The grumpy thread

[Cheggers]

OK, all very "first world", but so far in February...

 

Unexpected £5,000 tax bill

Watch broken, sent off to Paris for repair (am told it could be up to 2 months...)

Communal Sky dish trashed by the recent storm

4 new tyres on the Murano

Car insurance due

 

Bumhats.

[richardmorris]

Fuck!

Oh dear. Are you ok? Written off?

[FakeConcern]

Oh dear. Are you ok? Written off?

I wasn't in the car and no one was hurt, it was parked in the car park at work and there was sheet ice. A colleague skidded into it and was visibly shaken up (the Polo in the pic) you can see how my car has been pushed across out of the parking space. The insurance company is going to assess it on Monday, but I expect them to write it off. I wouldn't let them take it away as I hope to buy it back & repair it. I've already found a black door!

[richardmorris]

That's a hefty whack on a parked car , even with ice. I liked driving my dad's coupe but unfortunately it went bang at four years old. It's a shame they dropped the car from the line-up.

[Bren]

Is the sill damaged?

[FakeConcern]

Is the sill damaged?

The outer sill is slightly distorted

 

As I said earlier, fuck!

[Pillock]

Really, will that be a writeoff? Seems insane when you could just lob a door on and pull the sill out. Even the back 1/4 looks OK in the first pic, can't work out if it's a reflection or a dent in the second.

[FakeConcern]

Really, will that be a writeoff? Seems insane when you could just lob a door on and pull the sill out. Even the back 1/4 looks OK in the first pic, can't work out if it's a reflection or a dent in the second.

The b pillar is also pushed in a bit

[Noel Tidybeard]

It is Friday.  How is it Friday? Where did all the days go?  It seems like the last two weeks have blurred together into what feels like three very long days.  The problem is solely down to muscular issues with my back which is making both work and leisure difficult.  If I get too cold my whole back just seizes up on me and I can barely move.  Get too warm and I get into doing a job and then find I can't move because I've been hunched over my desk for too long without realising it.

 

Most annoying of all is that it isn't particularly painful.  Pain is a useful warning sign that something is wrong, a reminder to stay still or move about.  Without it I find it difficult to gauge how long I've been still or active and that exacerbates the issue.  I've been to the doctors with this before and the response was to just rest and be active as appropriate and take painkillers if required, nothing else can help apparently, it's just one of those things.

 

 

drink loads of water whilst at your desk then your bladder will tell you its time for "walkies"

[xtriple]

Today has been a day of irritations. I have spent most of the day being annoyed by something or another. I have realised finally that the day is fine, I am just proper fucking grumpy today!

 

Don't know why... but I am out of sorts.

[twosmoke300]

Had a 10 plate grand Picasso thing in for a service yesterday . 60k on the clock - last service 27k ! On a 1.6hdi !

The air and fuel filters were the originals and even the clean side of the air was dirty .

A northern friend / customer popped in and saw it and said " eeee that's like a coal miners butty "

That made me laugh for the rest of the day .

[michael1703]

I wasn't in the car and no one was hurt, it was parked in the car park at work and there was sheet ice. A colleague skidded into it and was visibly shaken up (the Polo in the pic) you can see how my car has been pushed across out of the parking space. The insurance company is going to assess it on Monday, but I expect them to write it off. I wouldn't let them take it away as I hope to buy it back & repair it. I've already found a black door!

Give it a full valet before Monday,you want to get a good pre accident value

 

I had an assessor mark me down because a car was dirty

[gordonbennet]

^^ not even a home spun oil/filter change on that Picarseole in 33,000 miles?

 

wondrous

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Give it a full valet before Monday,you want to get a good pre accident value

I had an assessor mark me down because a car was dirty

Definitely do this, between my 300C getting hit and the assessor seeing it I replaced a slightly scrubbed tyre and had the service light reset. I also gave it a good clean, including polishing the remains of the tailgate ( made easier by the lack of window) the neighbours looked at as if I was mental.

Worth it though , they paid out what it cost me 2 years before!

[gm]

first trackday of the season tomorrow

 

I R EXCITE

cancelled due to omgsnowkaos

 

I R DISAPPOINT

 

[Louise2cv]

The only offer I have had on my road bike has been from a chap who wants me to halve my asking price because he "might not like cycling".

 

Is it me?

[gordonbennet]

Definitely do this, between my 300C getting hit and the assessor seeing it I replaced a slightly scrubbed tyre and had the service light reset. I also gave it a good clean, including polishing the remains of the tailgate ( made easier by the lack of window) the neighbours looked at as if I was mental.

Worth it though , they paid out what it cost me 2 years before!

