The grumpy thread

[Danblez]

I got pulled out in front of when doing 70 in the outside lane of a dual carriageway. They were doing about 30 and were turning right and didn't even use the slip road, pretty much just stopped dead in front of me, never leant on the horn or brakes as hard before. They were totally oblivious.

[Richard]

The third shower we've had in the nine years we've lived here has just blown. I don't have time to fart about with it today so I'm going to have to buy another one the same and replace it again in a couple of years. Why is everything made of cheese now?

[chaseracer]

Maybe I should send them an invoice for reproduction of my copyrighted material. I'm sure they can afford it.

 

Yes, you should.

[Rocket88]

Yes, perfectly legal, but if it's a class 2 lorry, it becomes a class 1 with a car on a spec.

Still driveable on a Class 2 if you have "grandfather" rights............specced a 25ft car transporter last night because it was too long to fit on the bed.............

[dollywobbler]

I'm used to lowlifes stealing my photos from Flickr and passing them off as their own, and accept it as par for the course, but I would have expected better from a reputable high-end auction house. I looked at Coys' website to see what happened to the Stondon Peugeot 104 and the photo of the very next lot looked strangely familiar. They've blanked the registration and done a spectacularly bad job of photoshopping out the bins (check the brickwork on the wall!) but that is clearly my photo and they never contacted me to ask permission.

 

Coys' photo:

 

My original:

1971 Triumph Herald 13/60 convertible by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

Maybe I should send them an invoice for reproduction of my copyrighted material. I'm sure they can afford it.

Absolutely send them an invoice! I will ask if I can use photos, even if I can't afford to pay for them. No company should just nick photos from the Web.

[Richard]

The third shower we've had in the nine years we've lived here has just blown. I don't have time to fart about with it today so I'm going to have to buy another one the same and replace it again in a couple of years. Why is everything made of cheese now?

 

New shower installed now. I'm getting good at fitting them now, with all the practice I've had.

[Slappy]

Argh, 3 times this week I've had either people cut me up or pull of me on the same section of the same roundabout. Usually, it's about 1 in 20 occasions, so I'm used to it, but WTF is going on this week!?

 

First 1 one was a brand new VW Transporter with bling wheels who tried to cut from L2 into L3 right where I was. Horn leant on. He then pissed off round the corner, and then when he was a suitable distance away, sportingly wound his window down to show he could count to 1. I was genuinely surprised his intellect was that high...

 

The other 2 were late pull outs which both required a swift slam on the anchors. I wasn't even taking the roundabout that quickly either (especially last night when a 7.5 tonner had a go).

 

That being said, the 4th day this week, I met my lunatic Robin driver (grin thread), so swings and roundabouts...

[Matt]

Further to the fucked Clio wheel bearing saga my sisters employer kindly offered her use of the spare work car in exchange for her working on her day off in the mean time. It's a 2002 307 HDI 90 and it's also bloody unusable... It didn't occur to him that the things MOT expired in November before letting my sister drive off in it yesterday! It's also full of dog hair, mould, the oil is over filled, the service light is on and sometimes you have to "fiddle with something" to make it start.

 

Verdict: Shitheap.

[Rocket88]

Further to the fucked Clio wheel bearing saga my sisters employer kindly offered her use of the spare work car in exchange for her working on her day off in the mean time. It's a 2002 307 HDI 90 and it's also bloody unusable... It didn't occur to him that the things MOT expired in November before letting my sister drive off in it yesterday! It's also full of dog hair, mould, the oil is over filled, the service light is on and sometimes you have to "fiddle with something" to make it start.

 

Verdict: Shitheap.

Standard modern Peugeot then

[Supernaut]

 It's a 307

 

Verdict: Shitheap.

 

Any Peugeot ending with a number higher than 6 is like this.

 

 

My grump? Just as I have sold my only car for a tiny bit less than I would have ideally liked... all the nice cars for sale have fucked off! There's nothing on the market within 150 miles that appeals to me at all!

 

Piss off Tayne.

[tapir]

Absolutely send them an invoice! I will ask if I can use photos, even if I can't afford to pay for them. No company should just nick photos from the Web.

 I agree, send an invoice that's totally unacceptable. If your looking on the website to buy a car you expect to be looking at the actual car your buying,

 

ps - photoshopping of the bins is amusing none the less!

[320touring]

Any Peugeot ending with a number higher than 6 is like this.

 

 

My grump? Just as I have sold my only car for a tiny bit less than I would have ideally liked... all the nice cars for sale have fucked off! There's nothing on the market within 150 miles that appeals to me at all!

 

Piss off Tayne.

happy to view/deliver any auld scrap doon this way if needed:)

[Lord Sterling]

Also, just found out I'm taking an Iveco van home for the weekend. Fun

So, got to BIRKHEN'ED DOCKS LAA! Iveco turns out to be a rather wrecked and rusty LWB Mercedes Sprinter auto, seemingly once a Tesco delivery van, similar to this, but utterly wrecked:

 

 

Brilliant thinks I, where the hell am I to put this bloody thing? I live in a market town, not country house with a huge driveway. I did get lucky and find somewhere to put it. On the way home (which didn't hit a single major motorway and nice for it) for a minute or so I lost all drive in the gears, it just revved like it was in neutral, thankfully I was going down hill. There was a car behind me and we were on a country road. Thankfully though, as I used the momentum to get up a hill it suddenly found drive again and carried on. I pulled over, selected all the gears and all seemed well so I carried on home.

[Lacquer Peel]

Any Peugeot ending with a number higher than 6 is like this.

 

 

My grump? Just as I have sold my only car for a tiny bit less than I would have ideally liked... all the nice cars for sale have fucked off! There's nothing on the market within 150 miles that appeals to me at all!

