The grumpy thread

[Station]

Does it go cold or just stop altogether? There's generally not a lot to showers, if it just turns cold then you've probably got a crappy overheat thermostat on it, our triton had the same. The wires are on ring terminals so I just bypassed it. I also put the temperature knob on wrong too, so now the shower can work as an instant boiling water tap if you want, which makes it ideal for blasting stubborn skidmarks off the bog.

 

You can buy a new thermostat for about £5 but all they do is stop idiots turning it onto full max heat then standing under it til their skin falls off so you might as well just bypass it.

 

It goes off altogether!

I don't mind the scalding myself to death - it's the turning off and the standing there covered in soapy sudz and the shivering freezing-ness and the I haven't even washed my 'rude bits' yet!

 

I have another unit at my mum and dad's that I had for years, but might try bypassing the temp cut off.

[fred]

Chris a mate O mine has asked me if I want to do a Half Marathon

''Dude Ive had Pneumonia 5 times in 15 years - takes all me effort to fap one out'' 

 

'' but its for charity mate?''

 

''Chris .....Fuck off''

[Matt]

If this is the case then why the fuck does she tell me to sort my memory out? That really does fucking irritate me. 

 

I don't want to cause offence here but I feel it has to be said. Get your ducks in a row and talk to her about it, don't do it in an off-hand comment way; actually take her away from whatever she's doing so you have her full attention and tell her how you feel about it. If you need to sort something in a relationship, COMMUNICATE.

[Angrydicky]

You have an A35 van? Any pictures?

 

Lincolnshire...guess you know Neil Evans then?

[Bren]

Nothing from kwik fit in relation my my bike insurance which expires tonight.

 

No doubt they hope I have forgotten and automatically renew the policy which has risen dramatically.

 

They can FRO.

[purplebargeken]

 

 

I don't want to cause offence here but I feel it has to be said. Get your ducks in a row and talk to her about it, don't do it in an off-hand comment way; actually take her away from whatever she's doing so you have her full attention and tell her how you feel about it. If you need to sort something in a relationship, COMMUNICATE.

 

 

No offence fella whatsoever.

 

I have done on a number of occasions but it seems to not hit home or something. I'm ok now but it did irritate me at the time. 

[captain_70s]

My days of classic motoring may be coming to an end. The theory was simple, I'd sell my modern motor and the £200 a month in finance payments would no longer exist so I'd either save that or use it to maintain the oldies...

 

Well, that'd be grand but the 1300 is currently costing an average of £300 a month just to keep rolling and is steadily deteriorating, gets half the mpg of a modern car drinks £20 worth of 20/50W a fortnight and the MOT is about to expire and I highly doubt it'll pass without a fight. The 1850 is full of holes, needs a shit ton of work to get through an MOT, can't be moved as it has no brakes and won't start and the insurance is about to expire.

So obviously I need more money so I work more, problem being I leave for work in the dark and then return home in the dark, usually 6 days a week and as thus have no time to work on the cars or do anything else and I still don't have enough money.

It's also proving rather taxing on my mental health as well as my wallet and things are looking grim. All I want is to get the 1850 back into winter beater mode and fettle the 1300 back to car show cruiser standard but it's just not happening.

 

The 1300's exhaust has fallen off again just a month after I spent £300 getting the damn thing sorted and one of the brand new exhaust studs sheared when I tried to tighten the bolt. The sills are looking bad in places and the rear arches are a mess of rusty water filled bubbles and holes, this on top of the fact I bumped it right at the start of the year and have never had the money to get it fixed the rear panel, bumper and bootlid are all bent to varying degrees.

 

At this juncture my parent's suggestion of buying a brand new car on PCP for £150 a month and not bothering myself with insurance or tax or MOTs and keeping one Dolomite as a Sunday show car is the way forward. Their notion of the Triumph doing 400 miles a year and struggling to lug itself to nearby car shows a dozen times a year without conking out "because that's what classic car people do" goes against everything I've wanted to achieve over the last three years but it seems to be the unfortunately reality.

 

I summary: I R TEH GRUMPZ

[HH-R]

I hate having to rely on cars to get to work that need constant fettling, it really does stress you out.

