The grumpy thread

[Negative Creep]

Somehow managed to crack the screen on my tablet. Less than a month old but at £39.99 it will likely cost more to fix than to replace

[Cavcraft]

That's out of order. Did it get resolved? 

 

He's kindly* offered to pay back the cost of the test, but other than that it's a shit situation

[alcyonecorporation]

He's kindly* offered to pay back the cost of the test, but other than that it's a shit situation

Can you get another test in short order? If not, she should be bumped up the queue.

[Cavcraft]

April I think

[garbaldy]

April I think

Yeh so his cock up and she suffers that's bloody ripe.

My daughters is booked for Feb so here's hoping that doesn't happen to her.

[EssDeeWon]

Just travelled across central London and home across Essex on public transport with no issues.  Got home and switched on the TV to a BBC news bulletin about SNOW KAOS SNOW KAOS SNOW KAOS

 

Yes BBC we had a little bit of snow that is already turning to slush.  I am sure by the 10pm news the whole of the South will be in the end times with a busy body reporter trying hard to squeeze a story from nothing more than a cold wet night in January.

[Guest Hooli]

It's not the bike

 

I rather suspect you're correct old bean.

[garbaldy]

It's unpresidented that's what it is.

 

That was aimed at the last post about the weather.

No delete feature

[cros]

How much truth in this?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvagsSOlAy4

 

Anyone?

[scaryoldcortina]

Anyone?

yes.

[cros]

Thanks for clearing that up.

[Isaac Hunt]

I taught my kids to drive. I figured if after all my years of motoring that includes several at 60k miles per year, if I don't know how to drive, we have a problem. I'd also done a fair bit of corporate advanced driving including running commentary so felt 'up for it'. I then booked an hour with a proffessional instructor to assess my lads driving and identify any shortcomings in my tuition.

 

Anyway, I stuck and additional rear mirror in one of our cars, a set of l'plates, booked the test, and we turned up. You could have knocked me down with a feather when the examiners came out and said to one young girl, sorry but we can't accommodate your test today, we are a couple of examiners short. Why this poor girl copped it I don't know. We sat there 'clenched' until we were called. I then sat there clenched for another 40 mins until my lad arrived back, passed 1st time.

 

I couldn't help thinking about the poor girl and her instructor, who pays for that lot, does the instructor not charge and take it on the chin or does the girl pay.

 

Hope you get a new date quick as some of the waiting lists are mega long

[FakeConcern]

April I think

Did I say we should have a commiserate button?

[EssDeeWon]

Does said instructor gain more lesson time between now and April?

 

In theory your daughter could have been passed and all done and dusted by this afternoon, but now more lessons required to keep her up to speed before the new test in April.

 

You can get short term cancellations but I don't know where you find them, I just know a couple of people who learnt to drive recently used this to get a test sooner than normal. Might be regional, I expect.

[Noel Tidybeard]

With the family fleet, I cross three different genres, Classics, real old points and condenser shite, Modern shite, Pre OBD ECU and early OBD ECU through to really modern stuff.

 

It's cold and dark, but looked like a tyre was a bit low on a modern. I had a half arsed look in both door shuts and couldn't see the tyre pressure sticker. So I lobbed 34 in all round and thought I drop a couple of PSI out when I get home. Lookng through the handbook, feck me, there are pages of guff about TPMS which is about as much use as a chocky teapot given no TPMS on this car, tyre pressures, yep, not in the book, look at the sticker on the car, FFS.

 

The 'service warning' has come back on despite me holding this button with my left hand whilst hold the other button with my right hand, depressing this with my left foot and swiping the other with my chin continuously for at least 15 seconds or longer Becuase it doesn't tell you when it is reset.

 

I've got 3 diff specs of 5W30 on the shelf in the Garage for the modern stuff, C1, Dexos 2, R2D2 and C3PO

 

Give me some feeler gauges and a dwell angle and some basic data, all is forgiven

 

Rant Over

 

check the petrol flap thats a german fave

[Cavcraft]

She's found another instructor now, her confidence wasn't the best and it's been broken a bit more now.

[M'coli]

I thought it may have been a deliberate ploy on behalf of the instructor, but the total no-show put paid to that.

