The grumpy thread

[M'coli]

Hey, Louise, don't fret - whatever works for you and yours at the moment, eh?  I think we're a broad enough bunch of people/weirdos to understand that.

[Cavcraft]

Those Altos look ace, well bought.

[privatewire]

So, experienced first hand this week, what many of you have been complaining about, namely EBay.

Fannyed about for hours trying to get a password reset, including phoning them 3 times, only to end up having to set up a new account (had to phone them again) in order to list an almost new snowboard.

This morning, some chancing bell end has offered me less than half the already cheap asking price......

[the judge]

Ooof! Louise is still in the game!

[NorfolkNWeigh]

  On 21/01/2016 at 08:26, the judge said:

Ooof! Louise is still in the game!

Wow, did anyone else miss-read that and think , that's a surprise,considering she wouldn't even raffle the Astra in case it wasn't 100% legal.

[gordonbennet]

Alto's probably one of the last basically shite cars made, anything else is stuffed to the gills with electronic crap and is only meant to see out the warranty period.

 

Thought they were made up the Khyber Pass or was that the previous one.

[oldcars]

  On 20/01/2016 at 13:31, xtriple said:

Definitely losing PAS fluid. Under the stick again today and its done about 85 miles since the last top up.

 

Car is booked in for Monday.

 

Need an auto cheapy before then! Anyone?

There is a Kia Magentis on here for 300 ish i think

[xtriple]

  On 21/01/2016 at 09:20, shumarialto said:

There is a Kia Magentis on here for 300 ish i think

I was too slow yet again. Already sold.... (sob!)

[Landy Mann]

  On 20/01/2016 at 13:04, vulgalour said:

Mike returned with batteries.  It is not the batteries.  We suspect it's the arrowed part, you can hear it clicking randomly when trying to start the car and feel it clicking through the housing.  Guessing it's something like an Idle Control Valve which is why the car can't start or idle.

 

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That's the idle control valve, I thought I had the same thing on my bubble 214. Cleaned it up with brake cleaner and it would then fire and die (although that may just have been running on brake cleaner. )

 

Turned out the mines just taken a dislike to the bottom half of the fuel tank. If you replace it the ones on later 25's have a different connector on them so  dont work... (although I don't know at what age they changed).

[Tetleysmooth]

  On 20/01/2016 at 13:31, xtriple said:

Definitely losing PAS fluid. Under the stick again today and its done about 85 miles since the last top up.

 

Car is booked in for Monday.

 

Need an auto cheapy before then! Anyone?

 

https://www.gumtree.com/p/chrysler/chrysler-grand-voyager-3.3-auto-7-seater-people-carrier-complete-drives/1151234079

[fordperv]

Grrr bloody computers, i got 2 thirds the way through the final unit to finish my l3 diploma in care, spent 6 hours on it the other day, saved it, came to finish it today and it's no where to be seen, i tried all the things to bring it back that are listed on Google and nothing so I've started it all over again. I was ready to smash the computer

[dave21478]

Its an old favourite for the Grumpy Thread, and an easy target too, but FUCK COURIER DELIVERY COMPANIES.

 

The sooner Stephen Hawking invents teleportation and puts all these cunts out of the job, the better.

 

Organising delivery of stuff for a client I called the courier last night and arranged delivery for today, between 0800 and 1300...apparently they cant be more precise than that.

So, today was spent freezing my plums off at the clients place (currently unoccupied) waiting. 1300 came and went which was unsurprising, they are ALWAYS late but by about 4pm I gave up and called them. But your delivery is tomorrow, sir.

No it fucking isnt, I certainly didnt hallucinate the previous call, but of course its all somehow my fault according to them. So now I have to go back tomorrow and wait in the cold again. Can I get it delivered to my own house instead? no, apparently thats impossible too.

 

So I came home, to find I have missed a delivery for myself that was supposed to have been here last week, and now wont be delivered until next week.

 

Just.....fucking......ah fuck it.

[Bren]

I am surprised that murderers have never used courier companies to send the bodies back to themselves - a sure fire way to dispose of the evidence?

[scaryoldcortina]

Wasted an afternoon looking at a site cabin which was described as good condition but needing painting. Spoke to the seller, he explained that it was cheap because it must be shifted by teatime tomorrow because the land it is on has been sold and he was desperate because another buyer had already let him down.

 

If he'd said that it was completely fucked, damp inside and out, the door and all the windows were damaged, the electrics hanging out and that it was sitting in a muddy field I probably wouldn't have gone. If he'd also mentioned that he used it to keep canaries in and that his "mate" with a hiab wagon would be wanting £200 to shift it 20 miles I deffo wouldn't have gone.

 

Fuckwits.

[beko1987]

Parcel force have lost/mislaid/fuck knows what the roffle miele.

[hairnet]

had similar for some fork seals for the bike

 

good job the bike didnt need them for the mot

 

to be fair to the place i bought them from theyre sending more out foc

 

been waiting a week - last items i bought from this co came within 2 days so a week royal fail have lost them............twats

[purplebargeken]

I went for a liaison nurse specialist post a few years ago - I went concussed after slipping in the bath and knocking myself out. Best interview I ever did. Got the job. 

 

have been concussed so many times it is a wonder that I can still add up. 5 + 6 and make 9 right.

