The grumpy thread

[panhard65]

Bidding in a non shite C4 Citroen coupe and got outbid a couple of times within the last hour and it finally went for 565 (my highest bid was 555). Within half hour of the listing end I get a second chance offer with some bollocks that the buyer wants to cancel. I offered him 500 which was still higher than the shill bidder started at, but he has turned it down and will re-list. Good luck with that one as I won't be bidding again

[Pillock]

Sponsored stuff - Mrs Pillock did a Ladies Driver Day a couple of years back. Got sponsored to drive "challenging" vehicles all day at Bruntingthorpe.

 

So essentially people ponied up and I got a load of photos of her grinning like a fool behind the wheel of a 44 tonne artic, double decker bus, combine harvester, little three wheel delivery van, tractor, Land Rovers etc. Yeah, really challenging.

 

The best bit was the Royal Mail driver who had bought his DAF CF along, he was making small talk and asked if she was enjoying herself. Didn't expect the answer "it's OK but the XF I was driving here before has a lot more poke"

[xtriple]

Scuff on the front bumper. Sprayed less tan a fortnight ago. Why does everyone use the front of this fucking car as a parking aid?

[Stixy]

Why wont people Send logbooks off ?  

 

the last 4 cars i have bought i have filled it in and  asked them if they are going to send it off or do they want me too ? i even carry envelopes and stamps for this  and they insist its no trouble and they will do it next day   . and they dont    is that final stamp just too much for them  ?

 

I feel like going for a midnight razz through the speed camera's .

[Jazoli]

Scuff on the front bumper. Sprayed less tan a fortnight ago. Why does everyone use the front of this fucking car as a parking aid?

 

I feel your pain, unfortunately with no drive or garage I feel it's going to happen again and again, I've given up caring on my daily cars as it's almost an everyday occurrence to find a new ding or scrape if I have to leave it on the road or in a carpark, and it's one of the reasons I will not have an expensive motor with perfect paint any more as it's soul destroying when it gets marked by some careless twat.

[Jazoli]

Why wont people Send logbooks off ?  

 

the last 4 cars i have bought i have filled it in and  asked them if they are going to send it off or do they want me too ? i even carry envelopes and stamps for this  and they insist its no trouble and they will do it next day   . and they dont    is that final stamp just too much for them  ?

 

I feel like going for a midnight razz through the speed camera's .

 

You can do a change of owner online now I believe.

[Cavcraft]

Still no word back from the vendor of the car I won on eBay. Messaged them probably 5/6 times the first day and I'm not going to again, it's up to them now. It's a shame because it's desperately cheap (maybe that's why they haven't bothered) and I've not owned one before, even if it is 'modern crap'

[purplebargeken]

OBv wen too cheap and he or sheis pissed off by that fact. Hence no comms. Twats. 

[nigel bickle]

Trailer tyre exploded last night, whilst hauling a load.

Didn't have a spare,& couldn't really be arsed, so dragged the damn thing home.

 

Got about three quarters of it back, safely

No sign of the rim, suspension unit or rear quarter of the trailer, mind. Arse.

[nigel bickle]

Dave Froggie....

 

Feel most of that pain. Just too grumpy to enunciate it...

[JohnK]

Why wont people Send logbooks off ?

 

the last 4 cars i have bought i have filled it in and asked them if they are going to send it off or do they want me too ? i even carry envelopes and stamps for this and they insist its no trouble and they will do it next day . and they dont is that final stamp just too much for them ?

 

I feel like going for a midnight razz through the speed camera's .

Do it online - get the document ref no from the green slip, take the first number off and that gives you the doc ref no of the main document. Complete online change and voila you will get a log book.

 

I did this for my MG TF as I wanted to sell it and the cretin I bought it from hadn't posted it off either (I wasn't bothered mind, I was driving it around on his tax - his loss)

[KruJoe]

C4... shill bidder 

 

I always use a sniper for things like that. Enter your best bid days before and walk away.

[purplebargeken]

Oh fuck. I'm car bored.

[cort16]

I hope it doesn't rain you might dissolve

[doobietoo]

I always use a sniper for things like that. Enter your best bid days before and walk away.

 

I prefer to bid myself.... I put a low bid on to show I am interested then bang my top price on with about 5 secs to go, this is a) after snipe bids which happen at about 8 secs so I am told, has the advantage of avoiding shill bids and means that if I am outbid I have no time to think oh just one more....  Having said that if I see what I think is shill bidding on an item I tend to not bid at all as you know the seller will almost certainly be a front bottom to deal with.... 

[Cheggers]

I hope it doesn't rain you might dissolve

 

Don't worry, at least one of us got it.

 

 

It took a few seconds, mind...

