The grumpy thread

[chaseracer]

Flashback to sitting with my radio HAM dad in front of a warm Yaesu speaking to improbable places using Sporadic E propagation and 100w of amplification.

 

Pardon?

[anonymous user]

Pardon?

You know, a warm Yazoo, Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke

[andy18s]

CQ.....CQ.......CQDX............hope I never hear that again....

[FakeConcern]

We have a tellybox.  This is useful for watching things on the internet at a comfortable size (amazingly, not porn) but every now and then I want to watch something on the actual telly listing.  In the good old analogue days, poor reception would be a fuzzy but watchable programme and sometimes a good thump on the box would sort the issue out and save you going into the drawer of a million cogs.  Now, if the reception is anything less than perfect it's the most annoying, unwatchable, glitch-fest of random pixels and noise.  So I'm in the marvellous position of having a tellybox and a tellybox license and mostly using my PC to stream things from iPlayer and the internet at large because the improved digital service is absolute bollocks.

 

TL:DR - Analogue trumps digital.

When the digital switch on happened we totally lost all of our television signal. Never bothered with it again and dont have a TV licence now.

[richardmorris]

Mrs V8 has just told me it is 10 years today since her gran died,she was very very close to her.

 

Anything else for today.

 

My mum says she likes to remember birthdays ( father, mother, brother etc) and not death dates. Happy memory times not sad ones.

[fordperv]

the quality of driving from people, popped to Wolverhampton to pick something up, on the m6 the amount of BMW and merc tossers driving dangerously weaving and cutting you up was unbelievable

[chaseracer]

Sadly, this is normal...

[dugong]

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

[omegod]

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 ???

[beko1987]

Is a dropsy a euphemism for a blow job?

[EssDeeWon]

One Careful lady owner bollox!  I never fall for that in car adverts because every bird ive known has already driven their bastard KA/206/207/Corsa into the ground before it goes anywhere near a garage.

 

Last year my female neighbour was pouring a jug of tap water into her 206 rad, apparently it had been running badly that week,  Its a 2005 plate and she bought it NEW!!  I asked her when it was last serviced, guess what the answer was;

 

A. Last month

B. Last year

C. Ohhhh cant remember it being serviced

 

FFS!!!!

[fordperv]

funny we were talking about women's views on car maintenance at work, one of the lads went out to his mrs who had a flat tyre on her ka to put another wheel on for her, he was mortified to see that the tyre was down to cords on the inside edge so he checked them all when they got it home and all 4 tyres needed replacing, he asked her why she hadn't got new ones and her reply was she hadn't even looked at them she thought they would be OK because it passed an m.o.t. which was a good while ago

[myglaren]

I have three daughters.  None of them own a new car - a ten year old C3, a 12 year old Fiesta and an Escort RS2000 Cabriolet of I know not what vintage.

 

All three are reasonably meticulous about servicing and having any issues fixed before they develop into disasters.

 

None of them are interested in purchasing new cars.

 

Their cars get more care an attention than mine.

[Tickman]

funny we were talking about women's views on car maintenance at work....

Not just women, at where the Mrs used to work one of the vets (vet pathology lab) was complaining that his car was making a funny noise when running so he took it to the garage at the end of the road. They told him the engine was knackered (which it was) so he scrapped the car. He had bought the Subaru Legacy new and it died with over 70k on the clock and he had never even checked any of the fluids nevermind service it! 

 

I assume he topped up the screenwash unlike an old work colleage who phoned me up to ask how to open the bonnet on his company car as he had no screenwash, he had the car for 18 months at this point!

[sheffcortinacentre]

Just remember you share the roads with these people.

[jakebullet]

Idiot sister plays this game too. but her rules are she must buy the most expensive example she can find with low miles and full service history so it will never need servicing again.

 

If I'm lucky it will kill her one day. Closest so far was when I got a lift with her. Er you do know the low brake fluid light is coming on if the car goes more than 5 degrees off absolute flat? Duh, you're so stupid, that's the handbrake warning light and you can ignore it. Teaspoon of brake fluid left in the reservoir.

 

Current shitbox scraped an mot 2 month ago with advisories for tyres worn almost to the limit, so of course cos it passed that means they're guaranteed to last for a full year.

[wuvvum]

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.

 

[Noel Tidybeard]

wibble, wibble, must resist copy and past and youtube....!!1!

[Parky]

Yeah but it just needs a little more oomph......

[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