The grumpy thread

[alcyonecorporation]

I need to write a magazine column, so I came upstairs to do it in peace on my usual computer.  I've written a couple of paragraphs and my head's banging.  Game over for today, I think!

on it

 

[heading]

I AM EDDIE, HEAR ME ROAR

 

[standfirst]

Respect isn't given, it's earned

 

[bopy]

I drive a Cadillac around Cumbria. Full disclosure: that's all you need to know. It's metallic rose.

 

Once, I lived in Malta. I brought my Mk I Granada and most of the island home in the Cadillac's boot. I drove back one afternoon.

You will often find me in the corner at car shows. This is because their organisers think events need coverage. They do not. I occur, and that's enough.

[Cavcraft]

Mods:

 

Can you please give a definitive answer/ post to any future topics so as to avoid any discussions please. Topics need not be discussed anymore.

 

Thanks

To go with the ones everyone already knows about like religion and politics?

[AlabamaShrimp]

What so we can't talk about religion and politics??

 

 

 

Wee wee taking aside there does seem to be a few people on here now that seem to comment on everything and anything like it's a competition to get their post count up.

 

I'm not saying the old 'we only want car stuff' or similar but some people just seem to want to come here to argue, type utter bollocks or come across as a know it all. There's a few noobs now and I've no idea what cars they've got or anything like that.

[xtriple]

I have had to do a LOAD of paperwork this morning. Due to my disasterous state of health (still better than I was!) by the time I was three-quarters of the way thru, my handwriting looked lke a drunken spider had fallen in ink! Most of the time, my hands are okay, but holding a pen for any length of time absolutely kills!

 

I hate paperwork at the best of times but this is just my body taking the piss

[Parky]

I need to write a magazine column, so I came upstairs to do it in peace on my usual computer.  I've written a couple of paragraphs and my head's banging.  Game over for today, I think!

How about:

 

My naim is Eddy and I like cars. I like big ones and smol ones. Sum are fast and some are not. Sum come from America and sum don't. Orl Vauxhalls are shit. I like kittens and I like chips.

 

Eddy (age 5)

 

There you go! A veritable Pulitzer awaits with that

[Slartibartfast]

I've got two new cars lined up and the waiting is tortuous.

 

First world problem or what?

[dave21478]

I will out-do you on the first world problems stakes.... The weight of yesterdays snowfall snapped a massive branch off the big willow tree in the middle of my garden, so it now looks all lop-sided and unaesthetic.

[dave21478]

Also, the seller of the Range Rover i had agreed to buy has been back in touch.

Typically I had viewed and left a deposit on a 4.6 P38 not too far away just a couple of days before the recent RoffleRover thread here. Meshking had kindly offered it to me as a straight sale before roffling but I had to decline due to committing to this French one. The seller was to take it for CT testing and it apparently boiled up on the way to the centre so the sale fell through and I got my deposit back.

 

He has now been in touch saying his mechanic has looked at it and it only needs a new engine so would I like to buy it for five hundred euros less than his original asking price?

 

 

 

 

 

[Slartibartfast]

it only needs a new engine

Oh is that all?

[Captain Furious]

his mechanic has looked at it and it only needs a new engine

 

 

Crikey, that's a relief, I was worried it would be something serious

[beko1987]

Itll be fine, look how painless and plain sailing wacks one was that just needed a new engine. Oh wait...

 

But it's you. You'll be fitting a 2.0hdi from a fucked Picasso using some amazingly home brew engine winch and welding bits if rusty metal to form engine mounts by the weekend!

[oldcars]

Put the Cinq engine in 

[dave21478]

I am dumber than the average bear, but even I am starting to think this whole P38 thing might not be a good idea. It seems that there are either great ones or fucked ones, no middle ground and it only takes a little innattention to turn a former into a latter.

 

I keep checking ebay UK and there are a few really genuinely nice looking ones in apparent good order for around 2k and I would go up to 3k for a really good one, but its just too much of a risk. This bloody Ranger pickup cost me well over double what I had budgeted by the time i got it transported and bought the parts to fix it and the thought of that happening again doesnt appeal much.

[Supernaut]

Just stick 'over' onto the end of the Ranger badge.

 

DONE.

[chaseracer]

It probably won't help for me to confirm that, having driven it last year, the ex-Junkman/Meshking 4.6 is a very good one...

[Captain Furious]

I briefly flirted with the idea of a P38, but I was looking around the £800-1000 mark on the basis that it would inevitably go wrong and go wrong catastrophically, and at that price I could maybe make 50% back spares\repair.

 

It just seemed like the good ones at £2-3k were always 1 breakdown away from being an £800-er

[dollywobbler]

I took a photo of the local P38 farm. There must be 30 or 40 of the things there! All being stripped and reduced down to bare shells. We suspect there isn't a licence for this, so it probably won't be around for long. Another farm a couple of miles away has a couple of them parked up, never moving.

[BorniteIdentity]

15 years ago, I really - REALLY wanted a p38 RR. Even now, they look so - SO good.

 

Then a friend of my wife had one last year; 4.6 HSE I think. It was pretty fucked in every conceivable way - and it made me realise my OCD for broken things would have me in a mental breakdown within the week.

 

But that engine tho. Just... Wow. If I could get that into a Hilux or whatever then it’d be perfect.

[alcyonecorporation]

Oh, dear insurer:

 

If you think I'm bad now, try rejecting my complaint again.

This will go on and on and on and on - or you can sort this out very easily.

 

Which one's it to be, guys?

