The grumpy thread

[dollywobbler]

I shall seek it out.

[skattrd]

More seriously, what's the best way of Autoshiting on an Android mobile? The basic mobile site doesn't seem to work too well (won't let me open Station's MGF thread for instance).

 

I hate tapatalk, the mobile site works fine for me, try a different browser, Ghostery is my choice of browser this week

[MarvinsMom]

Just got back with the wife after visiting family in my car to find the twat of a neighbour has Parked his car up the arse Of the vectra. Not the first time he has Parked close but this is the first time he has actually touched it. Bumper is pushed in but can't see more till he moves his car. The twat has a big enough drive for 3 cars but yet still tries To push our car down. Wife is fuming and he won't answer door.

 

a few years ago i had a beady eyed little cunt living next door who thought this was a fun* game to play. 

 

the last time he did it, he had his bitched POS fiesta parked up behind me and his POS volvo 340 parked in front of me.

 

my car was a Land Rover 90 van (a company vehicle). so i did a 37 point maneuver bouncing off of twat heads car, then back into bitches car, and back into twatheads, 37 times. 

 

that was the last time that little prick did that to me.

[M'coli]

My new phone is making me feel like a doddery old twat. I can't use its touchscreen keyboard and it's generally baffling me. I used to work on IT! Can I get Windows 98 on it? 

 

More seriously, what's the best way of Autoshiting on an Android mobile? The basic mobile site doesn't seem to work too well (won't let me open Station's MGF thread for instance).

You'll get used to the touchscreen keyboard, and you can buy bluetooth keyboards but they're not convenient to keep in your pocket.

 

At the bottom of the mobile site, there's a button that says "Use full site" - click on this, and you're back on the beige.

[dollywobbler]

Ugh! Have at least managed to turn off predictive text. Tapatalk just makes no sense at all and this browser won't allow the full version.

[hairnet]

You'll get used to the touchscreen keyboard, and you can buy bluetooth keyboards but they're not convenient to keep in your pocket.

 

At the bottom of the mobile site, there's a button that says "Use full site" - click on this, and you're back on the beige.

this

 

my phone spazzes too so if it aint beige it says no

[skattrd]

...this browser won't allow the full version.

 

Get another browser, firefox and opera are available for android ... I used to like dolphin mini. Chrome is very bloaty.

[dollywobbler]

Thanks. I'm a fan of Firefox. Still struggling with this keyboard though. It makes a mockery of my 85 words per minute on the laptop!

[HillmanImp]

Bloody Shaguar is PISSING water out of the back of the engine somewhere. Probably the heater matrix at that end, I could not see in the dark. GR-8. GR-20 for accessibility.  

 

2 weeks ago there were 3 cars on the road at the house, the Mazda 2, Visa and Shaguar (although Volksy had the Shag and I had the Celica) and now we are down to none as the Mazda has been written off, the Visa is out of ticket and the ground beneath the Shag is wetter than an otters pocket.

 

That's not my main grump though. As we are having this bother we looked once again at hire cars. When we went to get one the other week they were saying that the car was £15 a day. Thats a fair price we thought. Then they said they wanted £12 a day excess cover as they had a £1,000 whether it was an at fault claim or not. By paying £12 a day this would be reduced to £250. WTF?

 

Obviously I told them to jog on but now she is looking again as we are out of cars. I am okay as I can cycle the 12 miles to work but as she is 6 months up the duff Mrs Imp can't (well won't, the lazy cow).

 

However, we have seen these sites offering excess cover for hire cars at about £3 a day. What's the deal with this? Car hire excess used to be sod all. Now everywhere is £750 to £1,500. Are all these insurance sites also owned by the car hire places? Do they either scare you into the £12 a day cover themselves or get you to pay one of their sister companies which is probably some sort of tax lay off etc? It sounds fucking criminal to me.

 

Really fucking annoying. 

