The grumpy thread

[dave21478]

Hurt my back today - probably nothing major, just a bit of a muscle tweak. 

 

Bizarrely, I did it while running away from a swarm of angry bees whos hive I had knocked over.

 

I am 99% sure my entire life is some kind of Beadles About wind up.

[anonymous user]

Water stains should come out. A bottle of lime prime light should do it, light isn't as abrasive, its more of a paint cleaner/conditioner so could lift them right out assuming they haven't fucked the lacquer etc. It may at least hide them enough to not be visible under a few coats of wax.

 

Or do the water stains simply need drying off?

Top tip. On french-polished furniture you can get water marks out by wiping them over with meths and setting light to the fumes blowing them across the white mark which it miraculously lifts through the polish. I would not recommend trying this on your bootlid.

[dollywobbler]

It looks the tits mind you. Is that the same engine ad the 406 and gooner V6's?

 

Think so. ES9. They sound awesome.

[nacho man]

When the car is like " Y U NO FIX ME?"

 

 

Because I am too idle.

 

 

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[Cavcraft]

I'm saying no names but I'm not impressed. Screenshot_2016-05-07-00-10-25.png

 

*Edit, found your other post.

 

To be perfectly frank, the FB version of AS is utter dog shit so it's probably done you a favour.

[cort16]

I just drove the rover 10 miles and it did it's Thomas the tank engine bit again . I was thinking that when I drove it the other night I had the heater on as Id switched the heater on when trying to bleed it. On my return journey I started it with the heater on and it was totally fine . I even turned the heater off after 5 mins and it stayed fine . I know with the heater on you're extending the cooling system but why would it remain okay once it's heated up even when I put it back to cold ?

 

I also had someone offer to buy it in aldi car park. It wasn't shooting stream at this point obviously .

[Pillock]

Maybe the Golf driver on the phone was like the Merc 4x4 driver that stopped on the M25, in the outside lane, because a warning light had illuminated.

The wombles turned up, closed the lane, went over to try and assess the problem and found the low fuel light had come on.

 

Maybe Golf Lady phoned someone only to be told "Don't be daft, that green arrow means you found the indicator"

[Cavcraft]

A bit back now I ended up listening to Radio 1 one Sat morning and thought I'd give it a chance again. Big mistake. It now seems in recent weeks that every show has the same inane dickhead DJ babbling on in what seems to be one big 'in house' joke with some other tit in the studio, then have people ringing them up and they talk complete bollocks as well.

[chaseracer]

Hasn't Radio 1 always been like that?

[Richard]

I happened to catch a bit of Nick Grimshaw's show soon after he took over from Moyles. He was banging on about Glastonbury and the Rolling Stones, so much for appealing to a younger audience.

[Ghosty]

Just rememebered I was sat staring at an Impreza 22B for three bloody hours on Tuesday and I didn't take a picture.

Why why why...

[dollywobbler]

I tried listening to 6 Music yesterday. The DJ completely cocked up the end of a tune, then obviously had a mouth full of food, then started speaking with some hideous fake American accent. I decided to go back to my usual technique of ignoring radio.

[MarvinsMom]

i did that this afternoon, just stopped in the middle of the road, on the way out of Pickering near to the petrol station at Middleton, and did someone driving the other way, into town, they stopped as well.

 

we just stopped dead, either side of the road with the hazards on.

 

why?

 

cos mammy duck had decided to take a dozen of so ducklings, ranging in size from nearly as big as her to some tiny little fluff balls for a paddle on the duck pond, only for the ducklings to decide that they didn't want to go onto the pond, but actually go mill about before going back where they had caom from!

 

now how can that be a grump? well the bell end behind leaning on his horn cos it seems that i had stopped in his way just for fun didnt help. especially with already nervous young animals running over the road.

 

and yes, it was some piece of shit golf thing....

[cort16]

I listened to chris moyles when he was on radio one as he gradually disappeared up his own arse. He's now back on xfm, radio-x or what ever the fuck it's called now and he's transferred the radio 1 show to this new show but now it has adverts and he's more of a dick and he's has a pose of laughing gibbons.

