The grumpy thread

[DVee8]

SOC is working away on my Daimler.He has had it since Saturday.It is in for a health check,service and any work for the mot.Then a mot.

 

I have had daily updates on the progress either e-mail,phone or both.

 

SOC is a great guy.The garage and yard is full of stuff all interesting stuff.

 

EDIT:-The yard and garage is like a shiters wet dream.

 

SO ANY and ALL NORTHEAST shiters and family get your cars over to ANDY.

 

Even if you go for the crack(not that kind) a look around.

 

Scrap yard over the road,Range Rover/Jag guy over the road and a motorbike breaker's at the end of the road.All great stuff.

 

So go see ANDY.SOC..

[HH-R]

Where abouts are you, SOC?

[scaryoldcortina]

Sunny* Stanley, in the durham hills. Aim for the TV transmitters at Burnhope and Pontop and you won't be far away.

[Parky]

I have a stomachache, work is boring, had a falling out with a mate and my Mrs isn't talking to me because I can't pay off the mortgage in one hit, buy a car, send the kids to uni, provide a family holiday, buy a rental property, make her lose weight, pay for her to have cosmetic surgery or buy a massive house in a posh area with the aforementioned items thrown in in the next ten minutes. Because ALL her friends husbands can do these things.....

 

Anyone else sometimes think that there's more to life than this kind of shit?

[Jazoli]

I have a stomachache, work is boring, had a falling out with a mate and my Mrs isn't talking to me because I can't pay off the mortgage in one hit, buy a car, send the kids to uni, provide a family holiday, buy a rental property, make her lose weight, pay for her to have cosmetic surgery or buy a massive house in a posh area with the aforementioned items thrown in in the next ten minutes. Because ALL her friends husbands can do these things.....

 

Anyone else sometimes think that there's more to life than this kind of shit?

 

Yes time to ditch the wife,become unemployed and live a miserable existence.

 

No seriously it sounds like your wife needs an attitude adjustment, why can't SHE provide all the stuff SHE wants, mine is quite well trained in this respect and is happy with our (little) lot.

[Richard]

I'd keep it running then. It'll be easy then to swop it over onto something else and may only cost an admin fee.

 

This is a bad idea. I still don't fully understand why, but this sort of thing can happen. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/fife/fife-man-faces-crippling-costs-after-motorbike-he-sold-was-involved-in-fatal-accident-1.554725

 

I'm sure the case must have been resolved one way or the other by now but I can't find anything.

[Tamworthbay]

Yes time to ditch the wife,become unemployed and live a miserable existence.

 

No seriously it sounds like your wife needs an attitude adjustment, why can't SHE provide all the stuff SHE wants, mine is quite well trained in this respect and is happy with our (little) lot.

I wonder what percentage of the population work themselves into an early grave trying to earn enough to buy stuff they don't need to impress people they don't like.

[Alexg]

This is a bad idea. I still don't fully understand why, but this sort of thing can happen. http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/fife/fife-man-faces-crippling-costs-after-motorbike-he-sold-was-involved-in-fatal-accident-1.554725

 

I'm sure the case must have been resolved one way or the other by now but I can't find anything.

 

Yeah, I do remember that story.

[Cavcraft]

I have a stomachache, work is boring, had a falling out with a mate and my Mrs isn't talking to me because I can't pay off the mortgage in one hit, buy a car, send the kids to uni, provide a family holiday, buy a rental property, make her lose weight, pay for her to have cosmetic surgery or buy a massive house in a posh area with the aforementioned items thrown in in the next ten minutes. Because ALL her friends husbands can do these things.....

 

Anyone else sometimes think that there's more to life than this kind of shit?

 

 

Did you have any of those fancy things when you met her? No? Tell her to jog on

[purplebargeken]

Give her a tenner and tell her to buy the winning Lotto ticket.

[michael1703]

I've got this song stuck in my head, fuck knows why as I've hardly ever heard it in the last 25 years

 

[scaryoldcortina]

Thanks for that. Why the hell did I listen to that? I don't think I'm ever going to get rid of it now.

[Richard]

I haven't even clicked on it and I've got it in my head now.

[cort16]

Fucking hell, I retrieved the p6 from my lockup and not totally unsurprisingly it was wazzing water out everywhere. I tightened up a few hoses and the stat housing and all seemed well and was running well. That's when I made my first mistake. Now my brain said just park it up and leave it you fucking idiot but no I was feeling cocky so I thought I'll just buzz it around to the petrol station and stick a tenners worth in.

 

No problemo until I tried to get back in it at the petrol station and found the door stuck. It seems the door had slammed on the seatbelt and had stuck the door shut. I climbed in the passenger side and gave it a full shoulder barge and it didn't budge. Fuck. Not only that I couldn't now get my seat belt on. I got it back around to my lockup and tried to jimmy the door open but it wouldn't budge. I got a break bar inside the door to see if I could get the trapped seat belt out. Nope. I managed to get a thin screw drive through the gap in the door onto the latch and hit the screwdriver with a hammer and it popped open. 

We'll see what happens tomorrow if it passes it'll be a fucking miracle.

