The grumpy thread

[steveo3002]

 Why oh why make a nice car almost undriveable?

 

all the pimply school kids on the forums will big him up and give encouraging comments lol

 

but yeah with the state of ours roads you want fat tyres and good suspension to make progress

[garbaldy]

Because the pay is negotiable depending on skills and experience.

That usually means it's minimum wage or your to qualified for us,

I won't be wasting my time on those type of adds anymore so I hope to god I get kept on here if it sells.

[Negative Creep]

Seen a fox in the garden quite often, which I thought was quite nice. Except this morning I go outside to find the head and two legs of a rabbit strewn over the lawn. Going by the colour scheme and the fact I'm in an urban area I think some poor child is going to be wondering why Hoppy isn't in his hutch this morning........

[steveo3002]

^ what did you think they ate ?    they dont nip up the shops for a sandwich

[Tamworthbay]

There are urban rabbits everywhere. In Tamworth there is a roundabout in the middle of Ventura shopping hell. If you bother to look of an evening it is covered in rabbits but most folk are blind to what's around them.

[HillmanImp]

Bollocks.

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Going to get a wet bum driving to the shops this morning.

Just started up the car and the passenger front window decided to wind itself down and wouldn't go back up again using the drivers side controls, I had to use the passenger side.

 

Hopefully it will be fine when it dries out.

[eddyramrod]

all the pimply school kids on the forums will big him up and give encouraging comments lol

 

but yeah with the state of ours roads you want fat tyres and good suspension to make progress

Yes, exactly

[OwdChina]

It's very rare I have a grump on here because mainly I'm a miserable old twat who is grumpy about almost everything these days, and there aint enough room in here for me to moan about everything that gets my back up ............ but ............. women.

 

Just when I thought I'd got her trained.............there is a reason manufacturers put gauges on the dashboard ............. when the temp gauge reads hot as fook and oil pressure gauge is going down faster than a burst tyre it means stop the car immediately .............. NOT try to make it home ............. fucks sake.

[dave21478]

Time to lose some weight.

 

[Tamworthbay]

Or buy a welder.....

[Negative Creep]

^ what did you think they ate ?    they dont nip up the shops for a sandwich

 

 

Well yes I am aware of that, my point was that putting a fly covered severed head in a bag wasn't the way I wanted to start the morning

[plasticvandan]

Wages competitive= too shit to put in the advert.

[bub2006]

Fuck it. Here we go again. Can tensioner gave out on the Audi on way home from work. Hazard a guess that parts have collided that shouldn't. RAC chap comes, attatches steel bar to car and tows me home. Turning into the cul de sac he goes too tight meaning towbar now gets dragged through front bumper fucking it and the rad plastic behind. I'm going to bed.

[Jazoli]

Wages competitive= too shit to put in the advert.

 

Its well above minimum wage for starters, and that's with no qualifications, its permanent weekends so I can't pay peanuts.

[Tamworthbay]

Fuck it. Here we go again. Can tensioner gave out on the Audi on way home from work. Hazard a guess that parts have collided that shouldn't. RAC chap comes, attatches steel bar to car and tows me home. Turning into the cul de sac he goes too tight meaning towbar now gets dragged through front bumper fucking it and the rad plastic behind. I'm going to bed.

RAC should sort it, when they used my MGB GT rad as a jacking point I got a courtesy car out of them, but the original problem was just a wire off the starter solenoid so a bit different.

[bub2006]

Its so hard trying g to get my life on track and thinking things are great then shit gets thrown back!

[MarvinsMom]

stupid shitty mouse pad thing on the laptop-a-ma-bob has stopped working.

 

helpfully* the settings thing on windows say that the device has stopped working.

 

well thank you very friggin' much. for telling me the blindingly obvious.....

 

luckily i have the mouse that is tied to the computer, using a wire with me so browsing rubbish and posting bollocks can continue.

 

i fuckin' hate computers.

