The grumpy thread

[beko1987]

Mondeo thinks it is french. Indicators failed now.

I would say I'll chase up that free/scrap price daewoo in London and roll in that for a while and send the gooner up your way, but tbh that might just finish you off...

 

Indicators not a relay or something?

[Noel Tidybeard]

Mondeo thinks it is french. Indicators failed now.

 

didnt they make mondingos in belgium? thats nearly french isnt it?

[bub2006]

Sorted,was a fuse!

[alcyonecorporation]

And we're up to the fifth drop out on the van. 

Wow, this is feeling familiar. 

[bub2006]

Ebay is full of timewasters these days.

[alcyonecorporation]

Ebay is full of timewasters these days.

 

It's always been full of timewasters. 

See also: Facebook car groups, the cancerous shit holes of social media. 

[bub2006]

Thats true and also my concern with a slightly rusty 17 year old mondeo!

[mercrocker]

slightly rusty 17 year old fuses, too...you might be lucky, Bub!

[bub2006]

Fuses werent rusty! Im hoping it behaves itself now. Been offered my dads old car but i really like the mondeo so ill see what occurs.

[anonymous user]

And we're up to the fifth drop out on the van.

 

Wow, this is feeling familiar.

 

You have my sympathy, I have just experienced the same, eventually a real buyer turned up, hopefully the same will happen for you.

[alcyonecorporation]

Fuses werent rusty! Im hoping it behaves itself now. Been offered my dads old car but i really like the mondeo so ill see what occurs.

Bub mate, you don't need anything to go wrong at the moment. If your dad's car is a known quantity and reliable, take it over the Mondeo. 

If things are as bad as you're saying, the last thing you want is an FTP during work hours.

 

You have my sympathy, I have just experienced the same, eventually a real buyer turned up, hopefully the same will happen for you.

I'll keep going. I felt I did more than enough for the previous buyer, who, after chipping me down on price, extracting free spares and taking a month to pay the remaining balance, tried to force an early collection on me at the very last minute during a hectic session at work. We had a colossal row and he walked away. An apology would have been nice, but hey, manners are priceless these days.

I've since had several Northern Irish enthusiasts try to buy it for next to nothing,  moaning about the cost of ferries and transport.

 

My patience is ebbing away. I need the van to sell to pay bills, for someone to respect the fact that my time isn't worthless, to stick to prior arrangements and not expect the moon on a stick.

 

Another buyer who wants a different car "simply can't pay any more" and wants it delivering to his door - at my expense. 

 

It must be me.

 

I think my days of buying daft side projects are over. The stress and misery required to move them on simply isn't worth the effort. 

A pathetic state of affairs all round. 

[3VOM]

Aren't flame traps supposed to have a flame trap in them?

[bub2006]

My dad isnt sure if he wants to sell yet,he has his cab full time now so doesny use the car but he likes to have it just in case. He said i can use it if i need to long term then if i like it and he wants shut ill keep it. Cant be picky!

[mercrocker]

Out of the eight jobs I have to after work today cleaning the car wasn't one of them.   It bloody well is now.     

 

 

 

 

 

Shitehawks,

[Negative Creep]

HGV not bothering to stop for the red light.

 

[bub2006]

Fuck it. My ex mrs (sons mum,split 10 years ago)has been round tonight. Giving me a barrel of fucks because ivevthe audacity* to talk to another woman after me and wife split nearly two month back. Now she doesnt seem it right nor fair on my son so i cant have him this weekend. Fucking cunting twating fucker thinking can dictate my life. One little piece of happiness and its tore away from ne. Fuck it all now. Ive had enough of this bollocks.

My so called family have been shit stirring,telling my seperated wife and my ex things i dont need them to know and embellishing the facts a little.

[M'coli]

And we're up to the fifth drop out on the van. 

 

Wow, this is feeling familiar. 

3 times for me from Norn Irn when selling the Avenger in 2009 - it had recently been resprayed and had 8 month test when another Irishman flew over to Leeds/Bradford and picked it up, no quibbles.  GLWTS.

[puddlethumper]

Ordered new springs for my reconditioned back axle from Trusted Springs. Told it would be two weeks. Called at two weeks and was told because of people on hols that they weren't ready.  Left it for a week and they are still not ready. Ffs. how much longer ? Won't be ready till next bloody Wednesday. That's four and a half effing weeks. He must have known people were going on holiday Ffs.  Why tell me it will be two weeks. Meanwhile I'm running around with a totally buggered axle that makes awful noises. I don't want to put old springs on an axle that all the rest is bloody new.

Will never recommend to anyone. Trusted Springs can Fro.

[richardmorris]

Out of the eight jobs I have to after work today cleaning the car wasn't one of them.   It bloody well is now.     

 

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Shitehawks,

 

Annoyed an albatross recently?

[M'coli]

Fuck it. My ex mrs (sons mum,split 10 years ago)has been round tonight. Giving me a barrel of fucks because ivevthe audacity* to talk to another woman after me and wife split nearly two month back. Now she doesnt seem it right nor fair on my son so i cant have him this weekend. Fucking cunting twating fucker thinking can dictate my life. One little piece of happiness and its tore away from ne. Fuck it all now. Ive had enough of this bollocks.

My so called family have been shit stirring,telling my seperated wife and my ex things i dont need them to know and embellishing the facts a little.

That's utterly utterly shite, Bub.  I hope you can deal with this with dignity and decorum.  Good luck.

[bub2006]

Just another fuck up in the shitstorm of life .

[bub2006]

Waiting on AA. Car developed misfire abd a rotten egg smell. Only 3 mile home. Lost power completely and i pulled up at roadside. Then came the smoke and smouldering cat.

[doobietoo]

Picked up the new PT today... no that is not the grump the car is great... The grump is my insurance company... now bearing in mind the new car is identical in every way apart from the registration number you would expect it to cost the same... but no, they wanted an extra £27 on top of the admin fee which works out to an extra 20% charge ... after i stopped laughing i asked why the 20% increase as both cars were identical.... Their answer was that I had not bought both cars at the same time !!!!!   Well no shit Sherlock this is my new car...you tend not to buy two cars at the same time and then wait a year and a half to insure one of them ...... a complaint has been logged .....

[FakeConcern]

Picked up the new PT today... no that is not the grump the car is great... The grump is my insurance company... now bearing in mind the new car is identical in every way apart from the registration number you would expect it to cost the same... but no, they wanted an extra £27 on top of the admin fee which works out to an extra 20% charge ... after i stopped laughing i asked why the 20% increase as both cars were identical.... Their answer was that I had not bought both cars at the same time !!!!!   Well no shit Sherlock this is my new car...you tend not to buy two cars at the same time and then wait a year and a half to insure one of them ...... a complaint has been logged .....

I just had the same thing after the demise of my C4 VTS I got another one, rang Performance Direct to change over insurance I started in June and another £160 please! I said that can't be right as the old one was modified (lowered, exhaust) and also Cat D write off and the new one is standard!

[Pillock]

bub.... blocked cat? or overfuelling and it's dumped all the fuel in there?

[bub2006]

I dont know. All i know is im home now and shitting bricks for work.

[DodgeRover]

People do pay to watch odd things via web cam, I thought you were a gigalo?

 

More seriously can you borrow your dad's car for the morning?

[alcyonecorporation]

More seriously can you borrow your dad's car for the morning?

 

This. Please borrow your dad's car.

[bub2006]

Dad given me his focus. On the strict rule if my step mum asked ive borrowed it. Uve told him he is a wimp. He then told me id get a good hiding too so i agreed with him

[alcyonecorporation]

Left the 305 Facebook group. No loss to me.