The grumpy thread

[beko1987]

Oh right I thought it was just guessing about a jumped tooth,

If the cover is of it will be a doddle to check if the timing has jumped though.

it is a guess! but as I need to take the belt off to get the string and bits of the shredded aux belt off and clean it all up, for a tenner I may as well Wang a new cambelt on!

 

I thought it was squealing cos veg got on the aux belt after the fuel leak and had been ignoring it because of that. turns out I was wrong! lease I can clean the oily pulleys off now!

[Snipes]

I have two grumps tonight. First is people increasingly seem to ignore road markings, especially in larger supermarket car parks. Several times ive had to stop because people cut corners and drive straight across my path. Last time I gave the driver an annoyed blast with the horn and she looked at me like I was crazy.

 

Second is the hotels around Swindon literally doubling their prices over the International Air Tatoo weekend. I got very excited when domestic management ok'd the trip for next year, but only on the basis of no camping but just the price of tickets and hotel for 3 nights is get nearly £500. Travelodge are £124 a night!

So yeah, no jet planes for me next year.

[Tetleysmooth]

It'd probably cause ill feeling and arguments if they did, tbh.

It may also give members a chance to thrash out their differences and bloody well get on with each other, instead of behaving like schoolkids.

 

Life's too short etc. etc.

[Bren]

Busa has failed to proceed.

 

Started, went to pull away then it died.

 

It would start and run for a second or so then die.

 

According to the gauge there is a third of a tank of fuel and the low level light never even came on.

 

I wonder if fuel pump has gone?

[Supernaut]

I have two grumps tonight. First is people increasingly seem to ignore road markings, especially in larger supermarket car parks. Several times ive had to stop because people cut corners and drive straight across my path. Last time I gave the driver an annoyed blast with the horn and she looked at me like I was crazy.

Shit driving annoys me too. Especially lazy right-turners. This is due to somebody, during my driving test (back in 2005), doing a lazy right-turn into the junction I was approaching. It was so bad I did an emergency stop and stalled the car. The examiner went off on one at the other driver, and told me I did well as I avoided an accident. It doesn't matter that I stalled it.

 

 

However, I had a good one this morning. On my cycle to work, I turn right out of a side street onto a bigger road. As I approach the junction, I had to jam on my brakes and stop about 20 feet short of the line as a fat lazy bint in a totally fucked-looking Octavia took the laziest, straightest line through the right turn I'd ever seen, as if she couldn't be arsed turning the wheel any more.

 

I mean, come on. Put some effort into your driving!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

It may also give members a chance to thrash out their differences and bloody well get on with each other, instead of behaving like schoolkids.

 

Life's too short etc. etc.

 

Yeah cos publishing a list of who annoys you then 'thrashing it out' is what grown ups always do innit. Quielty ignoring them for the collective good is of course the infantile option.

[fordperv]

couldnt sleep last night and just as i was dozing off when the mrs walked out of the door to go to work, the dog ran as fast as she could up the stairs burst into the bedroom and jumped all over me

 

i am not a pillow

 

 

[scaryoldcortina]

Busa has failed to proceed.

 

Started, went to pull away then it died.

 

It would start and run for a second or so then die.

 

According to the gauge there is a third of a tank of fuel and the low level light never even came on.

 

I wonder if fuel pump has gone?

Symptoms sound right, and they are prone to duff pumps.

[Guest Hooli]

Busa has failed to proceed.

 

Started, went to pull away then it died.

 

It would start and run for a second or so then die.

 

According to the gauge there is a third of a tank of fuel and the low level light never even came on.

 

I wonder if fuel pump has gone?

 

Could be TPS as well, I've had that on a GSX1400.

[Bren]

It ran when fuel was added despite gauge showing a third and no idiot light. Obviously not to be trusted......

[Guest Hooli]

if the insides of their tank is anything like a 14 then you can change the fuel gauge by half just by picking the bike up off the side stand.

[michael1703]

Why do storms have to have English names?

[chaseracer]

http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/storm-names.html

[DodgeRover]

Why do storms have to have English names?

This will stop when we leave Europe all storms with English sounding names but without sufficient proof of residency will be returned to their country of origin

[M'coli]

if the insides of their tank is anything like a 14 year-old's then it'll be empty and the waste bin full of sticky tissue.

EFA.

 

Oh.  You didn't mean it like that.

[purplebargeken]

A dog has the right to use anything, anywhere as a pillow. 

