The grumpy thread

[Snipes]

I've been surprised by cars with DRLs and no tail lights in the dark before.

Not sure about the victim blaming, why bother with hazard lights or warning triangles if a car's reflectors are enough? BMW is definitely liable here, especially as they recalled cars in other regions for the same problem.

Is the manufacturer liable for a car built up to 10 years ago (Refering to the dates quoted earlier, not the car in the fatality)?

[artdjones]

Is the manufacturer liable for a car built up to 10 years ago (Refering to the dates quoted earlier, not the car in the fatality)?

Yes,if there's a design defect that could injure people.Of course there usually are a few dead already before they get around to doing a recall.My mother in law's 2002 Toyota Corolla recently had the airbag recall done.I believe quite a few airbags exploded across a wide range of cars before the recall was authorized.

[artdjones]

Mind you, every ic car made since Mr Benz built his in 1885 has had the potential to cut out without warning.And turbo diesels with electronic control all seem to have the potential to lose all power while doing 80mph in the outside lane of the motorway.So really almost every car on the road should be recalled.

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

eBay, eurocarparts and click and collect = transaction error. Fuck em.

[MorrisItalSLX]

Anyway, Log book, VIN tag and numberplate now ready for eBay.

 

FTFY

[xtriple]

Been waiting for a parcel from the US, weeks and weeks (the USPS tracking list is a joke, it's been all around America twice!) and finally I get a card saying customs fees. Just what I need when already skint and the dollop is threatening to bankrupt me.

[madrat]

Dissolvable stitches that don't. keep picking them out.

[Guest Hooli]

Riding to work this morning along the A13 into London I get stuck behind another motorbike filtering, only he/she is going very slowly - I can see they are checking their mirrors, but won't pull in to a gap to let me past, which I can just about accept, so don't force the issue. Has his/her hazard lights on all the time which does piss me off as no point to it. My biggest grump? They are wearing an orangey pink hi viz tabard with "Your Following the wabbit" printed on the back.

 

It's "You're" not Your, and "Wabbit" not wabbit. I hate grammatical errors, and having to look at it, and hazard lights, for ten enforced minutes made me so bloody annoyed! 

 

The hazard lights thing fucks me off, it's not needed & if someone does happen to notice them it's 50/50 if notice it's an idiot using hazards when moving (which you shouldn't) or sees on & things you're turning so moves the wrong way.

[Guest Hooli]

I've been surprised by cars with DRLs and no tail lights in the dark before.

Not sure about the victim blaming, why bother with hazard lights or warning triangles if a car's reflectors are enough? BMW is definitely liable here, especially as they recalled cars in other regions for the same problem.

 

Yes reflectors etc make life easier for drivers but when you're driving one of the very basic things you should be doing to be safe is not driving into things, especially not stationary things which aren't by nature of being stationary jumping into your path.

[barefoot]

My phone has recently pissed me off completely.

 

The googles keep contacting me asking me to review places that I've only walked past with the dog,

'I've never been in, but the heating comes on at 07:30 so I'll bet it's warm'

or a branch of Sainsbury's.

'If you've ever been to any branch of Sainsbury's, this one is just like that'.

Anyway, enough is finally enough.

 

The smart phone appears to last for the best part of a week with no SIM card and getting it's information from WiFi only.

I can refer to it for traffic & weather info before I go anywhere 

 

And best of all, the twelve quid Nokia 105 lasts for a month, seldom bothers me, doesn't know anything & can't even display emojis.

[sierraman]

Who bids on these cars on ebay that go for about retail, when they've never seen or driven it? Just seen a 52 plate Focus, no test, engine fucked, rusty arches up sold at £260. Mad.

[Eddie Honda]

My phone has recently pissed me off completely.

 

Read: my ability to use the settings is rather minimal

 

[Yeah, you can turn all the shit off. Yes, I know it should be a case of only having to learn to swich that shit on]

[Kiltox]

Looking for a Mon-Fri flat share in London to escape budget hotels. There are some fucking mentalists around.

 

“Must be teetotal” “must be vegetarian” - ffs I want a room not a date!

 

“MUST BE WILLING TO CLEAN AS CLEANING FAIRIES DONT EXIST” - wtf mental

 

Who bids on these cars on ebay that go for about retail, when they've never seen or driven it? Just seen a 52 plate Focus, no test, engine fucked, rusty arches up sold at £260. Mad.

Time wasters that won’t ever complete a sale, generally.

[Eddie Honda]

Don't have a casual jacket at the mo. So chucked my £20 Arco special in rear of the motor in case of breakdown.

 

Fortunately, I've had no FTPs so far, but unfortunately whilst out and about I've had three people so far just today approach me for assistance because Hi-Viz.

 

Jacket off. Rather be cold than hassled!

[barefoot]

Read: my ability to use the settings is rather minimal

 

 

 

 

No, that was the thing.

I only used it on WiFI at home.

The data thing was only enabled when I went camping

And the GPS thing was also off whenever I wasn't actually using it.

But the bloody phone STILL kept telling the googles where it was and asking me to tell them all about it.

