The grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

Girl in work ( fit nurse )came chugging into the car park in a sick sounding 11 plate Corsa, I had my code reader on me and it was showing a misfire. I asked her when it was last serviced, red faced she admitted it never had been since she bought it new. Being the helpful chap I am I went to ECP and bought a service kit ( 38 quid) and brought her car home for a good seeing to, plugs looked like they had seen sevice on the Belgrano, you could have smashed a window with the air filter and the paper oil filter refused to come out of the housing in one fucking piece. All running sweet now and I'll get a dropsy for my time so all good ....but....Why the fuck would you spend 13k on a new motor and then fucking ignore it ???

Because people buy old cars that pack up so buy a new car and think they'll never have to spend a penny on if or look after it 'because it's new'

[Rocket88]

"Why has my cambelt snapped, it was only MOT'd two months ago....................."

[steveo3002]

Because people buy old cars that pack up so buy a new car and think they'll never have to spend a penny on if or look after it 'because it's new'

yep because new cars are great and old shit ones break down...just look at that wierdo over the road he's always got the bonnet up  

[purplebargeken]

Weirdo waves back  Close curtains quickly in case he infects us with his old car!!!!!!

[Tamworthbay]

Hmmm, I am seen as 'free mechanic' not weirdo, not sure which is worse but all my close neighbours are interested in my old cars, two are retired and remember the cars well and the other is a land rover fan.

[steveo3002]

like some leper around here for trying to look after something ....im the only one in he whole street that washes the car or lifts the bonnet , everyone else drives till ti stops

[Angrydicky]

I've just re-read the first half of the Sierra thread, and I now have fugging "Buttery Biscuit Base" stuck in my head.

 

FFS.

 

Hahaha I've had that bloody song in my head for months now! Every time I get in the car I find myself singing or humming it!

[Supernaut]

Hahaha I've had that bloody song in my head for months now! Every time I get in the car I find myself singing or humming it!

 

And you can't get it out of your head because you've got no radio!

[Mr A Lawrence]

 

[bub2006]

Oh ffs. Thanks Andy ......

[Captain Furious]

Not really a grump but on the subject of servicing, it amazes me how many people these days have either no interest or no clue about servicing their own cars. They either won't service them at all, or spend hundreds having old bangers serviced by main dealerships when it could be done for £40 in an afternoon. It was all part of learning to drive for me

 

Ok, so it might not be reasonable to expect your average guy to be up for changing a gearbox, but a work colleague was telling me about how it's gonna cost him £2k for a new gearbox in his wife's car, I thought I could get a gearbox off a breaker and do it for 1/4 of that and still make a decent profit for myself

 

Didn't volunteer though because those sort of favours rarely work out well for me

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Reading this has made me realise that I have never, in 16 years , seen the bonnet open on any car in my street, that didn't belong to me obviously.

There are 8 houses and about 20 cars( not including mine), when I was a kid I remember there would always be someone tinkering with their car at weekends, even if it was just checking levels etc.

[beko1987]

The only time I ever usually see bonnets open in our road is when I'm stood by it with the owner helping them/laughing at them usually sadly

 

I've been known to 'pop out' before when Lenny is having issues with his astra van... last time it kept dying when hot and we had the fuel filter out, and that looked fine and that's as far as my knowledge of modern deisels go. Turns out it was a sensor, which wasnt putting the EML on...

 

"Ah sorry to hear that Lenny, but 've got to pop out to fetch something for Amy, good luck!" GLF...

[The Moog]

Having a totally shit week at work and it is only 2 days long.  Full of meetings and just utter bollocks.  Quite close to walking out...

[Tamworthbay]

The only time I ever usually see bonnets open in our road is when I'm stood by it with the owner helping them/laughing at them usually sadly

 

I've been known to 'pop out' before when Lenny is having issues with his astra van... last time it kept dying when hot and we had the fuel filter out, and that looked fine and that's as far as my knowledge of modern deisels go. Turns out it was a sensor, which wasnt putting the EML on...

 

"Ah sorry to hear that Lenny, but 've got to pop out to fetch something for Amy, good luck!" GLF...

I now hide from the old dear next door but one, she starts the car, puts it in second and revs it to 4-5000rpm then uses the clutch as an accelerator. She has got through three clutches in a year on the old golf, the second was done under warranty but when the first came out the garage fitted the new one then gave her her money back but said they didn't want to see her again! I have lost count of how many times I have jump started her when she leaves the interior light on after looking for her keys after a trip to the pub. She is mid 80s and is getting to the point I wonder if she should be driving anymore.

[barmatt]

Broken down freight train ahead of us has delayed my collection by an hour, I'm grumpy because I should be playing with a new toy now!!!

 

still half an hour to go.....

 

 

 

 

Are we there yet????

[vulgalour]

Rover was great yesterday, no problems.  Today I collected the new plug leads and alternator belt, fitted the former, started the car and fuel is just pissing out all over the place from the fuel rail where it goes into the manifold where the injectors are.  That'l be an O ring that's decided to let go then.  Joy.

[Captain Furious]

Today has progressed at approximately 0.5 times the rate of a normal earth day, I can only assume the doomsday scenario of the earth ceasing to spin that I saw on discovery once is actually happening.  Time doesn't exactly fly by here anyway but today is utter torture.

