The grumpy thread

[Tamworthbay]

Possibly where the two little darlings were conceived.

 

Still to be fair they didn't just consult the top 20 chart for the name of some twerp warbling out modern shit music.

twins at a party my daughter went to were called storm and cloud, I joked that the younger kid could be called drizzle, it didn't go down well.

[BavarianRetro]

Did a heater resistor on a scenic 2 today . Jesus wept !

The customer is a google mechanic and said you can do it through the speedo hole and gave me the spiel from the supplier of the resistor . Sneaky fuckers show you pics from the grand scenic with much larger clocks .

So on the std one you need to drop the steering column and most of the rh dash lowers .

Just

No

Need !

[New POD]

Been out and about trying to buy a Mini convertible for Mrs T. Looked at six cars in total and probably spent the same amount as our budget on fuel.

 

Two observations:

1. Does no-one keep a service history, or bother servicing, any more? And by FSH I mean stamps and invoices. Not, as two garages tried to show me, a sheaf of crumpled RAC breakdown reports, and in one car, an on board service indicator proudly flashing away that the car was due a service -20,000 miles ago!

 

2. Do garages not do deals any longer? One example ticked all the boxes, but the fact it had four bald (but at least matching) tyres. When I say bald, I mean not legal, too. Price: £2850 I offer £2650 cash, expecting to have to come up a bit, meet in the middle. Their best deal? £2850

 

No excuse for a dealer for not having a code reader to reset the service indicator.  People don't keep bills, and you can't trust a stamped up service book.

 

I don't haggle on price, I haggle on condition. That WILL need 4 new tyres, they will need to be run-flats and they need to be continentals, Pirellis or mitchelins. Plus it will need a full service, and new disk and pads, and this scratch sorting. Get all that sorted and get me a 12 month warranty and 12months MOT and 6 months tax and I'll give you £2850 cash.

 

When we bought our Bini it was bought on a whim, based on the colour, we didn't need to buy one, and just happened to see it as we drove past. No research was done.

 

I didn't want to buy it because of the rear lights, and in the end we haggled on bodging the dented bumper

 

[AnthonyG]

I can't understand people like that, I really can't. I wouldn't walk into a Jag dealer, look around an F type, and when informed that the car is £30k turn round Mike Brewer style and offer a Costa Coffee loyalty card with nine stamps on it and hold out my hand expectantly.

New F type for £30k? Where do I sign? They start around double that methinks. Still would though.

[AnthonyG]

Portia is a real name (unless it was actually spelt Porsha) - there was a fit blonde on Ally McBeal (how 90s am I?) with that name. I think she is actually a lady who likes other ladies.

 

Texas though, what the fuck? With you on that one.

[Richard]

The name of John Cleese's daughter in A Fish Called Wanda.

[HH-R]

Possibly where the two little darlings were conceived.

 

Still to be fair they didn't just consult the top 20 chart for the name of some twerp warbling out modern shit music.

Texas Homecare, at that..

[robinmasters]

Possibly where the two little darlings were conceived.

 

Still to be fair they didn't just consult the top 20 chart for the name of some twerp warbling out modern shit music.

Blackpool and Zafira, surely?

 

There's two over the road from us called Tiger and Diesel.

[sheffcortinacentre]

mates dog is called diesel.

[fordperv]

Possibly where the two little darlings were conceived.

 

In that case wouldn't their names be "back seat of corsa" and "nightclub toilet"

[Cavcraft]

'My wife/girlfriend/partner/husband/boyfriend is my soul mate/life partner/makes me complete/has changed my life...'

 

Yeah, cheers for telling us that every two pissing minutes on social media, Captain Insecure.

[Cavcraft]

mates dog is called diesel.

Mine's called 'Mini' as it won't run in the rain.

[Kiltox]

Been out and about trying to buy a Mini convertible for Mrs T. Looked at six cars in total and probably spent the same amount as our budget on fuel.

 

Two observations:

1. Does no-one keep a service history, or bother servicing, any more? And by FSH I mean stamps and invoices. Not, as two garages tried to show me, a sheaf of crumpled RAC breakdown reports, and in one car, an on board service indicator proudly flashing away that the car was due a service -20,000 miles ago!

 

2. Do garages not do deals any longer? One example ticked all the boxes, but the fact it had four bald (but at least matching) tyres. When I say bald, I mean not legal, too. Price: £2850 I offer £2650 cash, expecting to have to come up a bit, meet in the middle. Their best deal? £2850

1) it seems that way - amount of cars that pass through my hands with missing history is pretty shocking. Better than faking it I suppose.

 

2) I'd never offer a car to a customer with bald tyres but don't usually have much room for negotiation in my pricing either... Margins are tight and with the race to the bottom on price that the Internet encourages a lot of cars are priced to sell.