[Captain Furious]

ST220's handbrake suddenly gained a humungous amount of free travel again, indicating that its probably ready for its next new rear brake calliper.  That will be about its fkin 6th in my ownership.

[meggersdog]

in a similar vein ^^^

had a car in for mot last week and the offside handbrake didn't work at all.Owner phones yesterday "can I have a retest tomorrow ?".

Get to work car is outside and keys through the letterbox.Logged it in handbrake still doesn't work.

Bloke comes to collect later then tells me " yeah took it somewhere and they quoted me £200 to fix it, can't afford that"

Eh, so he brought it back knowing the failure hadn't been fixed.Twat.

 

I'm going to be really busy until the 21st. No retest and with sharp edges on a broken mirror casing and an eml light on he will get another fail.

[DodgeRover]

We are in a chain for buying our new house.

 

Our conveyancer is great we were all ready to go weeks ago.

Other people are using possibly the areas slowest solicitors....

 

Come the revolution estate agents and solicitors will be the first against the wall.

[AlabamaShrimp]

ST220's handbrake suddenly gained a humungous amount of free travel again, indicating that its probably ready for its next new rear brake calliper. That will be about its fkin 6th in my ownership.

I would assume they are the same as on our ST150 and I think we're on the third hand brake cable and second set of calipers. They seem to stick a lot.

[Kiltox]

We are in a chain for buying our new house.

 

Our conveyancer is great we were all ready to go weeks ago.

Other people are using possibly the areas slowest solicitors....

 

Come the revolution estate agents and solicitors will be the first against the wall.

I swear conveyancing solicitors drag it out to make it seem more complex / justify fees

[purplebargeken]

Driving home this afternoon. I'm approaching a roundabout in sunny St. Albans, nothing on the roundabout, blue car to the right of me sitting at the junction, hadn't even moved forward to go on the roundabout. I have plenty of time just to get on the roundabout and then exit, simple.

 

Nope. As soon as I am off the roundabout.... beeeep, beeeep, beeeep. Demented giffer beeeping at me and waving his arms. Why???

 

He does it again a few seconds later, I look in the mirror and he is going nuclear.  I stop for about 10 seconds and I may have made an unauthorised hand signal not found in the highway code. He then keeps his distance and turns off the main road.

 

I still cannot even begin to fathom why he was reacting. I had exited the roundabout as he was just pulling on to the thing. Stupid old fart.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

We are in a chain for buying our new house.

 

Our conveyancer is great we were all ready to go weeks ago.

Other people are using possibly the areas slowest solicitors....

 

Come the revolution estate agents and solicitors will be the first against the wall.

Prime candidates for Douglas Adams’ ‘B Ark’ as feautured in the Hitchhiker’s extended novel series.

[dozeydustman]

Another eBay shithead is grating me. Selling a load of stuff as moving next week. Auction ended at 6am this morning, winning bidder paid at 5 to 6 this evening and has since sent me three messages saying "do me a favor i'm going away monday post tonight first class". Identical message each time, no please, no thank-you or other niceties, and they've only paid for 2nd class.

 

Yeah, I'll go the 8 miles to a late post office. Shouldn't have bid on it the stupid old trout.

[Eddie Honda]

No, that was the thing.

I only used it on WiFI at home.

The data thing was only enabled when I went camping

And the GPS thing was also off whenever I wasn't actually using it.

But the bloody phone STILL kept telling the googles where it was and asking me to tell them all about it.

The only time my phone asks me about teh Googles is when I have location turned on, but I sure you can turn it off completely and not have it nag at all.

 

ETA: https://support.google.com/maps/answer/7421661

[Eddie Honda]

and I may have made an unauthorised hand signal not found in the highway code.

That is in the Nescafe edition, it's the Gareth Hunt bean shake.

[Lord Sterling]

FUCKING Mobile phones. Recently got my S4 fixed with a second-hand screen. All good thdn the bloody thing drops out my pocket and hits the curb and smashes its new-old screen again! Bastard thing doesn't want to live. So back to the good old S3. S3 though also has cracks om the outer screen. All phones seem to be just out of my reach by £20/£30 aswell.

[alcyonecorporation]

FUCKING Mobile phones. Recently got my S4 fixed with a second-hand screen. All good thdn the bloody thing drops out my pocket and hits the curb and smashes its new-old screen again! Bastard thing doesn't want to live. So back to the good old S3. S3 though also has cracks om the outer screen. All phones seem to be just out of my reach by £20/£30 aswell.

Might be able to help with that.

[flat4alfa]

FUCKING Mobile phones. Recently got my S4 fixed with a second-hand screen. All good thdn the bloody thing drops out my pocket and hits the curb and smashes its new-old screen again! Bastard thing doesn't want to live. So back to the good old S3. S3 though also has cracks om the outer screen. All phones seem to be just out of my reach by £20/£30 aswell.

 

Get yourself a nice FANNY PACK.

 

Will stop the droppage.

[flat4alfa]

I swear conveyancing solicitors drag it out to make it seem more complex / justify fees

 

I am experiencing this at the moment.  

 

Came recommended too.

[flat4alfa]

I still cannot even begin to fathom why

It's a self-righteous and privileged, St Albans thing. See also: Harpenden "Village" folks.