[Jazoli]

I prefer to bid myself.... I put a low bid on to show I am interested then bang my top price on with about 5 secs to go, this is a) after snipe bids which happen at about 8 secs so I am told, has the advantage of avoiding shill bids and means that if I am outbid I have no time to think oh just one more....  Having said that if I see what I think is shill bidding on an item I tend to not bid at all as you know the seller will almost certainly be a front bottom to deal with.... 

 

You can schedule a snipe for 3 seconds before the end, and I wouldn't bother with the first bid either, I bid once usually, by snipe, 3 seconds from the end

[pshome]

I prefer to bid myself.... I put a low bid on to show I am interested then bang my top price on with about 5 secs to go, this is a) after snipe bids which happen at about 8 secs so I am told, has the advantage of avoiding shill bids and means that if I am outbid I have no time to think oh just one more....  Having said that if I see what I think is shill bidding on an item I tend to not bid at all as you know the seller will almost certainly be a front bottom to deal with.... 

my sniper tool bids in the last second...

[DeeJay]

Don't worry, at least one of us got it. It took a few seconds, mind...

I got it, but there's no Groan button.

[Cavcraft]

Do it online - get the document ref no from the green slip, take the first number off and that gives you the doc ref no of the main document. Complete online change and voila you will get a log book.

 

I did this for my MG TF as I wanted to sell it and the cretin I bought it from hadn't posted it off either (I wasn't bothered mind, I was driving it around on his tax - his loss)

 

 

This. Also if I decide I don't like the buyer (no-one on here I can assure you) I do the V5 on line the moment they've driven away (Mon-Sat 9-6, or whatever it is) and cancel the insurance.

Even if they do the trade parts and I'm suspicious, I take a picture of the V5 before they go so I can do it online without them even knowing.

[beko1987]

Whilst wobbling the wheels on my car yesterday I found that the arch liner had become detached again at some point in the past

 

 

I used the handy new access hole to whack a big cable tie around it and the horn assembly the other side. Sent for a quick drive but it didn't fix any of my issues.

[Richard]

The prick next door has been using some kind of power tool, a sander I think, for nearly an hour now. He does noisy DIY nearly every weekend. Prick.

[chaseracer]

Trailer tyre exploded last night, whilst hauling a load.

Didn't have a spare,& couldn't really be arsed, so dragged the damn thing home.

 

Got about three quarters of it back, safely

No sign of the rim, suspension unit or rear quarter of the trailer, mind. Arse.

 

Any chance of letting us know your route, so we can avoid it until some other poor bastard has run over your debris?  Cheers.

[Cheggers]

The prick next door has been using some kind of power tool, a sander I think, for nearly an hour now. He does noisy DIY nearly every weekend. Prick.

 

Hmmm...in what way is that different from "the prick next door fills his garden with crappy old cars"? - I know it's annoying but it's not like it's 7am or anything and we're all allowed our hobbies (thank heavens...)

 

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[Parky]

Fitted a new Venetian blind in our room. Did the kids last week no bother at all.

 

Today. Drilled hole for anchor plug, screw won't tighten. Can't put plug back out so have to punch it through the wall. Big chunk of wall collapses inwards. Arsecakes.

 

Fix that and try drilling again. Metal rsj where I expected a cavity. Get metal drill, all goes well until drill gets through the metal and I slam the drill into the plaster, making a big hole. Double arse cakes.

 

Fix that, self tapper into the rsj. Attached hanger for the blind and screw it up. All good until the screw suddenly stops tightening and falls out - snapped. One end jammed in the rsj so have to drill another hole. Yes, the same thing happens again.

 

Basically it was like an episode of "How to make a total pigs ear out of a job you have done successfully at least a dozen times before".

 

Probably didn't help when Mrs P said "well you aren't a builder, we should get someone in" which didn't elicit a particularly charitable response.

[UmBongo]

I am not an un-generous old bastard but when I agree to sponsor somebody for something - DO THE BLOODY THING FIRST.   couple of blokes at work are doing various runs tomorrow and came and chapped me up for the dosh this morning.   WTF?   

 

I am only sponsoring sky-dives from now on.  Do every bloody metre or you will get fuck all.

 

Oh, and they all drive new cars too.

 

Tell them to do the skydive sans parachute and you won't have to pay them anyway.

[Cavcraft]

I had questioned sky diving for charity until my lad did it. I wasn't far from the plane he went up in and have to say I wouldn't have gone 20 feet down the runway without even taking off in it. As for the actual jump? No thanks.

[HH-R]

It's something I'd love to do, but probably wouldn't have the balls for!

[cobblers]

I read somewhere that these charity skydives cost the NHS double or triple what they actually raise for charity

[DeeJay]

Just watched QI and there were some figures quoted there that - on average - each skydiving to raise money for charity, and most are for the NHS - raises £30 and each £1 raised costs the NHS £13.70 or thereabouts to treat the resultant injuries.