 

Piss off Tayne.

Adding to 320t's comment, if you see anything over Inverness way I'm happy to look at it.

 

https://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/peugeot-305-panel-van-classic/1169142869

 

This looks ideal*

[chaseracer]

Any Peugeot ending with a number higher than 6 is like this.

 

The exception that proves the rule...

 

 

[MarvinsMom]

The exception that proves the rule...

 

 

but that is not a REAL peugeot, but a talbot.....  

[Coprolalia]

Been meaning to put an update on for the Scirocco, got a fresh MOT with no advisories, new carb and back in daily service.

 

Grump because did my first days commute in it today and it got me home (at least) but left a trail in the road and shat out it's coolant from the expansion tank. Oil ok. Think it's pinking but not sure as I've never heard pinking before. Sounds like a load of marbles rattling around in the cylinders.

 

Really it's just shakedown problems as new carb and new timing set up, but even so, why is nothing on this car ever easy.

 

Fucking dick car, ungrateful bastard.

[Lankytim]

Picked up this brand new Transit today. People at the yard in Widnes were I picked up the van where the most unhelpful bunch of arseholes I had the misfortune to meet. Left me hanging about until they could be arsed to pull the Transit. When I asked them about it 30 minutes after arriving they started moaning at me that they were 'pulling' the van out for me.

 

Eventually I got the bloody thing out there only to run out of fuel in Stockport near to where I was supposed to drop off. To be fair I should have known and kept an eye on the fuel. But 50 minutes and £12 of my own money later I was back in business.

 

Getting fuel into this thing was a right arsehole too. Vans are pissing me off now.

 

Also, just found out I'm taking an Iveco van home for the weekend. Fun

Are you plating? I used to do that,you'll go broke.

[Jazoli]

Are you plating? I used to do that,you'll go broke.

 

Yup, also been there done that.

[doobietoo]

Me too you can make a living if you work 20 hours a day 7 days a week otherwise probably not...as a matter of interest what is the price per mile rate these days?

[sporty-shite]

My grump? Just as I have sold my only car for a tiny bit less than I would have ideally liked... all the nice cars for sale have fucked off! There's nothing on the market within 150 miles that appeals to me at all!

 

Do you fancy a Leon Cupra? Could probably arrange a meet up or delivery.

[LC Torana]

I've hit the bottle

 

 

Get the pot noodle ready, after the bottle level went down it just did this.

 

 

There's other possibilities besides HGF still.

 

If the HG is really gone, if you put your hand out behind the tailpipe after the car has properly warmed up, you will feel moisture on your hand.

 

But if not, the first thing to look at now is that horrible rusty pipe that runs under the inlet manifold.  When that corrodes and clogs up it behaves like a blocked thermostat, only worse, with air locks and surging coolant flow.  You can replace it, at a pinch, with a suitably heat-rated hose.

 

And - ignition timing.  That makes a HUGE difference.  A timing light is the Rover V8's best friend.

 

(It's rather partial to the dwell meter and the UniSyn, too.)

[purplebargeken]

Oi, wanker in the silver Fiesta. Don't expect to sail past the line of traffic turning right and then cut in, forcing me to take avoiding action as I turn. Do not be shocked to be on the receiving end of wanker signs. Do not fucking brake check me either 'cos I am likely to be slightly fucking crazier than you are on any given day. Cunt.

[Cavcraft]

I asked my knobhead neighbour nicely to stop his kid kicking his ball against our fence. In fact, I must have asked him three times today. Didn't make a blind bit of difference, he didn't tell him to stop, he didn't ask him to go inside.

However, he DID tell him to come inside when I went out, pretended to be on my mobile having an argument with someone and shouted 'F*** OFF, YOU F*****G C**T' repeatedly into my mobile.

Now, either he's going to learn to tell his kid to stop being a pain, or the little bastard is going to have a very impressive knowledge of bad language for a 7 year old.

[purplebargeken]

Or he now thinks you are a massive psycho twat. Never a bad thing actually.

[chaseracer]

Lateral thinking.  Good work, Billy 

[cort16]

There's other possibilities besides HGF still.

 

If the HG is really gone, if you put your hand out behind the tailpipe after the car has properly warmed up, you will feel moisture on your hand.

 

But if not, the first thing to look at now is that horrible rusty pipe that runs under the inlet manifold. When that corrodes and clogs up it behaves like a blocked thermostat, only worse, with air locks and surging coolant flow. You can replace it, at a pinch, with a suitably heat-rated hose.

 

And - ignition timing. That makes a HUGE difference. A timing light is the Rover V8's best friend.

 

(It's rather partial to the dwell meter and the UniSyn, too.)

Cheers, no water out the exhaust . I took the budget approach and lobbed a child size bottle of k-seal in it and for now anyway it's not blowing all its coolant out and overheating . Not a permanent solution obvz. It going on eBay tonight.

 

When I was in the motor factors they had a 'this will fix your omghgf or your money back ' bottle of k-seal but it was 35 quid . I went for the £9 cooking k-seal obviously .

[skattrd]

Afternoon wasted, 150 miles driven and car not bought.

When advertising a car please don't use pictures that are 2+ years old and try and sell the car without parts fitted in the pictures.

[Bren]

Had FTP with the audi. Battery gone.

 

Starter sounded like a skeleton wanking in a biscuit tin, multichanger threw a hissy fit, MMI display showed the home screen very faintly.

 

There goes £100.

[andy18s]

Oi, wanker in the silver Fiesta. Don't expect to sail past the line of traffic turning right and then cut in, forcing me to take avoiding action as I turn. Do not be shocked to be on the receiving end of wanker signs. Do not fucking brake check me either 'cos I am likely to be slightly fucking crazier than you are on any given day. Cunt.

So,you let him in then.......?