The grumpy thread

[Sigmund Fraud]

Would everyone else who has a Volvo please for the love of Melvin stop fixing them? You're upsetting the balance at SVM Towers

 

Oh, FFS ! Is it really HGF ?

[saucedoctor]

cms206, on 08 Nov 2014 - 5:39 PM, said:

Would everyone else who has a Volvo please for the love of Melvin stop fixing them? You're upsetting the balance at SVM Towers

 

Mine fixed itself!

 

Also, fireworks, or specifically bangers. One went off here last night and it was so loud it set off car alarms. I hope some cunt blows his own hand off.

 

 

[cms206]

Oh, FFS ! Is it really HGF ?

Mayo has appeared quite quickly (been keeping an eye on it) and it resolutely refuses to run on four. It's also getting a bastard to start which is upsetting my happiness and probably related. Will get it up to the depot on Monday and see what the score is.

[Angrydicky]

Certainly sounds like all the correct symptoms A compression test will confirm it.

 

Strangely there was no mayo in the Maestro's cooling system, but it seems to have got harder and harder to start, and the running got worse and worse, until it eventually expired with no compression on two cylinders. Used the opportunity to fit a later unleaded head while I was at it, which also had the advantage of doing away with the old head which may have been warped. Runs like a dream now! Fortunately cars of this age are reasonably straightforward to work on, it's a bit of a pain in the arse but it'll be worth it for a day's work.

[Sigmund Fraud]

Mayo has appeared quite quickly (been keeping an eye on it) and it resolutely refuses to run on four. It's also getting a bastard to start which is upsetting my happiness and probably related. Will get it up to the depot on Monday and see what the score is.

 

Shame, at least they're pretty easy to work on and parts are very cheap. If you do end up taking the head off, it would be interesting to see what kind of wear there is in the bores... The thing must have over 230K miles now, but it wouldn't surprise me if tolerances are still within spec !

[Wilko220]

Christmas adverts. Nauseating.

[phil_lihp]

Would everyone else who has a Volvo please for the love of Melvin stop fixing them? You're upsetting the balance at SVM Towers

 

I knew I shouldn't have after my post in the grin thread but I fear this is entirely my fault, my Volvo is now more or less fault-free after I fixed the rear wash hose and heater control mechanism today and I was concerned about what the knock-on effects would be.

 

Hope it's not too difficult to fix.

[skattrd]

The boring is letting in water somewhere. All the door seals were dry as was the boot seal, and the wettest part was the back of the rear seats, which was odd as I couldn't figure out how the water was getting in. 10 minutes on google brings up some clever little vents at the back hidden behind the bumper that have seals that perish ... Arsebiscuits, guess who's spending his Sunday removing a rear bumper and resealing the damn vents.

[Cavcraft]

One hour and 39 fucking minutes listening to the same bastarding thing over and over and over again. How on God's earth do people stay in every Saturday night, you must have the patience of a saint to be subjected to 'conversation' with your other half? Fuck that for a game of soldiers, this time next week I hope to be as pissed as I usually am on a Saturday night. 

[dugong]

Is it me, or has eBay started to go downhill?

It might just be my opinion, or the string of bad experiences I've had recently, but I'm really getting sick of it.

[Jim Bell]

EBay is almost unusable as a seller. This is truth.

 

Our dog was a racer and was trained to not give a fuck about bangs, pops or flashes. We took her out on the 6th and because of high winds and fucktards, a lot of "fire your own" fireworks went off very low and very close to us.

She's now not keen on going out when it's dark. She still does go out, because I drag her. And because she's a Geordie and rock, but she's visably scared and jittery, like some kind of southerner.

I hope the passing of the firework fad restores her former confidence, so she can enjoy the night again. With her sniffing and prancings.

[Noel Tidybeard]

my step-fatha took our brown lab for a walk around bonfire night years ago when fireworks were fireworks, some big bastard went bang and he nearly shat hisself on the spot

and the dog? he's just stood there looking at him with that look...."you funkin wimp"

[cort1977]

I've given up on ebay, final straw was the usual disappearing buyer which was OK, par for the course, then because I didn't jump through the right hoops on their confusing website they claim I owe them money for selling something that's still sat in my garage.  

 

I just told them that they can see me in court for their GBP 7 "fee".   FFS.

[purplebargeken]

Ebay has been going downhil for the last 7 years after some whingeing twat complained about postage costs on the books that Mrs., PBK was selling. If you don't want to pay then don't buy. Simples. Then ebay got all high and mighty and banned me from selling. Tossers.

 

Just for a laugh I have sent them a please reconsider this decision email. No doubt I will get some high minded condescending twat of a response. I will of course post this. 

