The grumpy thread

[beko1987]

Meriva just squeeked through it's MOT with a little bit of leeway from the tester

 

It left oil everywhere, I was going round after it cleaning up. Isn't coming from the sump plug at all, but from the join of the sump and gearbox bellhousing mainly. Could be sorted wit ha sump re-seal hopefully, or it's the crankshaft oil seal, which sounds like hard work...

 

The bits matey didn't touch when changing the steering rack are fucked, so I need a OSF Lower arm ball joint gaitor/ball joint, and an OSF ARB Link balljoint/gaitor

 

One of the exhaust clamps is broken. I know about this, but it seems to have been disturbed and is now blowing slightly

 

the 2 front exhaust clamps are nearly split right through. Matey replaced the rear ones, obv didn't bother with the front

 

Oil leaks

 

there's a fucking hole in the subframe very close to a bolt that hodls the steering rack in. Matey didn't mention that either when replacing the rack.

 

Pass tyre is worn on the outer edge (fair play, the trackings fixed now)

 

small nail in the rear tyre - ffs

 

coolant was low, wasn't a few weeks ago

 

SWMBO didn't tell me there was no screenwash in, luckily enough suds came through to show the system worked...

 

The battery is insecure, the clamp has come off.

 

Technically it failed it's MOT, then we wedged a bit of wood in the battery tray and it passed!

 

Not happy though, if we hadn't spent on the steering rack I'd be tempted to get rid of it, but we have so need to thing wether to re-seal the sump with proper sump sealer, and fix the other little bits or still sack it off

 

Needless to say, I didn't pop into ECP on the way back to the office for new oil and filter, there's no point. Did buy a sump plug on ebay though, that can sit in my toolbox until I decide to fit it.

 

All together now... ALL VAUXHALLS ARE SHITE... The ZX seems like a really tidy car compared to this...

[dugong]

Hey, least it passed....and you have your ZX as a constant reminder of how a small family car should be done.

[The Moog]

One of my dogs has just mauled neighbours cat. Now sitting at vets.

 

Neighbours are out, dont have anyway to contact them and vet cant treat without the owners permission. Can give first aid but nothing more. Fucksticks

[Cavcraft]

Seriously like, give them my number if you want and I'll pretend to be the owner.

[The Moog]

Cheers for the offer but Tracked them down based on the directions of an old geezer that said "they run a shop that sells fancy gloves".

 

Got a feeling it is going to be an expensive day.

[Angrydicky]

Bollocks, it's Halloween again. Time to turn all the lights off and sit in darkness for the evening to avoid all the annoying little kids and their chav parents who persist in coming and harassing me. Just fuck off, ok? 

[saucedoctor]

Make one of these, and leave it at your front door

[vulgalour]

Came home to a kitchen full of dog wee and a very guilty looking dog who decided he should hide in the bathroom and took much coercing to come out again.  Poor guy, he never pees in the house so I can only imagine that some early trick or treaters wound him up while we were gone, there were quite a few working through the neighbourhood on our walk back from the garage.

[twosmoke300]

I bet bekos mot tester would be delighted that its now on the net that he passed a car with obvious fails .

[darkfour]

Fugging HMRC, as an expat I have to fill in a self assessed for a few years to avoid paying CGT. HMRC sent me the paperwork a while ago and I filed it away and forgot about it. Realizing that the deadline is approaching I signed up for online filing which means they then post you an authorization code. I got this in the post this week, logged in and activated my account and went to complete the online Self assessment form only to be told that I can't do it if I live overseas.

 

FFS they knew I lived overseas when I registered and I've been here since 2007. My address is correct and they send me shite in the mail but I can't complete the bloody forms. Now I'm going to miss the deadline for paper filing and end up with a £100 fine. W**kers.

[CortinaDave]

i always think HMRC are the grown ups equivalent of the school bully. Its basically legalised demands for money with menaces.

 

GIVE US YER LUNCH MONEY

[cort1977]

Fugging HMRC, as an expat I have to fill in a self assessed for a few years to avoid paying CGT. HMRC sent me the paperwork a while ago and I filed it away and forgot about it. Realizing that the deadline is approaching I signed up for online filing which means they then post you an authorization code. I got this in the post this week, logged in and activated my account and went to complete the online Self assessment form only to be told that I can't do it if I live overseas.

 

FFS they knew I lived overseas when I registered and I've been here since 2007. My address is correct and they send me shite in the mail but I can't complete the bloody forms. Now I'm going to miss the deadline for paper filing and end up with a £100 fine. W**kers.

Something wrong there, I have lived overseas and filed online for years.   Actually, thinking about it I think I used my parent's address as a contact address but they know I am overseas.   Is there a UK address you can use to get past that step?

[Jim Bergerac]

Bollocks, it's Halloween again. Time to turn all the lights off and sit in darkness for the evening to avoid all the annoying little kids and their chav parents who persist in coming and harassing me. Just fuck off, ok? 

 

I had a near miss earlier, was a couple of hundred yards from the house when I saw some trick or treaters walk down my garden path. Doubled back and went round the block to leave enough time for them to clear my place, next doors and the houses across the road.

