The grumpy thread

[HillmanImp]

I just walked a few miles to pick up the MR2 and when I got there the battery was flat. FFS.

 

Started walking back and decided to get a cornish pastie from a bakery in Shipley, but it was sodding awful and I had to bin it.

 

Losing my enthusiasm i decided to get a taxi back and couldn't find my jump leads, so I grabbed a spare battery and drove the Jag back to the MR2 by which time the traffic round Shipley and Saltaire had come to a complete standstill.

 

When I finally got through the traffic KAOS which was parked across all the junctions so nobody could get anywhere, I realised I had left my spanners at home and couldn't get the fucking flat battery off and was close to topping myself but I popped down the road to a garage who kindly lent me some spanners.

 

Despite the way my day was going, the spare battery was actually charged and the car fired up.

 

I took the roof off, put on some aviator shades and started singing some house tunes in my head as there's no stereo.

 

Once I got through the traffic i finally got the car home, which is a grin but the prolonged affair has left me in a bit of a grump still and unsure if I will be able to deal with doing repairs today as if something goes tits up, I might just commit hari kari with a tyre iron.

 

I am in a bad mindset but need to get it done and back to where it lives especially as the Jag is now over there.

 

[xtriple]

I think we all get days/weeks like that. Say one wrong fucking word and an explosion WILL occur!  I remember many years ago being in a mood like that (and had been for a while) and I HAD to do the front trunnions on a poxy Scimitar (SE5 if it matters?) and the bastards were seized in grand style - I had one in a vice and I was knocking it round with a hammer (it was moving, but very slowly) so I could strip and clean it out (they clog up with old grease - clean it all out and good as new) and someone called me mid swing, the hammer left my grasp and hit me in the shin! I exploded into incandescent rage instantly and everything went flying and culminated in a trolley jack going across the workshop at head height and through a window.

 

I calmed down/cheered up after that!

[Kiltox]

I just walked a few miles to pick up the MR2 and when I got there the battery was flat. FFS.

 

Started walking back and decided to get a cornish pastie from a bakery in Shipley, but it was sodding awful and I had to bin it.

 

Losing my enthusiasm i decided to get a taxi back and couldn't find my jump leads, so I grabbed a spare battery and drove the Jag back to the MR2 by which time the traffic round Shipley and Saltaire had come to a complete standstill.

 

When I finally got through the traffic KAOS which was parked across all the junctions so nobody could get anywhere, I realised I had left my spanners at home and couldn't get the fucking flat battery off and was close to topping myself but I popped down the road to a garage who kindly lent me some spanners.

 

Despite the way my day was going, the spare battery was actually charged and the car fired up.

 

I took the roof off, put on some aviator shades and started singing some house tunes in my head as there's no stereo.

 

Once I got through the traffic i finally got the car home, which is a grin but the prolonged affair has left me in a bit of a grump still and unsure if I will be able to deal with doing repairs today as if something goes tits up, I might just commit hari kari with a tyre iron.

 

I am in a bad mindset but need to get it done and back to where it lives especially as the Jag is now over there.

 

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Crap series of events - might I suggest investing in one of these https://www.amazon.co.uk/Suaoki-Portable-Starter-Battery-Charging/dp/B019GCENC8/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1471261820&sr=8-7&keywords=suaoki+jump+starter or similar to prevent this problem in the future?

[vulgalour]

Just caught up here and feel the need to express sympathy in Cavcraft's general direction.  Not a lot else to do.

[Station]

DISLIKE

Flashed a HGV out this morning on the motorway, and headlight cover decided to take to the air while everybody behind me then tried to evasive manoeuvre avoid it as it landed just outside of the hard shoulder. I'm hoping it's somehow survived intact but I think it's now been flattened by 1000 HGVs.

HGV didn't even want to pull out, grr.

[Supernaut]

Have you got his email address? If yes then http://www.mailbait.info/

 

Bookmarked that. That's brilliant. I may use it for a few things, like next time a fucking contractor's van is parked across the gate into the back lane...

[HillmanImp]

Just caught up here and feel the need to express sympathy in Cavcraft's general direction. Not a lot else to do.

I hadn't seen that. Puts my pastie problems in their place. How horrible.

 

Thoughts are with the nearest abd dearest as it must be grim times.

[dugong]

First of all: condolences to Billy (also PM'd on Facebook). 
 

Flashed a HGV out this morning on the motorway, and headlight cover decided to take to the air while everybody behind me then tried to evasive manoeuvre avoid it as it landed just outside of the hard shoulder. I'm hoping it's somehow survived intact but I think it's now been flattened by 1000 HGVs.
HGV didn't even want to pull out, grr.

 

I assumed it had been ripped off by a local scrote. What a pisser.

[anonymous user]

I think we all get days/weeks like that. Say one wrong fucking word and an explosion WILL occur!  I remember many years ago being in a mood like that (and had been for a while) and I HAD to do the front trunnions on a poxy Scimitar (SE5 if it matters?) and the bastards were seized in grand style - I had one in a vice and I was knocking it round with a hammer (it was moving, but very slowly) so I could strip and clean it out (they clog up with old grease - clean it all out and good as new) and someone called me mid swing, the hammer left my grasp and hit me in the shin! I exploded into incandescent rage instantly and everything went flying and culminated in a trolley jack going across the workshop at head height and through a window.

 

I calmed down/cheered up after that!

See also Austin Gypsy/lump hammer interface, after the clutch slave cylinder replacement didn't work (I'm a lot calmer these days)

[anonymous user]

A minor* grump, it's my own fault and I have yet to find out what the consequences may be. I am normally meticulous with paperwork; however since some insurance companies no longer send paper certificates and you can tax online I don't always print them off and keep them with the V5. Which is how I forgot to cancel the insurance on the Smart. I only remembered I hadn't when cancelling the insurance (where I did have a paper certificate) on the TR7.

