The grumpy thread

[Noel Tidybeard]

TT didn't start first time again this morning. Even the second time it felt like it didn't want to run.

 

It's been doing it for a while. I hope it's just the battery is getting weak or something.

 

Mrs SiC also reports there is a ticking sound when running too. I noticed it a bit lumpy when idling - admittedly the engine was cold.

 

Probably fine... Or its giving warning it's about to shit itself... Or just old VAG car "quirks"...

 

what you need is a nice dependable non DPF diesel like a honda civ.......oh hang on :mrgreen:

[Kiltox]

EE can get in the fucking sea

 

Received a red letter today threatening to cut off my service due to an overdue balance - yet the direct debit payment was processed as usual 

Turns out when I ordered a Mobile Broadband device last month, there was a £50 deposit for international roaming that they didn't mention anything about when ordering and doesn't appear on any bills / paperwork / etc.

 

Arseholes

[Tadhg Tiogar]

….Bet he's one of these aggressive self-made psychoanalyst businessman types that haggles over everything 'to get the best deal.' He's got 'all the answers' and if you haven't come up the way he has or don't work for yourself 'you're a waste of space' and 'don't want to succeed enough.'

 

Give me fucking strength.

Is yer man related to Jeff Bezos in some way?

[alcyonecorporation]

EE can get in the fucking sea

 

Received a red letter today threatening to cut off my service due to an overdue balance - yet the direct debit payment was processed as usual 

Turns out when I ordered a Mobile Broadband device last month, there was a £50 deposit for international roaming that they didn't mention anything about when ordering and doesn't appear on any bills / paperwork / etc.

 

Arseholes

EE are dire.

 

They sent me text on Christmas Day saying that I hadn't paid my bill despite evidence from my bank balance saying otherwise.

 

Rang up to kick off and they barely apologised. They'd also cancelled my payment plan, then reinstated it for one month only, then cut my service off because 'no payment had been received'. Got it reinstated only for them to fuck it up for the second time before a third-level escalation got it set back up again.

 

I received no compensation or an apology for what they had 'done.'

 

Is yer man related to Jeff Bezos in some way?

I'm only guessing, but I bet you I'm not wide of the mark.

I don't have the aptitude to run my own business; I tried and I failed.

 

You know what? Even if I was successful I wouldn't brag about it.

[Guest Hooli]

That's how they pay for the bacon

[alcyonecorporation]

That's how they pay for the bacon

I can pay for the bacon too, I just work for someone else in order to do so.

[alcyonecorporation]

Just waiting for the negative/neutral feedback now.

 

Boat boy can sink in the sea if he tries it; I was operating within my declared lead time and I'll get it reversed if he feels like having a go.

[bramz7]

Just report him as abusing postage/return rules. You can still do that.

 

If eBay decide you're right, he can't leave you feedback.

 

Worked for me the other day.

[Fumbler]

*side note* That profile avatar explains perfectly the maturity of this guy. That particular forum was a place where professionals and hobbyists alike coexisted and actually posted stuff with actual relevence.

[angle]

Another vote for ‘EE are a bunch of scamming arseholes’. I have enough examples that I can’t be bothered to list them out because it would even bore me despite the simmering rage I still feel towards them, but it includes them denying that they ever offered the unlimited data offer I thought I’d signed up for three months beforehand even when I sent them a scan of a newspaper advert for it (‘you might have photoshopped it’ - what, into an old copy of the Metro then printed it out and scanned it?) and inventing cancellation fees that weren’t in my contract, ignoring all requests for them to point out where it was (‘I’ll get a supervisor to call you back’) and then, when they eventually offered to refund it ‘as a goodwill gesture, because we should be charging you it’, it taking six weeks before they put a cheque in the post.

 

Anyway, this got me today:

 

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/southampton-star-mario-lemina-hit-with-uk-s-biggest-speeding-fine-a3927391.html

 

Now, I quite like the idea of fines for stuff being income linked, but:

 

‘He also got 18 points on top of the 21 he already had on his non-UK licence, leading to a year’s ban’

 

How the sodding hell do you have to get 39 points on your licence before you get a ban?

