The grumpy thread

[myglaren]

it's sad isn't it. I looked for zx's the other day, found none! (bar here)

Someone just posted one on the FCF

[Split_Pin]

I heard the person sitting opposite me on the train today say that everybody pushes on like their name is on a seat. So its not just me being a GOM then!

[purplebargeken]

Try the bloody London Underground for pushing entertainment*

[5speedracer]

Why is it when you need to sell a car you can’t get anything like the money you want for it but when you want to buy a cheap one there’s fuck all out there?

You're not offering low enough M8 or offering near instant collection!

 

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[Kiltox]

You're not offering low enough M8 or offering near instant collection!

 

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Urgh I hate buying and selling cheap motors so much. Reminds me why I packed it in.

 

Need a van, really need a shiter selling a van. Autoshite sales are the best

[twosmoke300]

You are 100% right there ! Never had a difficult buy or sell on here ! I hope I haven’t been a pita to deal with tho . I usually turn up , Quick levels check , pay up , yap and bugger off.

[RoadworkUK]

I was flashed out of the way by an S Class, while I was doing 60 on a "smart" section of M25 with a 60 limit. The three other lanes were as full as the one I was in. For whatever reason I obligingly pulled in, then he passed and I pulled out again and sat behind him - both of us still doing 60mph.

 

Baffling behaviour, especially since he accelerated to a whopping 75mph once we were back in NSL.

[adw1977]

NatWest, who I have a current account with, have just announced that they are closing the branch where I live and the branch where I work.

 

Even better, they suggest that one of the nearest alternative cash machines is the Halifax branch that closed in September!

[dollywobbler]

NatWest, who I have a current account with, have just announced that they are closing the branch where I live and the branch where I work.

 

Even better, they suggest that one of the nearest alternative cash machines is the Halifax branch that closed in September!

 

They're pulling out of Lampeter and Natwest too. They (and all major banks) just aren't interested in supporting rural towns and villages anymore. Or even fairly large towns!

[AMC Rebel]

I was flashed out of the way by an S Class, while I was doing 60 on a "smart" section of M25 with a 60 limit. The three other lanes were as full as the one I was in. For whatever reason I obligingly pulled in, then he passed and I pulled out again and sat behind him - both of us still doing 60mph.

 

Baffling behaviour, especially since he accelerated to a whopping 75mph once we were back in NSL.

I dunno about you but I set cruise in roadworks and smart sections - and other people vary their speed - a lot.  So maybe it was that?

[AMC Rebel]

They're pulling out of Lampeter and Natwest too. They (and all major banks) just aren't interested in supporting rural towns and villages anymore. Or even fairly large towns!

Agreed - we have 14000 + residents and no bank (HSBC was last to close).  I don't really miss it tbh, the only thing I need a branch for is paying in road tax refund cheques - maybe soon even DVLA will work out how to stop using so much paper

[dollywobbler]

I use the cruise a lot in the Lexus. I love it! How did I cope without it? Idiot drivers are the only problem, but then I always used to keep a consistent pace even with manual throttle. Remember some pleb in a Golf that overtook me four times on the M4 once. Every time, he went back to lane one and slowed down, so I'd have to pull around him again, then he'd repeat the overtake etc etc. IDIOT.

 

On the run to Lexus the other weekend, someone overtook me, slowly, then pulled in, slammed the brakes on, then accelerated off. Very annoying. I was overtaking a truck at the time, so it's not like I'd been middle-lane cruising. I think they were just a TWAT. I suspect they were just getting panicked about which lane to be in for the approaching junction but FFS, the last thing you should do on a motorway is brake!

[AMC Rebel]

Websites - booking.  First world problem I know, but I am toying with taking my daughter to EuroDisney for New Year.

 

None of the websites (either Disney's own, or travel agents) seem to be able to give me a B+B or half board price, combined with a ferry or eurotunel crossing option - I thought technology was supposed to make things easier not labrinthyne and awkward?

[AMC Rebel]

I use the cruise a lot in the Lexus. I love it! How did I cope without it? Idiot drivers are the only problem, but then I always used to keep a consistent pace even with manual throttle. Remember some pleb in a Golf that overtook me four times on the M4 once. Every time, he went back to lane one and slowed down, so I'd have to pull around him again, then he'd repeat the overtake etc etc. IDIOT.

 

On the run to Lexus the other weekend, someone overtook me, slowly, then pulled in, slammed the brakes on, then accelerated off. Very annoying. I was overtaking a truck at the time, so it's not like I'd been middle-lane cruising. I think they were just a TWAT. I suspect they were just getting panicked about which lane to be in for the approaching junction but FFS, the last thing you should do on a motorway is brake!

 

I see this a lot.  I guess one could surmise that lack of any motorway aspect to the test probably doesn't help (although I realise how impractical that would be for areas with no nearby motorways).  I have a theory that there is still a significant number of people about with no actual driving licence - which is why their driving is so odd.

[Vin]

I'm not a fan of cruise control. Everyday I tend to get the cruise controllers sitting in my blind spot doing 70mph which is fuggin annoying...

[dollywobbler]

I'm not a fan of cruise control. Everyday I tend to get the cruise controllers sitting in my blind spot doing 70mph which is fuggin annoying...

 

I can see that. If I'm struggling to get past someone, I just accelerate, then let it resume the cruise. Not difficult! But, if everyone was using cruise control, there shouldn't be any issue. Frankly, people's speed should be near as dammit as consistent as cruise control anyway. There's no excuse for slowing down on hills, or speeding up going down them in a modern.

