The grumpy thread

[Sheefag]

It gets better. There's a lip sync battle for the hi jinks.

 

I'm currently having a quick half hour chill in my car, I've offered to "support" the dancing thing, dinner is at 8 and as people will start to get shitfaced then, I'm off home as nobody will even notice.

 

I'll also make sure I start planning in conference calls from about 9am tomorrow.

 

Conference calls? Fucking count me in.

 

 

 

 

[ruffgeezer]

A dealer group I used to work I for would hire out a fancy hall for a Christmas do, people from all of the garages in the group were invited for around £25 a head, the invite said "dress code; period wear"

 

One of the mechanics went dressed as a tampon.

[wuvvum]

Got a fugging puncture on the Rover of Doom today.  Offside front tyre - at least it had the courtesy to wait until I got into Norwich to let go.  Parked up and heard a hissing sound, the tyre was completely flat within about 2 minutes.  Haven't investigated what caused it yet.  Fortunately the spare tyre had air in it and I had a scissor jack and my socket set in the car, but could really have done without changing the wheel by the side of a soggy main road at 8pm after a 10-hour day in the office.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Well what a fun morning. Mrs Shrimp coming out the drive in the St, looked both ways goes out slow and gets hit by an old git in a Jazz.

 

 

 

To say I'm fucked off is a bit understated. Hit the drivers side and pushed it in to the Frontera. It's pissed out green fluid (assume power steering fluid) and the bonnet takes a bit to shut now but it does drive.

Of course the insurance say it's Mrs shrimps fault and God only knows if it'll get fixed or not. I've had it since new and its easily fixable but we all know what insurance is like.....

[dollywobbler]

To be honest, I'd keep the insurers out of it if you reckon its an easy fix. You have my sympathies. Crunched motors are never nice.

 

Myself, I've managed to split my head open while doing my pre-drive checks on a Peugeot Boxer minibus. I'd even cleaned the sodding thing but have now had to cancel myself as driver on that route, which means I miss out on my Christmas dinner with the old ladies. What an idiot.

[stephen01]

Radio stopped working in Clio

[AlabamaShrimp]

To be honest, I'd keep the insurers out of it if you reckon its an easy fix. You have my sympathies. Crunched motors are never nice.

 

Myself, I've managed to split my head open while doing my pre-drive checks on a Peugeot Boxer minibus. I'd even cleaned the sodding thing but have now had to cancel myself as driver on that route, which means I miss out on my Christmas dinner with the old ladies. What an idiot.

It has to go through insurance as the other cars a mess and I can't afford to fix mine. The colour of my car is unique as well and painting is a fortune.

[tonedepear]

Followed a new Volvo in to work this morning and it had no lights on. That would have been an impossibility 20 years ago. Who's idea was it when they introduced DRLs in this country not to bother with rear lights?

So with new-ish always lighty-up dashboards and front lights always on basically JQPublic has no visual clues he's not got his lights on apart from the position of the switch and probably a little green picture in the middle of his ipad dashboard thingmy, and who's fault will it be when I smash into the back of him in the dark? 

 

Bah, all nu carz are rubbish m8 etc. OK carry on.

[pompei]

I'm home based and all the other guys in the company are too, and spread out across the company. So no Xmas do.

 

A few years ago, I worked for a national company and they put on a do in Leeds.  We got a memo a few weeks beforehand asking for numbers attending  -  fair enough, the caterers need to have an idea  -  then a week before we got a memo from the Big Boss himself asking for names of those not attending ....   Prior to that I was not going, as I had to be in court in Hull the next morning (civil action, not brawling or anything).  This guy had a reputation for making peoples lives hard, so I relented and went.  

 

When we got there (late due to traffic problems) it was a buffet and all the food had gone...  fucking mingebag "part" organised by meglomaniac.

 

PS I won my case

[Guest Hooli]

i worked somewhere with an enforced xmas do once, I didn't go & told them to take me to HR. Nowt happened.

[strangeangel]

I just want to move to the Highlands, get a simple job, and live on my own while telling the rest of the world to FRO after reading the last page and a bit.

 

I actually like the people I work with, and we do enjoy an evening out every once in a while, including this festive time of year. After reading the last page and a bit I'm thinking I must be in a tiny minority!

[M'coli]

Followed a new Volvo in to work this morning and it had no lights on. That would have been an impossibility 20 years ago. Who's idea was it when they introduced DRLs in this country not to bother with rear lights?

 

So with new-ish always lighty-up dashboards and front lights always on basically JQPublic has no visual clues he's not got his lights on apart from the position of the switch and probably a little green picture in the middle of his ipad dashboard thingmy, and who's fault will it be when I smash into the back of him in the dark? 

 

Bah, all nu carz are rubbish m8 etc. OK carry on.

I've told at least 2 doss cunts that they're on their DRLs in the past week. "It's alright, I've got my DRLs on..." someone else said a we while ago when I told them this. They didn't seem to get the irony that it was at night, and the clue is in the name - daytime running lights.

[Eddie Honda]

I've told at least 2 doss cunts...in the past week.

Last time I told an auld cunt (who looked in fear of their life when I got out of the car) was Christmas Day last year, although not for DRLs, but for NO FUCKING LIGHTS ON AT ALL FOR AGES IN THE FUCKING DARK.

