The grumpy thread

[chaseracer]

Kettle will be on.  

 

I'm building a xylophone today - should be fun.

[Parky]

Got home to a Penalty Notice from the good people who run the Dartford Crossing last night

It seems when I took a run down to that there London last month I neglected to pay the fees for using their lovely bridge and tunnel.

For this privilege they informed me they wanted a total of £140 in penalties (halved if paid within 14 days)

Once I'd dug up the emailed receipt they'd sent me,and got a copy of my debit card statement showing the online payment had gone out,I handed it all over to the Mrs as it was her Disco I'd used and who they wanted to speak to...

15min later she had ended up with a formal apology from some manager at the call centre,and an offer to refund the £5 charge that had been paid....

Computer glitch apparently. .

..loads of incorrect fines are getting sent out and it seems most people are just coughing up and paying....

SNAP! Me too, luckily I have had so many sodding problems with that shower of useless bastards I make sure all receipts are retained. Didn't get an apology through so you did well!

[fordperv]

What a shitty day it's peeing down so I can't polish my car ready for tomorrow, my bumper is on though and the car looks pretty good to be fair

[cms206]

It appears that Tapatalk sponsored posts already know the outcome off the raffles tonight.

[Ghosty]

Some twunt is burning garden waste and they're smoking out the whole street. Fucking stinks.

[twosmoke300]

^^^ nimby 😄

[Jerzy Woking]

To be fair, the kind of people that ride 125s like that have it coming to them, they're always obnoxiously loud and badly driven, because 125 LISENSE M8.

 

I have a 125-that could be a description of me. But I must say it is all the fault of Wuvvum for selling me a complete hooligan tool thaqt encourages bad riding. Can over 50 year olds still be 125 riding hooligans?

 

When I was 16 I had a piaggio zip50. Binned it on gravel in Sutton-in-Ashfield at about 25 mph 3 days after taking cbt. I had really bad gravel rash and still wince when I think of how rough the nurse was in A an E with the tweezers and antiseptic. I was wearing a vest and tracksuit bottoms. Since then no matter what I ride I wear protective trouser and jacket. I've had folk say to me Oh it's only a scooter, why wear all gear but regardless of what you ride be it a moped or a hayabusa at 30 mph you will still end up in trouble.

 

Similar here-riding 4 up on a Honda C90 when I was about 14, and binning it, flat out (probably 20mph) when braking too hard on a packed gravel former railway siding. All my mates had a few scratches, but I lost the skin on the heel of my hand when I hit the roads. The scar reminds me to always wear protective gear. I may look and feel like a tit all leathered up when on my scooter, but I'd look even worse with unsightly skin grafts.

[Tamworthbay]

What a day, one of my best mates who I have known for getting on fifteen years and was so close he was almost family has shit on me from a great height. I am gutted. No reason at all that I can fathom and it will be no gain whatsoever to him. I just don't understand why he would do it. Feeling really crap about. Gutted.

[scaryoldcortina]

I was somewhat premature in my grin about tranferring my mobile number - it's now even more broken. The number has somehow half transferred leaving me with a phone that makes outgoing calls fine, but doesn't receive them at all. THIS IS NO USE! Both the old phone company and the new one blame the other. GR1.

 

Second, my sister asked me to help fit some roof bars (genuine ford) to her B-max. You would think it would be easy..... guess again. For the benefit of any ford designers reading this, if you have to scrape back sealant and repaint parts of the car to fit a roof bar kit you designed it WRONG. 1/10 try harder next time.

[Pillock]

Yeah, I've got some of those roof bars from a 307 - when I looked at fitting them to the Focus (same bar, same fitting) you have to dig down in the sealant below the gutter to find a captive thread....? Bizarre.

 

The bars are still cluttering up my house. If anyone wants them, feel free.

[vulgalour]

Clutches.  A simple clutch change has turned into more expense and faff and ballache.  Stupid old cars.

[purplebargeken]

Red Rover raffle?? Hope not 

[Taff]

Wives - do no guilt your husband into not going out and enjoying what he likes on the premise of shopping for a barbecue to be held tomorrow for your family. When you then go off and enjoy doing what you want to do, leaving said husband to reflect on the totally wasted day until you finally manage to come back, don't be too surprised if he's feeling "a little off".

 

I could just go off anyway but the wrath that would invoke can only be understood by the brow beaten husband society.

