The grumpy thread

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[320touring]

Does a good 'Clown Car' impression:)

[hairnet]

abandoned?

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Does a good 'Clown Car' impression:)

Tracking is miles out. Been to three garages today. One claimed they couldn't do 740s (KwikFit), a local independant said it wasn't worth the hassle and ATS spent most of a morning with it before declaring "the tracking is well out but we don't know how to sort it".

[320touring]

Tracking is miles out. Been to three garages today. One claimed they couldn't do 740s (KwikFit), a local independant said it wasn't worth the hassle and ATS spent most of a morning with it before declaring "the tracking is well out but we don't know how to sort it".

Boy over edinburgh way with a hunter 4 wheel alignment kit-bout 60quid-worth a shot?

[Skizzer]

Failing that, I always wonder whether hitting the kerb on the other side will sort it?

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Boy over edinburgh way with a hunter 4 wheel alignment kit-bout 60quid-worth a shot?

An idea yeah; my local kwikfit apparantly don't have the Hunter gear but anothet branch nearby does. Except they won't work (ATS had it) 'cos the rear wheels are 15in. I asked if they stocked 14in wheels of the correct size to match the two 14in wheels and bald tyres on the boot.. "It's a dead size".

 

I fucking know it's a dead size. That is why it is currently wearing a pair of 15in wheels on the back. Grrrr.

[Lacquer Peel]

It sounds like they are grasping at reasons to not work on the Council Estate. I've had tracking done on older cars at back street garages and it's been fine.

[skattrd]

I was gonna say is there a back Street or part worn tyre place that could do the tracking?

[cms206]

I've booked it into the garage who did the MOT to get them aligned and whatnot. Failing that the 940's papers have been signed so the entire front end can come off that if needs be.

[320touring]

I've booked it into the garage who did the MOT to get them aligned and whatnot. Failing that the 940's papers have been signed so the entire front end can come off that if needs be.

Coiloverz+ adjustible arms= driftschlaaaag

[dave21478]

The family farm up the road about a mile away from my house isnt really a farm anymore, just the farmhouse and outbuildings where i have a workshop and a wee bit of land round about.

 

The neighbouring farmer died suddenly last year and his place has been taken over. They have installed a very expensive 8-foot high fence all the way round the property and turned it into a private hunting reserve. They have seeded the land with wild boar, deer, pheasants etc etc....

 

Hunting is a big deal around here and various clubs normally have outings in the open countryside. While I am not massively in agreement with the principal, its generally not a big issue. This place though - fuck them. All day every day dozens of people turn up and charge round the place with massive packs of baying dogs, blasting away at these animals that have no real chance of escape. Current technique seems to be to heard the animals up to the corner nearest our farm and shoot the fuck out of them while they are fish in a barrel trapped in the corner of the fence.

 

Not only is this not particularly sporting, the noise is fucking atrocious. Mostly the hunting dogs baying and howling and being screamed at by their owners, which sets our dogs off, but the bloody gunshots are really, really loud.

 

Then once a week or so, a couple of trucks turn up and release another load of animals for forthcoming "hunts".

 

 

Speaking to the local village mayor, its all in order with the correct permits so nothing I can do from that angle. I dont like wishing ill upon others, but maybe a couple of serious shooting accidents would calm things down somewhat. Hunting accidents are relatively frequent in France, usually because the sport involves drinking quite a lot of Pastis at lunchtime. Drunk people with guns - what could possibly go wrong?

 

What I wonder is ..... all the rounds these nobbers fire off and miss their target....where do they go exactly? Sure, when firing from high to low ground they will be embedded in the ground beyond the target, but what about when they fire the other way? especially when they are aiming uphill in the direction of our place?

 

 

Oh and as if the completely collapsed market wasnt enough, this nonsense next door will be the last nail in the coffin of our places property value.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

If I had to watch a bunch of wankers chase a load of animals into a corner and shoot them, id probably get a flipping gun and just shoot as many of the people as I could after about the third sitting. It would make me completely un-bothered about spending the rest of my life in prison.

