The grumpy thread

[strangeangel]

Won a lot of three HP laptops on eBay. These were described as working, but with only one charger between them and mostly knackered batteries - fair enough. I got them for the opening bid and went to pick them up the next day, only to find that the charger was from a Toshiba with a different plug bodged on. After much waggling the seller eventually managed to power just one of the machines up, by which time I decided to cut my losses and go home.

 

Here's a radical thought: if you're going to sell something as working then it's probably a good idea to check that it actually is 

 

 

 

 

 

And that 306 above = Darwinism in action.

[AlabamaShrimp]

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.

Sorry to like this post but it's funny

 

If it helps I've been on hold with the job centre for ages

[andy18s]

^^^^^^^^^ Does sound like Dave0800100100 has got the better of those 2 experiences............

 

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[beko1987]

Was having a rolly at lunch in the car cos it's tipping to down here, and noticed that the bodge job old speaker locations are a tad wet. More so on the passenger side

 

 

Looking at the amount of water coming out it can't be the sole cause, unless where I park at home makes it come in more/when I don't see it at the weekend. The window seals on the outside don't touch the window at all, is there any way I can adjust this short of seal the fucker up (which I'm not going to do). Do they come off at all easily for cleaning/adjustment?

 

I'll have the doorcards off tomorrow (hopefully), take the stupid speaker standoff off, and do a 320_touring and tape a bit of plastic to the hole to keep the water in the door.

 

I peeled the carpet back where I tore it the last time I had it out and the water isnt coming from above/behind the dash, the carpet is dry up there. The wetness you can see is where the lower part of the carpet is sodden, rather than running behind it

 

 

Going to seal the sunroof up as well just in case, but with the XM, the water running from the sunroof came down via the motor and through the interior lights. Got none of that here.

 

What's the door seal tweak too whilst I'm around that general area? Feed some old Hoover cable through the 'tube' part of the seal to stiffen it up a bit?

[mercrocker]

Couple of  things you can do - find an old margarine tub or similar that can be cut to suit the profile of the speaker hole, this can be gaffered to the back of the hole to deflect water around and down.   Find and unblock the drainage holes (or make new ones) at the lowest part of the door flange.    Gaffer tape a big bin bag to the interior face of the door where the trim card goes - at least it will stop that getting wet and leaching into the car.   Fitting new window sill rubbers to the outside that actually touch the glass is the final job but I dont know how yours fit on or what can replace them.    Steps 1,2, and 3 will keep your interior dry though - I would also be up for waxoiling the door inside to assist downward drainage and stop the rust.

[beko1987]

Thanks! The drain holes work, the water does exit the car, it just bounces out of the speaker hole.

 

Fat chance of getting new rubbers for my car, but I wonder if some sticky felt or similar would pack it out enough to work... Still, I'll keep the water out, dry the carpets and see how it goes. Not going to be able to dry the sound deadening out much though short of taking the seats out, and sod that... Still, it'll be summer soon

[mercrocker]

Bit like my 190E - when it leaks its too wet to fix it, when its dry it don't leak.....

[320touring]

looks similar to my 306

[xtriple]

Been looking for a cheap, auto, petrol car. That is the criteria, not to onerous you would think. Seems to be! Either very pricey or no MOT or a million miles away. I could spend money but I don't want to, I have one money pit thank you, I want cheap and something I can truly and totally ignore...

 

Found the perfect car: a Chevrolet Tacuma. 07 reg, 100K on the clock and looks okay apart from a scrape down the passenger side rear door and wing. Auto?Yes. Petrol? Yes. £450!

 

Insurance is a bit pricey...

 

Just about to ring the dealer when I notice that the tax is more per year than the car!

[Aston Martin]

Further adventures of my class 2 training... I'm doing 4 hours a day. After 3 hours, it always goes to shit. I got home and collapsed on the couch for about 2 hours, absolutely exhausted.

 

My test is Tuesday, I'm driving for 1 hour beforehand, so maybe I'll be ok?

[Eddie Honda]

I'm doing 4 hours a day. After 3 hours, it always goes to shit. I got home and collapsed on the couch for about 2 hours, absolutely exhausted.

How on earth are you going to cope with actual work?

[Aston Martin]

How on earth are you going to cope with actual work?

I hear cocaine works? Might work out a bit expensive though.

[steve_earwig]

It took me a while to find this, it was me ranting about the Croat roads bods deciding to build a bridge to replace a level crossing near where I live, shutting the road and diverting the heavy traffic up from the motorway into the village where I live, thereby creating a new junction and me almost having an accident because they did it while I was at home and I missed the one sign they'd put up to warn me about it, plus they hadn't bothered to mark the new junction they'd created either (that took about a month)

Blah blah, nearly had a crash, blah, changed the priorities blah shut the road because they're building a bridge blah diversions blah no road markings blah idiots.

