The grumpy thread

[maxpower]

Ebay tossers (again)Two weeks ago I list an old 3 series for spares or repair.It's got 17" M3 alloys and other assorted bolt on M3 bits but only two weeks tax and test.Listed it with all it's faults (quite a few) buy it now 325 clams.Sold within minutes I send the buyer an invoice and he's straight on the phone "when can I collect" whenever you like came the reply.So HE arranges a time,Sunday afternoon, then disappears into cyberspace.Late Sunday afternoon I phone him back.Oh no answer so I phone again an hour later.Oh no answer again.Right then let's phone the number on his buyer details."who ? never heard of him.Ebay eh,well you the fourth person this month" Hmm so false details then.After sticking this tosser in my blocked bidder list I inform ebay.A reply of "we'll look into it" followed by a satisfaction survey.First proper question is.:would you recommend ebay to others ? No I fooking wouldn't.This sends the survey into a spazz attack...OMG why not please explain...Well ebay your feedback system sucks.I spend over 150 quid a month in listing fees but am not allowed to leave accurate feedback to warn other sellers of tossers like this.So I relist the car named and shamed then fook me the same thing happens.Well the wheels are coming off and it's over the bridge next week

i sympathise with you.. i bought a clutch... guy has pic of box showing the 3 piece clutch... comes to £39 inc p&p gets delivered...no feckin bearing??mails the guy... "ah yes it was only 2 piece i couldnt afford whole kit" then its not a full kit as you advertised is it?.... he comes back like a smartass saying " it didnt say bearing came with it,though it shows picture of it on the box" so i said "yes but it didnt say it feckin NEVER came with it" upshot is i got full refund.. even though he said he doesnt give refunds. ebay thinking they have rescued the day.. WELL EBAY IM STILL £9 OUT OF POCKET POSTING IT BACK TO HIM!!!

[Father Ted]

I know, but its like bloody groundhog day! heres the link back for the explaination of why local radio plays what it plays from one of the (many) times it has come up beforehttp://autoshite.commlm/forum/viewtopic.ph ... start=2400

Tis true - I do only listen to the wireless whilst in the car. My listening pleasure alternates between Smooth FM, BBC7 (on the pink battery powered Alba) and KLF's the White Room (side A). Side B of the White room is gash.

[Roc 24v]

Try Absolute, used to be Virgin. None of the shite they play on Capital.

Better still Absolute 80's, hardly any chat, just classic tunes.Only DAB in London, but on net, iPhone, etc, elsewhere.

Yeah listened to that on the web, but can't get it in the van. I will be stuffed when regular analogue radio goes off.

That's where the phone app comes in, they have them for most smartphones, I listen on my car stereo via the phone.

[Guest]

Hey, guess what! MOAR Citroen problems.As I need this car, this SHIT car to get me to and from work etc etc, I decided to bite the bullet and take it to my indie place and get the front wheel bearing done, as the car will sooner or later grind to a halt.After arguing the arse off with various managers at work, I finally get a half day off work so that I can take it when the garage is free to do it, and still make it into work on time.As I've got up early I decide to go to the nearest greasy spoon caff on Cross Street before going home for a few hours on the Met and picking the car up an hour or so before work.I've just finished my fry up and get a call from my place. Not only is the front wheel bearing fucked, there's play in both steering arms and the rear OS bearing is shot to pieces. Like so shot to pieces it'll probably seize. I barely have enough money to have the front done, let alone the rear which is £148 + VAT because you have to buy the disc as well. I'm now as of this moment waiting on a quote from the garage to get this all done, but the hope of them a: doing it today and b: me doing anything over the Bank Holiday is looking pretty bleak, unless I can borrow Fatha_Wat's bimmer for a bit.To say I was annoyed is putting it well, very mildly indeed.I now can't go to the Le Mans Classic, as I had some money saved up for the permits and the ferry crossing, and was going to go in my Citroen. Anyone see the flaw here? The money is now getting spent on the Citroen. The bit I had left over was going to get spent on the Volvo. It's now getting spent on the Citroen.I was going to say that the car was a bad 'un but not neccessarily a lemon. WRONG!For fuck's sake. When is this going to end? I'll tell you when - when my payments finish, THE DAY they finish, it's going in the Trader and getting slung. Over the past year I've had to borrow £850 from my parents to keep this 'modern' car on the road. My fucking Volvo doesn't cost that much to run!I'm going to have a cup of tea and watch NCIS for a bit. This is fucking bollocks. I've had it with cars for a while actually.Maybe this is for the best.

[Lankytim]

Do you want me to nick it for you?

[Guest]

Do you want me to nick it for you?

How convincing could you make it look? Terrifyingly, an insurance job is looking very appealing. I can't believe I just typed that.I hate this car so, so, so much. I cannot tell you how much shit it's creating at home.

[pogweasel]

Over the past year I've had to borrow £850 from my parents to keep this 'modern' car on the road.

How?Don't you also reside with the parents?What do you do with your money from going to work?? Eat it???

[Guest]

Over the past year I've had to borrow £850 from my parents to keep this 'modern' car on the road.

How?Don't you also reside with the parents?What do you do with your money from going to work?? Eat it???