 

What about getting rid of the ropiest one and getting an 8-10 year old Corolla or Almera or something? Low outlay and you should have at least a few months at a time without needing anything spending on them. I've had my boring 9 year old Kia for nearly 7 months and it's cost me 50 for an air con re gas about £4 for some wipers. If it's just a work hack then you're not really bothered if someone scrapes it/there's salt on the roads or feel any guilt if it needs weighing.

[Pillock]

Yeah, give up on Classic and go Shite.

 

Nice Sierra like Triggers. A Carlton. Montego. Rover 420. Saab 900. There's so much choice that will still only be the same as 6 months of PCP for a good example, and then you're in profit. Still classic insurance, still nice to see parked outside your gaff.

[320touring]

My days of classic motoring may be coming to an end. The theory was simple, I'd sell my modern motor and the £200 a month in finance payments would no longer exist so I'd either save that or use it to maintain the oldies...

 

Well, that'd be grand but the 1300 is currently costing an average of £300 a month just to keep rolling and is steadily deteriorating, gets half the mpg of a modern car drinks £20 worth of 20/50W a fortnight and the MOT is about to expire and I highly doubt it'll pass without a fight. The 1850 is full of holes, needs a shit ton of work to get through an MOT, can't be moved as it has no brakes and won't start and the insurance is about to expire.

So obviously I need more money so I work more, problem being I leave for work in the dark and then return home in the dark, usually 6 days a week and as thus have no time to work on the cars or do anything else and I still don't have enough money.

It's also proving rather taxing on my mental health as well as my wallet and things are looking grim. All I want is to get the 1850 back into winter beater mode and fettle the 1300 back to car show cruiser standard but it's just not happening.

 

The 1300's exhaust has fallen off again just a month after I spent £300 getting the damn thing sorted and one of the brand new exhaust studs sheared when I tried to tighten the bolt. The sills are looking bad in places and the rear arches are a mess of rusty water filled bubbles and holes, this on top of the fact I bumped it right at the start of the year and have never had the money to get it fixed the rear panel, bumper and bootlid are all bent to varying degrees.

 

At this juncture my parent's suggestion of buying a brand new car on PCP for £150 a month and not bothering myself with insurance or tax or MOTs and keeping one Dolomite as a Sunday show car is the way forward. Their notion of the Triumph doing 400 miles a year and struggling to lug itself to nearby car shows a dozen times a year without conking out "because that's what classic car people do" goes against everything I've wanted to achieve over the last three years but it seems to be the unfortunately reality.

 

I summary: I R TEH GRUMPZ

If you laid on tea and provided somewhere to camp us scotchists could probably have a fix it day?

 

worth a thread to try!

 

list the cars and jobs needing doing.

 

if you had a weekend then I'm sure some chaps could help

[chaseracer]

And they'd go faster, too... 

[DeeJay]

They'd end up looking like Volvo estates.

[twosmoke300]

Get a 90s honda or Toyota !

[Cheggers]

There is a third way...Autoshite. Not a "proper" modern on finance but not a classic either.

 

The world is full of perfectly respectable & reliable cars for under a grand. Sure, they're mostly unfashionable but far more interesting than most moderns, and bangernomics actually makes sound financial sense.

[purplebargeken]

There are shitloads of cars that you could have cheaply. My little Rover cost me 275 and it is lovely.

 

Which Trump do you really, really like? One could be sacrificed to save the other and sale of bits can also go to getting the one sorted.

[ruffgeezer]

Next door's owners have just come to 'cut' the lawn and found out their tenants have left. It's hardly surprising since they let the tenants redecorate and carpet the place on promise of a long term rental then not 2 months later tried to sell the house from under them.

 

After it's sale failed, they left them with no heating or hot water for 5 weeks, and only tend to the garden every couple of months or so.

A little tip for you, shiters, if when you are 'mowing the lawn' your petrol mower stalls every time you push it forward an inch or two, you aren't doing it often enough.

 

This is especially true when the lawn is 6 foot tall you thick, baldy, smelly, dreadloked bastard. 