 

Had a couple of meetings too which normally pass the time in some sort of masochistic way.  I was attempting to count how many times the word 'collaboration' was mentioned, but I didn't have a clicker and lost count at eleventy hundred and something.

[anonymous user]

Had a couple of meetings too which normally pass the time in some sort of masochistic way.  I was attempting to count how many times the word 'collaboration' was mentioned, but I didn't have a clicker and lost count at eleventy hundred and something.

For long/boring/pointless meetings, apart from playing "bullshit bingo", a colleague and I used to play a game where we would introduce a meaningless "new" management phrase and start using it to see how soon it would be before somebody else would start using it. For a while "now" became replaced with "in the immediate time-frame" in just about every meeting or report, sometimes we wished we hadn't started it.

[RoadworkUK]

Thanks to the video above I've just remembered how much Gregg Wallace looks like a hybrid of Penfold from Dangermouse and the Sta-Puft Marshmallow Man.

[richardmorris]

There was some truly psychotic driving in said region of the M6 last night, too.

If I'd have got all the number I'd have reported the cockwomble in the 65 reg tesla belting through windlesham an hour ago on the wrong side of the road at a conservative 60mph in the 30 limit. Overtook three cars plus a ups van which was behind me ( our local delivery driver for work actually) towards a car pulling out of a junction. Said car swerves left onto pavement and tesla guy swerves left and missed me on my bike by about a foot ( at mentioned 60). Swerved so hard he ricocheted off the kerb on our side of the road which then throws him back into the path of oncoming traffic smacking the mirrror on a people carrier. He then accelerated up the hill without stopping.

Either it was stolen or he was drunk I expect. Oh, I know he overtook three cars, a van and me on the bike as we all stopped! Happened so fast though no one got the number.

[RoadworkUK]

At least his mirror will cost £££ to fix, if it was even his car.

[DVee8]

After the pedal bike accident my lad had yesterday,he now has to go to the facial injuries unit at Newcastle RVI tomorrow to have the infection drained from his lip and his fingers need re-xraying.

[chaseracer]

For long/boring/pointless meetings, apart from playing "bullshit bingo", a colleague and I used to play a game where we would introduce a meaningless "new" management phrase and start using it to see how soon it would be before somebody else would start using it. For a while "now" became replaced with "in the immediate time-frame" in just about every meeting or report, sometimes we wished we hadn't started it.

 

Yep.

 

"Transformational change"?

 

If you mean "imminent privatisation and large-scale redundancies" fucking say so, you shiny-suited twat, and don't offend my ears with patronising tortological inexactitudes.

 

GAH.

[dollywobbler]

If I'd have got all the number I'd have reported the cockwomble in the 65 reg tesla belting through windlesham an hour ago on the wrong side of the road at a conservative 60mph in the 30 limit. Overtook three cars plus a ups van which was behind me ( our local delivery driver for work actually) towards a car pulling out of a junction. Said car swerves left onto pavement and tesla guy swerves left and missed me on my bike by about a foot ( at mentioned 60). Swerved so hard he ricocheted off the kerb on our side of the road which then throws him back into the path of oncoming traffic smacking the mirrror on a people carrier. He then accelerated up the hill without stopping.

Either it was stolen or he was drunk I expect. Oh, I know he overtook three cars, a van and me on the bike as we all stopped! Happened so fast though no one got the number.

 

Maybe it was in self-driving-twat mode?

[richardmorris]

I have more faith in computers! I've no idea really what he ( presumably) was thinking (?) of. Nothing to do with me on the bike, I was just in the wrong place. I'll have a chat with the local police next time I see them round the park and see what they'd advise ( the chief one likes the 2cv!)

[HillmanImp]

Just went to get a new carseat for Imp jr. but none of them would fit safely on the Jags rear seats as they are quite bucketed and the base wouldn't sit right.

 

Normally this would be the perfect excuse to buy another car but I like the Jag.

 

They are having to refer it to the seat manufacturers to see if they have any suggestions on what seat to use. I imagine it will be a really expensive one.

[beko1987]

Can you get some dense foam to level it out?

[Tamworthbay]

Just went to get a new carseat for Imp jr. but none of them would fit safely on the Jags rear seats as they are quite bucketed and the base wouldn't sit right.

 

Normally this would be the perfect excuse to buy another car but I like the Jag.

 

They are having to refer it to the seat manufacturers to see if they have any suggestions on what seat to use. I imagine it will be a really expensive one.

We have a Graco one that sits well in the BMW seats which are quite sculpted.

[Lord Sterling]

Bloody Rover 800s. Where are these bastard things coming from? Is somone trying to tell me something? Since spotting the Partridge "twin" Sterling in Colchester I've seen 4 more and again, not in a position to photograph them as I like to do. ARSE.

 

Spotted another late Silver Fastback Sterling down south somewhere near Colchester/Essex area. Then I spotted Red Coupe in Abergele station carpark, couse I couldn't pap it because I had 2 minutes before my train was due and the carpark was on the otherside. GAH! On the same day, a Silver Sterling was spotted going the other way on the M62, then on the same stretch a Black 827 Limo with a couple of young chaps in it was spotted near Warrington, I briefly spoke to the driver and I did get a picture of the Limo.

 

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