The grumpy thread

[RayMK]

Tried bypassing the ammeter? I have a feeling they carry the whole electrical load for the car. So when they die it's like a main fuse going.

 

That is the case for my 1961 Reliant. A loose connection to the ammeter killed almost everything during an MOT a few years back. 

[Guest Hooli]

I'm pretty sure an ammeter runs in series, so carries the load. Whereas a voltmeter runs in parallel so can get disconnected with no side effects.

[cort16]

I've been following this thread on Pistonheads for a while.The guy iswasbasically putting a large turbo audi engine in his boxster.

Lots of detailed work and time spent on it then when he's almost finished it.

 

What a pisser 

 

 

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=47&t=1571615&i=420

[steveo3002]

yeah bummer on the boxster...not insured for fire either

[Timewaster]

That Boxter is sad to see. I wouldn't want to see anyones hard work go up in smoke.

 

Can't help but wonder what he got wrong.

Loose fuel pipe perhaps?

[Rod/b]

Dislike, but at the same time minor LOL that the thread opened at his post about adding two fire extinguishers in case stuff went a bit smokey.

[dome]

I've been following this thread on Pistonheads for a while.The guy iswasbasically putting a large turbo audi engine in his boxster.

Lots of detailed work and time spent on it then when he's almost finished it.

 

What a pisser 

 

 

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=47&t=1571615&i=420

 

Fuck, that sucks ass

[panhard65]

I better not show the Boxster pics to my other half as we are taking mine on a tour round France tomorrow. Fingers crossed it doesn't shit itself.

[twosmoke300]

Leave the fucking things standard !

[Pillock]

I dunno, have you put a mad Audi engine in yours that generates a load of heat? If not you might be OK

[Guest Hooli]

I better not show the Boxster pics to my other half as we are taking mine on a tour round France tomorrow. Fingers crossed it doesn't shit itself.

 

A lap of frogshire in one day? you'll have to get a shift on!

[Snipes]

Went to Tesco this evening and as I came back to da mota the woman (other sexes available) in a cashcow, puke or summat parked next to me opens her passenger door and bangs my "classic" van with it. WTF!!!

Oy, says I, do you mind not banging my wagon. 

At that she looked disdainfully at my, erm, a bit rusty van, (Being sorted soon) and says unconvincingly "oh SORRY!".

AArgh! So I get a bit on one and says to fake blonde bint, " Hey, Your 14 plate, whatever it is, in ten years is going to be worth half what mine will be. Yours is losing money as it sits here. mine on the other hand is actually appreciating in value every year". 

Ok. by about £20. Per annuuuuuum. Not much I know, but hey, Its the bloody principle innit.

So. Drove off.  Leaving some blonde bint not knowing wtf I was on about. Does not compute, I suppose.

I had a look later and, I'll be honest, amongst all the other dings, I couldn't see a new one.

 

BUT THAT'S NOT THE POINT. IS IT ?

 

 

Should have demanded her insurance details just to put the wind-up, so to speak.

[greengartside]

Felt really sad seeing this in my local scrappers today. 2.0 V6 Connie with beige leather and the Rover sat-nav. Ex-press or management vehicle for Rover going on the number plate. Should have been saved IMHO!! Plenty of parts for the 75 guys on here though.

[fraser.innes.3]

I know this isn't the place and all that, but it's just been confirmed my wife's sister has incurable cancer. Keeping it off social media for now until we've reached all the family.

Just found out my dads pancreatic cancer has spread to his liver. 3 to 6 months at best.

 

 

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[eddyramrod]

So much cancer about!  Now there is a good reason to be grumpy!

[Cavcraft]

Sorry to hear that chief. 

