The grumpy thread

[PhilA]

Yup. Gets like that here too.

 

Parked the truck up at 8am. 4pm, get in and the engine temperature gauge comes quite a distance off C.

 

It'll be cool by February.

[Cavcraft]

Don’t really know what you’re moaning about, tbh. I’ve just been all over Scotland trying to get a grass cutter from B&Q for The Proclaimers.

 

Bathgate, no mower. Linwood, no mower. Irvine, no mower.

[sierraman]

I could read a book of your jokes.

[sierraman]

I had a mate who got sacked yesterday from a Pet Shop. Got caught with his hands in the trill.

[Captain Furious]

Blah blah blah new brake calliper

 

So the new brake calliper arrived in time and I fitted it yesterday.  No issues there, took for MOT this morning.

 

Failed on broken front coil spring and leaking rear shock absorbers.  Not ideal, because I have done a front coil spring on a Mk3 Mondeo before and it was fking scary.  Also a shite load of advisories about new tyres (I know it needs two on the back but apparently the fronts are worn too)  Wondering whether it is worth it.

[sierraman]

Shockers and springs are one of those particularly unpleasant jobs on a driveway. Labour isn't too much usually at a garage.

[chaseracer]

Shockers and springs are one of those particularly unpleasant jobs on a driveway. Labour isn't too much usually at a garage.

 

This, if the rest of the car is good.  Also, it's a known quantity - not someone else's box of problems.

 

Courage, mon brave.

[Captain Furious]

Yeah i'll definitely be getting a quote for them to do it.  Last time I did one you had to compress the spring a seemingly impossible amount to get it off/on.  I was genuinely terrified the spring compressors were going to let go and launch it through my skull.

[sierraman]

There are no second chances to fuck up a job like that. Sooo much easier on the pump floor mounted spring compressor

 

Someone on here recently reckoned he had tiewrapped the springs down. I expect he will be up for the Darwin Award quite soon.

[RayMK]

Yeah i'll definitely be getting a quote for them to do it.  Last time I did one you had to compress the spring a seemingly impossible amount to get it off/on.  I was genuinely terrified the spring compressors were going to let go and launch it through my skull.

 

Very wise.  Once upon a time, my Renault 12 needed its front spring replaced.  My spring compressing clamps slipped causing the spring to take on a banana shape, damaging the front wing in the process and nearly taking my head off.  After a change of underware I poked the clamps with a long pole until I was sure it was stable then bound it with thick rope and cautiously unloaded the clamps. All future front spring work went to the local garage.

[Captain Furious]

I used to do them routinely on old Mk2 Fiesta and Orions when I was a 'kid' - putting lowering springs and gas shocks and other nonsense on.  When I did the Mk3 Mondeo though it was seriously difficult, not only to get the strut off in the first place but to compress the spring enough. 

 

Tricky one because the car is almost immaculate and like chaseracer says its a known quantity.  I am loathed to spend any more money on it but without an MOT it is basically worthless.  harumphhh

 

I shall nervously await the call from the MOT place with a quote for the work - I trust that they're fair and I've had work done by them before, I had an inkling about the leaking rear shock last year and although I didn't know about the broken front spring i'm not entirely surprised with the number of pot holes around. 

[sierraman]

£25 spring then no more than £40 labour at a rough guess at one of these under the arches type garages. Job done.

[AlabamaShrimp]

The sign on the wall above the urinals in the services says "if you see a dog in a car phone 999 immediately "

 

Personally. I would video the evidence before smashing the drivers window and taking the dog straight to the RSPCA.

No dial 101 it's not an emergency. They'll still send someone if they're free to get the dog out. Don't ring the RSPCA they are fucking useless. Had a good few arguments with them over the years where they flat out refuse, even quoting some weird laws*, to go and deal with stuff. Put a camera on them though and they'd rescue a worm.

[clayts450]

FFS, the one time I need Euro Car Parts instantly their website goes all unavailable on its ass. (We have a ECP about two minutes drive from my home). Oh well, way too hot for fettling anyway.

[Guest Hooli]

No dial 101 it's not an emergency. They'll still send someone if they're free to get the dog out. Don't ring the RSPCA they are fucking useless. Had a good few arguments with them over the years where they flat out refuse, even quoting some weird laws*, to go and deal with stuff. Put a camera on them though and they'd rescue a worm.

 

Depends what state the dog is in, it could be an emergency.

[New POD]

No dial 101 it's not an emergency. They'll still send someone if they're free to get the dog out. Don't ring the RSPCA they are fucking useless. Had a good few arguments with them over the years where they flat out refuse, even quoting some weird laws*, to go and deal with stuff. Put a camera on them though and they'd rescue a worm.

The sign says 999. It's an emergency - Ask for Fire as they love to practice cutting up cars.

[New POD]

does not Depend what state the dog is in, it's always an emergency.

edited for my moral compass

[Guest Hooli]

^^ Can't really argue with that.

