The grumpy thread

[privatewire]

Not a motoring grump, but hey ho.... Had a chat with my youngest brother over the weekend ( never the most joyful of experiences at the best of times) He is a schoolteacher, has been for 25 years, family man, 4 kids, debt, etc,etc. His school has just been converted into an "Academy" upshot is, his wages have had a kicking to the tune of £8K a year, and he reckons that he is not the biggest loser wage wise at his school. What with stuff like that and the way they are trying to destroy the NHS, Words fail me, this government are surely the most evil, twisted bastards ever, even Thatcher must be looking up from hell wondering how the fuck they get away with trying to shaft everybody under the sun apart from their pig fucking banker mates.

It is to Scotland's shame that we have just given jobs to 31 of the bastards.

 

Anyway, turned out nice today, didn't it?

[Kiltox]

Fucking bastard van is still fucked despite another few hours trying to refit the stupid clutch linkage bollocks today

 

Getting to the point where I'm tempted to fill the old link with tigerseal and slipping it on, sounds like another world of pain if the stupid thing comes off again though

[messerschmitt owner]

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

has the whole thread gone, Trigger, and is it coincidence that a Renault 25 is for sale?

 

Edit found thread but noticed that not just your post that's gone but the ones from the guy whose XM you posted up have gone, plus comments regarding shill bidding, etc, as it had gone for so much!

[trigger]

Yep! Not right is it, i only stay in the group as they do get some interesting stuff posted up but there's a number of people on there who really get on my tits if I'm honest.

 

[Timewaster]

 

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.

 

164? 44 years old? *confused*

 

*penny drops* Oh it's a VOLVO!

 

Had convinced myself it was an Alfa.

[messerschmitt owner]

Yep! Not right is it, i only stay in the group as they do get some interesting stuff posted up but there's a number of people on there who really get on my tits if I'm honest.

I often wonder about deleting myself from it, the ban hammer crap annoys me greatly. And the way people bay for bans is even worse!

[trigger]

The other week Chaseracer got banned then amount of crap and nastiness that was posted afterwards was just wrong, same as the time they turned on Electric Leyland as he thought a member was getting abused by her partner and he's the the one who started this whole Autoshite thing! Unnecessary swearing gets my goat too as well as the gloating and arsing kissing towards the admin and the whole clickiness of it all.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Mrs N has been away with her mother and sister to Belfast this weekend, so already grumpy at no company* for 3 nights.

Anyway reversed car in street to turn around to go and pick her up from airport, when BUMP!! I manage to time it exactly as a young lad in an 02 plate Clio is also reversing, very slight scuff on corner of my bumper, Clio already battered and no obvious new damage.

I'm fuming with myself and the poor kid thinks I'm going to batter him, just keeps apologising Nd saying it's his fault. In reality it's probably 50/50 , but FFS I've got 35 years experience and drive 500 miles a day for a living, I shouldn't make stupid mistakes. We shake hands and the young lad seems grateful I don't want to kill him or take his insurance details, I feel guilty.

I manage to get to Birmingham airport without further incident and pull into a space in the mid-term car park to await MrsN's call.

Three girls in a 107/C1 thing are parked next to me, I start to get out just as the little red thing starts moving- on full lock straight into my door!!! Just managed to get my leg back in unscathed.

Big dent in drivers door, Council inspection due on Wednesday and it won't pass with damage, also because car is over 7 years old if it's not continuously licensed I can't retest it after repair. This could mean me having to buy a a new car ,I'm now very grumpy indeed.

[messerschmitt owner]

maybe I'll ban myself one day I'm bored - I just get annoyed with it half the time.

[Skizzer]

Three girls in a 107/C1 thing are parked next to me, I start to get out just as the little red thing starts moving- on full lock straight into my door!!! Just managed to get my leg back in unscathed.

Big dent in drivers door, Council inspection due on Wednesday and it won't pass with damage, also because car is over 7 years old if it's not continuously licensed I can't retest it after repair. This could mean me having to buy a a new car ,I'm now very grumpy indeed.

That sucks. Sympathy.

[captain_70s]

Yep! Not right is it, i only stay in the group as they do get some interesting stuff posted up but there's a number of people on there who really get on my tits if I'm honest.

The AS Facebook group contributed in me leaving Facebook altogether. It's not even as toxic as some other groups but the difference between the group and the forum was so staggering it sort of cemented my "Facebook = crap" suspicions...

[dave21478]

- Order item through Amazon.

- delivery time is a month. Assume its being hand delivered on a bicycle from China.

- Month comes and goes. No chinese bicycle courier delivery.

- Contact seller. "huh, must have been lost in transit. Would you like another to be sent?"

- Whats the delivery time?

- A month.

- Refund please.

 

 

- Buy item from ebay

- Item arrives and is broken internally

- Email seller - a giant re-seller of chinese junk consumer goods.

- Email exchange peters out and they stop responding

- try to open dispute

- eBay..."you have to dispute this item though paypal". Paypal..."you must dispute this through ebay"

- Infinte loop of despair and frustration.

 

 

- Order different item through ebay

- Its relatively expensive but worth paying for quality.

- Arrives today. Its cheap bullshit that doesnt fit together.

- email seller, get immediate reply. "thats the way they all are, it needs welding to fit, as stated in the advert"

- reply suggesting I am happy to weld it up as stated in the advert but the bits to be welded together are      massively different sizes, I am a good welder but not a miracle worker."

- "if you dont like it send it back, but postage is at your expense;"

 

 

Just kill me.

