The grumpy thread

[eddyramrod]

I don't know how anyone does jury service.  I've been in the public gallery in a couple of courts, and a prosecution witness once, and I can't imagine how anyone stays awake!  There's no sarky humour like Judge Rinder, there's no impassioned pleading like Jack Lemmon in "How To Murder Your Wife;" it's all calm, quiet, reasoned arguments with more downtime than a cricket match.

 

Quite apart from persuading one's boss that he can't take the two weeks out of my holiday allowance, which is already booked right up.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Not looked in this thread in a bit. 3 hours later and I wish I hadn't

 

 

Frontera in for test today. Failed. Only to be expected as I'm getting proper pissed off with the wankers at the garage I normally use. All minor faults* but they've fucked about with the ST and it's still making a mystery noise.

 

Anyway the faults*, wipers not clearing screen. Utter bollocks they're spot on. Fog light not working on drivers side (apparently that's the only side it has to work on, which is a new one on me.

But the main annoying one was "front registration plate likely to be misread". What on the same plate you passed it with last year

Yeah it's a bit cracked but hardly unreadable.

 

So gets a new one, it's fucking ugly

 

Waste of a tenner and I've still to get some wipers as the one spare I had is too short.

[Noel Tidybeard]

I'll have you know that the Bentley is costing me nothing at the moment! It can't it's locked in my garage and even it can't cost me anything when locked away and not used! 

 

 

that's what you think!

[Rusty_Rocket]

Time to find a new MoT place, Alabama.. I've been going to the same garage for mots for twenty years. They understand old cars, they know I'll never take the mickey- it's a good working relationship!

[Parky]

Am on holiday. Thoroughly enjoying immersing myself in local culture.

 

However my digestive system has gone all Little Englander on me and has decided that anything different is obviously bad. Fucksticks

[Sheefag]

There's your mistake right there. Never eat the Fucksticks.

[Parky]

I wouldn't mind if I was somewhere exotic but I am in Sweden FFS!!! Been here three days and the SVM would have passed out long before now

 

Some chod has been sighted but it's not exactly Mauretania....

[dugong]

I don't post on the Dolomite forum anymore because my cars are too shit and they'll tell me I need new sills but I can't afford £250 worth of panels + weldage and paint, so they aren't getting new sills, they're getting patched to MOT standard. Yes, the rear doors scuff a bit if you open them with the car jacked up. I suspect the vast majority of Dolomites that haven't been restored or lived mollycoddled lives suffer from the same problem.

I mean I'd love to carry out a full body restoration on my £850 car that would be worth £1200 when it's finished and cost £5k but its just not going to happen. It's not going to snap in half and if you crash a Dolomite you're going to be well fucked regardless of sill strength when modern cars are the size and weight of a Leyland Olympian.

 

I dunno', I have to wonder whether somebody of my social class/financial state belongs in the "classic" world. My main goal is to simply keep the cars on the road as much as possible but is that really enough? I feel like I'm doing a disservice but is anybody else is going to want to restore the 1850HL? There isn't a single straight/rust free panel on it and it's a high mile example of a financially worthless model of car. The 1300 is prettier but thats just the result of long term giffer ownership, it's still crusty in (mostly non-structural) places and is in even worse shape engine-wise.

 

Forward progress is happening for the first time in over a year but sometimes think the money and effort I put in simply isn't enough. It's all a bit "scraping an MOT pass in 1991", but 25 years late.

Do you like the car and want to keep it?

 

If it's a cheque book competition, you're probably right to get out of there.

Showing my own cars at car shows (particularly that fucking Amazon) doesn't interest me in the slightest any more.

 

Talk to me about your own car and I'm all ears; tell me what you reckon's wrong with mine and I'm gone.

[danthecapriman]

I got a letter saying I'd been selected for jury service, I threw it in the bin and never heard anymore about it

My mate at work did the same thing and nothing happened. Isn't it a legal requirement you attend if asked? I'm sure he said there were threats of getting in deep shit if you didn't respond or turn up. Clearly a load of of bullshit.

 

That's what I'm going to do if I ever get called up! Can't be arsed with all that shit.

[DeeJay]

 

 

Are you feeding your pet croc a sandwich?

[Pillock]

Naked, pert-breasted woman vet with a Minecraft head checks an alligator's teeth.

[chaseracer]

Pointless without pics.  Pillock.

[John F]

I washed my LT camper today, and mended a niggly side door locking issue.

 

It rewarded me by refusing to start (suspected glowplugs solenoid issue) and it now has a clunk from the OSF suspension, which cannot be connected in any way to being washed.

 

BASTARD.

[Kiltox]

Not looked in this thread in a bit. 3 hours later and I wish I hadn't

 

 

Frontera in for test today. Failed. Only to be expected as I'm getting proper pissed off with the wankers at the garage I normally use. All minor faults* but they've fucked about with the ST and it's still making a mystery noise.

 

Anyway the faults*, wipers not clearing screen. Utter bollocks they're spot on. Fog light not working on drivers side (apparently that's the only side it has to work on, which is a new one on me.

But the main annoying one was "front registration plate likely to be misread". What on the same plate you passed it with last year

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Yeah it's a bit cracked but hardly unreadable.