 

I am a killjoy and proud of it.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Lost in Trafford Centre car park. Cannot find car. Know it's under one of these blue Christmas trees, but which one?

[Noel Tidybeard]

that one over there

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Found it, I was on the wrong side of the building. That's what I get for trying to start my Christmas shopping before it's even November.

 

[purplebargeken]

Oh look, a small nuclear explosion on top of a pointy blue tower. Arrrggghh, my eyes, my eyes. 

[HillmanImp]

There is definitely something wrong with what is called the 'western world'. 

 

Evidence A:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-29845065

 

Bloke writes the word Ebola on the top of a cup of coffee which probably tasted like shite, ends up paying nearly £2k in fines to charity.

 

 

A judge said he could not think of a more serious offence given the present day fear of Ebola. He said it was like writing on a napkin that there is a bomb on the plane. "He was over international waters on an international flight, that is how serious it is," the judge said.

 

The judge needs to live in the real world.

 

Evidence B:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-29848021

Someone gets banned from driving, ordered to pay £1,369 prosecution costs and a £60 victim surcharge, a four-month curfew and a 12-month community order.for pulling a man up and down Tesco car park in a wheel chair. Surely that could have been dealt with a little easier.

 

I think the entire justice system is trying to justify itself with statistics these days. I wonder how much it costs the taxpayer a year to pay for all this shit to go through the court process? Just because you made 200,000 arrests last year, its not a good thing that most of them were for people calling each other names on Facebook. 

 

However if you want some real evidence that the world is fucked, look at this (NSFW)

http://imgur.com/a/G4oeT

 

CHILDHOOD:RUINED

[SambaS]

What is Conrad's car?

[Vin]

There is definitely something wrong with what is called the 'western world'. 

 

Evidence A:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-29845065

 

Bloke writes the word Ebola on the top of a cup of coffee which probably tasted like shite, ends up paying nearly £2k in fines to charity.

 

 

The judge needs to live in the real world.

 

Evidence B:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-29848021

Someone gets banned from driving, ordered to pay £1,369 prosecution costs and a £60 victim surcharge, a four-month curfew and a 12-month community order.for pulling a man up and down Tesco car park in a wheel chair. Surely that could have been dealt with a little easier.

 

I think the entire justice system is trying to justify itself with statistics these days. I wonder how much it costs the taxpayer a year to pay for all this shit to go through the court process? Just because you made 200,000 arrests last year, its not a good thing that most of them were for people calling each other names on Facebook. 

 

However if you want some real evidence that the world is fucked, look at this (NSFW)

http://imgur.com/a/G4oeT

 

CHILDHOOD:RUINED

 

I also offer 'Evidence C'....I would suggest the CPS, a bit like the DVLA is 'no longer fit for purpose'....

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/six-months-on-bail--for-being-sent-spoof-video-of-a-tiger-having-sex-that-was-really-a-man-in-a-tiger-suit-9819776.html

 

http://annaraccoon.com/2014/10/28/the-hysterias-in-full-bloom/comment-page-1/#comment-59189

[cort16]

Was there not a flight blocked from taking off this week because there was a phone on board with a wifi hot spot called terrorist network.

[AndyW201]

What is Conrad's car?

The ex-Junkman Mitsubishi Colt isn't it?

[Slappy]

What is Conrad's car?

 

Junkman's old Colt... I think

[saucedoctor]

Bloody TfL. Online, trying to top up my Oyster card and it decides my password is wrong, even though it accepted it on the previous screen. I'm going to that there London next week for a couple of days drinking a Cisco upgrade job and I need to get about. Black taxis are all well and good, but the drivers seem to think I'm either Scotch or Australian. I assume I can top it up in a station?

[Angrydicky]

"Saaf of the river at this time of night? You're 'avin a turkish guv!"

[myglaren]

Do these have subtitles?

Some of them have but they are either Swedish or Danish.

I do find myself compelled to read them though

 

It did help my learning Swedish by watching crap like Emmerdale and reading the Swedish subtitles.

When we moved back here I couldn't understand what they were saying on the telly as there were no subtitles

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I realise my earlier posts make me sound like I need a full time carer but I was genuinely very disorientated. I came out of the wrong side of the building and headed straight for the (wrong) tree and then I didn't know what was going on. 

[Inspector Morose]

Don't worry, it happens to me when I buy a boring modern(ish) or use SWMBOs Panda. I lost my silver A4 for an hour in a car park once, they all looked the same to me.

[myglaren]

A couple of days after I bought the C5 estate I lost it in the IKEA car park.  My daughter had to go and find it

[EssDeeWon]

Bloody TfL. Online, trying to top up my Oyster card and it decides my password is wrong, even though it accepted it on the previous screen. I'm going to that there London next week for a couple of days drinking a Cisco upgrade job and I need to get about. Black taxis are all well and good, but the drivers seem to think I'm either Scotch or Australian. I assume I can top it up in a station?

 

Yeah dont pizz about online, just walk into any Underground Station and tap your Oyster card on the machine, it tells you your remaining balance then options to top up appear on the screen.

 

I top mine up every few weeks, takes about 30 seconds.