The grumpy thread

[bub2006]

Hate feeling like shit. Since marriage breakdown I've just been muddling along. In a shared house at minute and the other folk are druggies. Don't feel safe at all there. Spend a lot of time on a friends sofa which isn't good for my medical issues. Had about 4 hours sleep since Friday. Been to doctors tonight who prescribed me yet more medication. Awful feeling I've I'm trapped and can't get up. If i'm honest I'm quiet scared feeling like this. Sorry if completely off topic and too much info but I need to vent. As you were

[chaseracer]

That's what AS is for, mon ami - a bunch of (mostly - hello, Louise!) blokes posting up pictures of Talbot Solaras and looking out for each other when needed.

 

Come banger racing on Sunday - we're having bacon sarnies at the Truckers beforehand 

[wuvvum]

Well the red Rover appears to have rewarded my efforts to get it roadworthy again by blowing its head gasket.  Temp gauge sits steady at idle but shoots up when driving with any gusto (although it's not gone into the red), heater is blowing cold and if I run the engine with the expansion cap off, after a few minutes it starts chucking out coolant like a fucking Yosemite geyser.  Yeah, cheers for that - nice birthday present you ungrateful cunt.

 

Also, the cat has thrown up all over the porch.

 

And the grease nipples I bought off eBay for the Subaru van are the wrong thread.

 

Still, it could be worse - I could be Martin Winterkorn.

[RobT]

FWIW, Happy Birthday Dave. Cheer yourself up by buying another car/bike, or have you already done that?!

[wuvvum]

Cheers Rob.  I would do, but I'm skint - having just forked out for Mondeo MOT and America holiday, my bank account is looking decidedly empty.

[fred]

Hate feeling like shit. Since marriage breakdown I've just been muddling along. In a shared house at minute and the other folk are druggies. Don't feel safe at all there. Spend a lot of time on a friends sofa which isn't good for my medical issues. Had about 4 hours sleep since Friday. Been to doctors tonight who prescribed me yet more medication. Awful feeling I've I'm trapped and can't get up. If i'm honest I'm quiet scared feeling like this. Sorry if completely off topic and too much info but I need to vent. As you were

Fucking hell mate, I feel for you. Im having trouble finding employment at the Mo, all fucking agency shit which will call you at WTF O'clock and expect you be be 30 miles away in half n hour

Life sometimes is truly a sack of shit

[bub2006]

That's what AS is for, mon ami - a bunch of (mostly - hello, Louise!) blokes posting up pictures of Talbot Solaras and looking out for each other when needed.

 

Come banger racing on Sunday - we're having bacon sarnies at the Truckers beforehand

I if I can scrape money together fella I'll have a trek. Could do with a break away if I'm honest! Thanks

[bub2006]

Fucking hell mate, I feel for you. Im having trouble finding employment at the Mo, all fucking agency shit which will call you at WTF O'clock and expect you be be 30 miles away in half n hour

Life sometimes is truly a sack of shit

Been there too fella. So pleased I'm not in that boat now,small mercy an all or else be straw that broke camels back. Took the zopiclone that quack prescribed me last night and was out like a light. Solid night sleep for a change. Still feel like shite and don't want to get up though. Just sit wondering what wank filled day I'm gonna have.

[AlabamaShrimp]

A few weeks ago the passenger seat in the ST stopped tipping forward. It's not the cable of plastic catch as normal so eventually I'll have to take the seat out.

 

Haven't driven it for a bit but took it out this morning. Drivers seat is fucked... The back felt slidey* got out and messed with it, I can't tell what's broken but it's moving left and right far too much

 

Wife said it was clicking the other day. I know how it's happened, she's lent on it too many times getting our son in the back passenger seat even though she knows not to. I'm sure when I say something I'll be in the wrong for 'blaming' her...

[michael1703]

I don't often grump as life is good, so this is minor but...

 

I live in the country and we don't have road markings and most people are savvy but I've had to take to the verge 3 times in as many days

 

All 3 bellends have been driving towards me and as I've come to a left bend they have massively cut the corner and are a good foot or more on my side of the road and the roads are 12ft wide at best.

 

Luckily my reactions are quick as I've seen their trajectory and taken to the verge and am already staring at the driver in misbelief to see what sort of airhead is driving you can see the realisation on their face that things could have been messy.

 

Two farmers wives taking kids to school and a coffin dodger

[andy18s]

What you need is a good dashcam, and a big f**off Range Rover to help claim your side of the road back....

[Richard]

A few weeks ago the passenger seat in the ST stopped tipping forward. It's not the cable of plastic catch as normal so eventually I'll have to take the seat out.

 

Haven't driven it for a bit but took it out this morning. Drivers seat is fucked... The back felt slidey* got out and messed with it, I can't tell what's broken but it's moving left and right far too much

 

Wife said it was clicking the other day. I know how it's happened, she's lent on it too many times getting our son in the back passenger seat even though she knows not to. I'm sure when I say something I'll be in the wrong for 'blaming' her...

Least said, soonest mended. My previously pristine Volvo looks as if it's been round the oval because my wife used it for a week. This makes me sad but it would still somehow be my fault if I mentioned it, so I haven't.

[Richard]

What you need is a good dashcam, and a big f**off Range Rover to help claim your side of the road back....

I have both of these things (a Transit rather than a Range Rover, but a Transit should send out even more 'don't mess' vibes) and it doesn't make much difference. People just don't understand how much mess three tonnes will make.

[michael1703]

I was in a Range Rover!

 

 

Another grump.

