The grumpy thread

[outlaw118]

(Steps away from the "smoky diesels are bad" debate)

 

No.

 

Fuck it.

 

My Alfa has been chipped/mapped and it goes like stink, and smokes like a laboratory beagle when given the beans.

 

I love it.

 

So NERRR. (sticks out tongue, flicks the V)

[Mr A Lawrence]

Powered by fairy dust?

 

Missus has this on her mgf and abarth.

[Ghosty]

Why is it that Kas, i10s etc run on cocaine? 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

None of these stickers are a good look. I think the first time I saw one of those vertical windscreen slogans i thought it was quite cool but by the time I'd seen about 500 of them I had to admit they're just another 'twat identifier'.

[purplebargeken]

Why is it that Kas, i10s etc run on cocaine?

 

'Cos they're shit on petrol.

[Ghosty]

None of these stickers are a good look. I think the first time I saw one of those vertical windscreen slogans i thought it was quite cool but by the time I'd seen about 500 of them I had to admit they're just another 'twat identifier'.

Commonly found on Seat Leon FRs with the numberplate on the dashboard because EURO LOOK or some shit.

[RoadworkUK]

The "scrappage " schemes operated by the manufacturers are no more than a minimum part exchange deal and there is no requirement for any car to actually be scrapped. No doubt a lot of old shite will go straight to scrap but any thing that would get a good return would be sent to auction in the normal way.

 

That's true, but many manufacturers really are standing by the 'scrappage' thing. Audi, for example:

 

"Qualifying trade-in cars must be diesel-powered, registered up to 31 December 2009 and in the buyer's name for six months or longer. All trade-in cars accepted under the scheme will be permanently removed from the road and scrapped."

 

Utterly ridiculous, of course, and a demonstration that these cars have far too much front-end margin if 'allowances' like these can be given away.

[Split_Pin]

I have another sticker on the back of the Corsa that looks like the Nurburgring from about twenty feet away but on closer inspection is actually an outline of the Island of Arran.

[xtriple]

The only sticker I have ever liked was on the back of my Bonnie, it was tiny and read:

 

'Protected by anti theft sticker'

 

I am considering getting an 'Eco' sticker for the BGD though.

[320touring]

The only sticker I have ever liked was on the back of my Bonnie, it was tiny and read:

 

'Protected by anti theft sticker'

 

I am considering getting an 'Eco' sticker for the BGD though.

Instead of blue motion, what about blueblood

[The Moog]

Phoning round skip companies this morning it looks like the rules have changed about including plasterboard in skips. Apparently you now have to seperate it all out and deal with it in a different way. 

 

Luckily I dont* have half a garden full of bags with mixed waste that will have to be sorted through. Joy 

[Dirk Diggler]

Nurburgring sticker and 'Five Doors for me Hoors' on a scabby 5 dr tdi Golf with steel and alloy mismatched wheels, straight through exhaust for the wounded pigeon cooo and, erm, five doors

[oldcars]

Not one for stickers. Only one i had was "i survived the scrapage scheme" on the old K11 micra.

Mate said i should have got one of the "no smoke no poke" stickers for the Reliant. The valve stem seals were fecked and it burnt oil big time 

[Tickman]

Luckily I dont* have half a garden full of bags with mixed waste that will have to be sorted through. Joy 

 

That is why I got the Alfa, it conveyed many items to the local tip and skips were more expensive!

[The Moog]

That is why I got the Alfa, it conveyed many items to the local tip and skips were more expensive!

1) that is a very underhand way to sell me the Alfa 

2) Our local tips have the same policy. In fact we are allowed to take 10 bags for free of inert waste or plasterboard (has to be separated) and every bag after that is £3.50. Hence £120 skip without having to sort it all out seemed a bargain. 

 

Still the £120 is effectively a saving right? So that could go on cars .... hmmmmm 

[Bren]

Remember those flashes that went across the top of the windscreen? One that said "me" for the driver and "aarlass" for the passenger.

[DodgeRover]

Phoning round skip companies this morning it looks like the rules have changed about including plasterboard in skips. Apparently you now have to seperate it all out and deal with it in a different way.

 

Luckily I dont* have half a garden full of bags with mixed waste that will have to be sorted through. Joy

Try a different skip company, the one we normally use started doing that - luckily there are several others who don't. Apparently it down to where they take the waste into if they can deal with it or not.

 

Dig a big hole and bury it?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I got rid of a shitload of old rubble by putting an ad on FB asking if any 'man with van' type characters with a waste licence would get rid of it. Someone came and collected it and took it to JC Balls in Alfreton who I think crush it to make hardcore or whatever. It was certainly cheaper than a skip, but not as cheap as chucking it in the back of the car and taking it to the tip (couldn't do that as the old Rover 600 can't carry many rubble sacks)

[The Moog]

Tried 4 different companies and all said same. 

 

Not a bad plan to get stuff shifted, but always scared it will get dumped somewhere by someone dodgy.

[strangeangel]

...but not as cheap as chucking it in the back of the car and taking it to the tip (couldn't do that as the old Rover 600 can't carry many rubble sacks)

 

Ours no longer take rubble or plasterboard waste, and their official advice is to hire a skip. That's all fine if you've got a skip's worth, but a bit expensive otherwise. 

[AlabamaShrimp]

I've got three stickers on the back of my car

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh you didn't meant that kind...

[Ghosty]

Around Manchester you used to see quite a few stickers that were an outline of the M60 and ‘M60ring’ on them.

Not really seen many of them since average cams and smart* motorway works started.

[fordperv]

I've got three stickers on the back of my car

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Oh you didn't meant that kind...

Posh git having a pop plus

[AlabamaShrimp]

I know! The extra wing mirror and sun visor are so fancy!!!!

[danthecapriman]

Got to work tonight. Job starts at midnight. The up side is the pay is all double time. The down side is that it's going to be fucking cold out there tonight and I'm working outdoors! It's cold now but it's meant to get worse later.

At least it's not raining...

[chaseracer]

I've got three stickers on the back of my car

 

Oh you didn't meant that kind...

 

WINNAR.

[Guest Hooli]

Around Manchester you used to see quite a few stickers that were an outline of the M60 and ‘M60ring’ on them.

Not really seen many of them since average cams and smart* motorway works started.

 

I liked the M25ring ones that came out, last I heard the lap record was about 4hrs 30mins in a Cossie before the variable limits ruined it.

[chaseracer]

FOUR AND A HALF HOURS?!?  In a Sierra Cosworth?  Did they stop for a long lunch at South Mimms?

 

[Pillock]

I got rid of a shitload of old rubble by putting an ad on FB asking if any 'man with van' type characters with a waste licence would get rid of it. Someone came and collected it and took it to JC Balls in Alfreton who I think crush it to make hardcore or whatever. It was certainly cheaper than a skip, but not as cheap as chucking it in the back of the car and taking it to the tip (couldn't do that as the old Rover 600 can't carry many rubble sacks)

I had JC Balls deliver me a load of mixed hardcore a few years back. Wonder if my old driveway has some genuine Bo11 Br1cks in there?

 

They were crap at crushing though. Half of it had wire reinforcing sticking out, great when it's picking up through the decorative gravel top layer.

[Dave_Q]

This "advert" is not a one off, in fact if current trends continue then every driver in Bradford will be "covered" on the same trade policy by late 2018.

 

 

I guess that's what happens when you replace police with cameras, someone will find a way round the system that a copper would detect in 0.02seconds, YH AM ON MA UNCLES TRADE POLICY M9