The grumpy thread

[twosmoke300]

Aren't they all different though ?

[scaryoldcortina]

I can't believe no-one has mentioned hammering a smaller debt over it yet.

 

Good news! She came round with the money and an apology earlier, so we are having beer and pizza for tea. Locking wheel nut key is still at the garage, she can have that back next week.

[bub2006]

Xantia broke down. Fuel filter has pin prick hole in it. Well I can't complain really. Simple job and easy to do.

[Sheefag]

Good news! She came round with the money and an apology earlier, so we are having beer and pizza for tea. Locking wheel nut key is still at the garage, she can have that back next week.

 

Bin the fucker or better still, drop it in a stream or river from a bridge, it's curiously satisfying for some unknown reason.

[scaryoldcortina]

If I actually wanted to be malicious about it I'd give her someone else's wheelnut key. I have a box full of them!

[Lacquer Peel]

This is probably one for the SQA thread but are locking wheelnuts unique to an individual car?

[Tamworthbay]

If I actually wanted to be malicious about it I'd give her someone else's wheelnut key. I have a box full of them!

or four blobs of weld the next time it's in...........

[scaryoldcortina]

for each design of locking nut there are between 3 and 10 different keys (hence the box full of ones from scrappers) but tbh you just hammer a 18mm socket over it and gun the thing off.

[beko1987]

Orl vauxhall r shit

 

 

Googling points to either the cat or lambda sensor. Cats original (cars on 86k), the lambda in the fannymould is original (new post cat one 2 years ago)

 

Would a good long fast journey with redex or other snake oil fix it? Its only been used to go <10 miles for a long time, poor thing

[HH-R]

Got virtually no sleep last night, the cat decided to stay out all night and have a jolly so I was worried he was lost/shot/run over.

 

Also heard a noise like the world was ending at 1am, went outside and could hear loads of noise. Shitting myself, I went round to see because I thought it was next door getting broken into. No, it's the bloke upstairs bringing a settee down (??). Get woken up later on in the night and he's fly tipping it across the road. Twat.

 

Then I get woken up by the bloke upstairs (different one) moving furniture at 6:30 on a Sunday. WTF is wrong with people? I then remember about the cat so go to see if he has come in, nope. He came back about 10 seconds later, the little shit. At least he is OK though.

[Craig the Princess]

I've come down worth some bastard virus, spent 34 of the last 36 hours in bed, went to work yesterday, threw up, went home. Dizzy if I turn quickly or move too much. Fucking thing.

[Richard]

That sounds like labyrinthitis. I get it quite a lot, it isn't much fun.

[purplebargeken]

Fucking hate people who just willfully dump their shite and then expect others to clear it up. Grrrrrr.

[twosmoke300]

Beko . Is that a catalyst efficiency code ? Looks familiar . If it has a pattern cat on it that could be the reason . Or the original one is getting old .

The cars own emission limits are tighter than the mot test so as long as it passes mot it's one to ignore .

If you replace the cat with a cheapy the light will come back

[Craig the Princess]

That sounds like labyrinthitis. I get it quite a lot, it isn't much fun.

Cheers, if it is I'm sorry to hear you get it.

[beko1987]

Beko . Is that a catalyst efficiency code ? Looks familiar . If it has a pattern cat on it that could be the reason . Or the original one is getting old .

The cars own emission limits are tighter than the mot test so as long as it passes mot it's one to ignore .

If you replace the cat with a cheapy the light will come back

Itll be the original cat. I was thinking of just leaving it, workmates crv has had the cat light on for a year now and has been absolutely fine. Thanks for the reassurance though!

[HillmanImp]

I am meant to be going over to have a proper look over the Mister Two today as I haven't seen it since we bought it, as my mate whose house its at has been on holiday.

 

However, I did something to my back yesterday getting some fencing off the back of a lorry. Can't stand up straight now.

 

I am 40 in a couple of months and its sinking in that I'm getting too old for this shit. Its all downhill from here.

 

I have heard* that Strongbow is good for relieving back pain though which is good in the short term but will probably increase the angle of the slope.

[bub2006]

Just spent 20 quid on a new filter for car then the battery gives up. 90 quid I can ill afford but such is life.

[Richard]

Yesterday's radiator shenanigans have left me with rust in my eye. I was hoping it would work its way out overnight but there's a bit embedded in my eyelid that won't flush away. I'd planned an afternoon of fettling the 850 ready for Shitefest, because I have three nights at home between now and then, but that won't happen now.

[Cavcraft]

you can check/change the brushes dead easy, theres a little black placca plug on each side, under which live the brushes. They cost nowt off eBay too.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Carbon-Brushes-for-Silverline-129659-polisher-sander-1-PAIR-DW2-/131524838093

Nice one, cheers

[Cavcraft]

Some botty rocket in an XF Jag beeped his horn at me the nano second the lights went Amber yesterday then started tailgating me in a 30 zone. I just ignored it and slowed down a bit just to piss him off a bit more, (I was doing 30mph) and as he overtook and got level with me he was looking straight ahead.

30 odd yards on as he's gunning it he starts giving me the old wanker and V signs out of the window then jumped a red light as I would have caught him up if he'd stopped. Well in there, knob chops.

[Richard]

Yesterday's radiator shenanigans have left me with rust in my eye. I was hoping it would work its way out overnight but there's a bit embedded in my eyelid that won't flush away. I'd planned an afternoon of fettling the 850 ready for Shitefest, because I have three nights at home between now and then, but that won't happen now.

 

Two hours waiting, two minutes in the treatment room.

 

 

He went to the cupboard to get the dye and on the way back he had my eyelid turned inside out and the bit of grit wheeched out before I even realised what he was doing.

[twosmoke300]

Top tip from a man who has metal in his eye far too many times but only once had to go to the docs .

 

Use a small magnet to pull any small bits of rust / steel out . It bloody well works

[scaryoldcortina]

Ha! I thought I was the only one who did that.

[twosmoke300]

Weird feeling isn't it ?

[rainagain]

Itll be the original cat. I was thinking of just leaving it, workmates crv has had the cat light on for a year now and has been absolutely fine. Thanks for the reassurance though!

Just fit one of these

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lambda-O2-Oxygen-Sensor-Extender-Spacer-Decat-Boss-M18x1-5-/251317571511?nav=SEARCH

 

I ran a car with a de cat and got this code for obvious reasons, one of these stopped the code. As mentioned above the cars own test is stricter than mot. You will need check your sensor thread size

[r.welfare]

+1 on those spacers, however check you can get a ring spanner over the electrical connector of the lambda sensor as I have always found those special lambda sensor sockets (with a notch cut out of the side) utter rubbish personally.

[Sheefag]

That sounds like labyrinthitis. I get it quite a lot, it isn't much fun.

 

Look on the bright side, Labyrinthitis, fits perfectly where one would normally use, Have A Banana.

[cort16]

I dropped the Panda down for it's MOT this afternoon and by the time I got there (after I took it for a spin for 10 or so miles) the clutch was stuck to the floor when stopping at traffic lights. When I eventually stalled for the 17th time I got to the yard it seems the clutch spring was sticking. I've since greased up/wd40'd the spring and the rod going into the master cylinder and it seems better. Probably needs a new clutch master though as the fluid has bits floating int it.

I then walked 2 miles back up the road on an ankle went over on while filling cort JR's paddling pool earlier and now I'm limping like i've got a wooden leg. Good times.

[Richard]

I'm not sure if the magnet would have helped in this case. The bit was embedded in my eyelid and I'm not sure if it's metal. I think it was part of the debris that came down when I was wrestling with the radiator.