The worst bit is that, knowing the Croats, this will go on for months, if it ever gets finished at all.

They opened* it today, almost exactly a year later. Well, actually it was finally finished in November but inexplicably left closed after that, up until a few days ago when they removed the barriers but today they mysteriously changed the signs from no vehicles to a 60kmh speed limit (seriously, I went to town this morning and it was still closed, came back a couple of hours later and it was open). And they've taken all the diversion signs down through the village but they've left the road markings. I bet they won't bother for a few weeks again either. Ffs, I feel like taking a big tub of white paint and a brush down there myself.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Just read the dug up thread on that lovley Hunter. Seems though that we have yet another bellend posting on here again.

 

Why have there been so many recently? I know dave says they have different ip's but I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't the same person

[Cavcraft]

A big hats off to the lovely* people doing their bit locally to protest against Fracking.

I must admire their environmental credentials are completely and utterly beyond doubt.

Except maybe the human waste they left in the field. Or the myriad broken tents and general rubbish. Or the old bits of pallets and wood they nailed to trees. Or the tree that died when they were camped there for months. Or their dogs shitting in the fields that they didn't pick up. Or the trenches they dug, the kerbs they churned up in their cars and vans (all powered by fucking fairy dust and lentils, I expect) or the fact without the cost of the clean up to the testing company it's cost £200,000 to have them removed by police and bailiffs. Two hundred thousand quid. What ranks as much as that is that if I lobbed a metric shit load of rubbish in a field including an old three piece settee, I would cop a massive fine and rightly so. If a load of scrounging layabouts do it it's called a protest and the tax payers four the bill.

Mostly though, above all that even is the point you are most certainly fucking well NOT doing it for 'everyone' so you can shove that concept up your smug arses and stop fucking ruining the countryside. Thank you.

[HillmanImp]

When I lived in 'Ull we used to have a guy come and 'visit' for extended periods of time when he wasn't living up a tree with Swampy or a guy called ACAB (all coppers are bastards) which was tattooed on his forehead. He just lounged around using our stuff and making a mess, generally being a pest. Nice guy but not when he is leeching off you for extended periods of time.

 

He owed us a load of money and I was getting gyped at the lack of payment so I told him to get to the shops and get us the cash and off he sulked. An hour later, he comes back and I as if he has our fucking money.

 

"I've got something better than that" he says and pulls out a 4ft long scale model of Gerry Andersons Stingray.

 

WTF?

 

Sadly neither the local supermarket or my landlord recognised this as a form of currency so it was pretty much useless. He had probably paid about a quarter of what he owed and tried to pass it off as a good deal too.

 

We did keep it as it was better than nowt but jesus christ.

[strangeangel]

Seems though that we have yet another bellend posting on here again.

 

True, but at least they aren't tolerated on here. Unlike other forums I used to visit, which have been largely ruined by trolling.

[strangeangel]

Went to put the hood down on the CJ this morning and the rear window cracked

[155V6]

I can't get the bonnet open on the Volvo,I'm also missing a screwdriver I was using whilst working on it last weekend.I'm guessing there may be a connection 

[eddyramrod]

Had two letters today (one for me, one for her) about me going to a "Work Focused Interview For Partners" as she's on ESA.  "Could last for up to an hour" apparently.  They want me at 0930 on a Friday.  Er yeah, like that's going to happen.  1130 maybe.  I'll have to phone up about that.  Of course I can't today because it's Saturday, there'll be nobody there.  [You need a job with more hours, MrR.  Yeah, like the one where I was at work on Saturday and you weren't?]

"They will help you to make decisions about work that are right for your family."  Yyyyyyyyyyyyeahhhhhhhhhhh.... given that I'm the sole-carer in this house with responsibility for dog-walking and shopping as well as DIY and keeping the car(s) going, and my present average of 22-24 hours suits me in many ways, this is going to be exciting.

Fucking stop interfering and let a man get on with his life!

[eddyramrod]

Been looking for a cheap, auto, petrol car. That is the criteria, not to onerous you would think. Seems to be! Either very pricey or no MOT or a million miles away. I could spend money but I don't want to, I have one money pit thank you, I want cheap and something I can truly and totally ignore...

 

Found the perfect car: a Chevrolet Tacuma. 07 reg, 100K on the clock and looks okay apart from a scrape down the passenger side rear door and wing. Auto?Yes. Petrol? Yes. £450!