[Richard]

I can tell you the reply will give stock answers to several questions, none of which you asked. I think they do something along the lines of the Two Ronnies Mastermind sketch.

[Cavcraft]

I've mostly avoided eBay selling as much as possible for quite a while now, but have put (one of) my cycle(s) on there the other day. The sad fact is it's actually the best sales medium for certain items, or at least on paper it is, as you have to factor in the fucking idiots who bid then disappear.

[Rusty_Rocket]

Almost anything I try to sell on ebay turns into a tossin' nightmare.  The sad fact is, there seems to be more selfish, mouth breathing arseholes using the site than anyone else.

I think if I were to try and sell a car or something big on ebay, I'd go the Classified Ad route.  That way, you get no idiots making a winning bid and then not turn up and you'll know a genuine person because they will email you and (hopefully) buy the bloody thing in person.

It's a poke in the eye for Paypal too, which appear to have taken lessons in business practices from Dick Turpin.

[chaseracer]

One hour and 39 fucking minutes listening to the same bastarding thing over and over and over again. How on God's earth do people stay in every Saturday night, you must have the patience of a saint to be subjected to 'conversation' with your other half? Fuck that for a game of soldiers, this time next week I hope to be as pissed as I usually am on a Saturday night. 

 

We have this sorted.

 

I read - or chat shit with you lot - while she decompresses after a week of teaching by watching mindless crap on the telly, smiling tolerantly at my helpful* 'constructive criticism' of the performers and the media cretinocracy that commissions such toss.

[daveb47]

I had a large german shepherd called wanda,was out walking her one night when a twat threw abanger at her which went off right next to her.

Moron was last seen disappearing into distance closely followed by what he thought was a very irate dog,which actually wanted him to throw another one for her as she loved anything really noisy.

She used to go spare with fireworks,chased low flying planes,and we had to let her out in thunderstorms as she wanted to get at the thunder.

[Richard]

I'm afraid commenting on Saturday night TV, even in a derogatory way, means they've won. Best to pretend it doesn't exist at all. One of the few useful things I learned at school was how to tune out unwelcome intrusions.

[Jim Bell]

The internet was invented as an antidote to Saturday night telly.

Watch Deals on Wheels or Roadkill or something. YouTube is full of things designed to aid men in drowning out other halves and shit telly.

[Cavcraft]

Oh, we had that and I could stand it for a while, but sadly it got on to work, and that's a no-no.

 

Excuse what can't help but look like blatant sexism (and I'm genuinely no misogynist) but whoever it was in the pub one night who told me pissed women are only funny when they're not your partner, was spot on.

[Pillock]

PayPal.

 

I've turned on two factor authentication - for the non-geek amongst us, this means as well as a username and password, you need a six digit code which changes every 30 seconds. I use it on my Google, Microsoft and Facebook accounts too which means I could give you my password, it's useless without this code; the code comes from an app, in my case my watch.

 

All good so far. However PayPal insist on texting you a code instead of letting your app generate it. Not a problem, you can also choose to do this on the other services so just a minor inconvenience. BUT the mobile website knows absolutely nothing of this method and neither does the eBay app, so to buy something I need to use the ebay website instead of the app (and tolerate all the "hey! Use our app!" banners), then I need to switch my browser into desktop mode thus defeating the point of them designing a mobile site, then log in, then all them to send me a text, then toe the number in.

 

Great. Or I can turn the feature off and have my account hacked.

[cms206]

Would everyone else who has a Volvo please for the love of Melvin stop fixing them? You're upsetting the balance at SVM Towers

940's chucked it as well. Using MiL's Chevroletwoo Matiz 800cc shitbox. Huzzah!

[hairnet]

thought svm bought them all not broke them all........

 

see fowler - do this

[Bren]

Went to machine mart to use my vouchers on VAT free day.

 

One was declined due to being "expired" - I have emailed customer services about this as I am not happy that I have had to pay £20. It's bollocks that vouchers have a time limit.

 

Not happy.

[andy18s]

940's chucked it as well. Using MiL's Chevroletwoo Matiz 800cc shitbox. Huzzah!

you'll be wanting a nice cheap 850 t5 then..........

[skattrd]

you'll be wanting a nice cheap 850 t5 then..........

 

I thought exactly the same thing ... Go on, you know it makes sense, you've got 2 broken Volvos the obvious thing to do is to buy a T5.

[hairnet]

drive to volvo put matiz in boot drive home knowing you dont have to drive as much as now

[Cavcraft]

I think the Scottish Jag Massive has a much nicer ring to it.