 

Takes a lot to get me going like

[Mr_Bo11ox]

'cunts not using their lights correctly ', it's an AS favourite, my data suggests an average of 746 posts/day on this subject.

[fordperv]

I just think people are getting their cunt count up

[AMC Rebel]

Followed a new Volvo in to work this morning and it had no lights on. That would have been an impossibility 20 years ago. Who's idea was it when they introduced DRLs in this country not to bother with rear lights?

 

At the risk ...ect....wasn't the daytime running thing another EU "improvement"?

[AMC Rebel]

I actually like the people I work with, and we do enjoy an evening out every once in a while, including this festive time of year. After reading the last page and a bit I'm thinking I must be in a tiny minority!

Me too, but I don't bother with the Xmas do any more - it's in London and the last two have been James Bond themed - fuck that.  At the risk of sounding like a sexist old git, the organisers have changed and now they are fashion conscious young women who want to be able to show off their fabulous clothes - all of which is fine, but not for me.

 

It's funny how "inclusive" workplaces don't actually extend that to all employees when they organise Christmas.

 

That said, they're a good employer and I prefer an impromptu pint out in Dublin with workmates when I'm there. 

[tonedepear]

At the risk ...ect....wasn't the daytime running thing another EU "improvement"?

Thing is, daytime running lights are a great idea IMO and all Volvos always had them as long as I can remember, but FSR the new regs seem to enforce having no lights on the back of the car at all which makes no sense at all. I don't understand why Volvo would turn off the back lights specifically in the UK when they always used to have DRLs on front and back regardless in the 80s/90s. Mental.

[dollywobbler]

Yup. The DRL rules are ridiculous, and perhaps wouldn't be necessary at all if automatic headlamps actually worked. Stupidest invention ever auto headlamps. 

[vulgalour]

Yay, the new radiator for the 6 arrived from Germany! Isn't it lovely?

 

It looks a bit different, I don't remember mine having the sticky out bits in these places... wait, where do I fix the fan on? Oh, and it's got the wrong fixings on the bottom. And both of the big hoses are on the same side instead of opposite corners. It's really small too... I better check this against the one on the car.

 

 

Sigh.

 

 

This is after sending them every single bit of information for the car, cross-referencing that against the various databases and even showing me the listing they'd found to order from. The stock picture didn't match, but stock pictures hardly ever do when I've ordered parts for this car, so I ignored it when I should have questioned it. You'd think if it were listed for my engine size, code, year, model and make it would actually match. But no. So I'm back to square one now with an £85 radiator I can't use and a bust original that I can't replace.

[chaseracer]

That's annoying.  Can something clever be arranged with the hoses?

[chaseracer]

I can almost see this lot http://classicalloyradiators.co.uk from my armchair.

 

New?  Recore?  Happy to go and ask the question for you.

[vulgalour]

It's more annoying than just having to move/change hoses. There's no provision for the electric fan to fit, nor for the temperature sender to operate it. The long post legs on the bottom of the new one won't fit in the slots that are above the chassis on the old one. The long bolts at the top have no relevance to anything on the old one. There's no provision to fix the top of the new radiator to the front of the car. Basically, it's wrong in just about every way it can be while still, technically, being for this engine.

 

This is what they've sent me.

 

This is what I need.

 

A recore, when I asked locally (so not having to incur the cost of postage both ways) was in the region of £180-250. That's why I tried to get a new replacement.

[strangeangel]

People moaning about people moaning in the moan thread.

 

Also... Chelsea tractor drivers: before anyone leaps up, I do not begrudge you your choice of conveyance. I would, however, greatly appreciate it if you could please KEEP THE FUCKING THING ON YOUR SIDE OF THE ROAD. Thank you.

[vulgalour]

Oh... oh look what is on Mr Auto for the same price as the one above. http://www.mister-auto.co.uk/en/radiator/nissens-63770_g470_a12363770.html

 

Only the correct fugging radiator listed for a Renault 5, if their stock picture is to be believed and only for about the same price as I paid for that wrongun. *grumblegrumblegrumble*

[chaseracer]

Buy it, sharpish - and worry about flogging/rejecting the other one later.

[panhard65]

Oh... oh look what is on Mr Auto for the same price as the one above. http://www.mister-auto.co.uk/en/radiator/nissens-63770_g470_a12363770.html

 

Only the correct fugging radiator listed for a Renault 5, if their stock picture is to be believed and only for about the same price as I paid for that wrongun. *grumblegrumblegrumble*

Or buy it cheaper

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nissens-63770-Radiator-fit-RENAULT-R-5-72-/291580029404?hash=item43e38629dc:g:V2EAAOSw9r1WD0LE

Just make sure they actually have it in stock as mister auto pissed me off big time last week taking 4 days to tell me even though their listing said 10 in stock they had no discs for my Horizon

[vulgalour]

Ah yes, well, you see, that there is the other problem. There are no funds for another radiator to be purchased until the current incorrect one sells.

[chaseracer]

Ought to, given that what they supplied is clearly not the correct item, whatever photo is on their website.

[vulgalour]

I kinda feel like it's my fault for accepting it though and selling it is likely to be less hassle than returning it if I can.