The grumpy thread

[dome]

Out for a night ride tonight (MTB before anyone goes there...) and managed to go into a corner in some woods far too fast. With a big tree on the outside. Hit it shoulder first. which seemed like the best option at the time. I'm now in a fair bit of pain. 2 Ibuprofen and some harden the fuck up and I'll be right though...

[John F]

Has nobody grumped about the weather today?

 

22 degrees when I left for work and a steady 31 degrees between lunch to mid afternoon.

 

The only grump for me is that the job I'd booked for today wasn't nice in the heat, I had to remove the 6th/7th seats and pull out the inner quarter panel plastics to wire in a towbar, I was perspiring slightly

 

Good point, I was sweating like a bastard when I pulled the Disco apart earlier.

[xtriple]

Weather here has been shit today: hot yes, but overcast or pouring with rain and thunder rumbling more or less all day. I couldn't make up my mind whether to sweat or drown

[Guest Hooli]

So, the MOT is looming for my Disco. To my knowledge it currently had the following faults:

 

- leaking TXB output shaft oil seal

- contaminated handbrake shoes, caused by above

- vibration through the gearstick, which might be a dying UJ on the front propshaft but might be pretty much anything else as well

- Pulls slightly to the left whilst driving - tracking?

- sticking o/s/f brake calliper

- rumbling noise, worse while cornering, suspected worn front wheel bearings

 

So I had a preliminary poke around at it today.

 

Outcome:

 

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So that'll be a collapsed upper kingpin bearing, then. And the swivel isn't in great shape tbh, so that'll be a total of Â£150 in parts. Bâtons de Fuck!

 

To compound the issue, as I left the incapacitated Disco in bits at the unit I noticed that someone had parked this outside:

 

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FML

Brings back memories.

 

Only time I've done a CV on one of them was in the middle of a Scottish field. Filling it with grease or oil? I always went for grease as it falls out slower.

 

Funny thing is, I noticed the other day I still have have the spare swivel shims in my toolbox & I sold that car in 2007.

[John F]

Brings back memories.

 

Only time I've done a CV on one of them was in the middle of a Scottish field. Filling it with grease or oil? I always went for grease as it falls out slower.

 

Funny thing is, I noticed the other day I still have have the spare swivel shims in my toolbox & I sold that car in 2007.

 

I'll be using grease, even though it pours out just as fast when it's warm  

 

But I'm replacing the entire swivel & its seal, so there's an outside chance it might be comparatively leak-free after the rebuild (which should be this afternoon if the spares turn up as promised).

[Guest Hooli]

Might as well do the oil seal on the end of the drive shaft while you're in there?

[Sheefag]

Maybe it's just a London/South East thing but when did it become neccessary when turning left, to swing out dramatically to the right first?

[scaryoldcortina]

I always do that, if I'm driving a lorry or towing a trailer.

[Pillock]

Oh that fucks me right off.

Yes, with a 40ft trailer it becomes a necessity.

No, when you're driving a Clio, it's not. You're just being a bellend that can't drive properly and fuck everyone else on the road.

[Sheefag]

Ah, it's nationwide then.

I watched a young lad in an A3 today on the Wandsworth Road, a two lane street wide enough to be three, cross over the white line to get into an empty layby on his left.

I get it if you're driving something bigger than a Transit but what the fuck is it about, where did it come from and why is it becoming an epidemic?

[andy18s]

'Cos Scandinavian flick innit.......

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Ah, it's nationwide then.

I watched a young lad in an A3 today on the Wandsworth Road, a two lane street wide enough to be three, cross over the white line to get into an empty layby on his left.

I get it if you're driving something bigger than a Transit but what the fuck is it about, where did it come from and why is it becoming an epidemic?

In the case of young lads in A3s it's probably because he's got the seat so low and the backrest in' Baseball cap, trousers round the knees, gangsta twat' position. Meaning he cant see the end of the bonnet.

I saw a fuckwit in an M3 cabrio in a Macdonalds Drive Through, have to almost stand up to swipe his card the other day, That and having a phone stuck in the middle of the screen means these cunts have to take. Wide line everywhere to protect the Rimzzz.

