The grumpy thread

[fordperv]

It's that curious tall one they were all arguing about on retro rides the other week:

 

Was there ever an answer? I did read the thread on there when it got put up, I searched Google when I saw it but came up with nothing

[Cheggers]

Was there ever an answer? I did read the thread on there when it got put up, I searched Google when I saw it but came up with nothing

Surely some kind of camera glitch, as the bumper and bonnet edge are converging at a far greater rate than they would if it were just perspective making it appear that way.

 

Either that or the passenger side is taller than the drivers side, making it some kind of BL NASCAR prototype

[chaseracer]

I sometimes look on the new car comics websites because I bought Autocar religiously when I was young and I am still interested in some new cars, especially if they're something different like the new Mustang.

 

http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/ford-mustang-versus-bmw-m235i-comparison

 

Troy Queef writes...

 

...nothing about "a dab of oppo".  Disappointing.  Appropriately named writer, though.

 

However, he did remind me that I need another straight-six in my life ASAP...

[twosmoke300]

Customers ! For those that don't know run a small garage . I'm a one man band but have one mechanic that comes in as I need him on a self employed basis .

I've had customers ring and text me all over the Christmas period . In fact the only day I haven't had calls was the big day itself .

What is wrong with these people . I wouldn't dream of calling the garage on Boxing Day ffs .

Time to change all paperwork to the landline number only me thinks .

I wouldn't mind if it were breakdowns but most are mots that have run out ( despite reminder stickers and text reminders at the beginning of Dec) and one was to swap his wheels front to rear ! Hardly an emergency job .

 

Grrr . Rant over sorry

[burraston2006]

Bored of this Christmas period now ( in truth I was bored of it by about 6am on the 1st of december!).

My question is- I've got today off and nothing planned so is it too early to take the decorations down? 

I wanted to do it yesterday but the millstone had invited people (I don't like) around for drinks etc and was politely informed to leave them alone.

[MarvinsMom]

no, its not too early. you miserable git.

 

if you want rid of xmas shizzle then go for it.

 

ours will be comming down on 3rd January, before going back to work

[Sealtainn]

Taking ours down today as cats keep swinging off the tree, the dog's trying to eat the decorations and the baby keeps careering into it in his walker then trying to grab the fairy lights !!

 

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[320touring]

Customers ! For those that don't know run a small garage . I'm a one man band but have one mechanic that comes in as I need him on a self employed basis .

I've had customers ring and text me all over the Christmas period . In fact the only day I haven't had calls was the big day itself .

What is wrong with these people . I wouldn't dream of calling the garage on Boxing Day ffs .

Time to change all paperwork to the landline number only me thinks .

I wouldn't mind if it were breakdowns but most are mots that have run out ( despite reminder stickers and text reminders at the beginning of Dec) and one was to swap his wheels front to rear ! Hardly an emergency job .

 

Grrr . Rant over sorry

Certainly that is not ideal, however, a positive spin would be 'Despite this traditionally being a quiet time of year for the garage trade, I have already had enough bookings to secure work til the 2nd week in Jan'

 

 

one of these annoying situations where your work geets busier as others are off theirs- So they have time to call you up!

 

Also shows that you're in demand and trusted-a good thing in a mechanic:)

[Cavcraft]

Or have an answerphone message that says 'All calls to this number over Christmas cost £8 per minute'.

[panhard65]

I just had a second customer ring me up. "I need to book a service" she says, "oh and it has to be by friday". Not really a problem as I had nothing booked in just in case of emergencies. What really is annoying though is it isn't a service it's the mot that is due. The one I sent a reminder about at the begining of December and then sent a second text reminder a week ago about. Hopefully the testing station will be open next week. I had a crap December with bugger all work in and now they all start ringing wanting everything done straight away.

[twosmoke300]

I have had a mental dec , infact the whole year has been silly busy which is good but I feel frazzled and need some time off . 

Having said that im in work now tiding up and doing paperwork.

[Richard]

Text received on my own phone this morning.

 

Hello Richard, hope you're having a good Christmas break. Can you give me a ring please. Thanks, Boss.

As it happens I'm not having a good break because I know this sort of thing is likely to happen. 2016 will be job hunting year I think.

[mercrocker]

"Hello Boss, I was. Thank you. Now fuck off. Thanks, Richard"

 

Hmmm...it probably reads as a better idea than it actually is.

[dollywobbler]

Surely some kind of camera glitch, as the bumper and bonnet edge are converging at a far greater rate than they would if it were just perspective making it appear that way.

 

Either that or the passenger side is taller than the drivers side, making it some kind of BL NASCAR prototype

 

That'd be quite a glitch given that there's no bodywork between headlamps and bumper on a normal Metro.

[jakebullet]

Usual post xmas ebay sales falling off a cliff has been turned up to eleventy. Not fun to find you've earned a fiver all day.

[JohnDeere]

The world's worst Sunday drivers have taken to the roads today, I've never seen so many grey hairs in one place. One old giffer in an S-Max decided he wanted to be in my lane of the M25, with me still in it. Clearly the idea of looking hadn't occurred to him. That's now two close shaves in three days...

[Pillock]

That'd be quite a glitch given that there's no bodywork between headlamps and bumper on a normal Metro.