 

To my mind if the dog appears distressed it's an emergency.

[Guest Hooli]

Not realising I was almost at 10k posts & missing out doing a memorable* thread all about it.

[captain_70s]

I have no money.

 

I don't enjoy my job.

 

 

Dealing with one of those above statements is fine, having to deal with both is miserable. Currently looking forward* to another day of toil in the pressure cooker that is work on a hot day safe in the knowledge that when my rent comes out later today I'll be back in my overdraft a mere day after payday...

I also might not have a job by the end of this week, no word on if my contract is getting extended (again, they keep telling me I've got an extra month of the day my contract expires) or if I'll be back to temping via the agency or what...

[SiC]

Not realising I was almost at 10k posts & missing out doing a memorable* thread all about it.

860 days since you joined.

 

10'004/860 = 11.63 posts a day.

[Guest Hooli]

860 days since you joined.

 

10'004/860 = 11.63 posts a day.

 

It's almost like I constantly post bollocks....

[wuvvum]

Good work in my book.   Isn't this supposed to be illegal now?  In which case plod response would seem to be fucking dire.   As for the slack-jawed do-nothings - what hope is there for society?

ETG lives in Belgium.  If anything there's even less hope for society there than there is here.  From what I've seen of it at least.

[Captain Furious]

£25 spring then no more than £40 labour at a rough guess at one of these under the arches type garages. Job done.

 

If only...£371 for the front spring and rear shock.  (MOT cost included in that)

 

I'm just gonna pay it, I don't have the time or inclination to do it myself, there is overtime going at work the next couple of weekends and working that is more lucrative than the money i'd save by doing these jobs myself.

 

Annoying, but not the end of the world.  I've had a fairly good run with it for the past few years so you have to take the rough with the smooth.  I can plan on replacing it before the next one..

[sierraman]

If the rear 13mm nuts at the back shear that hold the strut top in you are up shit street. I'm assuming that's for a pair of shockers. Way you have to look at it is its £370 for a years motoring. If its all good then its money well spent. If exhaust is about to fall off or its chucking smoke out when you boot it its money down the drain. You've got to look a bit beyond the passing the MOT bit, if its got something terminal it's pointless.

[Lord Sterling]

Some people....

 

FFS, at work I asked my team leader a simple question, I was expecting a clear answer. Instead it was met with a vague 'go and look yourself' type answer. Look love, I don't give a toss what side if the bed you got up on this morning, I don't give a fucking you want to make yourself feel tough. I'm here to fucking learn and work. Fine, I'll look myself if I knew what I was doing, I'm new FFS I'm not a fucking expert. GAH!

[angle]

Right, let’s get some trivial grumps all up in this place.

 

Firstly, road resurfacing. Now, I’ve worked in highways, I know you’ll have a programme manager breathing down your neck but THIS IS NOT THE WEATHER FOR IT YOU IDIOTS. I’m not even talking about the M5 being closed because it was the consistency of Bovril – they did my road using the patented ‘tarmac and vaguely spray some loose chippings around’ technique and a week on it still covers your shoes every time you go outside. Which, with a new carpet, is great. It also now looks worse than it did before they started because anyone driving vaguely like a cock is gouging holes in it – a man in a Civic did an emergency stop to avoid a rat last night, and his skidmarks are now preserved for posterity.

 

Next up, my dentist (or, as they’d have it, ‘MyDentist’). I put up with them being a corporate behemoth trying to shill Oral-B products at every opportunity because Nuno the dentist is possibly the nicest man on earth, but when I turned up for my annual appointment I was given a form to fill in and give in. I glanced at it assuming it was one of those ‘what medications are you on, please lie about your alcohol intake’ forms you have to fill out, but no:

 

Q1. How happy are you about your smile?

 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

 

Q2. How happy are you about the whiteness of your teeth?

 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

 

And so on, through 10 questions covering straightness, size, the smell of your breath, the quality of your toothbrush etc etc, capped off with ‘please give us your home number / mobile number / email address / please tick this box if you do not consent to us contacting you with marketing information’ stuff. Do they really think people are that stupid? (They probably are)

[Lankytim]

Not sure how you can take an instant dislike to someone just on appearances (unless they're dressed in KKK garb or something)  That description sums up half the people in my area, I have to admit I didn't like the look of them either but they're all mostly spot on. There's plenty of people who disliked me until they got to know me as i'm greasy and scruffy and usually have a car in bits on my drive.

 

(edit) I mean half the people here fit Bourneidentity's description, they're not dressed as the KKK

[5speedracer]

Will you all stop posting!

Seems the stopping on Tapatalk happens when a new post appears. Shut up the lot of you.

 

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[New POD]

You've met my neighbours?

no he's meet Billy.

 

I go back to my memory of amusing songs.

 

half man half biscuit.

 

they did a song called.

 

You've got a shit arm and that's a bad tattoo.

 

you tube it.