The grumpy thread

[meggersdog]

Thank's Sir,that's what I thought.Now the pikeys have been evicted I won't be moving house anytime soon either.

[Pillock]

Yeah I resisted swapping my paper licence (last year of issuing them) for a photocard, but then I moved house and the fine for not updating it put me off resisting any longer.Apparently some insurers can get 'funny' if you're the registered keeper of a car insured to a different address than your licence says you live at.... fraud apparently, since you may be insuring it to a lower risk postcode.TBH it's quite nice having a photocard now, it seems to serve as universal ID and saves having to remember where you put passports etc. I never liked carrying my paper licence since they're so fragile, had it in my wallet for a couple of years and it started tearing along the creases. My mum's had her last paper licence since the early 80s and it looks like it should be in a museum it's that worn.

[mattblack]

I love having a paper licence (and no passport)... GR8 4 CONFUZIN SELF IMPORTANT 18 YR OLDS WHEN THEY IZ ASKIN 4 ID

[Lord Sterling]

COMPUTERS! Having had Internet problems for the past couple of weeks, my computer decided to commit suicide and not switch on at all, all I got was a flashing red light. Too add further shit, my other computer will not except the dongle (Had a currupted start-up file so whatever currupted must have fucked up some other files) so now I'm back to square one. Havong to trapse around using friends/library/internet cafes just top access the net'Bastard.

[Mash]

Bloody windscreen wipers Seriously, what is the answer to farting blades at one end of the spectrum and smearing across hardly touching at the other? I am sick of every car I own having these issues. Is it the shampoo, the washer fluid, the blades, the glass cleaner?Aaargh!!!!

[myglaren]

  Mash said:

Bloody windscreen wipers Seriously, what is the answer to farting blades at one end of the spectrum and smearing across hardly touching at the other? I am sick of every car I own having these issues. Is it the shampoo, the washer fluid, the blades, the glass cleaner?Aaargh!!!!

Try giving the screen a good clean with meths, it can help quite a bit.

[chester drawers]

^^With mine it was a lack of pressure in the arms. Had replaced the screen (thanks Farmer Giles) and fitted new Bosch blades to no avail. My friendly mechanic bent the arms fractionally inwards (at the blade mounting point) and hey presto perfect sweep all across the screen.Tension lost after 3 months or so mind, so a new set of arms would seem to be in order.

[pogweasel]

Bank holiday weather. Had hoped it would clear up enough to skulk off to the classics for a couple of hours (despite previous protestation). Alas mega wind and lashing rain. Bet your life tomorrow will be dead lush - the show is on tomorrow too, but Mrs_P is at work, meaning I haz poglets and only transport my stinky van. Denied.

[MrDuke]

No a rant, but will no doubt make other moods worse. Here in teh capital of rain, we've had bright sunshine and blue skies, all day!! Although the wind's been a bit of a bitch, I got proper goosebumps walking across Aldi's carpark.

[Angrydicky]

  Mash said:

Bloody windscreen wipers Seriously, what is the answer to farting blades at one end of the spectrum and smearing across hardly touching at the other? I am sick of every car I own having these issues. Is it the shampoo, the washer fluid, the blades, the glass cleaner?Aaargh!!!!

The 2CV is like this in the rain As for the weather, I was due to go to the Vange Classic Car Show tomorrow, except its been raining all day here and the field will almost certainly be waterlogged and the show cancelled - arse

[dollywobbler]

2CV wipers should be good Dicky - but you do need the right blades. Halfrauds sell 11" ones for 2CVs, but they should be 10". I use Valeos, though they do need replacing almost annually. Which is the recommendation anyway! (by wiper blade manufacturers?!). Agree with meths on the screen. Sorted the BX out very nicely. I actually put a smidge in the washer tank now.

[wuvvum]

Weather has been OK here most of the day - I even got the lawn mowed this afternoon. Rained this evening though, which meant me using the wipers on the Espace for the first time in a while, and the blades are getting decidedly farty. Which is a pain, 'cos the driver's side blade on that generation of Espace is stupidly long, which means the £1.99 blades I normally buy won't come in a long enough size and I'm going to have to fork out for an expensive Bosch jobbie.

[dollywobbler]

  wuvvum said:

Weather has been OK here most of the day - I even got the lawn mowed this afternoon. Rained this evening though, which meant me using the wipers on the Espace for the first time in a while, and the blades are getting decidedly farty. Which is a pain, 'cos the driver's side blade on that generation of Espace is stupidly long, which means the £1.99 blades I normally buy won't come in a long enough size and I'm going to have to fork out for an expensive Bosch jobbie.

My 21 is irritating because the Bosch blades fitted to the BX, despite being the save size, don't fit the bloody peculiar arms on the 21. Well, unless I modify them with a hacksaw...

[Richard]

Bosch blades are shit. You get two, maybe three, sweeps out of them and then they're buggered.

[Angrydicky]

  dollywobbler said:

2CV wipers should be good Dicky - but you do need the right blades. Halfrauds sell 11" ones for 2CVs, but they should be 10". I use Valeos, though they do need replacing almost annually. Which is the recommendation anyway! (by wiper blade manufacturers?!). Agree with meths on the screen. Sorted the BX out very nicely. I actually put a smidge in the washer tank now.