 

So gets a new one, it's fucking ugly

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Waste of a tenner and I've still to get some wipers as the one spare I had is too short.

Failing that plate is ridiculous - I'm a dick though and prefer the newer one

[Jazoli]

Went to take the bike out for a ride today and noticed the exhaust was even louder than its usual rolling thunder, upon further investigation the downpipe and collector is fucked, this is 1 day before I'm due to do 4 days riding round wales.

 

 

State of play today, typically they are made of fucking unobtanium and there are no used ones on ebay, I knew I should have bought a GSXR, s/h parts are ten a penny on ebay for them, that's my weeks holiday fucked.

[jakebullet]

Just got back from a nice day out with Kinky Girl. Why the grumpy thread? one word: Ma.

 

We're playing the sit in the chair not doing anything, and being monosyllabic game.

 

What's wrong?

Nothing

 

What have I done now?

Nothing

 

Do you want to.....?

No.

 

I'm thinking about fucking off to the garage cos drilling holes in things would be a step up.

[anonymous user]

^ It won't be that loud, we're used to it in Wales, just enjoy the holiday and wear ear-plugs

[eddyramrod]

^ It won't be that loud, we're used to it in Wales, just enjoy the holiday and wear ear-plugs

Can't be as loud as the Tornados on low-flying training!

[taxi paul]

Having to travel over to the Wirral daily last few weeks and when you get to the tunnel toll booths there are usually. Two manned ones, lorries ,buses people with no change. Three automatic ones , for people with the right money. Then finally one fast tag toll booth, obviously fir people with the prepay tag in the car. All the booths have HUGE signs to avoid confusion. So my grump is. Why are the tw%ts who drive up and see the big queues for the relevant toll booths. Then go into the little queue fast tag booth only to get to the front and then press for help cos they haven't got a fucking fast tag always in a BMW or range rover . I was in the next booth today has Mr range rover, with private plate. Drove past the waiting cars gets into the fast tag lane and then try's to pay. Security lady comes over and points out he cant pay. He gets all shouty so she calls over the tunnel police officers who then open the barrier and ask him to pull over to the side for a chat. Hope they kept him there for an hour. I notice people never seem to misread the four foot high lane signs when there are no queues.

[Jazoli]

^ It won't be that loud, we're used to it in Wales, just enjoy the holiday and wear ear-plugs

 

It is, its a 1000cc V twin, it is very fucking loud! there's no going back as it fell to pieces when I removed it, it will have be be replaced

[eddyramrod]

 There's no fucking way I'm going to work alongside someone who would do that behind my back. 

 

Today I've been in and declined to go any further with my application.  I feel better for having done something, but will forever wonder if it was the right thing or not as I really do need to get away from the bakery.

 

[The Moog]

(Pointless reality telly show bollocks) I haven't got a passport or owt, but I'm currently about .000000002 nano seconds away from going to Italy, finding Brendan's coach and punching the absolute shit of that bastard Alex and paying a woman to smash Rochelle's face in with a barrage of house bricks dipped in dog shit.

Plus eleventy

[Des]

It is, its a 1000cc V twin, it is very fucking loud! there's no going back as it fell to pieces when I removed it, it will have be be replaced

 

Man up, beancan and hoseclip it. Anyway, loud pipes save lives.

[eddyramrod]

(Pointless reality telly show bollocks) I haven't got a passport or owt, but I'm currently about .000000002 nano seconds away from going to Italy, finding Brendan's coach and punching the absolute shit of that bastard Alex and paying a woman to smash Rochelle's face in with a barrage of house bricks dipped in dog shit.

Who?  I don't recognise any of these names.

[hairnet]

Am on holiday. Thoroughly enjoying immersing myself in local culture.

 

However my digestive system has gone all Little Englander on me and has decided that anything different is obviously bad. Fucksticks

 

 

There's your mistake right there. Never eat the Fucksticks.

 

 

dont you mean salford

[FakeConcern]

I hired a Transit today to help my youngest daughter move to Norwich. Went to Brighton to load up the van and discovered it has a 56mph limiter fitted! What a pain to drive a 400 mile round trip tomorrow at that speed.

[beko1987]

My dad messaged me earlier, the air con condensor on stepmums 2008 clio has gone. Looking about, it's £££ for the part, with the added fun of mk2 and mk3 bingo, which ran for 10 years side by side...

 

I told him to rip it all out and attach the air con button to a small 12v fan (he isn't a car guy at all, so he wouldnt be able to do that either)

[Timewaster]

I hired a Transit today to help my youngest daughter move to Norwich. Went to Brighton to load up the van and discovered it has a 56mph limiter fitted! What a pain to drive a 400 mile round trip tomorrow at that speed.

Having driven many many miles in a 56 limited van I can honestly say it makes very little difference to your arrival time.

Even traveling in convoy with unlimited vehicles I was never more than 5 minutes behind.

[Pillock]

Pointless without pics. Pillock.

[FakeConcern]

Having driven many many miles in a 56 limited van I can honestly say it makes very little difference to your arrival time.

Even traveling in convoy with unlimited vehicles I was never more than 5 minutes behind.

Looking at your user name, I don't know if I believe you!

 

I'll let you know how I get on tomorrow.