The grumpy thread

[dugong]

And when I got mine from the Leigh Motor Company (shysters) the first generation was by far the best. Anyone would think salespeople lie to secure the commission? Surely not....

I love the way sales folk get all huffy and offended when you make the slightest suggestion that sort of thing goes on.

[xtriple]

Decided to try out the new hose and tap adaptor I bought from Amazon for a whole £9!

 

Yes, the car is now clean but the kitchen has had a BIGGER wash as the adaptor came off twice and sprayed everywhere. What a mess! Still, I am now washing all the towels used to dry the walls, worktops, floor....

 

But, what do you expect for £9?

[chaseracer]

...what do you expect for £9?

 

An appropriate level of functional efficiency?

 

[jakebullet]

Monitor has croaked on on the pc that controls my drilling machine. No problem, grab another crappy 15" lcd off ebay for pennies and jobs a good un. Except now it appears to cost £25 for a shit 15 inch. When did shit hardware become so expensive?

[plasticvandan]

Disappointed.bought a crusty east German motorcycle for a fair price from a forum member.Not only did he deliver it,he was early! It hadn't run for ages,so naturally was looking forward to a long battle,changed plug and fuel and it fired right up,and all the electrics work.this just isn't cricket,modern buying dictates lots of grief and expense,I'm just not used to such a pleasant transaction

[anonymous user]

Decided to try out the new hose and tap adaptor I bought from Amazon for a whole £9!

 

Yes, the car is now clean but the kitchen has had a BIGGER wash as the adaptor came off twice and sprayed everywhere. What a mess! Still, I am now washing all the towels used to dry the walls, worktops, floor....

 

But, what do you expect for £9?

This is your own fault, a proper Bentley owner would have his man take it down to the stable yard and get the girls to wash it, with multiple buckets of softened water while he sat in the back to watch their tee shirts get wet.

[plasticvandan]

Oh yeah, I said I was gonna go home to look it all over and stuff, see what options I want and all that and he was like "Oh yeah, check with the boss?"

Thing is he was 100% a decent enough bloke and definitely not the usual type to try and treat you like a twat.

 

I went to another place (Derbyshire Specialist Cars) and the bloke running the place was sound, but all the stock looked like it had just been pulled out of a supermarket carpark, scrapes, scratches, cars filthy inside and out - I'm hardly gonna pump ten grand into a car that looks like it's not been washed for 6 months. Madness.

No different stock to most dealers,only he hasn't tried to cover anything up with a doctor style valet

[HH-R]

Those tap adaptors are pretty bad, even the Hozelock ones. I think they're designed for the 1960s/70s style massive separate taps. I tried it on my mixer once and the adaptor worked, but the tap blew into two pieces...

[Station]

Tool station FTW, they are so cheap. Things like 100 wall plugs are 50p which is a fraction of what B&Q charge (£4).

[beko1987]

I use the washing machine pipe for the hose! Isolate it, unscrew washing machibe, screw on normal hoselok tap adapter, push hose on! We have had loads of those tap adapters and I used to run them from the bath, so when the inevitable happened ut didnt go everywhere.

[Honey Badger]

Eric "Winkle" Brown has died.

 

Great test pilot and all round good bloke, his books are always worth a read.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-35626854

[MarvinsMom]

^ now that is crappy news, about "winkle" brown, but it will be an excuse for the BBC to put that documentary on the telly again.

[andrew e]

Parky, used Fairfield for a previously enjoyed MINI - they were refreshing for a main dealer.

[andrew e]

As for Wickes no problem, staff know their stock like a proper trade counter, and you can walk in buy walkout. shitty screwfix is purely for distress purchases. "We can order it for the next day" being the favourite phrase in there. People only use Jewsons because there on stop with all the other merchants, awfull. Buildbase good as gold if there is one local.

[strangeangel]

Must admit, I don't get it either. What point was he trying to make?

 

He was probably applying pressure - "Exactly how long does it take you to make a decision anyway??'

[HH-R]

It would have certainly made the decision for me, it would have been rude and contained the word "off".

[cobblers]

Aye, it seemed out of character tbh and if he'd ave been a prick to start with then I'd have told him to get off there, but he'd been sound all the way up to that. Definitely seemed to be a line they're told to feed to "young lads who are indecisive" to try and get them to be a bit more cavalier or somert. I look about ten years younger than I am so I reckon it was probably bourne from that.

 

I countered it with the fact that even if he said "look, you can have the car for £500 plus your PX, Sign here" I'd still want to go home and decide for myself - Sat in a showroom is no place to make £18k decisions!

 

He rang up today and I eventually got through to their proper "Abarth" bloke, and in the meantime I'd had time to go on their website and found the actual car I want and am a lot more happy to sign up for. He's going to try and find one from stock for me so I can buy before new reg chaos and get a better deal cos they're a bit more eager to sell.

[michael1703]

Eric "Winkle" Brown has died.

 

Great test pilot and all round good bloke, his books are always worth a read.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-35626854

Legend, I've read about him and seen the excellent bbc documentary, what an amazing bloke

[Eddie Honda]

This is your own fault, a proper Bentley owner would have his man take it down to the stable yard and get the girls to wash it, with multiple buckets of softened water while he sat in the back to watch their tee shirts get wet.