 

 

[skattrd]

I bought the online excess cover last year several times but never used it, it is peace of mind if they try and fuck you over for a tiny scrape on a bumper as I saw them doing to one poor sod at BHX.

I've no idea who runs the excess sites or anything, but I'd expect them to be standard insurers and nowt to do with the hire company.

[panhard65]

When I hired a van from enterprise they gave me all the excess shite and it would of doubled the cost. I mentioned the fact that I had fully comp cover for any vehicle and full breakdown cover but apparently this isn't good enough for them. A right rip off I reckon, if they get a grand off anyone daft enough to scratch the van they will soon earn the cost of the van back. The 14 plate Traffic I had was pretty battered already with just 9k miles.

[fairkens]

I've always fucked it off and been careful, famous last words I know

[skattrd]

You can be as careful as you want, but I think most of us have come back to a car in a supermarket carpark and noticed a new scratch or dent on the motor done by some careless twat.

[HillmanImp]

You can be as careful as you want, but I think most of us have come back to a car in a supermarket carpark and noticed a new scratch or dent on the motor done by some careless twat.

 

That's it isn't it. The sucker punch for them. you pay it even if you are victim to someone else's mistake or indeed crime or vandalism. If you are not massively flush you would have to take it. How much would they charge for a dent in the door in the supermarket, its not your choice who repairs it of course, its theirs. Probably another subsidiary who charge £3,000 to repair minor scratches. 

[jakebullet]

Bit back I had some ebay mong try to do me for £1.50 ! with hasn't turned up mate. Told him how upset I was to learn 1 in 9 of his items never arrives, and I'd get my royal mail account manager to thoroughly investigate his post. Big surprise it 'arrived' half hour later 'cos scammer  had shit his pants at being rumbled.

 

Fast forwards to today, and I have a message from another seller he's turned over. Except he's been done for a £150 ring.

 

Why the fuck can't ebay get rid of the mega obvious thieves? When they claim 20 items in a row haven't arrived it should be obvious what's going on. Bastards just nod and smile and take the money.

[Pillock]

Thanks. I'm a fan of Firefox. Still struggling with this keyboard though. It makes a mockery of my 85 words per minute on the laptop!

Have you got a "swipe" or continuous typing option? Allows you to trace a line over (or near) the letters you want to use and it's far more tolerant of not being spot on.

 

I found Tapatalk better when I realised I could save a shortcut to the actual forum, instead of having to click through to it. So I've got an Autoshite icon which takes me to Autoshite.

[skattrd]

DW: also for android install Swiftkey keyboard

[HillmanImp]

Yeah swiftkey can be set to suggest words that you can pick, as opposed to simply predict yourself onto a buzzfeed listing.

[barmatt]

Why do so many people not check their tyre pressures? MIL complained of her car pulling to the left, so i popped round there this aft to find her little Starlet with 8psi in the nsf tyre and 6psi in the osr. WTF?

 

Looks like I'm going to have to make a point of checking this regularly before she is ditch bound.

[TimothyClaypole]

Car sellers, I've had enough of reading descriptions, all looking ok etc. Then you get to the bottom line, take your pick from the something to hide list,

 

Cat C

Cat D

Smokes on start up.

Loosing Oil/Water/The will to live.

Car sold - I've reported some chimp for that one just now - trying to flog another car he hasn't even got "in".

Looks better in the pictures where I've thrown a bucket of water over it. 

 

 

Sign me up for 10 years finance please.  I'm done. 

 

(I'll just keep my sister's Polo I've borrowed and pretend I've misplaced it). 

[Dippy]

Why do so many people not check their tyre pressures? MIL complained of her car pulling to the left, so i popped round there this aft to find her little Starlet with 8psi in the nsf tyre and 6psi in the osr. WTF?

 

Looks like I'm going to have to make a point of checking this regularly before she is ditch bound.

