The grumpy thread

[Frogchod]

New 80kph speed limit icamen France into force yesterday. Most road users seem to be sticking to it. No sign of rozzers enforcing it around here, but loads of warnings of speed traps up near Caen on the radio. I guess they'll be targeting the hot spots first.

Bloody pain to stick to 80, seems so slow...

The van can pull 80 ok in top but the XM is off boost at 80kph making overtakes a change down jobbie. First world prob etc. .

[clayts450]

  On 02/07/2018 at 18:09, wuvvum said:

Just got home from work to find "abandoned vehicle" stickers on the Rover of Doom, Jag and ex-Bramz 205.  WTactualF?  All three are taxed, MOT'd, insured and in regular use, so in what fucking parallel universe can they be considered as abandoned? 

 

I have obviously fired off an email to the environmental protection dept at the Council, but what the hell is going on?  If anyone can report any vehicle as abandoned for any reason then we're all fucked.

 

Sounds like curtain twitchers in action, resentful neighbours, etc. What a ballache.

[wuvvum]

  On 02/07/2018 at 18:18, bramz7 said:

They can be bought off eBay...so I wonder if someone is making an attempt at passive aggression?

Nope - definitely gen-you-whine council, and duplicates hand-delivered through my letterbox as well.  They weren't generic "abandoned vehicle" notices, they were letters printed on Council headed paper, laminated and taped to the cars.

[wuvvum]

  On 02/07/2018 at 18:35, clayts450 said:

Sounds like curtain twitchers in action, resentful neighbours, etc. What a ballache.

I'm pretty sure I know which neighbour it is, and if the council does tell me to move them from where they are, they are going to end up parked in a neat little nose-to-tail line right outside his house.  With motion-activated dashcams on full alert in case he tries anything silly.

[clayts450]

CAM-RUH idiotz are gonna have a field day with this welcome* initiative. Be careful out there, folks, now live

 

https://www.nextbase.co.uk/national-dash-cam-safety-portal/

[DodgeRover]

  On 02/07/2018 at 18:38, wuvvum said:

I'm pretty sure I know which neighbour it is, and if the council does tell me to move them from where they are, they are going to end up parked in a neat little nose-to-tail line right outside his house. With motion-activated dashcams on full alert in case he tries anything silly.

Tell the council you wish to make a full written complaint about their harassment of you and victimisation, that should concentrate their minds. Make sure you get full names and keep a log of who you speak to as this isn't the first time is it?

[wuvvum]

  On 02/07/2018 at 18:47, DodgeRover said:

Tell the council you wish to make a full written complaint about their harassment of you and victimisation, that should concentrate their minds. Make sure you get full names and keep a log of who you speak to as this isn't the first time is it?

It isn't, but in the past it's been kind of justifiable - the cars which have been reported before have been out of either tax or test, or sometimes both.  This is the first time the cars reported have been fully legal and in semi-daily, or at least regular (Jag) use.

 

Plus the chances of getting the council to confirm who it was are pretty much zilch due to OMGGDPR.

[wuvvum]

I'm also curious as to why the Perodua didn't get ticketed - it's registered to me and is parked right next to the 205.  Maybe because it's "modern".

 

I'm now wondering whether the Carina had been reported as well, and only missed out on a ticket because I drove it to work today.

[Zelandeth]

Lada throttle has been notchy because of the bodged throttle linkage since the EFi upgrade.

 

Fixed the linkage properly this morning.

 

Took it out this afternoon. 

 

Throttle cable snapped.  FFS!

[dave21478]

  On 02/07/2018 at 17:14, DodgeRover said:

Does it cost a packet to visit the Drs in France? If not probably worth going and describing your symptoms?

Otherwise amphetamines for breakfast?

 

I havent been to a doctors since 1993 and I dont intend to change that.

 

Oh, no, I went to a docs with suspected broken ribs about 8 years ago and was told to take some pain killers and it will get better. Since this is my own diagnosis for pretty much everything, I now consider myself as qualified as a proper doctor.

[wuvvum]

On a brighter note, I can confirm that WD40 does indeed remove parcel tape residue, even when said tape has been baking in the sun all afternoon.

[BorniteIdentity]

  On 02/07/2018 at 19:47, wuvvum said:

On a brighter note, I can confirm that WD40 does indeed remove parcel tape residue, even when said tape has been baking in the sun all afternoon.

My friend had the ‘sticker from the council’ on a 2007 Ford Focus just last month!!1! It hadn’t moved for about a fortnight - all taxed, insured and MOT etc.

 

Baffling.

[wuvvum]

I was out in the 205 for most of the day yesterday.  It'd been stationary for less than 24 hours when it got the ticket on it.  Rover last moved on Saturday and Jag on Wednesday.

[angle]

I think we did the abandoned vehicles thing in a thread about a Triumph Vitesse a while ago - essentially if the council receive a complaint they have to investigate and as under environmental law a car can still be abandoned with tax and test, the easiest way is to stick a notice on it and see what happens. There's a link to a legal website explaining the process I can dig out, but essentially if you reply saying 'taxed and tested, used regularly, if you are acting on a report from my neighbour Mr Smith then I'd be grateful if you could let him know this' then there's nothing they can do and hopefully they'll read between the lines and ignore any future reports from him.