In fairness the ones on it are pretty ancient - when I got it it came with a number of spares, including a couple that looked better than the ones that are on there, I also bent the wiper arms slightly, which made an improvement but they're still not very good. I do need some new ones.Other jobs to do on it soon include fitting a new windscreen - this one has a big chip in the driver's field of vision and is also delaminating around the edges. And I reckon it'll be hiding plenty of rust Might farm this one out to the local 2CV specialist. I also need to fit new floors before the MOT. Oh and the snail leaks in heavy rain - only just discovered that today

[wuvvum]

  Angry Dicky said:

Oh and the snail leaks in heavy rain - only just discovered that today

That's pretty much the nature of the beast though, isn't it?

[Angrydicky]

I thought I'd finally bought a car that didn't leak - no such luck

[Albert Ross]

2cv screen chipped in front of the driver? Pop it out, turn it round, and pop it back in. Simples.

[Des]

Farting wipers? Don't bend the arms, twist them so that the blade is square to the screen, the blade needs to be able to 'flip' when it changes direction or it's like pushing an upside down wheelbarrow.

[ashmicro]

  Des said:

Farting wipers? Don't bend the arms, twist them so that the blade is square to the screen, the blade needs to be able to 'flip' when it changes direction or it's like pushing an upside down wheelbarrow.

+1. Did this on the Rover with great results. Also, Valeo blades FTW.

[vivavictor]

thick as shite people on ebay no buy it now .... message "do you have a buy it now price"less than 10 feedback contact before bidding.... 4 people with 2-8 feedback bid auction to run until end.."will you end it for X amount"do these twats just go out of there way to annoy the arse off people or are they really so fucking stupid that they cant read..i'm gonna get a cable with 75,000 volts running through it and a sign saying do not touch with wet hands... do you think they would?

[Guest]

Oh God, not wipers.The C4 has these mad things that sweep in an inverse handed sweep - the NS wipes across to the right, and the OS wipes across to the left.Which is fine, if it all worked properly (can you see a 'but' appearing)? Almost since day one, the NS wiper has never sat right on the screen. I was banging on about it upon delivery, but the dealership said there was nothing wrong and kept saying it needed a new wiper (?!). No, the damn thing jiggled / jiggles across the screen when it sweeps, so it ain't sat close enough to the screen. Idiots. How about if you can't be arsed, say so! Anyway, it got so badly misaligned that a 3 month old blade put a fooking great scuff in the top half of the screen. When this happened I went ape shit and the garage said it wasn't their fault, the wiper arm wasn't misaligned and that I must have got a stone in it. Funny how since SCTSH_ANDY realigned it (which was the bloody problem in the first place), it doesn't judder, innit? HaValeo wipers are what go on the C4. I love paying £42 for a pair of wipers. Also, the Halfords prescribed set for the rear hatch tailgate has too tall a fitting so won't clip on to the arm. You have to go to Citroen direct and buy an OEM blade which is a mere snip at £13. It does fit though. Just a tip if anyone out there is brave enough to own one other than me.Halfords blades are made by Valeo as well as the OEM Citroen guff, so I'm not quite sure what's going on there, except you pay £8 less for the same front wipers in Halfords.Anyway, my question is, has anyone used that jewellers rouge stuff to get a scuff off a windscreen? WTF do I get it from?

[pogweasel]

  watanabe said:

Anyway, my question is, stuff to get a scuff off a windscreen?

Toothpaste. Smokers/whitening, not colgate blue minty gel.That will get rid of wiper scratch marks.

[Pillock]

I bought some T-Cut Glass Polish, meant to remove light scuffs from glass. It appears to be exactly the same stuff as T-Cut, but in a blue bottle.+1 for Toothpaste though. Remember to floss around the rear view mirror.

[Timewaster]

i've done it before on a customers car after I had foolishly let the saturday boy fit some wiper refills with inevitable results.Started with rubbing compound, then t-cut finished with autoglym glass polish and although the result wasn't perfect, it was good enough to stop the customer from shouting and waving his arms about.How I miss the motor trade - not.Oh yes, I definitely didn't put the bottles back on the shelf afterwards

[trigger]

Was it pre 68 bangers Saturday at foxhall stadium? I was grumpy as the roads around here where lined with transporter trucks with Mk1 Cortinas, Mk2 Cortinas, Vivas and big old Austins all stripped ready for racing, it was heartbreaking.

[myglaren]

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Anyway, my question is, has anyone used that jewellers rouge stuff to get a scuff off a windscreen? WTF do I get it from?

I used Autosol. Worked a treat.Jeweller's Rouge

[chester drawers]

Joining the toothache set when the dentist’s closed for bank holiday. According to NHS Direct the emergency dentist only takes an interest when the swelling assumes elephant man proportions. The extra chin I’m currently sporting doesn’t qualify apparently.

[dollywobbler]

  wuvvum said:

  Angry Dicky said:

Oh and the snail leaks in heavy rain - only just discovered that today

That's pretty much the nature of the beast though, isn't it?

Aye. Mine does. Just means I wear appropriate footwear as annoyingly, it likes to dribbe water directly into my shoes.

[myglaren]

  chester drawers said:

Joining the toothache set when the dentist’s closed for bank holiday. According to NHS Direct the emergency dentist only takes an interest when the swelling assumes elephant man proportions. The extra chin I’m currently sporting doesn’t qualify apparently.

Try going to a local "Walk-In Centre" or A&E. They should fix you up at least with painkillers.Our local dental hospital is brilliant for such problems, although you do have to show up before 8am.