The grumpy thread

[Lord Sterling]

Was on my way to a course today in Wolverhampton. As I drove into Wolverhampton I did a double take at a recently demolished house.

 

Just found out that the house had fallen as a result of a gas explosion

[Timewaster]

^^ BBC news says the old lady inside survived. She was found next to the washing machine that was holding the roof up.

[UmBongo]

Not only did somebody fuck up the video feed of Lemmy's memorial service, they fucked up his name, too.

 

Lenny!

 

 

He would have laughed at the absurdity of it all.

 

I always preferred Fanny.

 

[wuvvum]

Broken down, again. Waiting for the AA, again. This time it's the LDV van that has shat itself- it just conked out on the Norwich ring road. No idea what is wrong with it and not about to start poking around under the bonnet in this weather. Fucking thing.

[wuvvum]

Turned out to just be a blown engine management fuse - slightly annoyed to use up one of my AA "lives" for such a simple issue, but then it wouldn't have been a lot of fun trying to find the problem with no tools and only my phone for light.

[twosmoke300]

Wonder why it's blown ?

[dave21478]

The latest in the Mazda for sale / imposter buyer saga is that the original buyer rescheduled to collect it tomorrow morning but has now phoned to say he cant as his breakdown truck has shit itself. 

 

He reckons he will phone me "sometime, when its fixed" and come for it then.

 

Fuck it. Back to the bottom of the garden it goes. If this guy turns up, then fine. If not, I will wait a month or two and try again.

[wuvvum]

Wonder why it's blown ?

That's what the AA man said.  I had redlined it in first and second just before it crapped itself - which I'd never done before - so don't know if that might have something to do with it, but I don't see why caning the engine would blow a fuse.

[scaryoldcortina]

slack mounts and a rubbed through cable is my guess if you gave it some beans right before it stopped.

[Pillock]

Voltage regulator?

[HillmanImp]

I iz an idiot. Went to Keighley to start the Visa for the first time in months but the battery was flat and I didn't take the charger with me. Mega dissapointed. REALLY want it back on the road but cant until I have more dosh when Mrs Imp goes back to work as belive the cluch is an engine out job (unless anyone on here knows better). Just been dropping hints that she should give me some money for it but she isn't taking the bait.

[cobblers]

slack mounts and a rubbed through cable is my guess if you gave it some beans right before it stopped.

 

My Ibiza had a good one like this.

I faffed with the ECU map myself, but after that, If I drove like a twat for a bit, the power steering warning light would come on. Steering felt fine though, and the light wouldn't come back on unless I really hammered it through three gears (by which time you're doing three figure speeds so it didn't happen often)

This went on for months and got perhaps slightly worse, until one day when I had pulled out onto a fast A road with some enthusiasm. I saw the light come on, but this time it was flashing, then when I came to turn the first corner the steering was almost locked solid - I didn't just have no PAS, the motor was fighting against itself to keep the wheel straight. 

It was 3 miles home and by the time I got there I was sweating buckets and the electric pump was stinking hot and smoking.

 

The next morning I checked the fault codes for the PAS ECU (yeah...) and it said "signal implausible". The wiring all tested out OK.

The internet told me the pump was faulty, but they are £200 and I wasn't having that cos they're a nightmare to fit so I had another check at the wiring and it turned out that the big silly downpipe I had fitted ran very close to the subframe, where the sense wire for the steering angle sensor was. It was behind a heat shield, but the bodging bastard that fitted the exhaust swang on it and bent the shield hard against the wire.

 

So, after I turned the boost and fuel up the exhaust temperatures were increased.

Every time I drove the car hard, the downpipe got hot and melted the wiring for the steering sensor which allowed the +5v and signal to short together briefly, but as the wires cooled it fixed itself, until eventually it held the signal hard to 5v which just made the thing want to go hardcore straight ahead.

[hairnet]

Fuckin pc motherboard has shit itself,so having to do this on painfully slow win xp lappie.

Cant afford new one till end of month so i am afraid that maintenence etc on board will not be to usual standard during this time.

Dont dare accesserver in case lappie crashes while working on it.

