The grumpy thread

[Pillock]

A business model apparently sustained by charging people to fit batteries, light bulbs and wiperblades and a two week rush in december when they flog cheap chinese bicycle shite to stupid people.

Halfords sell a lot of decent bikes, I'd imagine that keeps them afloat all year round as their prices are pretty good.

[Lankytim]

It worked out for the best in the end as I found a set of nearly new HT leads and a coil pack on the Mondeo engine I have in my garage that I'd forgotten all about. It's all identical to the stuff on the Zetec S engine in my Volvo.

[cobblers]

Halfords sell a lot of decent bikes, I'd imagine that keeps them afloat all year round as their prices are pretty good.

From experience, they sell about ten times more shit bikes than decent bikes. People were absolutely desperate to buy the absolute shittiest bike head office could dream up, you couldn't even talk them out of it. They wanted that shit bike so much. Even when a good bike was cheaper, nope - they were absolutely 100% having the shit bike.

[Cavcraft]

Halfords also use CES for parts, I'm reliably informed.

 

Trigger: as above, ask him for V5 document number. Better still, ask him to send you a photo of the front page (cover) of the latest V5 they sent to him. Then just go on-line and do it yourself, you should have the V5 back in a few days, maximum.

[overrun]

Shitehawk gutter snakes leaving bags of dog shit everywhere.

 

 

I pulled up to use the cash machine yesterday and clocked this. I'm lucky I pulled a bit further forward!

 

What I don't understand is they have already done the dirty/hard bit, by picking it up, so why do they then sling it on the floor or hang it in bushes etc?

I assume they only picked it up in the first place, because they were being watched.

 

The filthy scratters.

[dave21478]

Bizzarely, a colony of ants seems to have taken up residence in the Escort. Driving along today I saw one on the dash....no big deal, flicked it out the window. Then another....then another.....they just kept coming. I stopped and there were dozens of the fuckers running around in the gap bewteen the windscreen and the back of the dashboard.

 

I was at work so grabbed a can of Raid and empted it down the gap. A smarter man than me would have waited till he got home before doing this as I am pretty sure I have given myself cancer driving it home.

[Parky]

A blob of Jam on the dash would have worked equally as well, and once you had scraped the ants off it, you would have had a delicious sweet treat to look forward to as a reward for your ant trapping

[jakebullet]

Got arsebook messaged by a lass I know, what do I think to blurry picture of an astra estate for £400?
 
Stuck the reg in mot history, and first two entries are:

• Test date15 June 2007
• Expiry date14 June 2008
• Test ResultPass
• Odometer reading50,226 miles
• MOT test number9036 0656 7172

• Test date15 May 2006
• Expiry date31 May 2007
• Test ResultPass
• Odometer reading390,140 miles
• MOT test number1706 7593 6127
   

She's bought it despite the haircut as she thought "new turbo ecu tyres etc" was a plus point.

[dave21478]

340K is a hell of a haircut....its not just a typo somewhere?

[Negative Creep]

That's one hell of a mileage correction. Still, at £400 if it drives ok it's not the end of the world

[alcyonecorporation]

PLUS: Received money to have 305 estate star in a short film. 

NEG: They fired smoke into the car with an oil-powered smoke machine which drizzled its guts over the passenger seat, carpet and centre console. And melted them. 

Chances of finding another brown 305 SII estate interior: SLIM. 
 

[Kiltox]

As far as i understand, car parts on special order at Halfrauds are from Eurocarparts. Mate ordered a few bits from Bristol branch last month and when they were delivered they had ECP stickers and part codes all over them.

Yep, this is definitely the case. Cheaper direct from ECP.

 

The Cheltenham ECP is stupidly close to halfords too yet I bet people still order parts there.

[Supernaut]

Talking of ECP and Halfords being close together...

 

There are two branches of Halfords in Aberdeen. Kittybrewster and Torry. I used to work at the Kittybrewster one from 2009-2011 in Bikehut.

In 2012, long after I left, a branch of ECP opened up in Aberdeen (finally!). They seemed to poach pretty much the entire staff from Halfords Kittybrewster (just a few streets from the ECP) and they even tried to offer me a van driving job as I was on record as having previously worked at that branch of Halfords. I politely declined, as I had a cushy number with the Scottish Government department of Agriculture at that point.

 

Anyway, I still go into ECP to this day and recognise at least 50% of the staff there. The branch manager from Halfords became the area manager for ECP, the assistant manager from Halfords is now the branch manager at ECP, etc. etc.

[Keymaster]

Just finished doing this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then found this :

 

 

Twatsticks.

[cort16]

My French eBay buyer fell through . I was starting to hear some excuses, which meant god knows when it'd be picked up so We agreed to cancel the sale and gave him his deposit back.

