The grumpy thread

[ruffgeezer]

Good God, why am I still reading this?

[robinmasters]

Don't mention fanny, you'll set 'em off again!

 

Sounds like a bugger of a job.

He can't mention fanny, but you've got a free-reign with buggery? One rule etc etc.

[Lord Sterling]

Minor vehicle-related grump.

 

My BMW key has decided to stop remote central locking. I like things to work and despite the claims that the BMW (diamond shaped) key has a battery that gets recharged everytime it's used, eventually the batteries die.

 

I managed to open the key fob, and locate the battery, which is soldered 4 times with tiny soldering points. They are easy to prise apart, but as I did the last one I noticed that the bottom battery contact track has broken away from its solder.

 

Arse! No wonder it stopped, there may be nothing wrong with the battery after all. Pah, now I need to get the track soldered and I ain't good at soldering, oddly enough, I used to be great at arc welding. (Yes, I know, different but similar principles)

[chaseracer]

Mo, if you fancy a trip to Malvern, I could ask if the Owd Giffer's up to helping out?  (Retired radar engineer, a whizz at soldering, etc.)

[DeeJay]

I can't solder so I've used blue tack to "repair" a broken solder join in a key fob before now.

[dome]

I gave up on my E46 fob and sent it away to get fixed-cost me £30 from memory and was well worth it. I had 2 keys so could keep the car mobile while one was getting fixed.

[DVee8]

Saturday afternoon I receive a email regarding my FiL's Seat that is still for sale,is it still for sale can i come to look at it?

I return a email arrange a viewing for 11am Sunday,this is then changed to 12.30 13.15 still no one so home I go 13.30 a phone call I'm looking at the car.

I ring FiL and walk back round only the next street,all 3 of us meet at the same time,pleasantry's past,he works for Nissan drives a 67plate Qashqai,this is for his wife.

looks round the car really likes it wants to come back with his wife later that day.Returns at 18.00 they take the car for a 30+ miles test drive with both driving both like the car. Yeah we would like it but we have no cash here for a deposit I come back.

That was Sunday,nothing complete radio silence.

So do I email him asking whats happening or ring him or just leave it as a time waster?

Well I'll be fucked,FiL has just rang.A knock on the door last night.The bloke from Sunday standing there wanting to take the car there and then.Not even a phone call to see if anyone was home.

Cure scramble to empty the car.

There's nowt as strange as folk!!

[chaseracer]

Hope he brought cold hard CASH... 

[Kiltox]

Did not see that coming.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I would have put 1000£ on that NOT happening. Result!!!

[myglaren]

Headlight bulb out

Ordered a pair of Philips Xtreme vision +130% H4s.  Arrived yesterday.  Set to to fit this morning, in the rain

Remove bumper - no two fasteners the same. Takes a good half hour to get it off.

Remove light and discover that it is an H7 that is out

Fit H4s anyway, root around for a spare H7 - none to be found.  Did have an H4 but wanted the Philips bulbs.

 

Look on Halfords web page. Halfords only a mile away. Stupid prices and not a Philips option.

Look on ECP site - pair of Osram Night Breaker Unlimited for £17 - 35% discount this weekend

Except discount doesn't apply for this product

Print the click and collect waffle - except printer has decided to run out of ink so barely legible.

Waiting for daughter to give me a lift to Gateshead now.

 

Ten minute jobs

 

Was going to clean the car - hasn't been done since September.  Not much chance of that happening now.

[DVee8]

I had about 3 months use from Osram Night Breaker Unlimited over the summer about 2 years ago.

Would NOT use again,when i spoke to Osram technical  about the poor use I got nowhere.

[myglaren]

I had about 3 months use from Osram Night Breaker Unlimited over the summer about 2 years ago.

Would NOT use again,when i spoke to Osram technical  about the poor use I got nowhere.

I do prefer the Philips ones, they do seem to last a few years, but there were none available - the Osram ones are the only pair in stock.

[DVee8]

I do prefer the Philips ones, they do seem to last a few years, but there were none available - the Osram ones are the only pair in stock.

Have you tried Bosch H4's

 

http://www.halfords.com/motoring/bulbs-blades-batteries/car-bulbs/bosch-472-h4-car-bulbs-x-2

 

I think i replaced the Osrams with these

[myglaren]

^ No, may give them a go next time.  Would have been simpler to get them from Halfords.  Still waiting for a lift to ECP.

[fordperv]

I had about 3 months use from Osram Night Breaker Unlimited over the summer about 2 years ago.

Would NOT use again,when i spoke to Osram technical about the poor use I got nowhere.

I've had night breaker jobbies in my saph for well over 2 years now and they are still going strong (now ive said that one will pop)

[Tadhg Tiogar]

I'm currently on Ring 130s, but have had good lifespan from Osram Nightbreakers in the past.

