The grumpy thread

[New POD]

I'm not convinced there should be laws about how hot to wash clothes!

"...and for the offence of a 20° wash, we hereby find you guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment"

 

Anyhow. Yeah, they're encouraging colder washes. Looks after your clothes better, much cheaper to run (like 20p a wash cheaper) and "bugs" generally need biological material to survive so unless you've crapped your pants you're fine. Mites etc will be killed with a soak.

 

You can even get liquids for cold wash (where cold is defined as 20°). Don't use powder though, it won't dissolve properly and will clog.

 

 

It's simple chemistry with biology thrown in to help. IF you buy biological washing products they are designed to release enzymes at 30 deg c.  If you how wash with them you kill the enzymes.  

Great unless you have sensitive skin. The enzymes stay on the clothes and fuck with your skin. Hence washing everything at 40 or 60 with none-bio.

 

We also run the machine at 90 with nothing in, at least twice a year.

[ruffgeezer]

The Dog's owner's sister called a little while ago.

 

Neither of us knew what happens in this sort of situation, so I said we would let it settle a few days and I'd give them a call to see what happens next.

I thought I'd hit a deer from the size of the poor thing.

 

I have rinsed the car off and had a look over the damage, but realistically it is total loss. I am just thankful that the owner hadn't followed her into the road.

[dollywobbler]

 I am just thankful that the owner hadn't followed her into the road.

 

Quite. A lady was killed on the M4 earlier this year doing just that.

 

Sounds most unpleasant, but at least things sound amicable. Hope it all pans out well in the end.

[danthecapriman]

Shit that's horrible. You did the best you could though, which is something.

 

I'd feel awful if it were me too. I once saw it happen to someone else and I felt bad for seeing it for several days afterwards. Mind you I've hit birds in my cars before and felt bad then too.

[Saabnut]

Horrible thing to happen, feel for all involved. This happened to my brother in his MG Montego many years ago. The dog owners house insurance paid for the written off MG and car hire. Afte the MG was written off, I bodged it back together and ran it for 2 years.

[Mr A Lawrence]

I've just discovered, after 3 years of ownership that my jag is 4 inches too long to fit in my garage!

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

Sorry to hear of teh dog/car both written off fella. I've been the one attempting to hold the dog when similar happened...... fireworks or whatever had him freaking out and GF couldn't hold him - he actually snapped the collar! A failed rugby tackle later and he was under, co-incidnetally, a Volvo..... I was gutted, the poor driver was a mess too as he thought initially it was a child!!!

 

Very best of luck sorting this one out - everyones going to be hurting on this......

 

and catching up on yesterdays expected plombiere raping....... he of corse didn't sodding show up! I called the fella responsible for installation as he'll 'know' the way it's put together..... but apparently I can bloody well wait....... evening wasted. B*stard

[Parky]

It's a terrible thing, I feel for everyone concerned. Sadly accidents do happen and often there is absolutely nothing you could have done. You start thinking "what if I left work a bit later?" Or "what if the lights had been green, I wouldn't have been there at that moment" but there really isn't anything you could have done.

 

Kudos to you for stopping. Believe me the owners will be feeling a little better that at least they knew what happened rather than just finding their pet at the side of the road. Not knowing is incredibly difficult.

[bramz7]

The Dog's owner's sister called a little while ago.

 

Neither of us knew what happens in this sort of situation, so I said we would let it settle a few days and I'd give them a call to see what happens next.

I thought I'd hit a deer from the size of the poor thing.

 

I have rinsed the car off and had a look over the damage, but realistically it is total loss. I am just thankful that the owner hadn't followed her into the road.

Never a nice thing to happen, but at least you did all you could, some people don't even stop if they hit people.

 

Regarding your car situation, I might be selling my 406 with a 2.1 XUD dependant on how a car viewing goes later, drop me a PM if you're interested, being carless is not fun.

[danthecapriman]

Talking to my apprentice at work yesterday, he's wanted a nice car for a while and he's been shadowing me on standby recently so he's now coming into a significant amount more money than he's used to!

So he decided to do it now while he can and went out and got himself a brand new Mercedes A class, the coupe style one. It's a nice car if you like that sort of thing and he's immensely proud of it. As he should be!

 

Anyway, he came in yesterday and told me some utter cunt has keyed the drivers door! Showed me a pic and it's very deep, right down to the metal!

Needless to say he's gutted. The cars barely a month old.

 

Why are people such cunts? You can't have anything nice can you!?

[tooSavvy]

A large Lab dog got mullered on the Coast Rd, South Shields, when I was say 8ish.

 

All I recall was a huge pink lagoon of innards and a mahoosive V in the front of the Ford Zodiac (with the pointy back fins..) I suspect he was hammering along

 

 

Gahhhhhhh

 

 

TS

[stephen01]

You have the details of the owner, he has a responsibility to fix it, for letting his dog escape.

 

That said I do feel both the owners pain and yours.

 

I know you're right but seems like a kick in the bollocks to the dog owner, I'd not even know how to start such a conversation. 

 

Thankfully it was only* a dog and not a kid running across the road. 

[Supernaut]

It's utterly horrible for all concerned, but I feel I must ask... WTF breed of dog was it to write off a Volvo estate?!