Unlistenable 

 

I like Sean Keaveny and Rad Mac on Radio6 are good but the rest can be hard work.

[MarvinsMom]

Hasn't Radio 1 always been like that?

dunno i stopped listening to Radio 1 after Mark and Lard finished, and i could never stand that unfunny twat Moyles.

 

i'd sooner drill my own teeth out.

[Pillock]

Moyles is good, I think. I used to listen daily on Radio 1, and then turn off - I actually preferred his talky bits to the music they play, and it was a running joke that he would get a good 25 minutes into his show without playing any music. Probably one of the reasons he was let go.

 

However, the first week of Radio X was OK..... I think they cut the amount of adverts down to appease those moving from Radio 1 to a commercial station. Since then the advert hours per minute seems to have shot up and it must be at 20% jingles and crap. I know he has to get paid, and that's how it works in commercial radio, but still..... they're annoying, so I turned off.

[BavarianRetro]

Try Wave 102 if in the Dundee area (or on the internet www.wave102.co.uk), particularly the evening show from 7-10 pm.

[chaseracer]

...the bell end behind leaning on his horn cos it seems that i had stopped in his way just for fun didnt help. especially with already nervous young animals running over the road.

 

and yes, it was some piece of shit golf thing....

 

That would be your cue to ask him if there's something wrong with his horn, then 'fix' it with a sledgehammer...

[wuvvum]

I decided it was about time to spend some money on the 164, which has sat neglected for far too long.  Started off well when I found a replacement indicator stalk for a tenner BIN.  The water pump is going to be fugging expensive but I knew that.  But the only place which stocks the correct (ATE, vented discs) front calipers has now put the price up to £198, plus delivery, plus a £30 exchange surcharge "which you will get back when we receive your old caliper - which must not have been taken apart".  Except mine has been taken apart 'cos I was trying to fix it.  So the brake caliper would basically work out at about 250 quid.  I could buy several cars for that.  Looks like the Volvo is going to be sitting around for a bit longer.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Am I being thick but isn't a break caliper essentially a lump of metal with a piston in it? Isn't there anyone independent that fixes them as opposed to getting a stupidly expensive replacement?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Whats up with the old caliper

[twosmoke300]

Brakes international sell caliper seals and pistons and their website is very good / easy to use

[dollywobbler]

They also offer a refurb service. Post them the caliper, they fix it and send it back. See also Bigg Red. I've never used any of them, but then I've managed to get away with seals and pistons when I've done caliper refurbs. And the ones on our old Mini were utterly bolloxed.

[dugong]

Where's strip lube and service man when you need him?

[LC Torana]

I rang my garage,asked one of the mechanics where they send their calipers off to, then took it all there.

 

Mind you, that was drum honing, new linings, new seals as well as caliper honing, pretty much everything on the fronts.

[trigger]

Bigg Red list them, depending on the size you are looking at £99 for the pair i think?. http://www.biggred.co.uk/brake-calipers

[hennabm]

I used the company below. They do a mail order service and for each of my calipers for the BMW it was around £70 per corner. That included all new seals and pistons and refurb in yellow passivate.

 

http://classicbrake.co.uk/

[wuvvum]

Several people have tried to strip the caliper - the problem is that two of the four pistons are seized solid.  And I do mean solid - they've been heated, twatted with hammers, attacked with BFO mole grips, even tried pumping grease in behind them to push them out - they weren't having any of it.  I tried winding them back in with a G clamp to see if moving them in would then unseize them enough that they could then be pushed out.  I broke the G clamp.

 

Whoever thought a 44-year-old car would need vented front discs and four-pot calipers?  Give me a good old fashioned pair of drums any day.

 

That said, it might be worth sending them off to one of those rebuild places - do they operate on a "no win no fee" basis?

[michael1703]

Bigg red wouldn't worry about shagged pistons as their price includes stainless pistons usually

[OwdChina]

Bigg red wouldn't worry about shagged pistons as their price includes stainless pistons usually

Machine the old pistons out.