The grumpy thread

[Kiltox]

I hear that 2003 Renault Trafics with 205k on the clock are next to rocket, better buy mine quick before they're all £100,000

[dollywobbler]

Personally, I'm trying to gather up enough mojo to fettle my LT camper to a level where I'm happy to sell it, and then have another go at finishing the welding on my bloody Maserati. Or fit the 3.0 V6 to my Calibra. But other life stuff gets in the way, it's not always possible for people to keep supplying a regular input of interesting* threads.

 

Indeed. I'm struggling a bit with this, as the RAV isn't really prime Autoshite, the Nippa just behaves itself and the 2CV (also not really prime Autoshite to be fair) is in a million pieces and stuck waiting for paint (for at least another month. Bored now!). 

 

So I bought the Colt, which has more issues than I currently have time to fix, so that's no good either. 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Huh. Selling an item privately on eBay with 'no returns' ticked doesn't prevent the buyer asking for a return and freezing the Paypal funds. And I have to pay a further £3 to send the buyer a postage label. 

 

Huh. 

 

I look forward to getting the item back. I am going to run over it with my car. 

[dugong]

^ OK Louise, I'll summarise them for you...  Savvy has just bought a Toyota

 

Re. "this site isn't what it used to be", etc, it's a simple fact of life that many unpopular / unloved cars become cheap old snotters, and that's where bangernomics meets Autoshite. And even the bangernomics roadwhores will eventually disappear - when's the last time anyone saw a Mk 1 Mondeo or a Calibra in the wild? - whereupon all of a sudden they're Autoshite.

 

That guest chappy was wrong to just whine about the state of the site though, if he didn't like the state of things in here at the moment he should have taken the initiative & posted up some quality content instead.

Post up some 'quality content' and it gets buried in tedious sub-literate guff after 30 seconds.

Or you can have unpaid EV PR (where differing views are VERBOTEN). I'm not sure what's worse.

 

I like the way tacitly there's an awareness of how crap the posts have become on here, though. At least that's something.

[cort16]

Give it a rest with the negativity its exhausting . You go on about good content getting pushed off the page but here you are doing the same. It's not just you there's always some long standing member or another popping about the good old days and the board is full of shit stuff , no one looks at my stuff or likes my posts etc .

 

I think I'm going to FRO for a bit as I'm sick of hearing the same old shite.

[danthecapriman]

For me autoshite is about anything that's not current. I like the fact that I can come on here and write about/post pics of my cars and then go to another thread and look at a filthy old Rancho some lunatic just bought, or a bog standard mk1 Mondeo. There's everything for everyone on here.

My personal taste in cars is generally 80's and older but I still like to look at what others are up to, even if it is just some mundane task on a 10 year old whatever that someone's keeping running instead of binning in favour of a new car.

I'm sure not everyone likes my yank or my old Fords, but I love them and I think they do fit in on here still.

The 'scene tax' thing does piss me off, sure. But I got my Capri before any of that, I paid £100 for it (taxed and MOT'd) and I've had it years now, they were uncool old sheds at the time. Same for the Granada really. Cars like these and my Transit used to common as muck at one bit but now you never see them. I think that makes them fit here, just like a mk1 Focus will end up in another 10 or so years.

The yank? I think it fits still. It's different and from a time even the Americans probably would rather forget! It's big, it's uneconomical, it doesn't handle well, surely this all makes it shite!?

The great thing here I think is variety. If someone doesn't like one (or all!) of my stuff then there's bound to be a nearby thread containing something they do like, even if it's one of the spotted threads.

[cort1977]

Post up some 'quality content' and it gets buried in tedious sub-literate guff after 30 seconds.

Or you can have unpaid EV PR (where differing views are VERBOTEN). I'm not sure what's worse.

 

I like the way tacitly there's an awareness of how crap the posts have become on here, though. At least that's something.

 

There's definitely an awareness of how crap some of the posts have become...

[xtriple]

2CV is PRIME autoshite mate, oddball, old, unloved when new... the fact that nowadays they are worth a few pictures of her Maj is neither here nor there.

 

This is the best forum on the interweb and that is end of discussion.

 

However, todays grump is; I realised I have had the Mazda since March and never cleaned the inside. So I did... I reckon I got an extra three dogs out of the carpet and the door cards are now black again instead of mud coloured. So I then took the dogs out in it, they had a swim and the inside looks like I haven't touched it since March...