 

I then rang and cancelled the insurance on the Smart, explaining my error and thought that was it. Today I had a phone call from the insurer advising that they believe it was involved in a collision in July. I explained the situation again and have emailed them a copy of the slip from DVLA showing I was no longer the keeper, together with the details of the garage that had it back.

 

It is showing as taxed until May next year (It went from me in March, but I last drove it in Dec2015), I am wondering if it does have a new "owner" or whether it is still floating around in the trade. I am holding off contacting the garage until I hear any more from the insurance people.

 

i am aware that there may be unpleasant consequences for my stupidity. but it's my own fault

[BavarianRetro]

You (and in reality your insurance) are only responsible for the accident and its repercussions if you were driving or the person who was driving was covered to drive under your insurance.

 

Just having a car insured doesn't, of itself, make you liable for any actions of somebody driving it.

[Cavcraft]

Thanks, gents. Went to see my sister-in-law yesterday, 44 and she hasn't got long now. I think it must be easier just to go to a funeral to be honest, the heartache of seeing someone slowly passing away is just horrible. Not that I regret going and getting the chance to talk to her, of course. Thats selfish though, it's her and my brother who are suffering.

[RobT]

Puts things in perspective, my thoughts are with you Billy.

[fordperv]

It is sad cav i went through watching mrs fp's nan in the same situation, it killed me to see, the only thing that comforted me slightly was the fact I got to say my goodbyes, she had a fantastic life and was a ripe old age, it must be even more horrible to see it happening someone of no age at all,

 

sorry mate

[jakebullet]

Asda credit card set a trap, and I fell for it

 

I pay it off in full every month, only got it for the cashback lols. New statement came today, interest charge of £10. Eh? Phoned them up, and then sussed it. Page 1 of the statement was only printed to halfway down the page and said £350. Sneaky fuckers then put another £80 of transactions on page 2, so I only paid the £350.

[xtriple]

So sorry to hear this Billy?Cavcraft. I read something on facebook and twigged something was amiss but wasn't sure what. This sort of clarifies it. Really shit for all concerned.

[purplebargeken]

44? FFS, that is no age at all. Damn, damn and damn.

[Tamworthbay]

Just got back from holiday and found out the lad I know with meningitis died last week. He was 16 and a hell of a character. Can't begin to imagine how it must be for his family.

[MarvinsMom]

a minor car related grump, considering some of the issues other members are having to deal with at the moment....

 

but,

 

had to change the back brake lamp on the rover.

 

so what?

 

how hard can it be?

 

if it is the estate, friggin' hard. as the lamp is held on by 2 screws, and then 2 sorta ball joint things. and the lamp is held in a doulbe skin sealed compartment in the back panel. 

 

so go and find that the screws are both rusted solid, when i DO get them loose, it turns out someone else has already been in there and the skinny, fragile mount things that the screws go through are broke and the unit has been mastiked on....

 

bugger...

 

so guess what, that is what i've done, mastik bodged it back onto the car. i hope i don't need to go back in there anytime soon!

 

and the twit ant Rover who "designed" such a cheap shit fixing, i hope that someone gives him a good stiff talking too

 

with a cricket bat!!

[beko1987]

 

and the twit ant Rover who "designed" such a cheap shit fixing, i hope that someone gives him a good stiff talking too

 

with a cricket bat!!

I wouldn't worry about it, he probably lost his job by now...

[anonymous user]

I wouldn't worry about it, he probably lost his job by now... designs for BMW or Mercedes now

[EssDeeWon]

I did have a couple of grumps, but having just read Billy's news I've realised I no longer have anything to moan about.

[trigger]

My grump is nothing like Billys but can you believe it, being found next to a burning car and being positively Id'ed as a driver in a stolen car still isn't enough evidence for a conviction these days.

 

It's no wonder these cunts keep going on to steal more and more cars all the time.

[Lankytim]

Say WHAAAAT?

[trigger]

Mrs T got a voice message on her phone tonight from the local old bill, apparently they had to let the two joyriders off bail due to a lack of evidence, fuck knows how after what people told me and even the police knew it was them but i guess as they burnt the car all the evidence inside it went with it.

 

I'm a bit concerned now that they might come back. Bloody marvelous country we live in isn't it.

[Lankytim]

I know we live under the rule of law, and every person is entitled to a full and fair trial with evidence and stuff but whey can't we just hang them off a lamp post?

[fordperv]

The system stinks, no doubt these drains on society will also live to a ripe old age as well, trig I am sorry to say but the only way to sort this is the old school way if you get my drift

[fraser.innes.3]

Mrs T got a voice message on her phone tonight from the local old bill, apparently they had to let the two joyriders off bail due to a lack of evidence, fuck knows how after what people told me and even the police knew it was them but i guess as they burnt the car all the evidence inside it went with it.

 

I'm a bit concerned now that they might come back. Bloody marvelous country we live in isn't it.

Does that mean that your insurance company is now no longer liable for the damage they caused?

 

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[purplebargeken]

Really? Well fuck me sideways.

 

Seeing as they are totally innocent*, no harm in providing the details of this pair of bellends is there.

 

Just disconnect all of the king leads from the cars/take the rotor arms out.

 

Cunts! Cunts! Cunts! Cunts! 

[trigger]

Does that mean that your insurance company is now no longer liable for the damage they caused?

 

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I did wonder that. So it's probably a result for my insurance, not so much for the car owners they hit or the council signs and posts they damaged.

 

The annoying thing this is i know where they live, but I've been told some pretty bad horror stories about them so the last thing i want to do is start a war. Sadly people like this think they are above the law and cases like this just goes to make them feel even more untouchable.