[John F]

dave21478, on 21 Mar 2018 - 5:35 PM, said:

I am dumber than the average bear, but even I am starting to think this whole P38 thing might not be a good idea. It seems that there are either great ones or fucked ones, no middle ground and it only takes a little innattention to turn a former into a latter.

 

I keep checking ebay UK and there are a few really genuinely nice looking ones in apparent good order for around 2k and I would go up to 3k for a really good one, but its just too much of a risk. This bloody Ranger pickup cost me well over double what I had budgeted by the time i got it transported and bought the parts to fix it and the thought of that happening again doesnt appeal much.

 

You used to have a Discovery, yep? How about another one of those? They're basically the same sort of thing as a RR but cheaper, and the diesel engines (and early V8s) are tougher.

 

Naturally, they have their own faults. But not quite so many as the average P38.

[drum]

I've been pondering what to do with my p38. It has a high mileage but the body work is very good and (I think) looks great. It currently owes me about £700 all in, so the choices are -

Punt it back in the auction (easiest option)

Break it for parts (seems a shame plus it's a pain to do with half a p38 left lying around)

Replace engine with a used one for £400 (then play hgf roulette or sell)

Spend £2k on a sorted engine with top hat liners etc and keep it.

[madrat]

Bloody entitled generation.

 

At the gym today and the fire alarm goes off, I was in the pool at the time. Everyone congregated in reception, picture the seen, several dripping people and several sweaty people. 2 "lads" moaning that they had been disturbed from there workout and had a mind to ask for a refund. I was about to say " would you rather die" but they walked off. What idiots. I hope I die before I need looking after because I don't want any millennials looking after me.

[hennabm]

I am dumber than the average bear, but even I am starting to think this whole P38 thing might not be a good idea. It seems that there are either great ones or fucked ones, no middle ground and it only takes a little innattention to turn a former into a latter.

 

I keep checking ebay UK and there are a few really genuinely nice looking ones in apparent good order for around 2k and I would go up to 3k for a really good one, but its just too much of a risk. This bloody Ranger pickup cost me well over double what I had budgeted by the time i got it transported and bought the parts to fix it and the thought of that happening again doesnt appeal much.

How about looking at a similar aged X5 if you want a Chelsea tractor type 4x4 instead of a P38? Running costs about the same and a choice of engines both petrol and diesel from 3.0 to 4.6.

[alcyonecorporation]

Bloody entitled generation.

 

At the gym today and the fire alarm goes off, I was in the pool at the time. Everyone congregated in reception, picture the seen, several dripping people and several sweaty people. 2 "lads" moaning that they had been disturbed from there workout and had a mind to ask for a refund. I was about to say " would you rather die" but they walked off. What idiots. I hope I die before I need looking after because I don't want any millennials looking after me.

Nice bit of ageism there. I'm sure tarring an entire generation based on the actions of a few feckless twats is a dead accurate way of keeping tabs on things.

[richardthestag]

How about looking at a similar aged X5 if you want a Chelsea tractor type 4x4 instead of a P38? Running costs about the same and a choice of engines both petrol and diesel from 3.0 to 4.6.

 

wash your fucking mouth out

 

X5! why would anyone hate themselves so much that they go for one?

 

Personally i'd rather have a fucking prius and that aint never ever going to happen.

 

soz i'm taking the piss, to each their own and all that 

 

I hear those Porch Cayennes are in dodgy estate territory now. snap one one those puppies up. Makes P38 running costs comparable to a Moggie Minor

[richardthestag]

Nice bit of ageism there. I'm sure tarring an entire generation based on the actions of a few feckless twats is a dead accurate way of keeping tabs on things.

 

I have three of them in my immediate family, despite regular thrashings and depriving them of essentials such as Wifi they have thus far failed to change their ways. My oldest is at Uni and enjoys winding them up. So when he told me that he is proud working class I honestly thought he was taking the piss.

 

He wasnt

 

Comrade Matty boy is behaving like a millennial twat.

 

they have pricks like lilly alan and russell brand as their role models I think

[alcyonecorporation]

I see. That's three people.

 

Based on what you and madrat have said, can I lay into your generation arbitrarily?

[madrat]

Feel free, except you don't know what our generations are so..... And I know and have come across many many millennials, most of them need a good slap.

[alcyonecorporation]

Feel free, except you don't know what our generations are so..... And I know and have come across many many millennials, most of them need a good slap.

 

I can hazard a pretty good guess.

 

You crack on, O righteous one.

[dave21478]

You used to have a Discovery, yep? How about another one of those? They're basically the same sort of thing as a RR but cheaper, and the diesel engines (and early V8s) are tougher.

 

Naturally, they have their own faults. But not quite so many as the average P38.

Yeah, I had a couple in the past....early 3-door 200tdis, and I check out Discos for sale reasonably often but they just arent twanging my strings for some reason...Also, I have developed a nasty allergy to welding up rusty cars and while a P38 has no guarantee of being free of corrosion, proper rot seems relatively rare, unlike the Disco. Also, a lot of them I see on ebay etc are being sold by folk who think knobby tyres and photos of it up to the doorhandles in muddy water are good selling points....no thanks. A rot-free Disco owned by a non OLLI fud seems to be as rare as an unfucked P38.

 

 

How about looking at a similar aged X5 if you want a Chelsea tractor type 4x4 instead of a P38? Running costs about the same and a choice of engines both petrol and diesel from 3.0 to 4.6.

 

Yeah nah I just dont like them and those in my budget tend to be bling wagons with mis-matched ditchfinders and no history at all.

 

An alternative I would consider is a Merc ML and possibly a Rexton, but I am sure that no matter how good one might be, I would always be thinking, "its not a Range Rover."