[anonymous user]

Funnily enough I just clicked the arrow to have a look at the first page from 2007. (I appreciate that there are the even earlier, lost in the mists of time, pages that may have been completely different.) There are a few names who are still posting and a few long gone, or who rarely post now. I did note that many of the threads then had less than ten responses, so these would also have dropped off the front page pretty quickly, just as they do now. I would agree that the many of the things spotted then are vehicles that you are even less likely to see nearly ten years on.

 

On the next page is a now traditional themed post, slating Top Gear, and yes there were cars for sale back then as well, but back in 2007 people could make a post about a new Audi R8 without the now traditional slating,

 

So yes things have changed, but not that much; some of the people who have interesting, older, more rare vehicles have moved on or no longer post about them, which is a shame. For some, being on here is possibly a safe place for them to communicate and vent off about things to fairly sympathetic ears, not just about cars but life in general.

 

Sadly some of us have quite a thin skin, so if there's too much bitching or disagreement on here they will stay away. If a thread doesn't interest me I close it, accepting that this could mean I miss something good, if some of the responses would have been of more interest, after all I still like cars. It's never going to be everything about everything that everyone likes

 

I'm afraid I do read this particular thread, as some of the grumps are often amusing (and god knows I need cheering up), but could we now have a special new thread for discussing/stating how shit the general forum has become?

 

Edited to add: Oh bugger, I've just checked and see that I have only ever started eight topics/threads, and three of those weren't about cars. I don't post much about my cars as I don't do much with them other than watch them rot away, or pay other people to make them go.

Edited August 8, 2016 by anonymous user

[Captain Furious]

I've never been on a forum in my life that isn't "not what it used to be"

[Rocket88]

I blame Quentin Wilson..........................for pretty much everything that's wrong with the "old car", scene. I man who knows the price of everything, and the value of sod all............................

[danthecapriman]

I used to go on another one make forum, I haven't bothered with it for ages now, but there were some right arseholes on there, real arrogant argumentative shits. Granted it wasn't everyone, but on here there's nothing like it! There's a bit of crap now and again but it could be a lot worse.

Nowadays I try to stick to this side of the forum, and if I don't like something I just ignore it. It's not that hard to do.

 

I think I came on here in 2008 ish, it was Torsten that told me about it after he came and bought one of my Volvo's. It's the only forum I've stuck with tbh. Must be a reason for that?

 

Is Torsten still around anyway? Didn't he have a big underground car park filled with all sorts of shite?

[BorniteIdentity]

I used to go on another one make forum, I haven't bothered with it for ages now, but there were some right arseholes on there, real arrogant argumentative shits. Granted it wasn't everyone, but on here there's nothing like it! There's a bit of crap now and again but it could be a lot worse.

Nowadays I try to stick to this side of the forum, and if I don't like something I just ignore it. It's not that hard to do.

 

I think I came on here in 2008 ish, it was Torsten that told me about it after he came and bought one of my Volvo's. It's the only forum I've stuck with tbh. Must be a reason for that?

 

Is Torsten still around anyway? Didn't he have a big underground car park filled with all sorts of shite?

He is...with another name.

 

It's him hawking around a few cars atm including the Regatta that FFS bought.

[purplebargeken]

I like the forum overall. There is stuff that I don't look at and some I follow with a passion.

 

I post stuff about what I have, not the i10 tho  I tend to post if I have done something particular to the cars or if something has gone horribly wrong.

 

Hopefully folk don't get too mindlessly bored. If so, well it happens and thankfully it isn't fatal.

 

Every forum goes through the same doldrums from time to time.

 

I have no particular 'what is shite, what isn't shite' view. I just read what is on the forum and enjoy (mostly).

[dugong]

Give it a rest with the negativity its exhausting . You go on about good content getting pushed off the page but here you are doing the same. It's not just you there's always some long standing member or another popping about the good old days and the board is full of shit stuff , no one looks at my stuff or likes my posts etc .

 

I think I'm going to FRO for a bit as I'm sick of hearing the same old shite.

Right yeah, because complaining in the thread about complaints (in a thread started to specifically house complaints) is clogging the main board up - unlike the reams of tedious drivel which clog the main areas up.

 

Remember, if you get sick of all the crap, you're 'flouncing off.'

[purplebargeken]

I'm not sure I could physically 'flounce'. 

