The grumpy thread

[Pillock]

 

 

Can bet your bottom dollar the fault will find itself again when it's -2 outside and you need to get to work, though.

It did. This morning.

[purplebargeken]

Some twunt lobbed a bottle whilst Ben was driving home. It hit his bonnet and there is now a lovely ding where before there was pristine bonnet. Cunts, mindless cunts. 

[Timewaster]

FUKCING TWAT in an old N reg Skyline.

 

For the past 3 months this wannabe drug dealer type scum had been blatting down the road, to the T junction right outside my house and then gunning the thing at full pelt in second gear until it hits the limiter. That's about 60 or 70 in one of those.

 

What to do? Are the feds going to do anything? One day this little cunt is going to have/cause an accident.

There was one that did exactly the same thing past my house too.

 

Not seen or heard it lately. Hope it's in a ditch.

[dome]

Trader I bought the merc from offered £100 towards the fucked head gasket. Which will cost over £300 even doing it myself. Arsehole

[purplebargeken]

Had a look at Bens car. It is a scratch not a dent. Chipex stuff here already. Hope the weekend is dry. 

[Lacquer Peel]

Trader I bought the merc from offered £100 towards the fucked head gasket. Which will cost over £300 even doing it myself. Arsehole

Baws. Is it definitely HGF?

[dome]

Baws. Is it definitely HGF?

Aye, definitely. Lots of steam, low coolant warning then a geyser in the coolant reservoir when its running. Start pulling it apart this weekend.

[Skizzer]

Some chancer has various bits of apparently NOS (but partly painted - huh?) body panels for a series 3 XJ6 listed on eBay.  I'm just arranging logistics for picking up a pair of front wings from Stoneleigh tomorrow, when he puts up the BIN from an already toppy £600 to £999.  What a thongfondler.  I'm out.

[EssDeeWon]

Some chancer has various bits of apparently NOS (but partly painted - huh?) body panels for a series 3 XJ6 listed on eBay.  I'm just arranging logistics for picking up a pair of front wings from Stoneleigh tomorrow, when he puts up the BIN from an already toppy £600 to £999.  What a thongfondler.  I'm out.

 

Some know it all from the Jaguar club has probably told him Ã‚£600 is too cheap, or his had more interest than anticipated so his chancing it..In a way I hope he now gets lumbered with them.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Nothing scuppers your chances of a sale more than launching the price upwards like that, even if the later price is still 'reasonable' (whatever that means). If he's done that once, it means that when someone comes along who might be prepared to do a deal at £999, he'll start getting greedy again thinking he must have underpriced it and the price will go up to £1300 or something. The upshot will be that he still has the stuff sat in his garage 18 months down the line. 100% guarantee it.

[HH-R]

Fugging sick of receiving letters for other people! The address is right but it's always the same few names, they mustn't have lived here for 5+ years. It's almost always the same companies (I google the return address on the back), I post them back with NOT AT THIS ADDRESS on but it's like banging your head off a wall.

 

Sick of making a special trip to the post box, can I legally email the companies and say "As of $DATE, any correspondence received at $ADDRESS for $NAME will be binned"?

 

I had a right war with the DVLA, at one point I had a brown envelope through the door for three different names every other day. Used to send them back asking that they stop sending it. They wouldn't play ball but I basically said I was going to hassle them until they sorted it.

[Dippy]

Agilas/Splashes are surprisingly expensive to buy new for what they are. I hate taking the car to garages now, you drop it off and explain that it only happens when the engine is cold/has been standing over night then they call you 30 minutes after you've dropped it off to say they've driven it round the block and can't find a fault, when the engine is sitll red hot from being driven x amount of miles there.

 

Can bet your bottom dollar the fault will find itself again when it's -2 outside and you need to get to work, though.

This is the reason I like not having a newish car as no twat of a main dealer will ever see my cars and I will never again have to listen to their mechanics talking a load of crap and not fixing my car because the computer doesnt tell them what to do.

 

When I say newish car the newest of my collection will be 40 this year 

[HH-R]

Got to say, it is tempting to go back to a BMC A series or a Pinto or something. I've never been to main stealer for work but they can't be any worse than any independents I've tried. They give it back with a shrug and say "haven't a clue mate, could be anything", or try and say there's nothing wrong with it, does anyone else find this? Me and my dad have ended up throwing in the towel and getting rid of cars 'cos we've wasted days off work taking them into garages then get it back just as fucked, sometimes with extra problems for good measure.

[Parky]

Yep, I have never taken a car in for repair which then didn't have something else wrong. Sort of "yeah, we have sorted out the stalling at idle"

 

"But it now idles at 3000 rpm!"