[HillmanImp]

[eddyramrod]

I never thought I'd be able to agree with anything Ricky Gervais said, but, see above!

[Asimo]

Give the fuckers a real hunting experience, lock them in, tool them up; one man goes home, Battle Royale style.

[rml2345]

If hunters really did it "for the sport" then they wouldn't use guns and dogs. How can it be sporting to bring two dosen beagles to track and corner a boar before shooting it in the face?

It's ridiculous.

[steve_earwig]

This is reminding me of this http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/12/dick-cheney-shooting_n_4774219.html

 

Quails. Cage. Shotguns. Drunks. Lifestyles of the rich and stupid.

[Pillock]

Whilst going round there with weaponry is a bit extreme, there is a lot to be said for airhorns to disrupt the hunt. They will be paying massive amounts to spend the day there, word gets around that some jokers are disrupting it and it's not worth the risk.

 

If you kill something, you eat it. Otherwise you're a wanker.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Whilst going round there with weaponry is a bit extreme, there is a lot to be said for airhorns to disrupt the hunt. They will be paying massive amounts to spend the day there, word gets around that some jokers are disrupting it and it's not worth the risk.

If you kill something, you eat it. Otherwise you're a wanker.

We're talking about the French here, those fuckers will eat whatever they kill,don't worry about that. Boar,sparrow,beagle ,Scotsman with an air horn, etc etc

[dave21478]

There is no way I am going to come even close to confronting or otherwise getting involved with a bunch of people with guns, possibly drunk people to boot. Hunting is a "tradition" here going back generations and people are very, very touchy about others -especially dirty forrin types like me- telling them anything.

Imagine trying to persuade a hardcore American gun-nut NRA member to give up his weapons - its kinda like that with hunting here.

 

I am thinking some night-time strolls around the perimeter fence with wire cutters might be the way forwards.

[chaseracer]

If you kill something, you eat it.

I wish someone would tell that to the rural types who dump badger corpses on the roadsides round our way.

 

Otherwise you're a wanker.

Ah...

[fred]

Not exactly Hunting is it though - load of scared animals in a big fenced pound - with twats running about in night vision goggles and rifles - Perfectly honest - when my old dear dies - (hopefully a long time yet to go) I will have no real close relatives - which would leave me free to go in (as a hunter) and blow every feckers bollocks off - skin em and then take pics of me with my 'trophies' cowardly bastards

[dome]

Failing that, I always wonder whether hitting the kerb on the other side will sort it?

I definitely never* did this to our works vans with some success.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Dad's Golf keyfob needed a new battery. So I changed it, only to find the remote didn't work anymore. The handbook tells you to pay a VW dealer for a battery change, but if you've already installed a new battery VW's help website says:

 

Please speak to your local Volkswagen retailer who will be able to advise you.

 

Meanwhile, some guy on YouTube says:

 

Turn on the ignition with your spare key. Then put the other key in the driver's door and press unlock. Then lock and unlock the car manually with the key. Now take the spare key out of the ignition.

 

Which worked. But this ludicrously simple operation must only be carried out by a Volkswagen retailer. 

 

I'm surprised they let you fill it with petrol yourself.

[steve_earwig]

Plus replace the bonnet pull with a label "No user serviceable parts inside".

[Station]

Can't you just buy the loudest, lairiest airhorns and fire them off once the hunts start?

[MrDuke]

Can't you acquire some large farm machinery with dangerously sticky throttles & defective brakes? Something with large blades and/or spiky tyres would be a bonus. As long as you apologise profusely after your mishap*, it'll be fine.

[Cavcraft]

Having thought about this previously, I'd get all those hunting wankers, smear them in meat paste and set a large pack of hungry Rottweilers and whatnot on them.

After all, it wouldn't last long and it's painless for them. It must be true because it's what the huntsmen say.