The grumpy thread

[chaseracer]

I'm pretty sure I've tried that already, she always comes back though.

 

In related news, see if you can guess who rang this morning to ask if her daughter can pick the car up and she'll come back later to pay the bill?

 

As suggested elsewhere, the word you are finding it difficult to formulate - because you are very clearly a nice bloke - is NO.  

 

You are running a business, not a public service, and you have no obligation at all to any over-entitled tw@t who thinks the world revolves around them.

[xtriple]

Just been for a load of blood tests, hellfire, they took at least three arms worth (anyone remember the sketch?) ! I am now quietly shitting myself

[chaseracer]

Have a nice cup of tea...

 

 

[captain_70s]

I sent off all my vehicle's V5Cs and my driving license to get the address updated a while ago, all the VC5s were in one envelope and the license was separate but posted at the same time.

 

Today a letter dropped onto my doormat from the DVLA containing... One V5C, for RLK 126R, the only piece of documentation I really don't need. No doubt all the other stuff will arrive at 11:30pm tomorrow, 3 hours after I've left...

[Guest Hooli]

I sent my licence & three V5cs off all on the same day last week, bets on which one doesn't come back?

[scaryoldcortina]

Aye, she's had my last nerve this time. No more favours, no freebies, no credit.

 

Soon as she's collected the car and paid up I'm blocking her number.

 

Actually, I might invent an extra charge and then make her promise to pay it later. That should get rid of her.

[Kiltox]

Fuck me - there’s a thread on pistonheads about monthly costs of running cars (quelle surprise)

 

Someone with a 2014 diesel X6 is shelling out £1250 a month in total between finance and running costs - £1 a mile for their 15k a year

[vulgalour]

Pistonheads really is a different world.  £15k to keep one ugly, non-descript car going for a year is insane.  Still, I'm sure they're very happy with their life choices.

[DodgeRover]

Pistonheads really is a different world. £15k to keep one ugly, non-descript car going for a year is insane. Still, I'm sure they're very happy with their life choices.

Excellent positivity there. (Meant in a good way)

 

Assuming I was happy to spend 15k a year I think I would be running a V8 Aussie or Yank on finance and getting someone else to do the maintenance

 

I think this would be a good idea for a thread if I could get my head around how it would be split between payments and fuel.

[beko1987]

I don't think even our hardest core chod botherers get through £15k a year do they?

 

Wobbler? Bramz? FOAD?

[HH-R]

I think I was spending near that keeping that POS Panda on the road.

[jakebullet]

Auto glass say not on insurance, auto glass say £512.03. Would you like to proceed sir?

 

Er, no.

Phoned insurance lot, and approved supplier is auto windscreens for £75 excess. Anyone got experience with them?

[chaseracer]

Yes, they're fine IME.

[DodgeRover]

Got a headlight cracked by something that flicked up on the motorway. Even more grumpy as the square headlights the van uses are the same as MK2 Escort so omg old skool ford scene tax applies, not only are they proving tricky to track down people also seem to think they are worth a fortune....

[anonymous user]

I don't think even our hardest core chod botherers get through £15k a year do they?

 

Wobbler? Bramz? FOAD?

£15k is probably a drop in xtriple's ocean

[AlabamaShrimp]

Got a headlight cracked by something that flicked up on the motorway. Even more grumpy as the square headlights the van uses are the same as MK2 Escort so omg old skool ford scene tax applies, not only are they proving tricky to track down people also seem to think they are worth a fortune....

What kind of van is it?

[richardmorris]

Bloody pay-as-go ultilites. They lied to me when I moved in so when I topped up this morning most of the topup vanished on the previous person's debt. Ring them up & find out a totally different way to inform them that the reason I have a different name & just bought the house is I'm not the last lot of people...but I don't get the money back till they process that.

 

Roll on a week or two's time when I get back on a proper energy supply that isn't designed for pikeys.

 

 

When my sister and I rented a house in Ascot in 2001 (course road, next to the racecourse, if anyone is nosy and wants to Google), the meter had been changed to prepayment without the owner's permission. The agent played hell and it was changed back the next day. It's a very expensive way to get electricity so get it changed if you can.