[anonymous user]

I wish I'd known that Currys would send someone to clean my oven once a year.

[purplebargeken]

Oh look, it's national lets not bother indicating day today.

[Cavcraft]

I wish I'd known that Currys would send someone to clean my oven once a year.

 

Cheaper than being married.

[cort16]

Out for a night ride tonight (MTB before anyone goes there...) and managed to go into a corner in some woods far too fast. With a big tree on the outside. Hit it shoulder first. which seemed like the best option at the time. I'm now in a fair bit of pain. 2 Ibuprofen and some harden the fuck up and I'll be right though...

 

You hit a tree with your shoulder while driving the locost and all you took was to ibuprofen? Rock hard

[MarvinsMom]

my weather grump is that its been lovely outside all day and i've been stuck in the friggin' office all day and not been able to enjoy it.....

[John F]

Hooli, on 14 Sept 2016 - 1:13 PM, said:

Might as well do the oil seal on the end of the drive shaft while you're in there?

 

Yep, it's getting all new bits except for the drive flange, which is worn but not excessively so.

 

The bits didn't arrive until mid-afternoon so the rebuild is going to span into tomorrow... new swivel is fitted & shimmed up, swivel seal fitted & tested, wheel bearing races are pressed into the hub ready for reassembly tomorrow.

 

And then I can start on the ACTUAL list of things I've got to sort out for the MOT

[RoadworkUK]

Today's grump concerns anybody who drives, ooh, I dunno, say a Range Rover Sport or anything else with a registration beginning BO55.

 

I need say no more.

[purplebargeken]

Same with B1G or whatever. Tossers

[Eddie Honda]

Oh look, it's national lets not bother indicating day today.

That sounds like you've seen a load of Audis and BMWs indicating today in defiance.

[Parky]

One locally is GBH 80Y

 

Sounds like a lovely fella......

[DodgeRover]

I swear BO08IES used to be running about on a BMW round here obviously it read BOOBIES doesn't come up on the reg check system last time I checked so maybe it's on retention.

[Guest Hooli]

I used to see a filthy looking older blonde filly driving a convertible BMW around Brighton, reg 5EXY 69 or something close

[Ghosty]

Oh look, it's national lets not bother indicating day today.

 

You're right, amongst other things I almost got a shoulder full of already dented Skoda Octavia front wing today, because they were switching lanes without looking or indicating...

General non-stop fuckwittery all the time I was in the car.

[Parky]

Saw what appeared to be GP04 RKY on an Almera the other day which would have been an ideal almost personal plate without looking like I was trying to have a personal plate. Which I would never do because if I had cash to spend on a selection of letters on a plate I would give myself a good talking to about priorities in life.

 

Spend your way out of recession? Talking to the wrong person!

[Rocket88]

They've just "modernised" a couple of roundabouts in Yobville, and on two of them, with three lanes on approach, they've signed them so you can take the middle lane and turn right............that's not going to end well, is it?

[Guest Hooli]

They've just "modernised" a couple of roundabouts in Yobville, and on two of them, with three lanes on approach, they've signed them so you can take the middle lane and turn right............that's not going to end well, is it?

 

Just you wait, after it causes crashes they'll lower the speed limit to 'fix it'.

[fordperv]

Oh look, it's national lets not bother indicating day today.

must be, i was out in my work tourneo earlier and a lovely taxi driver pulled straight out from the side of the road without looking or indication nearly hitting us, i mean how do you miss a transit minibus, then has the cheek to give dirty looks and gesticulate at how we were at fault for driving along a road minding our own business.

[richardmorris]

Idiot this Morning at 6.30 in an old silver focus thought he should overtake me just as I reached the 2m width restriction. Queue screeching tyres and blaring horn. No idea why, as I was in front doing 22mph in the 30 ( on my bike). Quarter of a mile later after the second width restriction and about a minute he comes blasting past sounding his horn. Perhaps he doesn't realise that bicycles are faster than cars over the bridge? I've reported him to the Surrey police site anyway.