I have a 27 year old electrician work for me and when I asked him to check the tyre pressures on his van he said why they are not flat. I had to explain the danger and wear/fuel costs of under inflated tyres before showing him how the garage style inflator worked!!!

 

It seems nobody can do anything for themselves anymore without a full training course, I've also had to show previous staff how to check the oil level.

 

FFS I'm supposed to be employing skilled guys.

[michael1703]

I mot'd a car today which the owner had told me steered badly, so I spent ages checking the steering but couldn't find fault,checked the baggy sidewalled tyres and they were 16psi. Told the owner that I'd advised her on the front tyres close to legal limit and the rear pads were down and the reply was "oh,perhaps its time to buy a newer car"

[Cavcraft]

Someone kept parking right behind my ATS pick up years back. One day I couldn't get out as there was a car in front, too, so I just reversed back and left the car behind me blocking the road completely. He never did it again.

 

I also had a similar thing to driveway man so I blocked his drive off with an especially nasty Cortina I had. After a slight debate I suggested he stopped swearing, went away then came back after with a better attitude and an apology, which he did. He didn't block me in again, either.

[dollywobbler]

I once pushed a BMW out of my way with a Dyane because it had parked an inch from my back bumper. Stainless steel bumpers FTW!

[bub2006]

I'll park corsa in front of house instead. I'm not as nice nor as polite as the wife.

[dave21478]

Back to the hire-car excess - The stand-alone insurance policies are actually pretty good. Check your bank account or credit card benefits - some offer stuff like free travel insurance and so on, and some will include a policy for hire-car excess.

[dave21478]

Car sellers, I've had enough of reading descriptions, all looking ok etc. Then you get to the bottom line, take your pick from the something to hide list,

 

Cat C

Cat D

Smokes on start up.

Loosing Oil/Water/The will to live.

Car sold - I've reported some chimp for that one just now - trying to flog another car he hasn't even got "in".

Looks better in the pictures where I've thrown a bucket of water over it. 

 

 

Sign me up for 10 years finance please.  I'm done. 

 

(I'll just keep my sister's Polo I've borrowed and pretend I've misplaced it). 

 

This is driving me mental just now. I have 1500 to spend and everything interesting that I saw a few weeks back has evaporated. Everything for sale now is tedious crap and the interesting stuff all has some kind of problem - mostly no paperwork for some reason, which is a big problem here.

"The 4x4 is in excellent condition" says the advert, but the photos show it up to the headlights in muddy water. Yeah, no thanks.

I found a bomb-site bargain car dealer last week. Wandering round the yard most cars were priced around 1k, but every one of the fuckers had something properly wrong. "gearbox fault", "clutch needs changed", "motor seized", "timing belt snapped". Unbelievable.

[EssDeeWon]

That's it isn't it. The sucker punch for them. you pay it even if you are victim to someone else's mistake or indeed crime or vandalism. If you are not massively flush you would have to take it. How much would they charge for a dent in the door in the supermarket, its not your choice who repairs it of course, its theirs. Probably another subsidiary who charge £3,000 to repair minor scratches. 

 

Might be easier to buy some really cheap shite for the interim? For example that silver 2000 Omega in Yorkshire with long test for about £350? Use it, then sell it on for that after, total cost of hire car will be approx £0.00

[cort16]

Even though every time I've done it it's ended in some kind of disaster I still quite fancy buying the odd car and selling it on. I thought I'd have a look at Central Car Auctions in Glasgow as they seem to have a decent enough stock of mid range (2000-3000) stuff. 

I went onto the site and as a private punter if I buy a car for say £2100 I need to pay them £245 in Fee's. Fucking hell who do they think they are ebay? They must be trying to put private punters off as a car that costs £2100 suddenly costs £2345, which will destroy all buy any profit it in it. I'd be better taking my chances on gumtree or even better not bother at all given previous experience.

[EssDeeWon]

That smarmy nodding dog Ed Balls during every PMQ's

 

Is there anyone more deserving of a slap?