 

My grump? After a few months of reasonable tenants, we are bound to get some noisy shitheals in again. They cannot keep a good tenant as they are shit to them.

[Matt]

My days of classic motoring may be coming to an end. The theory was simple, I'd sell my modern motor and the £200 a month in finance payments would no longer exist so I'd either save that or use it to maintain the oldies...

 

Well, that'd be grand but the 1300 is currently costing an average of £300 a month just to keep rolling and is steadily deteriorating, gets half the mpg of a modern car drinks £20 worth of 20/50W a fortnight and the MOT is about to expire and I highly doubt it'll pass without a fight. The 1850 is full of holes, needs a shit ton of work to get through an MOT, can't be moved as it has no brakes and won't start and the insurance is about to expire.

So obviously I need more money so I work more, problem being I leave for work in the dark and then return home in the dark, usually 6 days a week and as thus have no time to work on the cars or do anything else and I still don't have enough money.

It's also proving rather taxing on my mental health as well as my wallet and things are looking grim. All I want is to get the 1850 back into winter beater mode and fettle the 1300 back to car show cruiser standard but it's just not happening.

 

The 1300's exhaust has fallen off again just a month after I spent £300 getting the damn thing sorted and one of the brand new exhaust studs sheared when I tried to tighten the bolt. The sills are looking bad in places and the rear arches are a mess of rusty water filled bubbles and holes, this on top of the fact I bumped it right at the start of the year and have never had the money to get it fixed the rear panel, bumper and bootlid are all bent to varying degrees.

 

At this juncture my parent's suggestion of buying a brand new car on PCP for £150 a month and not bothering myself with insurance or tax or MOTs and keeping one Dolomite as a Sunday show car is the way forward. Their notion of the Triumph doing 400 miles a year and struggling to lug itself to nearby car shows a dozen times a year without conking out "because that's what classic car people do" goes against everything I've wanted to achieve over the last three years but it seems to be the unfortunately reality.

 

I summary: I R TEH GRUMPZ

As the above couple of posts suggest ditch the modern, ditch whichever of the trumpets you like least and buy a cheap, reliable semi-modern then save save save. My Swift costs £120-£130 a month (~£1,600 annually divided by 12) but more typically it's only £65-£85 a month in fuel on months when my insurance and tax aren't up.

 

I am talking with someone near me who has one in her driveway that's stood for a little bit, hoping I can get it for about £100. Maybe some kind of MLC/cms/fowler/320/FOAD relay can be organised...

[anonymous user]

FAO captain_70s

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/21626-dae-woohoo-for-sale-%C2%A3175-now-with-matz/

 

All* your motoring problems solved

[cort16]

Do you think there's some part of the universe that's really pissed off and is expressing this through electrical cables?

I decided to trim the hedges outside the front of the house and every time I moved more than 1 ft a cable had either snagged on the wall, tied itself around the extension cable or hooked itself on a branch. At one point it had knotted around my foot, got stuck between two bricks and wedged under the wheel over the rover all at the same time. I mean I didn't even want to cut the fucking hedge in the first place!

I counteracted the universe by making a really half arsed job of cutting the hedge and tidying up the leaves.

[cort16]

I've ran old cars as daily's before and unless you're really handy and or have loads of time and money it can wear a bit thin.

As said though there's plenty of reliable stuff out there for less than a grand. You can use the truimph once or twice a week with the security you've got a car to fall back on if it doesn't want to play or you're in the middle of fixing something.

The only thing is takes a lot in the morning to say no I won't take the car that'll start right, up has the comfy seats, decent stereo, nice toasty heater no I'll take the drafty, cold one that might conk out or give me carbon monoxide poisoning.

[Richard]

90s cars are definitely the way to go for a daily. It was hard enough running 70s cars as dailies 25 years ago, and new and used spares were readily available then.

[Matt]

90s cars are definitely the way to go for a daily. It was hard enough running 70s cars as dailies 25 years ago, and new and used spares were readily available then.

 

But aren't cars made after 1985 universally garbage?

/pedant

 

Good news for us, cheap cars have only been getting better.