 

I really just cant be fucking bothered with it all. Online shopping is great, but when there are problems it sucks donkey cock.

"so buy stuff locally and stop crying about it Dave."

Yeah, I would but its literally five times the price and on the occasions where I do buy this sort of thing locally (or at least looked at the items for sale) its exactly the same kind of shit churned out of Happy Export Product Manufacturing Facility Number 7 in China that is just being sold by local shops at a huge mark-up.

 

[xtriple]

Was supposed to be going to a Bentley drivers club event on Sunday, being held at Specialist cars. Couldn't go as I have a sick dog, again. However, not Phoebe this time, Chester! He has spent the weekend crying and whinging and being very clingy as (it appears according to the vet) he has pulled/torn muscles in his side from rough housing with his mates at the park! This comes as news to me as I didn't know the fat little bastard had any muscles....

[tooSavvy]

My weekly rota, same days never changes, has just been rearranged - no notice/lead in period.

 

From Thu/Fri every second week to Mon/Tue every second week.

 

Im not too fussed, OH retired for our anklebiter cover BUT a proper ffup to other workers who have childcover/shifts overlap.

 

Just 'aye.. whatever'

 

All treated like contractors

 

 

TS

[chaseracer]

Employers should give "reasonable" notice (the term is not defined...) of rota changes.  Does this happen often, or is this so far a one-off?

[tooSavvy]

Once thus far....

 

TS

[xtriple]

God gives with one hand and takes with the other....

 

Got a nice little bonus this morning which was most welcome and just turned on the telly (it's raining, nothing else to do for the day so why not?)  and it didn't turn on! Telly fubar it seems.

 

So, as I am a wasteful fiscally irresponsible twat, I have just bought a new telly from a local place cos they could deliver and install it today! Probably not the best reason for purchasing a large item, but fuck it! Apparently it's 4K and alsorts and got a 5 year warranty....

[AlabamaShrimp]

Twisted my ankle this morning at the bottom of some steps.

Still hurts like a bastard but isn't that swelled up and hasn't bruised much yet. Hope it isn't broken as I'm away for my birthday on Friday.

 

Related to this it's my actual birthday next Tuesday. So far no one's really said hope you have a nice time just that I'll be 40 and an old git. Think they'll find I was a bit of a git before

[Liggle]

My modern (2008 BMW 325d) is being a pain at the moment...

 

Friday - Brake caliper stuck on at "70" mph, had to let it cool and free with mallet in my boot

Sunday AM - Windscreen cracked in front of my eyes from a stone chip, brakes stripped and cleaned and not sticking now though.

Sunday PM - Drove off my drive and within 1/2 mile my OSF suspension spring SNAPPED causing everything to drop, queue smoke from tyre/broken suspension interface error

 

Had the car 3 months and I've had more niggles than any other car I've owned, even my bangers. And this is the "best" car I've had! 

 

[Danblez]

My modern (2008 BMW 325d) is being a pain at the moment...

 

Friday - Brake caliper stuck on at "70" mph, had to let it cool and free with mallet in my boot

Sunday AM - Windscreen cracked in front of my eyes from a stone chip, brakes stripped and cleaned and not sticking now though.

Sunday PM - Drove off my drive and within 1/2 mile my OSF suspension spring SNAPPED causing everything to drop, queue smoke from tyre/broken suspension interface error

 

Had the car 3 months and I've had more niggles than any other car I've owned, even my bangers. And this is the "best" car I've had!

 

 

Cheer up, it could have been the timing chain!

[beko1987]

Maybe that went at the same time?

[Junkman]

Why do you carry a mallet in the boot of a modern?

[quicksilver]

Why do you carry a mallet in the boot of a modern?

To hammer a proper car over it when it FTPs?

[Inspector Morose]

Why do you carry a mallet in the boot of a modern?

2008 BMW 325d

 

[Liggle]

Mallet was in the boot from camping the previous weekend, good job I forgot to take it out!

[tooSavvy]

Mallet was in the boot from camping the previous weekend, good job I forgot to take it out!

 

..... best plan, for the future = Sleep in CAR/drive TENT 

 

TS

[anonymous user]

Why do you carry a mallet in the boot of a modern?

Probably for the same reason I keep a shot-gun in mine

[Urko]

I'd like to have a minor and pointless grump about the A6006 resurfacing work.  It's been closed for two days recently.  Over the last > 2 weeks it's had all the 50 repeaters sprayed over and a temporary but legal 30 limit imposed along the entire (several miles) full time.  The first closure resulted in a few patches being applied, the most recent on Friday, they surfaced about 90 % of the road - decentish job for top dressing, BUT they haven't done the very worst bit of it at all for some reason.

 

To compound my grump, some utter twat in a 57 reg BM 3 series came barrelling up behind me today - I was doing an already illegal 50, but after tailgating the flip out of me for a bit he overtook, showering me with stones. 

[dugong]

"How much do you want for [name of car]?"

 

"I'm taking offers."

 

"You must have a figure in mind. How much do you want?"

 

"I don't know what it's worth, I'm taking offers."

 

"Right, so how much is it?"

 

"I'm taking offers."

 

"OK [offers above average eBay finishing price for cars in similar condition]."

 

"No, no, no. That's nowhere near enough."

 

"Right, so how much do you actually want for it?"

 

"I'm taking offers."

 

Verdict: imbecile.

[BavarianRetro]

That's one of my pet hates.

 

You're selling it. You know what you'll take for it. Just bloody tell me!

 

I won't offer online without an asking price. I've done it if someone turns up and says, " What'll you give me for this?", but that's different.