[sierraman]

Where’s this fad come from where you have some script down the side of the windscreen in a tattoo like script that says ‘Because Astra...’ etc?

 

Apart from obscuring your view of the road what’s its supposed to mean?

[Supernaut]

Where’s this fad come from where you have some script down the side of the windscreen in a tattoo like script that says ‘Because Astra...’ etc?

 

Apart from obscuring your view of the road what’s its supposed to mean?

 

It's a bright shining beacon that the driver is an utter cockwomble and must be given a very wide berth.

 

My grump today is that I had a hospital check up appointment this morning, turned up a good half hour (at least) before the appointment to find a parking space. Nope! The new multi-storey at the hospital still isn't open and I had to go home after driving around the general area for 20 minutes and not finding a single space, even on side streets nearby, nothing. I got home 10 minutes before my appointment and rang them. They were very understanding (had heard it all before) and my appointment is now the 18th of January. Derp!

 

I know, I could have walked it in about 30-40 minutes from my house, but I wanted to get on with stuff this morning, then get on the road after lunch to go down south for the Scotoshite meet, not be fannying about trudging across the city and back.

[Split_Pin]

To them its 'scene'.

 

To me its 'items removed from drivers view prior to test'.

 

I do t even try to understand the young team any more.

[sierraman]

Best I saw was ‘Because Diesel...’

 

‘Because lumpenproleteriat...’

[alcyonecorporation]

Best I saw was ‘Because Diesel...’

 

‘Because lumpenproleteriat...’

 

 

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[oldcars]

HELLAFLUSH 

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players

shopping list 

nappies 

Need one that says inwipersweep.

[strangeangel]

To them its 'scene'.

 

To me its 'items removed from drivers view prior to test'.

 

I do t even try to understand the young team any more.

 

My next door neighbour's son has just removed the front number plate from his car, and put it on the dash inside the windscreen. I haven't seen him to ask yet, but WTF is that all about?

[Parky]

Minis covered in stickers saying:

 

100% BMW free

Austin Powered

you're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off

 

I've always wanted to pop on a sticker quoting Mr Bridger - "So they're the young reprobates who ruined my cars!"

 

Seems more apt to me.

[sierraman]

I’ve seen that quite a few times. Invariably on a 9 year old BMW 1 Series diesel driven by a child. Always chucking dense grey smoke out the back as well. I’m guessing the plate in the window is to avoid ANPR. I’d be really thoughtful and get him an adhesive type plate and Sikaflex it in place for him if he’s having trouble with the sticky pads.

 

On the subject of dense grey smoke coming out of badly modded VAG stuff, how do they pass the emissions with all that shit coming out the back? Same for those whoosh things the shove up the exhaust that make it sound like an asthmatic pedalling a bike up Mam Tor. What’s that in aid of?

[alcyonecorporation]

I’ve seen that quite a few times. Invariably on a 9 year old BMW 1 Series diesel driven by a child. Always chucking dense grey smoke out the back as well. I’m guessing the plate in the window is to avoid ANPR. I’d be really thoughtful and get him an adhesive type plate and Sikaflex it in place for him if he’s having trouble with the sticky pads.

 

On the subject of dense grey smoke coming out of badly modded VAG stuff, how do they pass the emissions with all that shit coming out the back? Same for those whoosh things the shove up the exhaust that make it sound like an asthmatic pedalling a bike up Mam Tor. What’s that in aid of?

 

NO SMOKE NO POKE - the idea that overfuelling a diesel like fuck makes it quicker. 

 

I imagine they either have a MoT tester on the take or they dial it back before the test. 

[cort16]

I’ve seen a few dirty diesel window stickers.

I suspect it’s an attempt at a statement against hybrids and electric cars. It might as well say I am stoopid.

 

That whole rollin coal thing in the states is even more stupid . Dumping diesel into the exhaust just to create big clouds of black smoke makes it an almost certainty the driver believes in a flat earth .

[Split_Pin]

My next door neighbour's son has just removed the front number plate from his car, and put it on the dash inside the windscreen. I haven't seen him to ask yet, but WTF is that all about?

Only thing worse than that is fitting an offset square front plate when there are no additional engine cooling requirements.

[sierraman]

When I had a diesel I spent time making sure the smoke was at a minimum. Tell the world your injectors are fucked. Maybe ‘Because Fuel Injectors are tired...’ might be a good one. What are these infernal whooshing things that you hear though?

 

There’s a few testers on here, do you get many presenting the car for the test with shit mods like this?

[Split_Pin]

A remap will cause excessive smoke. Something to do with the standard map holding something back which would normally cause these fumes.

[Sir Snipes]

Only thing worse than that is fitting an offset square front plate when there are no additional engine cooling requirements.

Import, usuallly Japanese style, not-quite-square ‘plates squashed into a regular-shape number-plate recess drive me mad!

[mercrocker]

Best Mini sticker I saw was on a Riley version.   Somebody had cut the "S" off "Self Preservation Society"......As usual, no camera.

[Split_Pin]

Quite a few of the young team put a sticker of a silhouette of their car, usually German with the words "Fukn Slow" underneath, with an ironic Umlaut above one of the letters. I got one for my Corsa excelt I added an 's' in front of the 'low'.