The grumpy thread

[HH-R]

Been driving manuals for ten years and probably hundreds of thousands of miles, and I like my car, but fug me it's a bitch for stalling. It has absolutely no torque at all. Low speed precision manoeuvre? Slip the clutch son, or it'll stall (Which I hate doing) Pulling away quickly? Best get that engine restarted. Engine cold? Turn that key again! Getting used to it now but it's probably the worst I've driven for that. 8 valves are much better in that respect.

[Craig the Princess]

Train journey home was 5 1/4 hours, could have driven out in under 2

[doobietoo]

Stupid Toyota..... the brake/tail light bulb in a Yaris is in a holder right next to a completely inaccessible void and is a pita to remove and replace... I bet nearly every Yaris has a couple of bulbs in holders down that little hole on each side.....now I have to go and get a new bulb and a holder..... Stupid Toyota

[stephen01]

Taxi drivers stopping to let someone out and thinking it's acceptable to wait while they get some cash out of the cash machine, it was a single track road so couldn't go round the twonk..

[captain_70s]

The 1300's exhaust (all 2ft of it) kept rattling lose at the manifold and jamming in between the steering column and subframe causing the odd "car will no longer turn right" sort of problem.

 

Decided to sort this out this evening. Result is one nut remaining out of three which is on the one remaining manifold stud that has any thread left on it. One of the nuts had rattled off while driving and I lost one of the nuts trying to refit, I nicked a carb mount nut from the 1850 which was the same size but the studs are so chewed up and corroded I can't get them tight at all anyway.

So, the problem is worse than it was to start with, the downpipe I bought is the wrong shape and needs modifying but there is no point paying out for that because there are no manifold studs left for it to attach to and I can't afford a replacement manifold either. 

 

Starting to wonder if this whole "cars" thing is for me. Masses of time, effort and money spent and I end up in a worse position than I started. It's just failure after failure, there is no satisfaction of a job well done, just the knowledge that things are going to keep getting worse. Motivation is at an all time low, so many jobs to do on the cars I don't know where to start and when I do attempt something I fuck it up.

 

Ugh. Just, fucking, Ugh.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Yo 70's, you need another manifold unfortunately. If you are patient you should be able to find one for £negligible. It will probably have jiggered studs too so buy some new ones off the bay for like £3 and get a local garage to install them (this will inevitably involve fire and large tools, probably a tap & die set too) for a couple of groat. Then all you need to do is slot on your new manifold like a boss and give yourself a pat for sorting it 100% properly unlike whoever has been at it previously.

[jakebullet]

Hot weather bugger off.

 

First there was the house that way>>>> full of screaming drunken teenagers san parents till daft am.

 

Then the house that way <<<<< has had 2 days of BBQ ineptitude. You know the sort of shit, smoke pouring everywhere for hours followed by small child saying it's burnt on the outside and raw inside. Why can't the twunts just get food poisoning and give up? Or learn the secret is not to bang sausages on and fuck off inside for another can of wifebeater.

 

Also, as a man who likes pies I'm suffering massively drilling shit in the baking garage. Even the slightest movement can make a fat person sweat.

[Noel Tidybeard]

Why are dipsticks on VW vans so hard to see the oil level or is this the way of all modern crap.

Maye I should stick to my old shite.

the dipstick on the spaceship is orange and what colour is lovely fresh oil??!

[320touring]

fucking dvla have taken 2 months tax off me for a car that was sorned in may!

[Craig the Princess]

I learnt the hard way to cancel the dd when dealing with those bastards. Took 5 months for the refund to come through

[Mr Lobster]

I'm fed up of hearing about OMG SUN HEAT CHAOS and all that. Newspapers and media outlets, I'm looking at you.

 

Its summer. Its warm. Enjoy it. It'll be winter soon enough then you can have some OMG SNOCHAOS.

[320touring]

jag payments for tax being 'reviewed' 2-4 sort time apparently.

 

polo payment will apparently auto refund shortly. we shall see.

 

person at call centre was helpful and pleasant so less grumpy just now

[EssDeeWon]

Woken up with a cold on one of the hottest days on record in the last 40 odd years!!

[beko1987]

Been 40 minutes and kwik fit havent been very kwik yet. Cars still on the road where we left it...

[320touring]

Been 40 minutes and kwik fit havent been very kwik yet. Cars still on the road where we left it...

you cant get shitter than a quick fit shitter

[beko1987]

Its hooked up now, heres hoping!

 

Some bloke asked if they had performed a valet with his service on a hanging 57 plate scenic, got stared at by swmbo for chuckling...

[inconsistant]

Its summer. Its warm. 