[daveb47]

My opinion......

If you dont like the crap,try posting something interesting.....

[dugong]

My opinion......

If you dont like the crap,try posting something interesting.....

 

 

If only it were that simple. 

[hairnet]

or go out and do some (whatever it might be) shit with your car go on holiday etc

 

this is internet - doesnt matter

[mercrocker]

I've never experienced anything in my life that isn't "not what it used to be"

 

Fact.  As time wears on I read less of this forum, nothing at all in the daily press and nothing in the motoring press.  

 

I watch no TV and listen to no radio.

 

None of this is necessarily a reflection on TV presenters, forum members or journalists, its just me finding the world progressively harder to live with.

 

I have found an excellent bubble in which to live and that's where I stay - and I have to say its a very vibrant place, I find new music almost every week, make new friends on a monthly basis and generally have a good time.    

 

I used to moan about how shit everything was and made myself pretty miserable as well as a couple of wives, a few girlfriends and more than a mate or two.   

 

And in case you are wondering, there are no drugs involved, just plenty of alcohol and good old rock and roll.

[dugong]

or go out and do some (whatever it might be) shit with your car go on holiday etc

 

this is internet - doesnt matter

Yes, I have been doing. Had a riot around Rockingham in my Piazza and did the Festival of The Unexceptional in it, but didn't think it would interest anyone on here so I bailed. 

 

Been steadily selling stuff off waiting for the Amazon to come back. 

Cleaned off the MGF, added more stuff to the 605 pile and slowly prepared the diesel 605 for sale. The Laguna plods on and will probably get another ticket without much mither. 

 

I've also been spending a bit of time on the Norfolk coast clearing the barnet and will be going back there soon with non car mates. 

 

[anonymous user]

Yes, I have been doing. Had a riot around Rockingham in my Piazza and did the Festival of The Unexceptional in it, but didn't think it would interest anyone on here so I bailed. 

 

That is more interesting than anything I've done and I like to see pics from the car shows as, for various reasons, I can't/don't go to them.

 

I didn't bother posting about cleaning the decayed french polish off the door cappings on the Bentley and then staining and waxing them, as it is certain that no-one would be interested in that, also because they still look pretty shit after an awful lot of work

[Bren]

Driving from North Wales to Warrington last night - it was a bit dark and a bit wet.

 

But no excuse for the myopic twats who were driving on thr A55/M56 at 40 mph. In their clapped out zafiras and picassos. I almost rear ended some tosser near Hapsford who gave the impression they were running out of fuel.

 

I also noticed people were on and off their brakes - even at low speed and light traffic.

 

Methinks there are quite a few people driving with defective eyesight. Should have gone to specsavers.

[danthecapriman]

Yes, I have been doing. Had a riot around Rockingham in my Piazza and did the Festival of The Unexceptional in it, but didn't think it would interest anyone on here so I bailed. 

 

I'd be interested if you've got pics...

[Brodders]

I would be interested too.

[saucedoctor]

Driving from North Wales to Warrington last night - it was a bit dark and a bit wet.

 

But no excuse for the myopic twats who were driving on thr A55/M56 at 40 mph. In their clapped out zafiras and picassos. I almost rear ended some tosser near Hapsford who gave the impression they were running out of fuel.

 

I also noticed people were on and off their brakes - even at low speed and light traffic.

 

Methinks there are quite a few people driving with defective eyesight. Should have gone to specsavers.

 

I've noticed that people don't know how/don't bother to clean the inside of windscreens properly. Big smudges and streaks on the glass make it very hard to see on a wet night, especially when vehicles are coming the other way.

[Timewaster]

moan moan moan. Ya grumpy pedantic old buggers.

 

 

 

 

Oh yeah. ..

[jakebullet]

Some twunt is finding it amusing to scatter 1 inch screws around my parking bit.

[Lankytim]

I think some forget that this isn't retro rides or the practically jurassic forum.

[timolloyd]

People who move out to the country, for the countryside, then get pissed off when they get stuck behind a horsebox, cyclist or slow car, can do one. 

 

I used to aspire to one of the newer-shape Range Rovers, but every week for almost a year I've encountered bleach blonde chavvy twats driving one handed in and around my local area, getting their offensive number plates and stick-on chrome trim as close as possible to anything else on the road.

 

Go back to Croydon, you clearly can't cope any further out.