[dugong]

Fuck it. Here we go again. Can tensioner gave out on the Audi on way home from work. Hazard a guess that parts have collided that shouldn't. RAC chap comes, attatches steel bar to car and tows me home. Turning into the cul de sac he goes too tight meaning towbar now gets dragged through front bumper fucking it and the rad plastic behind. I'm going to bed.

I'm sorry you keep having these problems bub but if you insist on buying moribund crap, they're going to break on you. The pattern of boom to bust is depressingly familiar.

 

The RAC are fuckwits, mind - make sure they sort you out for the damage they caused.

[bub2006]

To be fair a tensioner can fail on anyone or anything. One of them things. And I will certainly make sure I get some recompense.

[dugong]

To be fair a tensioner can fail on anyone or anything. One of them things. And I will certainly make sure I get some recompense.

Right, but it's more likely to fail on a starship mileage diesel Audi that probably hasn't seen a service bay since the death of VHS.

 

You'll get sorted.

[bub2006]

The Audi has only got 138k on clock and I've changed oil on it. Admitted there is no proof of cambelt so I could be to blame for not doing it sooner.

[dugong]

The Audi has only got 138k on clock and I've changed oil on it. Admitted there is no proof of cambelt so I could be to blame for not doing it sooner.

Aye.

 

A post mortem on the C4's engine concluded that the turbo strainer got blocked because I went over the service interval by 3000 miles. I was so hard up at the time I couldn't even buy the service parts to keep it running. Result: bottom end seizure.

 

See, I can be an incompetent cunt as well as being unhelpful.

[bub2006]

Such is life chap. I'm trying to get in touch with my dad for past 4 hours trying to borrow his car to get to work in morning. Need a fucking ouji board!

[Kiltox]

Gutted bub - sadly I don't have any road legal spare shite in my yard at the moment else I'd help you out!

 

Selling the modern Clio ASAP so if anything comes in part ex I'll give you a shout and you can have it dirt fucking cheap

[bub2006]

Makes me laugh. Been rining and texting my dad for 4 hours. No reply. Wife texts him and replys in 5 mins. Think he ignoring me!

[bub2006]

Gutted bub - sadly I don't have any road legal spare shite in my yard at the moment else I'd help you out!

 

Selling the modern Clio ASAP so if anything comes in part ex I'll give you a shout and you can have it dirt fucking cheap

Large, auto and towbar would be great! Thanks in all seriousness for consideration

[Cavcraft]

Washing the car this evening (why does it go in the garage immaculate and come out a week later covered in shit and dust?) and the lass over the road came over for a chat, she ended up holding my hose (fnarr!) while I washed. So, having washed the heap we sat outside my gaff and had a chat/flirt/laugh and it was all most convivial.

 

So why the grump?

 

'Cos when she'd gone, I worked out how old she must be from random information gleaned during the conversation. I reckon she is 25 years younger than me! That. is SERIOUSLY fucking depressing and a good reason for a grump in my mind!

 

If a bird 25 years younger than me came to look at my car and started flirting with me, I'm pretty sure I'd be in the back of the Bentley right now trying to wipe the population paste of the leather seats and inviting her round again tomorrow. 

[Supernaut]

population paste

That's a new one to me!

 

[Lankytim]

^ what did you think they ate ?    they dont nip up the shops for a sandwich

 

Urban foxes just eat any rubbish they find, big mac's, KFC e.t.c It's rare for them to bust open a rabbit hutch. I recon the rabbit had escaped and hopped into a foxes jaws as it was yawning or something.

 

Apparently there's a problem with city dwellers catching problem urban foxes and setting them free again in the countryside- they can't hunt so just starve to death. They're that used to rooting through bin bags for food that the instinct to hunt has been bred out of them.

[Kiltox]

Large, auto and towbar would be great! Thanks in all seriousness for consideration

It might be none of those given what it'll be part exchanged against but the cheapness will be real