[myglaren]

Dropped the C5 in with the Polish guy near work for him to fix up a bit tomorrow - exhaust blowing, handbrake iffy, corroded brake pipe (MOT advisory) and a whistling that I hope is the turbo but suspect alternator bearings.

All good and he can start as early as he likes - difficult for me to leave with him in a morning.

Plan was to get the bus home, leaves from the end of my street in the morning and gets me to work twenty minutes later, and vice-versa.

Last time I did it they had changed all the bus numbers so ended up walking home then found I could have just jumped on a bus.

Cleverly planned on the same today.

No bus from first stop, walked to the next - and the next...  Ended up walking home, the long way of course, two bloody hours and my shoes were killing me, haven't worn them for a year.

Checked bus times and there are none after 3pm until 7pm!  How clever is that?

 

On the bright side I did spot a green Riley Elf.  Haven't seen one of those in - lots of years.

 

Hope the damned car is ready to pick up after work tomorrow.  Next time I'm taking a day off to have it done (clutch will be the next job).

[Inspector Morose]

Watford.

[Alexg]

ITV - utter fucking drivel, all of it. Yesterday morning I caught this...

 

Life Hacks For Your Car And Garage | This Morning:

 

https://www.youtube.com/embed/iD5qgpb-bqI

 

FFS, that bloke gets paid for that? I'd be fucking ashamed.

[burraston2006]

Off to the chippie then!

[oldcars]

Next weeks is better, he teams up with Blue Peter and fixes a sill on a 02 plate matiz with glue, paper mache and sticky back plastic.

[burraston2006]

Ignore last post! Can't get on with autoshite on the 'phone! I think I'm a technophobe!

[xtriple]

I can't get on with my phone!

 

Fucking hate the thing, won't let you write what you want, cannot end phone calls (really!) and only gets a signal once every three days (exaggeration). The old one which was also a Samsung was great, but I was sue an upgrade....

 

Thanks a bunch!

[HH-R]

Sick of cold, wind, rain, and it being pissing dark the minute I get in from work. I hate winter, it's not going away fast enough.

[Lacquer Peel]

We live near the end of a small terrace of houses on a fairly busy road. Off street parking is a problem, there's hardly any.

I used to park vans in the nearby hospital car park when I got them home. Not ideal but better than annoying the neighbours.

 

At no. 5 the woman's boyfriend parks a big Renault Master van outside her house and I've had a few near misses where it's totally obscured the view of traffic from the right. Where do I stand? I'm awful at confronting people but I don't want to leave a passive aggressive note either.

[Vin]

I sorned the Fiorino when I got the V5 through. Today I received a letter from the DVLA with a 'last chance' to tax or sorn the Fiorino. It's untaxed on their website.

 

I have an email response from the DVLA thanking me and confirming that I had sorned the Fiorino on the 16th February.

 

This means I am going to have to talk to someone :mad:

 

 

[chaseracer]

Left hand/right hand...

 

Call them. Doovla bods are pretty helpful, IME

[cobblers]

Ordered a new car for many many thousands of pounds. (foolish I know, but someone has to buy new cars for them to eventually be shit old ones right? I'm doing us all a favour!)

 

I was supposed to have it by now, but they're running a week late. No big deal, I half expected it TBH.

 

 

Got this email today:

I just wanted to let you know that your registration number is YN16 **E

Would you like Jonathan to programme you the radio station in? If so which ones do you listen to?

Also would you like any fuel putting in the car so you don't have to after collection, as it only comes with a small amount from the manufacturers.

We would raise a separate invoice and staple the receipt to it.

 

Would it really bankrupt them to brim a pissing Abarth 500? What's that maybe £40?

 

Obviously I'd rather they take care of the fuel and I'll do the radio myself tbh but I won't hold my breath

[Craig the Princess]

Turn up with a can of petrol, just the look they want in the showroom.

[michael1703]

I've got the grump with this forum theme, I prefer the old one

[Junkman]

Fucking hell, I retrieved the p6 from my lockup and not totally unsurprisingly it was wazzing water out everywhere. I tightened up a few hoses and the stat housing and all seemed well and was running well. That's when I made my first mistake. Now my brain said just park it up and leave it you fucking idiot but no I was feeling cocky so I thought I'll just buzz it around to the petrol station and stick a tenners worth in.

 

No problemo until I tried to get back in it at the petrol station and found the door stuck. It seems the door had slammed on the seatbelt and had stuck the door shut. I climbed in the passenger side and gave it a full shoulder barge and it didn't budge. Fuck. Not only that I couldn't now get my seat belt on. I got it back around to my lockup and tried to jimmy the door open but it wouldn't budge. I got a break bar inside the door to see if I could get the trapped seat belt out. Nope. I managed to get a thin screw drive through the gap in the door onto the latch and hit the screwdriver with a hammer and it popped open. 

We'll see what happens tomorrow if it passes it'll be a fucking miracle.

 

Your doors are way to well adjusted.

[Pillock]

Obvs they can't afford to brim the tank when they have to pay the wages of the guy who programmes radios. £27k a year OTE for hitting the "autostore" button.