[Eddie Honda]

An Post thingy at Tosco in Naas.

 

Sent Mrs Honda to post a calendar. Comes back to tell me €5.50, to which I reply ROBBING BASTARDS WITH FUCKED SCALES. To date, I've sent 117 of these envelopes and I know that a single calendar is well under 250g (233g) and should be €4.25.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

An Post thingy at Tosco in Naas....

The town of Naas

Is a terrible place,

Kilcock was just as bad.

But of all the towns I was ever in,

Fuck me, Kinnegad....

[omegod]

Went to a wedding in the the Killashee in Naas last year , amazing as it was they can fuck right off at 9 euros a vodka 

[chaseracer]

Haven't been to Naas since the 2CV 24-hour race at Mondello Park in 2003.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Minor vehicle-related grump.

 

My BMW key has decided to stop remote central locking. I like things to work and despite the claims that the BMW (diamond shaped) key has a battery that gets recharged everytime it's used, eventually the batteries die.

 

I managed to open the key fob, and locate the battery, which is soldered 4 times with tiny soldering points. They are easy to prise apart, but as I did the last one I noticed that the bottom battery contact track has broken away from its solder.

 

Arse! No wonder it stopped, there may be nothing wrong with the battery after all. Pah, now I need to get the track soldered and I ain't good at soldering, oddly enough, I used to be great at arc welding. (Yes, I know, different but similar principles)

 

 

The E36 had a key battery behind a cover, 2 mins to replace and 3 quid for a battery.

 

That's progress! 

[danthecapriman]

Dog owners!

 

I'm one myself first off.

However anyone that has a dog, part of that comes with the responsibility to clean up your dogs mess.

 

I've just spent the day at work in a substation where not only has some dirty lazy fuckers allowed their dogs to foul all over the grass verge and gate entrance outside but also thrown all the doggy bags full of turd over the fence into the substation.

Dirty lazy bastards! Pick it up. Put it in a bin. It's not fucking hard and even your pea sized brains can actually do it.

 

Not only did I and my colleagues end up stepping in some of it today but we had to work in the stench of it all day. It's disgusting and if someone did this outside their houses they'd be the first to complain.

Worse still this was immediately outside a health/fitness centres outdoor AstroTurf sports compound where kids are playing sports.

It pisses me right off. I clean up after my pets and so should everyone else.

[fordperv]

^ couldn't agree more it takes 2 seconds to pick it up, pees me right off I'm lucky around where I live because it's always the same faces who walk their dogs past so if their dogs make any mess they pick it up.

[SierraMikeHotel]

I understand (but don't condone) people who just leave it. But I'm totally baffled by the phenomenon of bags left hanging on fences, or thrown over them. You've picked it up already! That's the disgusting part done! How hard is it to then put the bag in a bin?

 

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[danthecapriman]

I understand (but don't condone) people who just leave it. But I'm totally baffled by the phenomenon of bags left hanging on fences, or thrown over them. You've picked it up already! That's the disgusting part done! How hard is it to then put the bag in a bin?

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People do that in the woods where I walk the dogs. They've picked it up and then hung them in the trees or over the gatepost as you walk into the woods.

Well done morons, if you'd left it on the floor unbagged it'd just rot or wash away. Bagging it then hanging up in a tree means it won't rot or wash away but will stay there for years! Why!? Disgusting.

[Lord Sterling]

Mo, if you fancy a trip to Malvern, I could ask if the Owd Giffer's up to helping out?  (Retired radar engineer, a whizz at soldering, etc.)

Might take you up on that. Maybe a Midz Meet there at some point? Local key repair place couldn't help so I now have a rubber band holding the key together!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

The CX's nearside high beam has failed. Got the bulb out only to find the filament was still intact. Cleaned the contacts and stuck the thing back in. Still nothing. Scratched head, puzzled. All the other headlamp bulbs work perfectly.

 

And still it rained. I'll check the fuses some other time. Ditto the air horns and compressor.

[myglaren]

The CX's nearside high beam has failed. Got the bulb out only to find the filament was still intact. Cleaned the contacts and stuck the thing back in. Still nothing. Scratched head, puzzled. All the other headlamp bulbs work perfectly.

 

And still it rained. I'll check the fuses some other time. Ditto the air horns and compressor.

Mine was the same.

There is some slight discolouration of the glass near one of the pins so I suspect that that pin has sheared.

[myglaren]

Before Christmas I dismantled a steel ramp and rails from the front of my daughter's new house and dragged it all round the back and into her garden.

 

Recently noticed it was all missing.  Someone nicked it!

Did us a favour but they might have asked and they were trespassing.

 

Went there last week and the ramp in the garden, from the gate to the deck had also been taken.

 

Again, did us a favour as it wasn't wanted and would have been scrapped anyway but it is still theft.