 

An ex-colleague had something similar happen to her in 2014: she'd failed the test 3 or 4 times, but on the day she passed she was meant to have an hour's lesson before the test, but the instructor turned up in just enough time to get to the test centre. The fee for the hour lesson before hand was waived but this young woman was still incensed by it, even after I'd pointed out that the instructor knew she was capable but nerves always got her in the test. By making her worry about missing the test, rather than worrying about the test itself, meant that she went through the test in a relieved state of mind.

 

I think it worked!

[Cavcraft]

Oddly enough my instructor never turned up for my test, either. I should have guessed really, as most of his lessons were him eyeing up all the birds in short skirts and making comments about them. We had a 'difference of opinion' about this no show and in the days pre-dating the internet, telephone dial warrior threats were issued from both parties and his Chrysler Sunbeam narrowly avoided having 1981 air conditioning with the aid of a brick one night.

[meshking]

Thanks for clearing that up.

I think there's a whole load of truth in it, certainly around ownership. However, you have to take into account who made the video to understand the bias that may or may not have been included.

 

I would expect the sentiment to include a heavy dose of bias, simply because it seems, from my eyes, that some assumptions are made on spending which don't appear to be backed up by facts.

 

Nonetheless Major and the civil service totally cocked up the initial privatisation.

[Lacquer Peel]

Privatisation doesn't work.

[cros]

I found this video irritating; the odd expression 'selling your arse and shitting through your ribs' better describes the situation. Focus on how much the perpetrators of these treacherously short sighted deals carved out for themselves would have been more apposite than creating the impression that this country is simply being exploited by others.

[DodgeRover]

Well that was fun* getting to work, Bambi on ice would be a good description. Spare set of rims and 6 snow tyres required me thinks

[AMC Rebel]

I found this video irritating; the odd expression 'selling your arse and shitting through your ribs' better describes the situation. Focus on how much the perpetrators of these treacherously short sighted deals carved out for themselves would have been more apposite than creating the impression that this country is simply being exploited by others.

 

Isn't it both?

 

I mean a lot of the government's pals made a packet, but other Nation's railways (and utilities for that matter) are also coining it in.  BTW I don't blame them - French folk working in these outfits must think we are insane.

[stephen01]

someone smacked into the wife on the way to work, zero damage to their van and completely fucked our leaf up,

 

Wifey is okay and they seem to have admitted liability, company van. (which shows up on askmid) still a ball ache to sort out and we now have to declare a no fault accident for the next 5 years!

 

The biggest pisser about this is that the leaf is on a PCP type deal so it's got to be perfect when it goes back..

[Danblez]

^^^^

Sorry to hear that. Could anyone explain to me how the f**k insurers get away with increasing premiums when you have had a no fault accident?

[alcyonecorporation]

^^^^

Sorry to hear that. Could anyone explain to me how the f**k insurers get away with increasing premiums when you have had a no fault accident?

 

"Because it's still an accident and that's increased your risk (even though it wasn't the fault of stephen01's OH)". 

 

Insurance logic is the most arbitrary and insulting kind of logic. 

[Pillock]

They get away with it by being almost entirely self regulating.

 

They justify it by pointing out an accident is an accident. Presumably Mrs Stephen should have somehow avoided the accident, so although it's not her fault her inability to make the car leap 12' into the air counts against her.

 

The do it because they're greedy twats.

[Guest Hooli]

^^^^

Sorry to hear that. Could anyone explain to me how the f**k insurers get away with increasing premiums when you have had a no fault accident?

 

Because they can prove that people who have no fault accidents are more likely to have another no fault accident.

 

I have no idea how the crash happened but here's an example -

 

1) It's snowing, you stop across a junction in traffic, a car that can't stop & slams into the side you. - no fault accident.

 

2) it's snowing, you stop short of a junction in traffic leaving a gap so the junction is clear, a car that  can't stop & slides out across the road in front of you. - no accident.

 

The sort of driver who tends to do No2 has less no fault accidents that drivers who do No1. Hence drivers doing No2 are safer & get cheaper insurance.

[AMC Rebel]

Because they can prove claim that people who have no fault accidents are more likely to have another no fault accident without ever having to produce any evidence.

 

 

FTFY.

 

Also, in theory, you shouldn't end up any worse off just because some twat can't drive or makes an avoidable error - so how come it's apparently impossible to add the increased costs for future years to the claim from the errant party?

[Guest Hooli]

I used to know an insurance bloke on another forum, he gave us figures that proved what I just said.

 

Think of it as a reward for defensive driving.