 

"Yeah, that's why it's not stalling anymore"

[captain_70s]

In what can only be an act of retaliation at being pressed into daily service while I wait for a new starter motor for the 1850 my Dolly 1300 has developed a hole in the exhaust in an unpatchable location, as if the catastrophic burning of all it's oil wasn't enough.

 

How it managed to rust while being sat in a nice dry garage over winter I have no fucking idea. Bitch of a thing.

[mat_the_cat]

Arrived home today, opened the gate and left the padlock unlocked for my wife who was around 15 minutes behind me. (We have a heavy steel gate across the track, which is shared access with the Forestry who also have a key). I then take the dog for a walk (in the opposite direction to the gate), and when I get back the dog runs down to the gate, barking loudly. I call her back, as I can't see anybody there to bark at. Shortly afterwards my wife arrives back, who asks what I've done with the padlock.

 

I tell her I left it on the gate, and at the same time a walker comes past the house and down the footpath (can you see where this is going?) So we check it hasn't fallen off anywhere, and come to the conclusion that someone has stolen it, without any key.

 

We checked the CCTV then and the story gets stranger! While I'm taking the dog out, the bloke comes to the gate, appears to take the lock and then hides in the bushes close by. Just after this the dog runs down to the gate, followed by me. Then my wife drives up, at which point he emerges from hiding and starts walking up the track to the house...

 

Fortunately I've put a spare padlock on now, and got a half-decent picture:

 

[dollywobbler]

Odd and worrying. I'd be onto the rozzers myself. Are they hoping you won't be able to lock the gate and therefore they can make a raid? Worryingly, I wonder if he was lurking knowing what time you get home and that you leave it unlocked...

[skattrd]

I'm with DW on this, it's probably worth having a word with the local rozzers.

I'd also be tempted to print the picture off and stick it to the gate post with something like "Why were you hiding my padlock?"

[EssDeeWon]

Without doubt what DW says, for all you know this guy could be linked to other suspicious behavior, and that is a good CCTV shot!

[AnthonyG]

He does look like one of life's natural winners. Maybe he has a hiding padlock fetish?

 

Either way, contacting the local police sounds like a good idea. Whilst he hasn't exactly committed a crime yet, unless he meant to permanently deprive you of your padlock, it certainly looks a bit suspicious.

[Skizzer]

+1 on getting the police involved, if you haven't already.  I've sometimes wondered what constitutes 'suspicious behaviour':  this chancer is definitely it.

 

See this thread from our old friend Scooters for a cautionary tale about thefts from rural outbuildings (not wishing to worry you, obviously - hopefully you've put him off).

[Cavcraft]

100% get police involvement.

[mat_the_cat]

We put the CCTV up a couple of years ago, when we did get the outbuildings broken into Sadly the police can't actually do anything, as a) you can't actually see him remove the padlock (he has his back to the camera) and b ) there's no proof the padlock was there to start with - he could claim it wasn't and it's too far away to make out on the video.

 

BUT, through the wonders of social media we've found out who it is (father of a friend of a friend kind of thing) and surprise surprise, he's denying it. Saying that he saw a couple with a dog who might have taken it...which is a complete lie as going through the footage nobody else walked past the house that afternoon! At least he knows we've seen him, got his face on camera and for all he knows the video DOES show him actually taking it, which should be a deterrent.

[Timewaster]

Virgin media. Shower of shit.

[Richard]

Now he knows you're onto him the padlock might magically turn up.

[purplebargeken]

One to keep an eye on. What a very odd thing to do. All a bit weird, at least he's aware that you know about him which in 99% of situations is enough to warn him off.

 

Unless he's a complete psychopath. 

[Lacquer Peel]

[tooSavvy]

..... Benny, from Crossroads, mutant 1/2 cousin?

 

TS

[cros]

Salt on the roads. Its not meant to be cold not until at least next october yet the gits are still battering it on.

 

Shuma is starting to look a bit tatty, might bill the council for the bodyshop bill.

Knobhead council put salt on if someone opens their fridge around here. (news from the borough of Knobhead)

[AlabamaShrimp]

My wife said she's have some crap breaks diode tables for £15 from some dick on farcebook. Arranged for me to go get the at 2 today.

 

Eventually find its a flat not a house I'm going to what do you know their not in. Wanker agreed the time and of course hasn't replied to any messages sent.....

 

Other grump is the extension we had built a year or so ago is crap and I don't think they sealed a drain it was built over. Today it smells of nothing but paint. Bad enough that it smells but who the fuck puts paint down the drain