[purplebargeken]

Buy some from ebay and stick one on his car, if indeed he actually has one.

 

If not, stick it on his front door.

[purplebargeken]

A grump on behalf of the Tesco delivery driver sat in the passenger seat of his van with his head in his hands and a very miserable look on his face.

 

His van had obviously run up the arse of something similarly sized. 

[Tamworthbay]

  On 02/07/2018 at 20:44, purplebargeken said:

Buy some from ebay and stick one on his car, if indeed he actually has one.

 

If not, stick it on his front door.

Or acquire a scrapper and cover the bastard in gallons of wd40, then sit back and watch them try to put a sticker on it.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I really don't like Monday .

 

Took the e46 330d for MOT, failed on handbrake, fair enough, I'll try and adjust it following advice from YouTube experts*.

Too much hassle finding trolley Jack etc , so get tame mobile mechanic to do it- tomorrow.

 

Went and did a job in the Volvo, on the way back from the airport , I have a FTP, now we've all seen pictures of the V70 on an RAC recovery wagon .

This time it's worse, my phone memory was full and the limited pictures I took won't go across ,yet.

But if anyone was caught in the traffic jam when the A4146 was closed for the whole of rush hour or saw the Police helicopter spotting the direction of the bush fire, then there might be a clue.

[fordperv]

Ive been a grumpy cunt pretty much all day, gashing my leg open needing to be steri stripped back together this morning set me off, it kept popping and bleeding through the edges through the day and my tolerance levels were well down from their usual so everything has been getting to me, grumpyness lasted up until a few hours ago when i did a bbq for mrs fp and my mum, then cleaned and polished the car, now im a much happier chap

[Pillock]

 

 

  On 02/07/2018 at 21:02, NorfolkNWeigh said:

But if anyone was caught in the traffic jam when the A4146 was closed for the whole of rush hour or saw the Police helicopter spotting the direction of the bush fire, then there might be a clue.

Eck, was it your car that went up?

https://www.mix96.co.uk/news/local/2623667/a4146-closed-after-car-fire-near-stoke-hammond/

[alcyonecorporation]

Many, many issues. 

*invites Chaseracer to the beige phone of vexation*

[Frogchod]

  On 02/07/2018 at 17:14, DodgeRover said:

Does it cost a packet to visit the Drs in France? If not probably worth going and describing your symptoms?

Otherwise amphetamines for breakfast?

25 euro. If you're in the system, you get 70% back. Some medical insurance policies will make it up to 100%

[Frogchod]

  On 02/07/2018 at 19:16, dave21478 said:

I havent been to a doctors since 1993 and I dont intend to change that.

 

Oh, no, I went to a docs with suspected broken ribs about 8 years ago and was told to take some pain killers and it will get better. Since this is my own diagnosis for pretty much everything, I now consider myself as qualified as a proper doctor.

To fair that is the treatment for busted ribs.

[New POD]

Grumpy. me? I should not share my angst because it involves others but let's just say my wife feels overwhelmed by stuff she's committed to because she cares too much and then she gets a letter from the hospital requiring her to go for more tests. This she has to rearrange for a later date because she is taking someone else to the hospital for something equally serious. So instead of a 1 week wait for more tests she has to wait for 3 weeks.

She phoned me just as I was leaving work yesterday and luckily the M6 was running okay and it took less than 2 hours to Get home and the gear box was behaving. And I am working in Bradford today so it only took 1 hour and 10 mins to get here.

Now is not the time to buy an Audi Tt off Billy is it?

[chaseracer]

  On 02/07/2018 at 21:43, alcyonecorporation said:

Many, many issues. 

 

*invites Chaseracer to the beige phone of vexation*

 

Message me.  Our friendly team* is ready to help.

[Wack]

The Japanese really are weird, I buy and sell shite, saw a musical instrument made by kawai so looked it up on ebay and this came up

 

Who gets turned on by a 1/5 scale cartoon doll with massive tits

 

[Jazoli]

Some do, it's huge business in Japan, I think they like the dolls/manga stuff as all Japanese women seem to have pixellated genitals.

[angle]

Yeah, kawaii is the Japanese for 'cute' which means different things to different people - baby cats or perving over schoolgirls...

[OwdChina]

I am I England at the moment and just discovered that Manchester airport is about to start charging 3quid to drop passengers off (5mins) and 4 quid for 10mins. WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING TO THIS COUNTRY??????

[dome]

  On 02/07/2018 at 21:02, NorfolkNWeigh said:

I really don't like Monday .

 

Took the e46 330d for MOT, failed on handbrake, fair enough, I'll try and adjust it following advice from YouTube experts*.

Too much hassle finding trolley Jack etc , so get tame mobile mechanic to do it- tomorrow.

 

Just pray you have some brake backing plates left.