 

 

Similarly, a visit to a farm shop followed by an evening with the in-laws is not a good way to spend the last day of my holidays.

 

 

If I may offer an alternative perspective.

 

As attractive as the single life may seem, endless pizza, beer, porn, stripping carbs on the coffee table and leaving the toilet seat up does eventually get boring.

 

Griz it up, lads. Trust me on this.

[bub2006]

What a joyous weekend. Following on from the windscreen debacle,my mot is due in a few weeks and can't see paying for new windscreen if it's going to fail mot big time. I really like the vectra especially due to it being an auto and it's nice to drive so it's going in for a Pre mot check up with my friendly mot tester on Monday. I can swallow a new windscreen and maybe another ton to get it through a test and keep the car but if it it's going to cost a shed load then it's not gonna be worth it. Anyway back to the grump. I know the exhaust has a rasp but the bloody top end has started tapping really loud tonight. Sounds like a hydraulic lifter is not right.

[mat_the_cat]

This is basically my view, i fucked up, and its probably not worth my time spending a tenner sending a £20 part back.

 

My view too, although I may be legally entitled to a full refund including postage, if it's my mistake then I'll hold my hand up. Which makes it even the more galling when some businesses try and refuse to pay the return postage on an item which is faulty!

[jakebullet]

After my successful day out on a bus trip decided to see where else they are going. Hmmm, Bletchley park. That'll do. Educational. 

 

Bzzzt! WRONG. How stupid of me to think that I could have 2 days off in the same year. Idiot sister has already bagsied that day for a right keg, and we're looking after her dog. I'm also in the wrong club for pointing out the bitch (sister not dog) is taking the piss by dumping the dog on us constantly. If I wanted a dog I'd go find some pikies.

[Lord Sterling]

Bah! Small bits of shit luck coming to haunt me again. Got flashed by a speed camera in Church Gresley coming back from a family gathering. Also found out that my last speed awareness course was 2 years ago, not 3 as I'd hoped. 3 points and a £60 fine incoming...

[fred]

Bah! Small bits of shit luck coming to haunt me again. Got flashed by a speed camera in Church Gresley coming back from a family gathering. Also found out that my last speed awareness course was 2 years ago, not 3 as I'd hoped. 3 points and a £60 fine incoming...

Biblical bummer of bummers feel for you

[skattrd]

I think the fine might have gone up to £100 Mo, as my recent course at £90 was cheaper than the fine.

[ruffgeezer]

To be fair, much as we hate them, that's a fair cop not bad luck. Limits are limits and they got me good and proper.

[dollywobbler]

We're going camping. I have a cold. I think because I went to a cafe where one of the workers had a cold. FFS. GO HOME IF YOU'RE ILL!

 

Also, the XM, which I painstakingly cleaned, is now covered in mud. I knew I shouldn't have bothered. It did look good though. For five minutes.

 

Also, also, Retro Cars Live next weekend has been cancelled. I was looking forward to hurtling across the country in a BMW-powered 2CV. Oh well. 

[cort16]

Nothing to see here

[Taff]

X1/9 handbrake cables. arseholes

[cms206]

Two raffles yesterday and I won neither of them.

 

This site just isn't what it used to be guys.

[Slappy]

The aeroshite incident yesterday

[nigel bickle]

Home for the weekend, to find this:-

 

 

 

 

Bit pissed, frankly as it's an awkward mend. still, damn good fun to drive though!

 

Back to porridge Monday....

 

Upside down? How on earth did I manage that?

[xtriple]

I have seriously over done it today so I expect I will be in agony by about ten tonight. Double dose of opiates again later I fear so if I suddenly disappear and never post mindless drivel again, you know why

 

Send flowers...

 

Hoovered, carried the dog after she hurt herself, got very wet, shoes now outside on the line drying.

[skattrd]

Fucking boot lock on the boring isn't opening. I can hear the central locking doing something but the lock won't open on the key or fob.

Not long ago I replaced the lock mechanism, this time it sounds like the motor bit. Why the fuck do they put electric locks in places where mechanical would easily suffice.

[twosmoke300]

Cos vag ! See also electronic calipers , ac compressors with special square wave controlled solenoid instead of a clutch etc etc etc

[richardmorris]

X1/9 handbrake cables. arseholes

Mine won't hold the car on the gentle slope out of the garage- goodness knows what the mot tester does with it.