The grumpy thread

[Kiltox]

Is it a driveway or numbered parking places? Not sure if you can get them removed from your numbered parking spaces like you could if was you drive though.

Numbered parking spaces around the back of the houses - still private land.

 

I'll be knocking on doors tomorrow, if nobody knows who it belongs to it might end up on the road due to a faulty handbrake.

[myglaren]

Just make sure you leave updates on, that tends to happen if you've turned them off and then want a new app it has to install all the updates first.

I tried to install something about a year ago that buggered it completely, had to do a factory reset and when it failed to log in to my BT account I knocked the updates on the head.

It is still at it

[AlabamaShrimp]

It's safely on the drive, after telling them it's not going anywhere and they can come here, too many horror stories!

 

I was almost half tempted to go and pick the parts up to repair it already, I'll probably wait and see what happens to it before buying bits.

 

Had the whole credit hire car stress as well which had been shite.

Hang on a minute. You say you have this on camera and it's the other drivers fault?

 

If so and no one disputing it then your car can't be written off. Only your insurance company can do that and as you aren't claiming on your insurance policy but hers then they will pay for all the repairs.

The car need not leave you as an assessor can come to see it and you can take it where you like if you're not happy with the garage they recommend.

[robinmasters]

Even he (Sheeran) said it was a bit of a joke.

Unless he also apologised for his bland, soulless, tedious music as well, he can still get to fuck.

[robinmasters]

From to the 'Birds we'd...' thread.

 

It turns out the woman on the Nationwide adverts reading 'poetry' is an actual poet. That is actual poetry? Fuck off, and take your banal, non-rhyming, meaningless, unimaginative shit with you.

[J4mes]

Hang on a minute. You can u say you have this on camera and it's the other drivers fault?

 

If so and no one disputing it then your car can't be written off. Only your insurance company can do that and as your u aren't claiming on your insurance policy but hers then they will pay for all the repairs.

The car need not leave you as an assessor can come to see it and you can take it where you like if you're not happy with the garage they recommend.

Yep, completely other persons fault, which they are not disputing, I also have the incident and them admitting fault all on camera.

 

I thought that when the 3rd party assessor comes to look they can say its uneconomical to repair therefore a cat c/d. But I'm certainly no expert as this is my first ever run in with insurance companies!

 

Ideally I'll get paid out for repairs, I'll sort the wing and mirror and then get the alloys and door sprayed at my leisure.

[AlabamaShrimp]

They might not even send an assessor as technically you're not their customer and just go tell you to get some quotes.

 

Either way it's not 'their' car so no matter what they can't write it off (of course it it was smashed to buggers then I'm sure it would be different but you know what I mean)

[Guest Hooli]

Someone's parked their car in my other parking space which 99% of the time I've lived here has had one of my other vehicles in

 

Been here all day and it has a seriously stoved in rear bumper and tailgate.....

 

Have you bought it yet?

[JohnDeere]

As above, other insurance can't write it off. Their obligation is to "put you back in the same position". Which means either paying for your repairs (your choice of repairer, not theirs), OR paying the true market value of the car.

 

So I would be getting quotes for the repair, and gathering up eBay/Autotrader/club evidence of the value (hard when it's a very rare car). Ideally this will show the cost of the repair is cheaper and they'll send you a cheque.

[eddyramrod]

From to the 'Birds we'd...' thread.

 

It turns out the woman on the Nationwide adverts reading 'poetry' is an actual poet. That is actual poetry? Fuck off, and take your banal, non-rhyming, meaningless, unimaginative shit with you.

Maybe, but she delivers it with such an engaging smile.  I agree it's not my style of poetry, but maybe that was the brief from the agency.

[alcyonecorporation]

Remember I mentioned my 'grumbling' housemate whose bedroom...erm....antics were making the house shake and doors wobble?

 

Landlord kicked him out. Turns out he was ploughing a fleshlight on the floor. Repeatedly.

 

His parents have come to help him move his stuff. Luckily I'm going out, so don't have to make conversation. What the fuck do you say in a situation like that?

Quite glad I moved my cafetiere inside my bit. Sig is particularly accurate. So wrong it was visible from Austria.

[Guest Hooli]

If they ask, just say he fucked it up for himself with no-one else's help at all.

[bub2006]

I may be naive but I had to Google fleshlight. Now I'm traumatised

[Cavcraft]

Someone's parked their car in my other parking space which 99% of the time I've lived here has had one of my other vehicles in

 

Been here all day and it has a seriously stoved in rear bumper and tailgate.....

 

I opened my (unlocked) garage a good few years ago now to find a stoved in car dumped in there. I just robbed all the CDs out of it then pushed it into the middle of the road a bit further down.

[Snipes]

Ah fucksticks! No other cars involved, three days before (probably) the car's last MOT before it gets binned off.

 

edit: Oh god I'm in the picture!

[twosmoke300]

How did the landlord know ? Hidden cameras? Fishy

[Richard]

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[eddyramrod]

I may be naive but I had to Google fleshlight. Now I'm traumatised

I don't know what it is either.  After your posting I'm not sure I want it in my search history! 

 

What is it?

[AlabamaShrimp]

It's fake lady bits that from the outside looks a bit like a torch, the other end looks like you'd expect to be chasing you in your worse nightmares

[eddyramrod]

I'm almost sorry I asked...  Thank you, I think.

[Kiltox]

Have you bought it yet?

 

Knocked on doors this morning, nobody knows who it belongs to.

 

Rang 101 - it's stolen. Has now been removed by police.

[Eddie Honda]

How did the landlord know ? Hidden cameras? Fishy

 

Is the landlord called "Pop"?

 

[scaryoldcortina]

I may be naive but I had to Google fleshlight. Now I'm traumatised

We were playing cards against humanity recently and my wife used the "fleshlight" card because she thought it said flashlight. Many lols were had.

[richardthestag]

Folk who call Land Rovers, trucks or jeeps

 

Fucking morons

[scaryoldcortina]

To be fair, the commission plate on my ex mod LWB s11 said "3/4 tonne 4x4 light truck"

 

 

anyone calling a LR a jeep needs to get in the fuggin sea though.

[Richard]

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[3VOM]

Goes back to yesterday. Need to put new cat on Golf (see Stupid Question thread for background). Get Golf up on stands. Get under car and where the F*** is the flange the cat is supposed to bolt to? I think someone has welded the joint up before we owned it, which has to be a long time ago. Looks like I now have to buy a new front exhaust pipe from manifold to cat or somehow cut and weld a new flange on, which is beyond my current skills and parts bin.

Second (yes there's two whinges) the Clio has started the trick of not starting because it can't recognise the key fob immobiliser. Various solutions are being investigated. While I'm pulling Clio's apart I think I'll put some bulbs in the heater controls panel because none of them work. How the F*** do you get it out without dismantling most of the centre of the dash? Someone's internet instructions seem to indicate that it sort of unclips from the back but I can't see how and where it can move to.

[Lacquer Peel]

Rance Rover Classic is one that gets my goat. It's a Range Rover. Land Rover sticking Classic badges on them doesn't make it right.

Was it to differentiate it from the P38 when they were both available new simultaneously?

[chaseracer]

^ Precisely so.

[Richard]

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