Pog, do you know how shit my job is, and how little I get paid?Mostly, I pay off debts accrued from running my studio. Quite a lot of money actually. Also, insurances, rent, some foods, unit rent, blah blah blah more bills. Oh yes, and the Citroen needing:Brake discs x 2 +labourTREs & bottom ball joints & labourRear NS wheel bearing & labourAnd that's without the normal shit like tyres and insurance etc. I could have run a Porsche \ 350Z \ something quick for the same outlay. However, things are going to have to change now anyway. The Amazon is staying, as I've almost paid off the loan I took out to have the bodywork done. Down to one credit card now and 18 months will clear that fucker dead. Citroen paid off, [and sold], tat to be sold, Amazon paid off, and the possibility of a better position at work.Of course, I could have done what my colleagues have done, and spunked £15,000 on clothes and smack and then declared myself bankrupt, killed my credit rating stone dead and stood no chance of ever getting a flat \ house \ etc. No, I'll just graft and get everything paid off.Least my folks help me, and always have, despite the fact I'm a pain in the arse and rather useless. I'd be fucked without their help.

[VWPowered]

cant go out anywhere as i got no car grrrr

[Minimad5]

Watanabe, does the work have to be carried out by a garage ?Brake Disk's are surely in your capability to fit ?And as for bearings, can't you just get a nice helpful place to press the "shell" in, and fit them yourself ?Or would that mean warranty is void ?

[gearoil]

The leasing company we get our vans from has sent our new tax discs to our head office rather than our Edinburgh one... We're all running about un-taxed until Tuesday now.Splendid....

[Minimad5]

MANAGEMENT !!- Tell ya what that was awkward !, Shouted my dad to come have a look at that BMW tayne's sister is selling. Then after that i clicked on here ... and erm "Yeah" -

[Josh_Cohen]

I NEED AN ADULT

[Guest]

COCK! MANAGEMENT! COCK!

[M'coli]

You could have told us that page 381 has had a spammer post content on there that isnot safe for work!

 

Anyone else on a works computer, be warned - it really isn't safe.

[Guest]

You could have told us that page 381 has had a spammer post content on there that isnot safe for work!

 

Anyone else on a works computer, be warned - it really isn't safe.

I have posted this warning on the main board virus man. Be safe.

[VWPowered]

feel asleep on leather sofa (leather is important) with daughter number one (aged 2.5 years) who pee'd all over me in her sleep ta pet

[Cavcraft]

Post Offices and shit..How about getting the most sour faced, gossiping stupid old twats behind the counter? And then mix that with some dickhead in the queue who has a stamp on a standard sized letter which is going about seven miles away but you thought you'd hold the twatting queue up while you checked if the postage is correct?Then I want to see some STUPID FUCKING SLAG tutting and deep breathing at the same time as standing 0.00001mm behind me shoving the corner of a parcel in my back. You were very lucky you didn't find said parcel on floor with my size twelves jumping all over it, you fucking impatient, cunt faced, cunty cunt flapped cunt.Icing on the cake? £137.75 (or as near as damn it) for six months fucking RFL.

[VWPowered]

hope you took your time whilst gettin it in france they like to talk for an hour too which generally makes everything grind to a holt

[Father Ted]

Post Offices and shit..

+1I feel your pain.Went to the post office in town today to post something for the wife, it has one of those zig zaggy queue things behind a seatbelt material barrier. So I joined behind the great unwashed of Preston today ( and I do mean unwashed - FFS soap and washing powder are not LUXURIES, spend less on heroin and more on personal hygiene) - anyway said queue then became a free for all.Plus, why do the worlds weirdos feel the need to talk to me and tell me their problems. Honestly if I had the money I would bugger off and live in a shed somewhere away from anyone else.

[Rusty Pelican]

Internet down for 18 hours because a BT sub station or whatever it is flooded in heavy rain

[Cavcraft]

hope you took your time whilst gettin it in france they like to talk for an hour too which generally makes everything grind to a holt

I just wanted to GTFO to get over the shock of the cost of the fucker. Shouting 'How much? Thieving bastards' helped a bit. But not much.2 hours later the car was sold.

[VWPowered]

hope your now found wedge was worth mixxing it with the homies oops cronies

[boobydoo]

I've just had an 'Aunt Bessie's' Toad In The Hole for tea. It was rank.If thats the best the old bint can come up with I certainly shan't be purchasing any more of her fayre.

[trigger]

Poxy Flickr, All day I've been having trouble uploading my scans, Taking bloody ages to upload them and then they will just drop out and I end up uploading them all again.Pain in the arse.

[Minimad5]

People over on R3W, wanting to argue over if my Rebel seats are Regal or Rebel.And some berk ...

you can clearly see that the passenger side is narrower than the drivers

That is because one seat is pushed all the way back, with stuff pushing it up !And the other is pushed all the way forward, with heavy shit on it , pulling the fabric taughter, making it look "thinner" .... All i care about is that it has seats, ff's.Anyway , "IYA LOVE !"

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Internet down for 18 hours because a BT sub station or whatever it is flooded in heavy rain

My wireless wouldn't connect all day Tuesday, turned out something was interfering with whatever channel the router was on. I think one of my neighbours has bought a giant microwave they run 24/7. Eleven wifi networks available in my house, and not one person gave theirs a funny name

[brammy777]

Wheels day was a washout, it was raining so hard. However, I did still get loads of pictures, but sadly my phone has decided to break. Its not really a problem as I have another phone and the pictures are on the memory card, but I dont know why its died. Buttons stopped working and then I took the battery out, now the on button wont work. Can I put my memory card into my old phone and use that to get the pictures on to here? Bare in mind my old phone is 5 MP and the broken one is 8.1MP.

[Minimad5]

Aslong as the memory card is read brammy, then there should be no problem.As for it dying ... maybe it got soaked and decided it had been washed too many ?

[RedSparrow]

Women - they are both mental and evil.