 

Reminds me of....

 

[Cavcraft]

Yesterday evening I was driving on a dual carriageway at 60mph on the inside lane, keeping my distance from the car in front and the road was quite quiet

Then suddenly a car a few hundred yards behind switched from the outside to the inside lane a couple of hundred yards behind me and put their full beams on. I let it ride for about 20-30 seconds and overtook the car in front of me. Mr/s self important (still a good way behind me) also came into the outside lane for no reason and continued with full beam. I pulled back into lane one, they accelerated and did the same before slowing down and dazzling me again.

I then stuck my rear fog on for a few seconds and they stopped dazzling me, so I thought they must have assumed my rear fog was already on hence trying to blind me in return.

Anyhow, no sooner had I turned my fog light off they were dazzling me again. I then slowed down to let them past and returned the favour to this stupid fucker from a safe distance, which wa daft because two wrongs don't make a right etc

 

Got home, checked all my rear lights and nothing out of place. WTF is up with some people? Incidentally they were driving a Vauxhall.

[UmBongo]

Decided to try out the new hose and tap adaptor I bought from Amazon for a whole £9!

 

Yes, the car is now clean but the kitchen has had a BIGGER wash as the adaptor came off twice and sprayed everywhere. What a mess! Still, I am now washing all the towels used to dry the walls, worktops, floor....

 

But, what do you expect for £9?

 

xtriple, are you Frank Spencer in disguise?

[Pillock]

 

Got home, checked all my rear lights and nothing out of place. WTF is up with some people? Incidentally they were driving a Vauxhall.

 

I've had that before, from truckers too whom I consider to be a bit more savvy about other road users. Fog lights not on, no bulbs out, just FLAAAAASH as I pull back in to the lane in front of them (without cutting them up) and then FLAAAAAASH further on. Makes you dead paranoid about what's wrong with your car or whatever.

 

I also once flashed a guy in a Disco who had left his fogs on, and a chap on the motorway who was driving at 11pm without any lights at all - both of them responded by pulling into the lane to their left, slowing down and then giving me the full on wanker signs/yelling at the inside of their car window/speed matching me. Sorry pal, trying to help you. Yet another reason to have a dashcam and/or not give a shit about the rest of the population.

[michael1703]

Dying, I ate too much last night

 

[fairkens]

I think the first one is truckers flashing you back in and then flashing you because you didn't say thanks. They seem to forget that when driving a normal car it's pretty easy to tell where the corners are and you don't need help figuring out when to pull in

[jakebullet]

On Friday idiot sister decided she must be rushed to sheffield hospital because her eye's not right, not right at all. There's so much pain etc. Doctor doom looked at her and pronounced you have a cold, there's nothing wrong with your eye.

 

Now I've got oh so painful eye thanks to said idiot spreading her fucking virus around the car driving her there. I just love* coughing and it feeling like my heads going to explode.

[tooSavvy]

I have recently discovered the easiest way to avoid DIY outlets altogether is to get someone else in to do the work.

Amen - I got all my gear out to do a bit of shelf trimming and it fuckkin started raining (BBC weather 'clear').

 

No trouble in a Hiroof trannie....

 

 

TS

[Alexg]

Am I the only one who has no idea what "how long did it take me to put your socks on this morning?" means.

 

Why was he putting your socks on?

 

I've a feeling he meant to say "did you have to think about putting your socks on this morning?" Suggesting it's a simple decision, which it clearly isn't.

[Aston Martin]

Salesman seemed to be a genuinely decent bloke but he just started to get more and more desperate to the point where he actually asked me "how long did it take me to put your socks on this morning?"

What a flipping bizarre question. At this point I was getting a bit fed up of his slavor so I did one.

 

I still think I'll get one though.

 

 

 

Had a similar situation the other week. The Citroen C1 is awful in every way, the salesman wouldn't let us leave for 25 minutes. It's the English thing of Well, I can't just leave and walk out?

 

The salesman at Reno, "Test drive the C1, come back on Tuesday to test this, to see which one you prefer. Then let me know either way... bye." No bullshit, no "Whats your phone number, email and blood-type?"

 

 

 

 

 

*I was with a friend who was test-driving. If I was by myself then i'd have probably walked out,

[xtriple]

Never thought about using the washing machine taps.... bloody good idea. Unfortunately, no use to me as I couldn't move my washing machine alone if my life depended on it and it is 'built in' so no access.

 

Yesterday, while taking the dogs to Daddyhole plain (really nice spot, windy as fook but pleasant - my son informs me it's the 'dogging site' later at night!) and as I was driving along, a lass in a newish FIAT 500 drove straight at me! She stopped in the middle of the road about a foot or two away, smiled, then drove off!

 

WTF!

 

I actually got out of the car there and then to check there was nothing wrong at the front of the dollop - some bit falling off or something - but no, I have no idea why she did that. She wasn't on her phone or anything, she was looking at me the whole time, so deliberate, not accidental.

[beko1987]

I bet anyone turning up at a dogging site and seeing a Bentley with the interior light on must think their luck has come in!

 

our washing machine pipes are under the sink, so easily (with 15 minutes of moving crap out the way) accessible.