Keeping fingers crossed

go to library

 

can lend you essex library card if you want

[hairnet]

I iz an idiot. Went to Keighley to start the Visa for the first time in months but the battery was flat and I didn't take the charger with me. Mega dissapointed. REALLY want it back on the road but cant until I have more dosh when Mrs Imp goes back to work as belive the cluch is an engine out job (unless anyone on here knows better). Just been dropping hints that she should give me some money for it but she isn't taking the bait.

book says clutch unit - removal

 

and the first two lines are: with the engine out of the car.........

 

i not looking forward to if that happens

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Its the suitcase engine right? 100% engine out job I'm afraid and a right shitehawk even once you do get it out. Ask SambaS - He's done the job on a Samba I think.

[panhard65]

I did my old Renault 14 clutch with it in the car. It was a TS mind but still the suitcase engine

[sheffcortinacentre]

re ldv . check the alternator wires aren't rubbing/hitting chassis rail when caned.

[xtriple]

After all the money I have spent on the big green dollop it appears to be losing power steering fluid, the bastard! It's just gad a new flaming rack and I bet it's the new rack that's leaking again! They are notorious for being utter crap. The guys on the Aussie forum reckon it's a yearly renew job!

 

I also do not have a back up vehicle....

[Cavcraft]

It is as terrible thing when people pass away, but I get the feeling I'm going to have to turn the radio off today as I never liked his music.

[michael1703]

Huge migraine now for two days solid. Blurred vision, throwing up, the works. Haven't had one this bad in yonks.

Sumatriptan is what you want

[michael1703]

It is as terrible thing when people pass away, but I get the feeling I'm going to have to turn the radio off today as I never liked his music.

I was watching a documentary on him on bbc I player the other day, he was absolute shit when he started, he took acting jobs to earn money to pay for decent producers to get something half decent out of him

[Louise2cv]

I am bit shocked at how shocked I am about this tbh, I'm another who isn't particularly keen on his music, save for one or two obvious ones.

[Vin]

Gutted. I welled up a bit on the way into work this morning when they announced it. The last time I shed a tear over the death of somebody I had never met, was when Cloughie died...

[bub2006]

I too am a bit saddened. Don't mind his music at all. In all honesty though in his advert for his blackstar album on tv he didn't half look bloody ill

[oldcars]

Rain, is pissing me off now. Garden really wet pools of water everywhere. Reliant full of water ad the 75's boot. Its buggered up the wiring to the boot lock to now. Wish it would stop so i can get things fixed. 

[Jimmycrackcorn]

Bloke's come to change the meters and he fuckin honks of BO, he's in the other room and I can smell him. Looks to only be in his 20's. 

[vulgalour]

You'll be unsurprised to learn that I'm pretty sad about Bowie having left us all behind.  Growing up he was something of a role model and as an adult a constant reminder that no matter how fucked up everyone else thought you were you could still be happy just being yourself.  I'm grumpy that there's going to be a lot of media coverage by ordinary people who have only a passing interest in his most popular songs waxing lyrical about how successful he was.  For an entire generation he was an inspiration to be yourself, no matter how weird and wonderful that self is, an escape into your own world where the pressures of the mundane and the droll and the outright thuggish can be forgotten.

 

Happily he left so much music and images, so much weirdness and cultural reference points behind it's not like he's gone at all.  I don't need to go on a listening binge of his greatest hits to appreciate him so I'm glad my tape deck in the car is working now so I can avoid the radio completely.

[xtriple]

I was utterly gutted when I read about Bowie being dead. He was the music of my youth and I saw the last Ziggy concert at Hammersmith back in nineteen nought frozen to death! I liked all his early stuff and then his tastes changed and mine didn't but I never minded - the guy loved to innovate and move around genres.

 

Didn't even know he was ill (why should I? hardly on his mailing list!) and I feel truly saddened by his death.

 

RIP chap.

[Urko]

I have a few of his albums. Maybe it's my age, but I haven't really liked any of his music since the 80s. It is sad when anyone dies, but I wasn't keen on tne way he treated people like Ronson and Trevor Bolder.

[Urko]

I can't turn on the radio because I don't want to hear the same platitudes over and over.