[beko1987]

You want a nice zx, pez or derv flavour! Based on my experience of 2 anyway

[Angrydicky]

Old cars are great, but they need constant work to keep them running. I do a fraction of the mileage you do, on much easier roads so it's not an issue.

 

By the sound of it, you haven't got the time or the inclination to work on them (working six days a week, leaving and getting home in the dark) and inevitably it's going to get to the stage where all those little jobs you've been putting off combine to make a car that doesn't run, doesn't stop and gets laughed out of an MoT station.

 

Don't get another car on finance, remember how much you hated that Corsa? (And how much it cost) Go 1980s. For the best reliability perhaps try Japanese - something like an old Corolla or Bluebird, or maybe a Triumph Acclaim. Spend £500 or so, get one in decent nick and it should be a lot easier, and cheaper, to keep on the road, enabling you to save money to repair the Dolomites.

[meggersdog]

Arsebiscuits.

Went to see my dad today.He's in a hospice so it's never a lot of fun.Anyway, coming off the parkway down to a roundabout and I notice steam coming out of the bonnet....Bugger..Temp guage is reading halfway so I pulled over at the nearest convienience which happened to be the hopsice car-park.Upon inspection there should be a plastic bung on the end of the radiator (it's a Discovery).The threaded part is still there but the cap has broken off.A rummage around the boot revealed a threaded bar and some rubber gloves.I fashioned a bung out of this to go through the hole in the plastic bung,filled it with water then went visiting.

When I got home I made a proper job of it.A small bolt,some ptfe tape for the thread and a fibre washer.Filled up through the thermostat housing and still there was way too much pressure.Think I might have blown a gasket..........

[jakebullet]

I is a sexual failure. After 5 minutes of playing hide the sausage my little man got bored and turned into mr. Floppy. I think he must have been wanked to death

 

Also, condom was not used, as when there's a 15 stone woman sat on your face, and she suggests you don't need one 'cos she has a coil fitted rational thought goes out the window. My 'sex advisor' human friend tells me I'm a grade one fuckwit, not for std reasons, but 'cos she could have been lying and wants to be up the duff.

 

Shitters advice would be gratefully received.

[dave21478]

1 - Scrub your willy with a Brillo pad. It wont help much to combat the clap, but should teach you a lesson about thinking with your cock.

 

2 - Pick your deity and pray you havent sown her field.

 

3 - If she says you have, dont take her word for it. Get verification of implantation and later if the fruit is actualy from your seed stock.

 

4 - Calm things right the fuck down in the future. Even if she is lovely and clean* you need to be careful. Personally, I always wear wellies when I go paddling.

 

5 - In my experience, the kind of lady who says "you dont need a condom" right at the start is exactly the kind of lady you need a condom with. Having said that, most of my "experience" is with mentals, chubby council estate single mums and teenagers willing to let me fuck them for a £20 phone top up. Your mileage may vary.

[Cheggers]

I is a sexual failure. After 5 minutes of playing hide the sausage my little man got bored and turned into mr. Floppy. I think he must have been wanked to death

 

Also, condom was not used, as when there's a 15 stone woman sat on your face, and she suggests you don't need one 'cos she has a coil fitted rational thought goes out the window. My 'sex advisor' human friend tells me I'm a grade one fuckwit, not for std reasons, but 'cos she could have been lying and wants to be up the duff.

 

Shitters advice would be gratefully received.

Blimey, where to begin...

 

Judging by your recent posts, you'd got quite worked up about your impending shagfest. The "old chap" doesn't work so well under pressure...

 

Avoid having a tug for a few days before your next planned "rendezvous". Like all athletes it's good to rest up before a major event.

 

Never take a girls word for it that she's got contraception sorted...If all else fails, pull out when the trumpets start to sound. She sounds like the kind of game girl that might appreciate a bit of creampie action anyway.

 

If a 15 stone girl suggests sitting on your face, take a deep breath and practice breathing through your bumhole.

 

If anyone on an Internet forum suggests you share pictures, say no.

 

Happy to help.

 

 

Any chance of a picture or two?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Flippin LOL

[captain_70s]

Shitters advice would be gratefully received.

Cheap flight to South America, start new life. Perhaps make your fortune dealing in vast quantities of cocaine?