 

Just found out my customer left me a Jaguar XJS in their will

 

Turns out the Jag has gone awol

 

Long story but my deceased customer had this jag which belonged to her brother whom died in 2011, he paid £10k for it, it went in to a garage to have the heater matrix repaired and it got left neglected and its vanished in to thin air.

 

Again, not a massive grump as I've got enough cars and jags as it is but another would be nice.

 

Reg number is something like "L33 CRY" or something similar.

[purplebargeken]

Fuck 1990's American cars! That has turned out to be a very, very expensive ignition barrel and key. Twaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!

[xtriple]

Had a proper 'munk on' yesterday as everything was going wrong, everyone I spoke to was the bloody same. It was so bad I really wanted the day to be over but I didn't want to go to sleep as I didn't want today to start!

 

fortunately, today has been somewhat better... so far, there's still time for it all to go wrong...

 

But, I woke up at 7 having gone to sleep about 3 and I am knackered and I hurt. But I'm used to being knackered and hurting so I don't give a fuck!

[purplebargeken]

Rover bonnet looked dirty and had a couple of bird bombs on it.

 

Washed it all off, Demon Shine, looked nice.

 

Last wipe....... thump splat.

 

Fuck off you feathered rats. 

[dave21478]

I have mentioned this guy before, but there is a Forrest Gump style chap who lives in my wee village. He is proper slow, apparently schizo and off his medication and just generally dim.

Previously he had a breadvan style Polo which he brush-painted badly with green house paint, then took to bits to do some repairs and couldnt get it back together. I had a quick look and he had stripped the whole loom out, snipped it off flush at the bulkhead etc. It probably only needed a service.

 

Anyway, it got scrapped and he bought a nearly new wee motorbike, a 125 of some kind. It was low mileage and in perfect condition, bought from a dealer. He brush painted it badly with house paint, then when something minor went wrong he took it to bits and couldnt get it back together. There is now a bare bike frame lying behind his house.

 

A while back he got hold of a car that used to belong to a local-ish boy racer....a wee ZX. petrol engine of some kind, recently resprayed and very, very shiny, lowered with gold 205gti wheels.

He ran about in it for a while, generally looking after it. He painted the wheels black, which was a decent improvement and that was that.

However, he is now back on his bicycle, wobbling slowly along in first gear. The car? well, it hasnt moved from his drive for a few weeks.....I have no idea if there is a problem with it or not. It went up on axle stands last weekend, and I have now seen he has painted the outside of the windows with matt black paint. Rear window?....well, ok. Rear sides? well, I suppose the "van" look could work. Top halves of the front windows? thats a bit silly and as I passed he seemed to be about to start the top half of the windscreen.

 

Covertly snapped spy pic.....

 

I get a feeling this poor wee car wont see the road again, but if it does I doubt the police will take to kindly to him driving in Burka-vision.

 

[chaseracer]

"Dave, pop in to the office about 4, would you...?"

 

Fuck.  Time to polish up the rezoomay, then...

[greengartside]

Why are there no decent Fiesta Zetec-S's about any more? Just missed out on owning a nice one because I dithered about it. I'm so fucked off with looking all the time to see nothing about. If anyone does see one then please let me know.

[fairkens]

Usual ford - rust

[greengartside]

Yeah very true - there were a handful on eBay a few weeks back and now there are zero in my budget. Fuckaxe.

[STUNO]

Ran out of money today (again). Spent too much on Rovers this week (again). Had very little petrol in the car to get to work (yay!) Smashed my phone out of anger (good riddance!) and therefore couldn't take a picture of the Rover Sterling I spotted today (and, no, it wasn't mine)

 

EFA and truth 

[maxpower]

If windows 10 was a car it would be the biggest pile of shite ever!!!!

[chaseracer]

If windows 10 was a car it would be the biggest pile of shite ever!!!!

 

This might be true - if IOS9 didn't exist.

[mercrocker]

Poked another hole in Minor chassis leg.   Whole nearside done 2 years ago.   Half leg offside last year.  Now the other half which I left because floor pan needed doing has holed.  Looks like its been letting the crossmember get damp too.   Fucksticks that's another year of spending no money on the other cars.    I was looking forward to taking the Minor off the road this year for some mechy twizzling - diff, cylinder head etc.   It can fucking whistle for that.  

[michael1703]

I've got a brand new offside leg for a minor, how much you offering?

[purplebargeken]

I have some metal underneath bits ofr a Minor. I will post some piccies at the weekend. I keep tripping over the fuckers and need rid. 

[richardmorris]

Audi drivers in France are just as clueless and selfish as those in the uk. Not sure this is news, but grump today was one idiot (woman) who overtook then 100m later slammed the brakes on and turned into her driveway. Happens on the bicycle all the time, but this is the first time when I've been in the car doing 10km h over the speed limit in the first place( 100 and not through a town at 50 either). All these little roadside shrines seem to make no difference to how anyone drives. It's as if they don't connect people dying on little country roads with the way they drive down them.

[Angrydicky]

I've only been back at uni a week and the dreaded depression has got hold of me again. Feel like shit, no motivation and I'm missing my friends and family terribly. And the new housemate keeps smoking in the house (despite me asking him politely not to) and playing shit rap music which makes the walls shake it's so loud.

I just want to get this final year of uni over with, get a job that pays enough to move out of my parents house, and I'd like to spend the rest of my life with the girl of my dreams. I don't want much out of life really, but lately it just seems like everything I try and do I fail miserably at. For a bloke I'm too sensitive and fall in love far too easily as well

Might give the forums and stuff a break for a bit, see if it makes me feel any better.