 

Back on eBay it is then.

[Cavcraft]

My French eBay buyer fell through . I was starting to hear some excuses, which meant god knows when it'd be picked up so We agreed to cancel the sale and gave him his deposit back.

 

Back on eBay it is then.

 

Ah bollocks, what was it?

[cort16]

Cadillac

 

Not a popular vehicle even with a years ticket

[AlabamaShrimp]

My French eBay buyer fell through . I was starting to hear some excuses, which meant god knows when it'd be picked up so We agreed to cancel the sale and gave him his deposit back.

 

Back on eBay it is then.

I bet it was terrorists and he went to by a Renault 20 instead.

 

 

 

 

(I have no actual idea what you were selling)

[strangeangel]

Just finished doing this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then found this :

 

 

Twatsticks.

 

This looks mega - how come it hasn't got its own thread??

[Keymaster]

 

 

This looks mega - how come it hasn't got its own thread??

Good question, I should probably do a write up on it, if just to put you all off buying old motorhomes

 

I think it's punishing me as this all started last November, barely a week after I thought "hmmm I fancy a change, might sell it next year"

[dave21478]

I have got a few fascinating* things to write up in various threads, but wont because it all might fuck off into the ether again.

[JeeExEll]

Write them up anyway.

[DodgeRover]

A problem shared etc

[wuvvum]

We agreed to cancel the sale and gave him his deposit back.

Why?  Surely that defeats the entire point of taking a deposit?

[cort16]

Because with the deposit he could continue to delay. I could see a long drawn out process of delays picking it up given I was starting to get excuses from him and he was in France and I'm in Scotland. I thought best to nip it in the bud, cancel the sale and send the deposit back .

[Captain Furious]

Having only just fended off the last bogus speeding ticket, another one came through yesterday, so obviously there IS a clone out there. Really not sure I have it in me to go through all that stress again, seriously considering just paying it and doing the speed awareness course or whatever.

 

Should have changed my plate immediately as soon as the last one came through. Fucksticks

[dave21478]

Having only just fended off the last bogus speeding ticket, another one came through yesterday, so obviously there IS a clone out there. Really not sure I have it in me to go through all that stress again, seriously considering just paying it and doing the speed awareness course or whatever.

 

Should have changed my plate immediately as soon as the last one came through. Fucksticks

 

Aye, I am sure that will just work out fine......

 

-Knock Knock.

 

-Hello officer, how can I hel.....

 

-You are under arrest, following a hit n run last night where 2 children were killed.

 

-What? I dont......

 

-You are the keeper of a blue horsey horseless, reg number blah blah blah?

 

-No...i see what has happened....my plate has been cloned a while ago and that number doesnt even match the model of.....

 

-well sir, you admitted to speeding in a blue horsey horseless reg number blah blah blah in May. Care to explain yourself?

 

-I...uh....Couldnt be bothered to sort it out properly so just admitted to a crime I didnt commit to make things easier.

 

-GET IN THE BACK OF THE VAN!

 

[Junkman]

YOU'RE NICKED!

EFA

[Longblackcoat]

Having only just fended off the last bogus speeding ticket, another one came through yesterday, so obviously there IS a clone out there. Really not sure I have it in me to go through all that stress again, seriously considering just paying it and doing the speed awareness course or whatever.

 

Should have changed my plate immediately as soon as the last one came through. Fucksticks

 

Easy enough to prove it wasn't you. The exact time can be established, you can prove you were somewhere else (from phone location records if nowt else) and there'll almost certainly be differences between the car photographed and yours.

 

I've had EXACTLY this scenario (except for someone driving in a bus lane in London) and simply wrote back saying, effectively :"I was somewhere else and can prove it, suspect it's a clone, not me guv." You can also add that you've just had this before, and you're a bit miffed. 

 

Other than the initial hassle of phone calls and letters, you should get it resolved pretty painlessly.

[Bobthebeard]

Easy enough to prove it wasn't you. The exact time can be established, you can prove you were somewhere else (from phone location records if nowt else) and there'll almost certainly be differences between the car photographed and yours.

 

I've had EXACTLY this scenario (except for someone driving in a bus lane in London) and simply wrote back saying, effectively :"I was somewhere else and can prove it, suspect it's a clone, not me guv." You can also add that you've just had this before, and you're a bit miffed. 

 

Other than the initial hassle of phone calls and letters, you should get it resolved pretty painlessly.

It's in the system innit!

Not easy to get resolved necessarily. You may be able to prove you weren't there, but can you prove the car wasn't? If the same model/colour was wearing the cloned plates the battle will be far from easy. Unless you happened to go through a speed camera 100 miles away at a similar time.....