[fordperv]

  On 21/01/2016 at 14:14, fordperv said:

Grrr bloody computers, i got 2 thirds the way through the final unit to finish my l3 diploma in care, spent 6 hours on it the other day, saved it, came to finish it today and it's no where to be seen, i tried all the things to bring it back that are listed on Google and nothing so I've started it all over again. I was ready to smash the computer

Woohoo it's all finished, thank fuck for that, I'm seeing the assessor tomorrow morning

[sporty-shite]

  On 21/01/2016 at 20:05, purplebargeken said:

. 5 + 6 and make 9 right.

5+2 in your line of work, surely?

[Slartibartfast]

I live in a plague house. Smallest boy, less small boy, eldest boy, smallest girl, small girl and less small girl plus wife have all come down with some sort of horrible vomming disease. I seem to have escaped, thankfully, but since I'm on nursing duties I've had to miss the auctions this evening.

[gordonbennet]

Rear fog light lens on the Landcruiser is fading to pink, they all do that sir, no probs i bought a effin bright red LED bulb for it so nice deep red again, however its around the equivalent of an 80w bulb and will sear eyeballs if inadvertantly turned on whilst fumbling to dip the rearview mirror if someone behind doesn't dip.

 

Its probably too bright for the MOT, next month, so off i toddle onto ebay to find some red 21w stop light bulbs, they arrive..bollocks forgot the bloody Toyota uses capless bulbs in many fittings.

So off i toddle onto ebay to find some red 21w capless bulbs, they arrive...double bollocks they're 21w but the capless fitting is around half the size of the ones i need.

So off i toddle onto ebay to find some red 21w large capless bulbs...treble bollocks none to be found.

 

The searchlight LED bulb now sports some black insulation tape in places and is back in, if it fails i'll dip the original bulb in red paint.

[michael1703]

  On 21/01/2016 at 20:05, purplebargeken said:

have been concussed so many times it is a wonder that I can still add up. 5 + 6 and make 9 right.

I've been concussed many times too, the last big thump gave me vertigo though, I'm much better now but for a year afterwards I couldn't look up or sleep without the curtains open as I didn't know up from down

[dave21478]

  On 21/01/2016 at 17:06, dave21478 said:

Its an old favourite for the Grumpy Thread, and an easy target too, but FUCK COURIER DELIVERY COMPANIES.

 

The sooner Stephen Hawking invents teleportation and puts all these cunts out of the job, the better.

 

Organising delivery of stuff for a client I called the courier last night and arranged delivery for today, between 0800 and 1300...apparently they cant be more precise than that.

So, today was spent freezing my plums off at the clients place (currently unoccupied) waiting. 1300 came and went which was unsurprising, they are ALWAYS late but by about 4pm I gave up and called them. But your delivery is tomorrow, sir.

No it fucking isnt, I certainly didnt hallucinate the previous call, but of course its all somehow my fault according to them. So now I have to go back tomorrow and wait in the cold again. Can I get it delivered to my own house instead? no, apparently thats impossible too.

 

So I came home, to find I have missed a delivery for myself that was supposed to have been here last week, and now wont be delivered until next week.

 

Just.....fucking......ah fuck it.

 

Well here I am waiting again.

But today my bowels and sphincter conspired against me and decided it would he hilarious if I urgently needed a giant, messy, wet shit.

So I have had to suffer the indignity of shitting on some waste ground at the bottom of the garden and wiping my ass with the bit of rag I keep next to the car battery for checking the oil.

[panhard65]

  On 21/01/2016 at 23:38, WolfBuysTerribleCars said:

I live in a plague house. Smallest boy, less small boy, eldest boy, smallest girl, small girl and less small girl plus wife have all come down with some sort of horrible vomming disease. I seem to have escaped, thankfully, but since I'm on nursing duties I've had to miss the auctions this evening.

Your family are the Brady bunch AICMFP

[panhard65]

Had a 306 diesel come in last night for me to have a look at suspension noises and poor handling. I know some people on here go in for lowering etc but this is just dangerous. The brake pipes are lucky they haven't been ripped off. The "new rear brakes" obviously have a problem with the adjusters as they are doing sod all and to top it off the axle bearings are so buggered the wheels foul the arches. It is back out in the yard and I won't be working on it unless he wants it put back to standard. Shit like this gives car modifyers a bad name. I did reposition the brake pipes though.

[dollywobbler]

Good grief!

[Dippy]

Just paid £7:99 for a breakfast at Moto services then the cheeky feckers charged me 25p for brown sauce.

[bub2006]

  On 22/01/2016 at 09:33, Dippy said:

Just paid £7:99 for a breakfast at Moto services then the cheeky feckers charged me 25p for brown sauce.

member of the AA? I found out other day you get discounts at Moto services

[Slartibartfast]

  On 22/01/2016 at 09:30, panhard65 said:

Had a 306 diesel come in last night for me to have a look at suspension noises and poor handling. I know some people on here go in for lowering etc but this is just dangerous. The brake pipes are lucky they haven't been ripped off. The "new rear brakes" obviously have a problem with the adjusters as they are doing sod all and to top it off the axle bearings are so buggered the wheels foul the arches. It is back out in the yard and I won't be working on it unless he wants it put back to standard. Shit like this gives car modifyers a bad name. I did reposition the brake pipes though.

 

On the plus side, trying to find out what these are supposed to look like lead me to this guy's channel and he's hilarious

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxynxdmahlFCrSv2324Zkkw

[Urko]

  On 21/01/2016 at 17:14, Bren said:

I am surprised that murderers have never used courier companies to send the bodies back to themselves - a sure fire way to dispose of the evidence?

That would be good as a Viz top tip