[Guest Hooli]

A dog has the right to use anything, anywhere as a pillow. 

 

One of ours is a 'professional nester' I've seen him make a 3ft high pile of clean washing & climb on top to sleep.

[xtriple]

More health problems: teeth now! Broke a back one a week or two ago, now front tooth is loose as fuck (like wobbly, fun as a kid, not so much now) and now the teeth on the bottom right of my jaw all feel 'weird' and hurt if touched.

 

Left shoulder is now u/s pretty much constantly just to join in the fun.

[chaseracer]

Time to MTFU and visit the dentist, Dave!  Nothing like tooth problems to make you feel more shit than you need to.

 

All sympathies, mate 

[Timewaster]

Sympathies Xx3 nothing worse than toothache.

[timolloyd]

Pretty much decided I hate our Bini. I put loads of effort in to finding the best one I could for my wife, on a budget, naturally.

Turns out to be a rattly, crashing ride and however much I clean it, permanently filthy. Seems to bring out the worst in me and is a magnet for £99-a-month shit drivers. I'v never been tailgated or cut up as frequently as in this car (and I'm well used to driving small cars).

[DodgeRover]

More health problems: teeth now! Broke a back one a week or two ago, now front tooth is loose as fuck (like wobbly, fun as a kid, not so much now) and now the teeth on the bottom right of my jaw all feel 'weird' and hurt if touched.

 

Left shoulder is now u/s pretty much constantly just to join in the fun.

Migraine? Gives me toothache to the extent I could take a pair of pliers to the offending item -luckily it was taken out already.

[robinmasters]

This month's Practical Classics features a buying guide on the Escort Cosworth. This makes me sad for a number of reasons:

 

a) It's a Ford Escort

b ) It's a low volume homologation special; whilst that does make it rare and valuable, it's not a classic

c) It's a Ford fucking Escort

d) How is a valuable car with nineties security in any way practical?

e) If this is a classic, I'm old (I suspect this one may be colouring my opinion on the other points)

[Ghosty]

Biking home from the station on my new OMGRATLUK cruiser, I was passed by four(!) pre-pubescent little shits bombing around the town centre on a blatantly stolen scooter - very shiny, no numberplates, lights off etc.

 

I fucking despair.

[Des]

I've now been living in a shit flat in cocking Bushey for a Month while builders fix truck impact damage to house, phoned them last Monday to ask if they'll be finished in the 4 weeks they estimated, no pressure, just need warning if I'll have to extend the flat rental, an Airbnb thing, no problem says they. Tuesday finds me at the house meeting with the surveyor, he asks them if completion shall be timely and is reassured before my two eyes, Wednesday and the flat landlord kindly calls to ask if we'll be done as has a prospective booking, I inform him there's no problem we're on track. Thursday and I get a text message from surveyor along the lines of I need to book another week accommodation. CUNTS, FUCKING BUILDER CUNTS.

I've had enough of Bushey, lived here for a bit before current house, they're still as up themselves as back then, just there's twice as many of them now. Next week I'll be in Northwood, now there's a place where the concept of ones own shit having a stink is in vehement denial, travel by road shall be a challenge, numerous monochrome 4X4 being batted along by sour old trouts just on the point of the change. Black & White Menstrual show.

Can't believe I'm missing cocking Watford.

[M'coli]

Fantastic rant, Des.

 

My grump? Train fares. If I want to go from Bristol to Leeds and back, on a Thursday, more than one month away, it's still going to cost me more than £200, and take longer than driving would if there are no delays. The return journey alone would take 9hours at the time I would need to take it to fulfil the appointment in Leeds... (it's a gig).

[FakeConcern]

Going to Norwich yesterday to visit daughter, C4 gets to end of road & dies. XM won't start so we take Mrs Concern's Mk1 Clio. We get there ok, but, when leaving the timing belt snaps. We got recovered nearly 200 miles in the middle of the night. Even that wasn't straightforward as we had to change transporters half way and both the M11 and the M25 were closed.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

LOL that sounds like a fun day.

 

Im off to Ladbrokes to put a tenner on you getting a 64-plate A3 TDi on finance this week

[BorniteIdentity]

 I'm missing cocking Watford.

 

Said nobody ever.

[vulgalour]

I can't measure the Renault engine to find out what bits I need to buy because, amusingly, the micrometers I've got are too large to measure the big ends.  Time to buy a different engine and/or give this one to a professional to rebuild for me I reckon.  My patience with this engine has finally reached its end.