 

Insurance is a bit pricey...

 

Just about to ring the dealer when I notice that the tax is more per year than the car!

Our Tacuma.  Cost a fair bit more than your one but that was 30 months ago, with half the miles.  2.0 petrol auto, the only spec I would have considered.  The tax is sinful, I don't know what band these fall into but it's way too high for the poor thing.  Fortunately we have it registered as Disabled, so it's free.  If we didn't have that, I think I'd have walked past it...

[michael1703]

I can't get the bonnet open on the Volvo,I'm also missing a screwdriver I was using whilst working on it last weekend.I'm guessing there may be a connection 

Get an assistant to pull the release while you push it down, you might have to flex the bonnet to compensate for the screwdriver, had to do this on a discovery that had been shut on a screwdriver, it was a nightmare, lots of jumping and bouncing got it open

[155V6]

Get an assistant to pull the release while you push it down, you might have to flex the bonnet to compensate for the screwdriver, had to do this on a discovery that had been shut on a screwdriver, it was a nightmare, lots of jumping and bouncing got it open

Thanks for that.I got it open,but the screwdriver wasn't there so I'm guessing something has stretched or broken.Too cold to do anything else today,it's easy to open with 2 people so will have to wait for now.

[cort16]

I was dropping the spare wheels off at the buyer of the a2 and they did about 90 miles in it this afternoon and just as they're coming home the temp gauge shot into the red and it dumped it's coolant. It never hinted at this with us but we also never drove it any real distance.

I feel bad as it was for a young lassie and her 2 kids. The car wasn't there so I couldn't get a look at it .

[sporty-shite]

Mrs S's 147 failed MOT last week. Top arms and a tyre. That's fine, even though the top arms have only done about 16000 miles.

 

Ordered the parts off an eBay seller on Thursday afternoon, hoping I could get them for this weekend and do the job.

 

They arrived Fri so I started it this morning. Did one side fine. Got to the other, and the ball joint popped out fine. Tried to slacken the bolt holding it to body and it was a bit tight. Nut turning but bolt tight. No problem, I'll give it a bit of a tug with the bar. Snap. Bastard.

 

So now the arm is stuck on. I could get the whole leg and top mount off, but it's held to the hub with a 10mm Allen bolt which won't fucking budge.

 

I've had to leave it for tonight, but short of ideas. I've put the nut back on the good end and tightened it, in the hope it might "pull" the bolt free. Otherwise, I'm a bit stuck. And she needs the car.

 

Aaarrgghhh.

[MarvinsMom]

we've all been there brother, and i feel your pain, when a simple* job suddenly becomes a bloody nightmare.

 

the other half and i were changing something on the 820 coupe when we came across a bolt into the bottom front suspension arm which was stuck fast.

 

using the normal ratchet thing, the bolt undid a little bit, before sticking. no matter thinks i, i'll have a go with the torque wrench on it, that will undo this bolt.

 

and the inevitable happened. the bolt snapped.

 

and i had to buy a new bottom arm.

 

which wasn't too bad as it was £15 or something as daft from rimmers, on offer.

 

but i was without the car all week, and was in a rotten mood (mainly with myself) for been so clever*

[jakebullet]

My disco 2 was having phantom abs triggers cos wheel bearing fucked. Took to local garage man, and he puts new hub + sensor on it.

 

Had it back a full 3 days, and it randomly starts banging the abs lights on. code read says it's the replaced sensor, intermittent wiring fault. Garage tries to pin it on the car, oh something else must have gone wrong further in the car loom and it can't possibly be the sensor, n it's my problem.

 

Fuck that! Googled the specs and sensor should be 1K resistance. One they fitted is 150K. Sort it out you bastards!

 

They're now telling me, oh it must have gone faulty n they'll bung another hub n sensor on. I tell them before you do, measure resistance, 'cos could just be a shit quality pattern part. I can tell they're going stupid punter and ignoring me. Anyone want to put bets it comes back with another new out of spec sensor?

[Rusty_Rocket]

Jake- they're not fitting 'blue box' parts are they? Because I can quite believe Br**part hubs don't last more than a few miles..

[vulgalour]

Rover is off the road again and it looks like I'm doing a full rear end suspension rebuild now.  It all started with the simple enough task of swapping the new springs on but 21 year old bushes and bolts had other ideas.  Still, found out it has new hub bearings and what looks like new rear brake internals so it's not all bad.

[fordperv]

Had the bolts on the rear rusted solid into the bush sleeve? The last one I did about 10 years ago needed new bushes and the bolts were seized solid