 

It's not warm, it's TOO HOT.

 

[xtriple]

Where's the bloody 'hottest day of the year' then? Miserable, overcast and looks like it could piss down at any moment. Still warm and humid though so I am inflicting my legs on the Torbay populace regularly!

[HH-R]

It's been fuggin hot, but I got caught in a downpour with big hailstones, roads flooded within minutes and couldn't see more than a few feet in front even at really low speed. Just scrubbing the brown stains off the seat now.

[cort16]

Just humphed 2 miles into town to retrieve mrs c's car that had a flat tyre earlier. Of course the wheel was welded on and it was parked in a nose in space so no room to get a good kick at it . I eventually got it changed but could hear a wheel bearing type noise when driving it so took it to my lockup, jacked it up but nothing other than a pad catching in the disc a little at the front . The discs are really rough on it and I've got new discs and pads to put on it. Can't think what else it could be. I got in the door and was greeted with "I told you there's something wrong with I now I have a flat tyre". Oh aye that noise and the screw in the tyre are totally related.

Good job I put beer in the fridge before I left .

[EssDeeWon]

Just humphed 2 miles into town to retrieve mrs c's car that had a flat tyre earlier. Of course the wheel was welded on and it was parked in a nose in space so no room to get a good kick at it . I eventually got it changed but could hear a wheel bearing type noise when driving it so took it to my lockup, jacked it up but nothing other than a pad catching in the disc a little at the front . The discs are really rough on it and I've got new discs and pads to put on it. Can't think what else it could be. I got in the door and was greeted with "I told you there's something wrong with I now I have a flat tyre". Oh aye that noise and the screw in the tyre are totally related.

Good job I put beer in the fridge before I left .

 

Just apologise for deliberately putting the nail in the tyre and admit to her knowing more and have done with it.

 

I was driving my GF's Micra last year when it picked up a stone chip on the windscreen. Totally random whilst I was plodding along at 30mph.....Guess who's fault it was!!?

 

Again, I just confessed to seeing the stone mid air and aimed for it, hence cracking the screen.

[Jazoli]

Wankers on retro rides hand jobbing each other off at the latest 'individual' shit old VW with stupid twatty stretched tyres, what a bunch of fucking cockjockeys

[cort16]

Its' gone down hill. I'm now risking the life of our child. 

Just book it into a garage then. I can spend the time I'd spend fixing this chipping rust off my Cortina.

[cort16]

14 degree's C is too hot for Scottish person

[Cavcraft]

Been 40 minutes and kwik fit havent been very kwik yet. Cars still on the road where we left it...

 

The last time I spoke to them they quoted five days (yes, five DAYS) to come and repair/replace a tyre. Utter wank. 

[Rusty_Rocket]

I am irrationally annoyed at the latest McDonalds advert.  The inoffensive advert man orders his food by starting with 'Can I get'.  No, you can't fu**ing 'get' your food, you're asking the person working there to do it for you!

Also, why do all experts* the BBC drag onto their dreary news programmes start their sentences with 'So'?

Next we'll be putting out the garbage and walking on side walks.

[STUNO]

Please UK can we have some of your hot ? It has been a wee bit cold in my bit of the planet.

[155V6]

Water pump has gone on the Volvo.The Citroen which I sold to Father_155 has lost fluid,so I lent him the MG last week.Which means I'll be using Miss_155's Peugeot 307 for a while.Oh joy 

[chaseracer]

Please UK can we have some of your hot ? It has been a wee bit cold in my bit of the planet.

 

You can have it all.

 

I have been in THAT LONDON today, where it was 37degrees and the 'air' was so humid you could cut it with a cricket bat.  Lovely.

[scdan4]

Can't do anything. At all. 

 

Recovering from a fairly major bowel op. Have been sliced straight up the front from my groin to my ribs and all my guts pulled out. (and then put back together again, which was nice)

 

So, can't really eat or drink much (very plain fibre diet), can't lift anything, can't really bend, can't sneeze, cough, twist, push/pull, can't drive.

 

Concentration is shot so can't cope with reading, been watching TED talks as they're generally only about 10 mins, but can't really follow those all the way through. 

 

Pottered round the house/garden, but getting bored of that. Did try leaving the house the other day - went to a friends. Lasted about an hour until I was so wiped out that I fell asleep, so pretty house bound. 

 

The weather has helped a lot - have convinced myself that I'm actually on holiday as I'm sat on the patio. Trouble is I nodded off out there the other day and am now badly sunburnt to add to my woes.

 

 

Just a bit bored really, Fancied a bit of a rant. Looking at another month of it.