[The Moog]

 

 

Possibly where the two little darlings were conceived..[/i]

Well the aisle did say Screw

 

[gm]

I'm late for work and there's about forty fucking euroschool kids taking ages to fanny about getting on the bus

[Kiltox]

Ebay cuntery really fucks me off - bought a parcel shelf from a breaker and despite being described as "used but in fully working order" it has one of the clips missing that connect to the car

Emailed the seller politely asking them to sort it out and got the following:

"hi if your not happy with the item please send it back please be sure to package in the same way as we did please be aware that all our items are photographed before packaging so if the item does not match there will be no refund"

Love the assumption that I'm having them on rather than any offer to sort things out with any level of customer service

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Portia is a real name (unless it was actually spelt Porsha) - there was a fit blonde on Ally McBeal (how 90s am I?) with that name. I think she is actually a lady who likes other ladies.

Texas though, what the fuck? With you on that one.

Of course they could have named her after the rich, beautiful heiress heroine of that slightly earlier play by that bloke from Stratford( not East London).

 

As for Texas , there could be a deep personal meaning.... Nah fuck it ,they're probably just stupid.

[andy18s]

Should have gone straight into " Item not arrived/money back now" mode,as seems to be the norm these days.....I've given up on having anything posted from eBay.

 

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[Kiltox]

I just want a working parcel shelf, not interested in a refund - seller has more for the same car listed now!

Turns out though, they do offer a returns service, and I can post it back at the seller's expense..... Nice to be told that rather than just labelled a chancing cunt!

[sporty-shite]

Blackpool and Zafira, surely?

 

There's two over the road from us called Tiger and Diesel.

 

Can you imagine that at Cavcraft Towers?

 

It'd be Tigra and Veg Oil!

[xtriple]

Talk talk mail service. They changed it all (read: updated it) recently and it has been utter shit ever since. Today, I can't access e-mail or anything and I am waiting for important stuff.

 

Arses!

[cort16]

I bought a complete set of coolant hoses for the P6 off some geezer on the P6 facebook forum 2 weeks ago for £40 quid and no sign of them.

I pinged him message last week and he said, "sorry for the delay I posted them yesterday".

A week later no sign of them. I knew it was a risk but thought it was one worth taking given they're half the money of a set from ebay (maybe there's a clue here). Bollocks.

[Jazoli]

Fucks sake, woke up this morning and there was no power, walked into front room and squelch squelch, fishtank has cracked and there's 300 litres of water on the floor and about 50 in the tank. Rescued the fish and put them in a plastic tank then got the (thankfully industrial) Karcher wet vac out, 2 hours later the carpet is almost dry and it's 9am so off to buy a new tank and the biggest I can find is half the size and £300, had no choice really but to buy it as I've £300 quids worth of fish sat in a storage box in the garage, hopefully can get them moved into their new tank tonight.

 

 

Fucking thing, that's the suspension refresh for the puma put on hold again

[RayMK]

Fucks sake, woke up this morning and there was no power, walked into front room and squelch squelch, fishtank has cracked and there's 300 litres of water on the floor and about 50 in the tank. Rescued the fish and put them in a plastic tank then got the (thankfully industrial) Karcher wet vac out, 2 hours later the carpet is almost dry and it's 9am so off to buy a new tank and the biggest I can find is half the size and £300, had no choice really but to buy it as I've £300 quids worth of fish sat in a storage box in the garage, hopefully can get them moved into their new tank tonight.

 

 

Fucking thing, that's the suspension refresh for the puma put on hold again

 

Bugger.  What sort of fish are they?  That's quite an escape bid!

[MarvinsMom]

Bugger.  What sort of fish are they?  That's quite an escape bid!

they weren't related to Inky the octopus were they?

[Jazoli]

Bugger. What sort of fish are they? That's quite an escape bid!

Hammerhead sharks.....

 

No not really just parrot cichlids and silver sharks

[beko1987]

Fucks sake, woke up this morning and there was no power, walked into front room and squelch squelch, fishtank has cracked and there's 300 litres of water on the floor and about 50 in the tank. Rescued the fish and put them in a plastic tank then got the (thankfully industrial) Karcher wet vac out, 2 hours later the carpet is almost dry and it's 9am so off to buy a new tank and the biggest I can find is half the size and £300, had no choice really but to buy it as I've £300 quids worth of fish sat in a storage box in the garage, hopefully can get them moved into their new tank tonight.

 

 

Fucking thing, that's the suspension refresh for the puma put on hold again

We have a 75l tank, and something like this is always on the back of my mind. We have laminate though, and live in a rented house so if it did go pop I couldn't just 'dry out the carpet and hope'. By the time I found it the damage would be done.

 

Bad luck!

[Mr Lobster]

In that case wouldn't their names be "back seat of corsa" and "nightclub toilet"

 

I think 'bent over a Biffa bin' and 'round the back of Wetherspoons in Nelson' would be accurate.

 

And sadly, yep spelt Porsha.

[chaseracer]

Classy.

[MarvinsMom]

mates dog is called diesel.

a friend when i was at school had a dog called "Sargent dog licker" that was always fiddling with itself, and another friends dog was called "Fly"

 

makes the dog we had at the time dog called "Meg" seem very tame.

 

my mum named it, as it was not long after "the thorne birds" had been on telly.

 

god, i'm old.......