[taxi paul]

On my way back from my cornwall holiday today. Took me six hours to get from St ives to Bristol. Bloody awful traffic. I don't do much distance driving these days and I don't know how the lorryists and others do it. The amount of drivers that can't use the first Lane on a motorway is bad enough but when it's a smart section and they still sit in Lane three of four doing 58 mph is annoying. I may have just zipped along in the empty first Lane and sort of undertook them. Also my biggest rant is if you are a hipster and trendy vw pineapple lover. Please make sure your ancient vw pile of crap can actually make it up a hill. That will save a four miles tailback trying to get past you on the A30 out of Cornwall.sorry to hear about the cancer posts. Having lost my missus to it last year you have my regards.

[fraser.innes.3]

So much cancer about! Now there is a good reason to be grumpy!

I didn't mention my sister's breast cancer either. She's halfway through chemo for that after an op. And also my best mate has just been diagnosed with leukaemia!!!

 

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[Cavcraft]

It's a shit time all round, my wife's grand mother died Friday night. We're not telling her sister for obvious reasons, but it's putting another strain om my missus and her dad.

[somewhatfoolish]

Felt really sad seeing this in my local scrappers today. 2.0 V6 Connie with beige leather and the Rover sat-nav. Ex-press or management vehicle for Rover going on the number plate. Should have been saved IMHO!! Plenty of parts for the 75 guys on here though.

Has it been declared scrap? If not then wave some pictures of the queen at the scrapman and give it a new lease of life.

[gordonbennet]

^^ Bloody hell Cavcraft, it aint raining in your parish its pouring.

Condolences.

[Guest Hooli]

So much cancer about!  Now there is a good reason to be grumpy!

 

On the other hand, I don't think more people get cancer these days. It's just they haven't died of something else before the cancer was 'due'.

[Timewaster]

On the other hand, I don't think more people get cancer these days. It's just they haven't died of something else before the cancer was 'due'.

That's probably true in a lot of cases.

Also I think people are more willing to talk about it now.

I know of half a dozen people who have had cancer and are still around with varying levels of after effects.

Sadly we all know that it can still mean curtains for the unfortunate few.

[Guest Hooli]

True, it doesn't make it any nicer to get just because you didn't die of TB 40 years earlier.

[MarvinsMom]

compared to many here, my grumps are of a trivial nature, 

 

but, as it is good to share with the group, 

 

1, last day of the holidays and work tomorrow.

 

2. supposed to be over at Grange over Sands for their wee car show, but, both myself and kerry have hardly slept over the last couple of nights, and hence feel as rough as badgers arses (not that we make a habit of molesting small animals....)

 

3. why aren't we sleeping? well we are both fretting about spending all that money on "Godzilla" (ok - i know the name needs some work, but the lexus is enormous, green and japanese) and whether we have done the right thing....

 

when we get it we should just enjoy it until it break (kerry says it won't do that, cos Lexus) i however remain to be convinced. at the end of the day, its only a car, if it really breaks, then scrap it, otherwise we should enjoy it, and it is only money what we've spent.

 

doesn't stop me fretting though.

[Eddie Honda]

I found the ammeter had got so hot it has melted and the glass has cracked. It had never worked since I converted it to alternator

Ammeter measures current and you measure current passing through something.

 

Voltmeter measures voltage and you measure voltage across something. (potential difference between two points)

 

Given what an alternator chucks out in terms of current, it's no surprise that it stopped working at the same time as the alternator was fitted. Those old ammeters are usually scaled +30 to -30 amps, which is fine for an old Lucas C41 22 amp dynamo, but not for even the weediest of alternators.

[DodgeRover]

MarvinsMom was exactly the same when I bought my first house my now wife quite rightly pointed out that people spend more than that on a new new car and we could always bung it through the auctions just the same to get rid if it all went wrong.

 

Have you tried sleeping in the Lexus

[Angrydicky]

Yeah it was my fault, ammeter now bypassed and it's back up and running with no other damage, thankfully.

The ammeter might have stopped working, but I installed the alternator three years ago and it's taken until now to burn its coil out and cause a load of issues.

Just need to get another ammeter to replace the melted one now for 'appearances sake' as it's not going to work any more.

[DodgeRover]

Fit a volt meter of the same style in it's place?

[Eddie Honda]

Or go back to dynamo given how cheap/small jump packs are.