The grumpy thread

[Guest Hooli]

It wasn't doing to before though, and the zx didn't do it with the same issue, and it was arguably worse. To do the ball joint id need to buy a grinder or a drill though as their riveted on... And still get the tracking done...

 

Glad ya doing the balljoint now.

 

If the ball joint is rattling then the bottom of the strut can move in & out relative to the car, that changes the tracking every time it moves. Hence why I said it wasn't worth doing without the balljoint.

[beko1987]

Having driven it I think thats what it's doing. Every so often above 50 it jammed and veered me off, causing some gripping of the wheel and pissing everyone off doing 43 in a 60!

 

The zx was different, it just clonked it's arse off but steered ok. I bloody hope it is that, saying that there's nothing else it could be unless I've fucked the rack, and I doubt I've done that.

[EssDeeWon]

As if there wasn't already enough to dislike about modern Audi, seems some of their staff are just as pig ignorant and wholly unreasonable as some of the people that drive them.

 

Does the Q7 make a reasonable man turn into an absolute stroppy impatient road raging shit bag or do these cars just attract them?

[andy18s]

 

I'm finding this more and more on Facebook groups. Ask a reasonable question and get flamed for not knowing the answer/being an amateur/ not being as smart as the guy commenting and 9/10 nobody knows the answer to your query anyway.

There's a Disco 3 page I'm still on for some inexplicable reason,and whenever a question is put forward a good 75% of replies are "RTFM ,its all in there"

Athough it can make interesting reading when owners start bragging about how they've done 500miles this week without the dash lighting up like the proverbial Christmas tree...

[DeeJay]

Off on holiday tomorrow morning and I really can't be bothered with it.

 

My wife's excited but I'll be missing the dog and the cats and my nice quiet commute in my old rover and dicking about with cars all day and my nice customers.

 

Weird or what?

My wife and kids (24+25) are away on holiday now, I'm home alone.

Talk about relaxing.

[Kiltox]

The renault facebook group is a bit odd, there's one bloke who has obviously worked on all his gooners, and is quite helpful on simple common things, but then 3 other people will weigh in saying to take it to renault.

 

Ive been told that 3 times today, one went mental when I said I drove around the block in limp mode with the esp fail warning flashing, wtf was I supposed to do, call the aa and wait 6 hours 300 yards from home? Even if the damn wheel fell off i'd drag its arse back on 3 wheels...

Got a link to it? Sounds fun.

[Lankytim]

Someone else has waded in, lambasting me for not taking pictures beforehand (fair point, but tell me something I don't know) and giving me advice on how to grease a part that isn't even fitted on this.

[alcyonecorporation]

Someone else has waded in, lambasting me for not taking pictures beforehand (fair point, but tell me something I don't know) and giving me advice on how to grease a part that isn't even fitted on this.

The internet is always* right.

[bub2006]

Having driven it I think thats what it's doing. Every so often above 50 it jammed and veered me off, causing some gripping of the wheel and pissing everyone off doing 43 in a 60!

 

The zx was different, it just clonked it's arse off but steered ok. I bloody hope it is that, saying that there's nothing else it could be unless I've fucked the rack, and I doubt I've done that.

Get away wi thee, I drove your zx, steering was bloody awful and sticky!

[panhard65]

Having driven it I think thats what it's doing. Every so often above 50 it jammed and veered me off, causing some gripping of the wheel and pissing everyone off doing 43 in a 60!

 

The zx was different, it just clonked it's arse off but steered ok. I bloody hope it is that, saying that there's nothing else it could be unless I've fucked the rack, and I doubt I've done that.

Too be honest I think this really needs looking at by someone who knows what they are doing. It really doesn't sound like a normal worn ball joint if it is locking the steering up, are both springs ok ??. I used to post advice on the Renault owners club forum but got fed up with people ignoring it trying to find the cheapest way to sort the problem rather than actually diagnosing it. Now I have pretty much given up advising people but this sounds bloody dangerous and really shouldn't be on the road until it's sorted.

[Supernaut]

I've got a Xantia here if you want it, beko.

 

It goes in a straight line, stops properly, everything! Proper luxury motoring.