 

No doubt easier due to its height, but when my Landcruiser was written off NFU's assessor wrote kind things on the report about pre accident condition, one of the always helpful/pleasant staff at the local office read it out to me over the phone, incl relative maintenance (obvious when underneath), consequently they paid me out full A1 retail value first offer.

[155V6]

The only offer I have had on my road bike has been from a chap who wants me to halve my asking price because he "might not like cycling".

 

Is it me?

What if it turned out he really liked cycling,was he planning to come back & pay you the rest of the asking price? 

[oldcars]

The only offer I have had on my road bike has been from a chap who wants me to halve my asking price because he "might not like cycling".

 

Is it me?

Not you, its Gumtree.

[fordperv]

Give it a full valet before Monday,you want to get a good pre accident value

 

I had an assessor mark me down because a car was dirty

Cracking bit of advice, when my saph was getting assessed after a bump I gave it a good valet, wash, polish and the assessor had nothing but positive comments about the car he was buzzed up looking around it, i also showed him pre accident pictures of the car and he was very complimentary in his pre accident value estimate, the car got repaired without a quibble, without it looking nice the price would have been a lot lower

[Bren]

Condition makes a massive difference - my twink sierra cost me £150 but insurer paid £975 because it was clean.

The recovery blokes at Bob Rome's in St Helens could'nt believe how clean it was.

[jakebullet]

I haz stinking man flu, and had last night at kinky girl's so bugger all sleep. I thus feel like death, and less than happy at Ma Ma waking me up to see if I want to 'go do work in the garage'. It's fucking freezing, I barely know my own name and you want me to go operate heavy machinery in an asbestos shed? Er, no.

[Cavcraft]

Louise2cv, on 13 Feb 2016 - 11:10 AM, said:

The only offer I have had on my road bike has been from a chap who wants me to halve my asking price because he "might not like cycling".

 

Is it me?

 

 

No. I had a few emails from someone mithering over the exact size of my bike when I told him more than once it was either 54 or 56cms. When I measured it I found it was a 56 and got 'oh, that's no good, I want 58 minimum, ideally a 60'

 

That said, I had a few days of a buyer on his way/change of plans/on his way/change of plans on another one I have to the point I was actually typing something rude into an email to him when he turned up, was one of the nicest people you could meet and bought it on the spot for the asking price.

[DVee8]

At 6.30 this morning i went to a hotel in Newcastle to collect the wedding deco hire,from yesterdays wedding. After spending 15 mins trying to find were they had put it all.

I find that it is all boxed and stored on trolly's great i think to myself, but i will still have to check it on site.

 

Open 1 box containing a glitter ball and empty ok it may be else were,here it is in another box smashed to pieces,ok take some photos insitu,put it all back on the trolly and pick up our very large black ornate picture frame containing the seating plan smashehed into 3 pieces how the fuck.Photo's of this as well.

 

Now we expect some damage things do get broken but the severity of this damage is somthing else.

 

I spoke to hotel reciption who just said it is your contract with the client,this i do know i was just making them aware.

 

We take a security depost from the client incase of damage or loss. Emailed her this morning,she was aware and said to take the cost from the deposit but no explanation or apology.

[STUNO]

At 6.30 this morning i went to a hotel in Newcastle

 glitter ball smashed to pieces, but no explanation or apology.

 

why?  Hotel in Newcastle says it all

[robinmasters]

Someone posted a link to Rods 'n Sods on another thread. Obviously I was already aware of both the website, and of the existence of hot rods. It's Valentine's day, but both myself and the wide are afflicted with the romantically problematic difficulty of having the shits.

 

The combination of these two factors has meant I've spent most of the day looking at pictures of big, noisy, powerful American cars. Why am I not driving something more interesting than a nineties diesel hatchback? I IZ FAILURE.

[Coprolalia]

both myself and the wide are...

 

 

Freudian slip?

 

My old man used to haunt Rods'n'Sods, then there was some sort of bust up and a load of the project type members moved to a new forum, leaving lots of show and shine types. Can't remember the name of the new forum now. Chops'n'chat or something like that...

[EssDeeWon]

Was being tailgated this morning by some knob. Every time I had to slow down for a junction or a cyclist I noticed this car so close to my arse I couldn't even see what type of car it was, just some blue bonnet and his windscreen, seriously fckin close.

 

I bet myself a big piece of cake it would be an Aldi, so I pulled away slightly to get a look at the badge.

 

Yum this cake im eating right now is lovely.

[beko1987]

just fucked a Dyson Musclehead. that'll cost me

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

just fucked a Dyson Musclehead. that'll cost me

 

...an embarrassing trip to A&E?