipla I found there was still a slight misfire present. Ever the perfectionist I swapped the remaining two today, except one was knackered and was letting too much fuel down the leak off pipes with the result that after tryng to get the engine to fire for 10 mins I discovered a slick of diesel all over the road where the pipe had blown off. Bastard. Sawdust down and cleaned up.

 

I stuck a known good injector back in, replacing the mega leaky one and it started and ran, although I fucking snapped the end of the leak off pipe inside the old injector without noticing and diesel is PISSING out all over the gaffe. More sawdust, bonnet down and inside for a cup of tea and a mope.

 

I had a box of odd leak off pipes and shiz which I binned off last week in a clearout. All the breakers are closed tomorrow so I'll have to wait till next week to get this poxy 10p plastic pipe thing. Wife needs it on Monday and isn't pleased.

 

This is what I need, the little bastard.

 

 

 

Quick update... I went to the world famous "Smithsons" in Longton, S-O-T  (as recommended by Mr and the nice guy there had one for me. Pretty amazing for 9am on a Sunday. I got chatting to the guy and he showed me his derelict Pug 406 1.9td with a supa-impressive 560k on the clock! Cam pulley broke and killed the head though...

[andy18s]

  On 13/09/2014 at 17:52, skattrd said:

Somehow one of the front discs on my boring has got warped. I replaced all the discs & pads when I got the car and even though they've done 60k the discs and pads had loads of life left in them. I mainly do motorway miles, and I use the gears to slow down more than the brakes,

This means next weekend when I was planning on playing with the Lancia I'll be replacing discs and pads that have got loads of wear left on them.

how far out is it?

will it square up with a skim?

if they are new-ish then there should be enough meat on the disc to at least try

[myglaren]

  On 13/09/2014 at 09:23, Caffiend said:

Yodel are just as bad. They delivered an item of mine to the right house number. In the next road. Luckily the people were honest and brought the parcel straight round. I sent a helpful* e-mail to Yodel suggesting that they taught their drivers to read street names and/or their satnavs.

 

From now on, I shall be checking which delivery companies organisations use before ordering.

It isn't only them.

I'm having solar panels fitted and the scaffolders are set to come next Monday.

Except they came last Thursday and started erecting the scaffolding next door.