[beko1987]

I've got a Xantia here if you want it, beko.

 

It goes in a straight line, stops properly, everything! Proper luxury motoring.

Still slightly regret not owning it now tbh! Not much though. Mine goes in a straight line if I hold the steering wheel slightly to the left, and stops evenly now. With any luck it will get me to shitefest and back!

[oldcars]

No important really but found a set of Y spoke alloys for the 75, love these wheels. Look to be a bargain but down in London and the seller won't pack them for a courier to collect. 

[Pillock]

The internet is always* right.

I read that once.

 

On the internet.

 

*Explodes*

[eddyramrod]

No important really but found a set of Y spoke alloys for the 75, love these wheels. Look to be a bargain but down in London and the seller won't pack them for a courier to collect. 

Shitely Relay?

[Negative Creep]

My grump is the sunburn I received at the weekend. Now you might say I should have used sunblock, which I did in large quantities. However whilst my head, neck and arms are still their usual pasty selves, I forgot I was wearing an unbuttoned polo shirt so have a bit red spot right between my collarbones.

[Guest Hooli]

My grump is the sunburn I received at the weekend. Now you might say I should have used sunblock, which I did in large quantities. However whilst my head, neck and arms are still their usual pasty selves, I forgot I was wearing an unbuttoned polo shirt so have a bit red spot right between my collarbones.

 

My head, face & arms are all a lovely shade of beetroot, that'll serve me right for forgetting a hat & suntan lotion when stood on an airfield all day.

[tooSavvy]

My head, face & arms are all a lovely shade of beetroot, that'll serve me right for forgetting a hat & suntan lotion when stood on an airfield all day.

Ouch! Me too (several years ago now) Croft BTCC.

 

Fathers day gift tickets.

 

 

TS

[DodgeRover]

No important really but found a set of Y spoke alloys for the 75, love these wheels. Look to be a bargain but down in London and the seller won't pack them for a courier to collect.

In the City itself?

[Parky]

No important really but found a set of Y spoke alloys for the 75, love these wheels. Look to be a bargain but down in London and the seller won't pack them for a courier to collect. 

Do you know what part of that London the rimz are in?

[somewhatfoolish]

I tried this for a good 3 weeks the last time my ear was blocked to no avail. Had to go to the clinic and have somebody blast it full of water, a few days later my hearing gradually returned.

 I used to get earwax build up because I wear hearing protection for long periods at work; the best way I've found for getting rid has been really hot showers and directing the water into my ears. This seems to mobilise the wax and it comes out on its own, sometimes in alarmingly large lumps.

[Negative Creep]

My head, face & arms are all a lovely shade of beetroot, that'll serve me right for forgetting a hat & suntan lotion when stood on an airfield all day.

 

 

Wasn't Duxford was it?

[Cavcraft]

My wife and kids (24+25) are away on holiday now, I'm home alone.

Talk about relaxing.

 

TBH, if my wife was 24 and my kids were 25, she'd be holidaying with me.

[AlabamaShrimp]

My grump is the sunburn I received at the weekend. Now you might say I should have used sunblock, which I did in large quantities. However whilst my head, neck and arms are still their usual pasty selves, I forgot I was wearing an unbuttoned polo shirt so have a bit red spot right between my collarbones.

Time for a Medallion!

[Bobthebeard]

If your wife was 24 and the kids were 25 then surely the kids were clocked?

[Guest Hooli]

Wasn't Duxford was it?

 

Bruntingthorpe, hence my Lightning pic on the grin thread.

[purplebargeken]

Yeah, where in London??

[beko1987]

Amys had a growth on a booby last year that the doctors put down to childbirth. It came back a few days ago. Fast forward to this morning, after I'd finished the gooner and before I went to aylesbury and she went to the doctors who gave her antibiotics. She caught it this afternoon and it bled, she's in hospital now.

 

T minus 4 days until shitefest... Mmmmm

[Guest Hooli]

That's a bugger, hope it's nowt serious.

[DeeJay]

T minus 4 days until shitefest... Mmmmm

 

If you make (in the wifes eyes) the wrong decision it will never be forgotten for a long time, a veeeeeeery long time and it will be brought up at every opportunity.