Also, the stuff to the right of the picture isn't glitched at all. Very weird.

 

Can't pretend I'm not going to fire up Photoshop and make some oddball vehicles though.

[purplebargeken]

Feel sort of restless, mildly irritable and a bit 'I don't quite know what to do with myself' today. No idea why.

 

Even getting rid of 99% of the flat as a witches tit paintwork on the Sierra bonnet didn't lift my mood.

 

Wooooooo, meh.

[vulgalour]

Best theory I've heard about that Metro is that it's disabled adapted so a wheel chair user can drive it while still in their wheel chair and positioned centrally in the car.  Instead of fitting a high top they theoretically sliced the whole Metro in half like a Victoria sponge cake and added a band of metal all the way around.  Presumably also fitted hand controls.  Hellishly expensive if true and probably handled like a pig wearing stilletoes on ice in even the slightest sidewind.

[Pillock]

Also, presumably if true to do the points or change spark plugs etc you'd need a stepladder to get up to the bonnet, and them abseil down the other side.

[Cheggers]

That'd be quite a glitch given that there's no bodywork between headlamps and bumper on a normal Metro.

A good point well made. That means the only remaining options are either a bizarre Photoshop or even more bizarre hi-rise Metro.

 

What a funny old world we live in.

[Mr Lobster]

Usual post xmas ebay sales falling off a cliff has been turned up to eleventy. Not fun to find you've earned a fiver all day.

I share your pain.

 

Some days I do feel like giving up and having a real job. *shudder*

[Richard]

I have a real job. It's shit.

[Timewaster]

It's that curious tall one they were all arguing about on retro rides the other day

If you Google the reg. The image is weird but not as extreme:

 

 

https://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://i.imgur.com/dFeOUVf.jpg&imgrefurl=http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/183830/curious-tall-metro?page%3D2&h=649&w=954&tbnid=KgH80DBaAK_nJM:&docid=VvDl0ZHH_j7d2M&ei=J6SBVqaaGMvyUr_HitgF&tbm=isch&client=ms-android-orange-gb&ved=0ahUKEwjmyajYuv_JAhVLuRQKHb-jAlsQMwgcKAAwAA

[Pillock]

If you Google the reg. The image is weird but not as extreme:

 

 

https://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://i.imgur.com/dFeOUVf.jpg&imgrefurl=http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/183830/curious-tall-metro?page%3D2&h=649&w=954&tbnid=KgH80DBaAK_nJM:&docid=VvDl0ZHH_j7d2M&ei=J6SBVqaaGMvyUr_HitgF&tbm=isch&client=ms-android-orange-gb&ved=0ahUKEwjmyajYuv_JAhVLuRQKHb-jAlsQMwgcKAAwAA

 

That image seems to be one that rmad created on retro-rides by taking the mega-stretched one and chopping some out of the middle.

Not sure why, I think he was trying to show what the original could have looked like before an elaborate photoshop or processing error - but he's forgetting that Metros didn't have any body colour between the headlamps and bumper.

[bub2006]

Think the pas pump packed up on Picasso. Oh joy

[meshking]

Went for a walk at box hill this morning, lovely sunny day, far too warm for winter though! Why the grump? As we walked back along the a24, heard a sickening plastic on tarmac noise. Turned around to see a biker had dropped it, seemingly with no one else around, on the opposite side of the carriageway. Plenty of people helping with blankets and clearing the bike off the road, I called it in to 999. Hopefully they'll be OK, was a straight section and there wasn't any other cars involved. I don't know enough about bikes to know of that's a common occurrence.

 

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[greengartside]

I think there was a thread for this but can't find it.

 

Just sitting here thinking of the cars I shouldn't have sold and there's one that really sticks in my throat.

 

In 2011 I bought a 1988 Peugeot 205 GTi in 1.6 flavour, from a guy on the Suffolk coast who had a garage that specialised in them, paid way over the odds for it but I really really wanted it and I believe that if you want something bad enough you can indeed get it.

 

 

Bought it, it came home and I began cleaning it up. Sadly didn't have the time to finish it as I got involved with moving in with now ex-SWMBO who was a complete c*nt but that's another story.

 

Sold it to some guy in Leicestershire who then sold it to a lad in the next village to him who then stripped the car ready to restore her. Sadly I think the project has stalled due to lack of space.

 

Me being a sentimental sod kept in contact with him and despite me firing off an email to him occasionally, we haven't spoke in a couple of years. There are a few photos on flickr but that's about it.

 

Really wished I had kept hold of it and not been an idiot and sold it. Hindsight's a wonderful thing, eh.

 

Needless to say if I could get back in touch with him and if monetaries were available along with a heated garage then it would be coming home with me.

 

Sorry for the rant, too many beers / 90's tunes / sentimentality mode.

[fred]

Had 6 hours wheeling my old dear around ''The Sales'' Ye gods this must be the 7th level of hell - Traffic was rather like ''Carmeggedon'' around the Bescot retail park

What did they come back with ....................FUCK ALL gah ......I'm mentally and physically broken into many parts.

 

And only Port and Brandy will correct my ails

[strangeangel]

RIP Lemmy