[AMC Rebel]

I can see that. If I'm struggling to get past someone, I just accelerate, then let it resume the cruise. Not difficult! But, if everyone was using cruise control, there shouldn't be any issue. Frankly, people's speed should be near as dammit as consistent as cruise control anyway. There's no excuse for slowing down on hills, or speeding up going down them in a modern.

Agreed - I don't sit on blind spots - either poke the throttle to get by or crank the cruise up a couple of notches (or even, horror, back off a bit).

 

but everyone doing 40-45 in a 50 section seems a shame - cruise can help with that as it takes away one of the variables.  As much as we all like to think we are keeping a constant speed - it's hard to do as consistently as a modern cruise.

[Eddie Honda]

There's no excuse for slowing down on hills, or speeding up going down them in a modern.

Then some bollocks created Eco cruise for lorries. Backs off the set speed approaching crest of hill and coasts down the other side. And the fleet buyers - I'm looking at you Muller Wiseman Dairies - that buy the most shit under-powered trucks known to man and then try and send them fully laden out on hilly bits of motorway. And the trolley dollies who get earache from the office if they go over 50mph.

[M'coli]

I can see that. If I'm struggling to get past someone, I just accelerate, then let it resume the cruise. Not difficult! But, if everyone was using cruise control, there shouldn't be any issue. Frankly, people's speed should be near as dammit as consistent as cruise control anyway. There's no excuse for slowing down on hills, or speeding up going down them in a modern.

 

If I'm in a car with cruise and I'm using it, I adjust the speed of cruise if I need to overtake, be it up or down - down when you need to slow to let another car overtake you first before you move out and accelerate past.

[320touring]

If I'm in a car with cruise and I'm using it, I adjust the speed of cruise if I need to overtake, be it up or down - down when you need to slow to let another car overtake you first before you move out and accelerate past.

With ph2 Clio 172 cruise it's much safer just to brake to slow, the - cruise button occasionally* increases speed

 

Great bunch of electricians, the French:)

[The Moog]

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.

Problem solved. Spend today sorting all into separate bag, then took it all to the tip. About 5 car loads in the end.

 

Puma doing the business.

 

 

In an unrelated note - I also decided to be generous and put £20 in the gents at the tip Christmas fund. Nothing to do with being ever so helpful and being able to count that well so that it came under the limit I was allowed.

[mercedade]

With ph2 Clio 172 cruise it's much safer just to brake to slow, the - cruise button occasionally* increases speed

 

Great bunch of electricians, the French:)

 

Couldn't you hit the clutch pedal instead, and save some brake-light panic behind you?

 

My ZT (190 V6) has an amusing* proto-cruise thing happening at the moment, a slightly sticking throttle - sometimes, but not every time, it sticks at about 3.5k with the clutch down, or 2.2k with it engaged. Not good, or particularly enjoyable.

[Ghosty]

BMW dickhead when we had 3 cars:

'Your car's parked too far down the pavement [outside your own house], can you move it, I can't get off my drive'

 

The same dickhead today:

 

F*** You by max_burton, on Flickr

 

My drive (and the Volvo) are to the right side of this photo.

[Parky]

It would almost be worth the inconvenience of darkness if that streetlight were to fall to the right wouldn't it?

[AlabamaShrimp]

NatWest, who I have a current account with, have just announced that they are closing the branch where I live and the branch where I work.

 

Even better, they suggest that one of the nearest alternative cash machines is the Halifax branch that closed in September!

Yorkshire building society are doing the same in Meltham. It's the last bank* in the town to close. My mum moaned at the staff there (she's 71) as its her only account, she don't have credit cards and stuff like that. Knob heads said there's four near by. There all at least 4 mile away or in Huddersfield. Not much good if you can't drive.

[320touring]

Couldn't you hit the clutch pedal instead, and save some brake-light panic behind you?

 

My ZT (190 V6) has an amusing* proto-cruise thing happening at the moment, a slightly sticking throttle - sometimes, but not every time, it sticks at about 3.5k with the clutch down, or 2.2k with it engaged. Not good, or particularly enjoyable.

I could:)

 

More likely approach is to try and fix it- certainly sommat not right on the switch side

[puddlethumper]

What is it with people in the middle lane cruising along, and their brake lights come on when there's more than enough room between them and the car in front?

Nobody's trying to get out of lane 1, loads of space, brake lights on, no sign of actually slowing. What the F is that about ?

Anybody else get that ?

[SiC]

What is it with people in the middle lane cruising along, and their brake lights come on when there's more than enough room between them and the car in front?

Nobody's trying to get out of lane 1, loads of space, brake lights on, no sign of actually slowing. What the F is that about ?

Anybody else get that ?

Might or might not be the car. On my Aldi, if you are exceeding the set cruise speed and it can't maintain the speed, it'll apply the brakes. Quite hard and startling when you don't expect it. I've never owned a car that has done it.

 

I don't have the option on mine, but I suspect the cruise control that keeps a set distance from the car in front may do the same thing too, if it gets too close.

[Eddie Honda]

Ricicles given the chop by Kellogg's. But it's not just that or the profiteering on Ebay (£8/box FFS)

 

It's Coco Pops sugar reduction - I bet when the new recipe comes in next summer it'll taste rubbish.

 

 

At least it's comforting to know that me and other blokes in their 30s buy "Cornflakes for people who can't face reality" (Frosties)

[wuvvum]

I've never been asked to prove my identity to take out an insurance policy, they take your money and ask questions later.

 

I was asked for a copy of my driving licence when I first took out my trader's.  I would have thought that for what is technically a commercial policy, proving that you're legit would be a fairly high priority for most underwriters.