[Kiltox]

When my sister and I rented a house in Ascot in 2001 (course road, next to the racecourse, if anyone is nosy and wants to Google), the meter had been changed to prepayment without the owner's permission. The agent played hell and it was changed back the next day. It's a very expensive way to get electricity so get it changed if you can.

Owner doesn’t need to give permission - if a tenant runs up a big bill and stops paying they will break in if necessary and fit these.

 

Can be difficult to change back too - British Gas for example need you to have perfect credit.

[wuvvum]

Fuck me - there’s a thread on pistonheads about monthly costs of running cars (quelle surprise)

 

Someone with a 2014 diesel X6 is shelling out £1250 a month in total between finance and running costs - £1 a mile for their 15k a year

I can hear Xtriple's snorts of derision from here.

[richardmorris]

Owner doesn’t need to give permission - if a tenant runs up a big bill and stops paying they will break in if necessary and fit these.

Can be difficult to change back too - British Gas for example need you to have perfect credit.

Yes they will but not necessarily legally. According the agent ( at that time) they weren't allowed to.

[Kiltox]

Yes they will but not necessarily legally. According the agent ( at that time) they weren't allowed to.

Agent will have been referring to an unenforceable clause in the tenancy agreement saying you shouldn’t cause the meter type to be changed without permission

[Guest Hooli]

When my sister and I rented a house in Ascot in 2001 (course road, next to the racecourse, if anyone is nosy and wants to Google), the meter had been changed to prepayment without the owner's permission. The agent played hell and it was changed back the next day. It's a very expensive way to get electricity so get it changed if you can.

 

Electric doesn't seem too bad, but gas is bloody expensive.

 

I got them swapped as soon as I moved, but there is a 14 day cooling off before they proceed & then another 7 days in which they'll swap suppliers so I'll be getting real electric & gas from sometime next week.

[richardmorris]

I can hear Xtriple's snorts of derision from here.

I had typed a reply but then the iPad had a hissy fit. Anyway, I'm trying to justify a purchase of a new car ( to me, and perhaps the parents ) that will hopefully be worth the same next year.

 

My everyday 1994 merc coupe has cost me this year... £250 full service mot and left tie rod, £55 right tie rod, £60 full wheel alignment, £240ish VED and £520 insurance and eu wide breakdown. Call it £1000 all in plus the petrol. With a bit of luck it's also worth double what I paid for it five years ago. It's by far the cheapest car I've run- even at 26mpg. My cx dtr by comparison was fabulous at 45mpg but needed about £100 a month in reserves to pay for "issues". Rust, fuel pump, rust, ac, rust, radiator, rust, etc.

[strangeangel]

I sent my licence & three V5cs off all on the same day last week, bets on which one doesn't come back?

 

I hope you took copies of your licence, especially the bits that show your bike entitlement...

[Guest Hooli]

I've still got the licence from the move before that I 'forgot' to send off for that reason.

[beko1987]

£15k is probably a drop in xtriple's ocean

Ha! Forgot about the dollop. I know what I'd rather spend £15k a year on... /nicerproblemstohave

[fordperv]

Got a headlight cracked by something that flicked up on the motorway. Even more grumpy as the square headlights the van uses are the same as MK2 Escort so omg old skool ford scene tax applies, not only are they proving tricky to track down people also seem to think they are worth a fortune....

I'm presuming you have a tranny?

Gotta be worth a bid for the lenses,

 

https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-Transit-or-Escort-Mk2-headlamps-pair/122798930270?hash=item1c9762f95e:g:tfYAAOSwNchaA04I

 

https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Escort-Mk2-Square-headlamps/332442425995?hash=item4d671cda8b:g:GRYAAOSwh1pZ-h8g

[DodgeRover]

What kind of van is it?

Last of the Mk2 transits with the plastic grill and square headlights.

[Ghosty]

Middle laning bunglecunts that don't understand why I'm flashing them and using the horn to get them to move the fuck in when they're doing 62.

 

Now I'm past you, turn your fucking full beams off you bellsniff.

[Bucketeer]

I've just got emails saying two eBay orders for stuff, both for 78.98 dollars have been ordered and payed for via PayPal from my bank account. I checked my bank and I'm missing loads of money. Shit. What do I do?