[alcyonecorporation]

Having a non-UK license, by the sound of things.

[Cavcraft]

A boat.  He's buying old headunits on eBay and he's bragging about owning a boat.

 

 

Bless.

 

'Boat' in this case probably a £17.99 3 man rubber dinghy straight off Rhyl parade.

[alcyonecorporation]

'I thought I'd found a ticket for Lady Gaga, but on closer inspection it turned out to be for the Llay Gala.'

 

- warren t claim

[iainrcz]

The fiancee decided to have a chat at me about talking to her and basically not carrying on like she doesn't exist.

 

Being nice and romantic.

 

"Doing things" together.

 

Still none the wiser.

 

Why do they have to be weird?

 

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[Guest Hooli]

I can pay for the bacon too, I just work for someone else in order to do so.

 

I aimed that at the EE posts, but someone else got in before me.

[Guest Hooli]

The fiancee decided to have a chat at me about talking to her and basically not carrying on like she doesn't exist.

Being nice and romantic.

 

Still none the wiser.

 

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Just tell her is practice for being married.

[oldcars]

"Is it a caravan?"

 

Someone on eBay once asked if a bass guitar I was selling 'was a bass guitar' - then had the brass neck to tell me off for being rude.

 

To be fair, my response was 'use your eyes and look at the images.'

Not far off. "any damp" was the best one when the second line of the advert was "leak from roof vent"

[oldcars]

Ebayer has responded saying that I should shut up and try harder because he works more hours than me and owns a boat.

 

Ah well, I was going to be nice and refund your postage. Unfortunately now you can cram it, buddy boy.

Own's a boat? Ask if he won it on Bullseye.

[oldcars]

Blame the tradewinds.

Lovely beer that, from the Cairngorm Brewery 

[iainrcz]

You'd think after nearly 15 years she'd be used to it.

Obviously not.

Just tell her is practice for being married.

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[alcyonecorporation]

Not far off. "any damp" was the best one when the second line of the advert was "leak from roof vent"

 

Sometimes I swear people are reading/writing from a template.

[iainrcz]

Oh yes, and I decided to rub my finger against the blade of my bow saw earlier.

Brilliant idea that was.

 

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[Supernaut]

Students are back, thus the onslaught of stupid support calls about individual personal devices being a bit squiffy on the wifi is also back.

 

My job is to look after the infrastructure and the corporate devices, yet the double standards at my work also mean I get utterly humped with all these sort of calls. For some reason every single call like this gets assigned to me as I've become the unofficial wifi guy. I spend half my time during term wandering around halls of residence with a laptop and some survey software just to tell them no, student, the problem is not with our seven-figure wifi infrastructure that took countless hundreds of (my own) man hours to install, it's your device. However that answer isn't good enough and doesn't help the 'student experience'

99.9% of the time it's the student's own fault for failing to follow the instructions properly. We do sometimes get the odd access point that goes down, admittedly. However rare that is.

 

 

 

I have an interview next Friday. Still in Aberdeen, so part of me isn't hugely excited, but part of me will be massively glad to get away from the university environment.

[Fumbler]

Students are back, thus the onslaught of stupid support calls about individual personal devices being a bit squiffy on the wifi is also back.

 

My job is to look after the infrastructure and the corporate devices, yet the double standards at my work also mean I get utterly humped with all these sort of calls.

 

No, student, the problem is not with our seven-figure wifi infrastructure that took countless hundreds of (my own) man hours to install, it's your device. However that answer isn't good enough and doesn't help the 'student experience'

99.9% of the time it's the student's own fault for failing to follow the instructions properly. We do sometimes get the odd access point that goes down, admittedly. However rare that is.

 

 

 

I have an interview next Friday. Still in Aberdeen, so part of me isn't hugely excited, but part of me will be massively glad to get away from the university environment.

Their devices? Phones? School here doesn't allow a single one. I'm their IT support when IT support is bodging its own 3 figure air conditioning unit.

[320touring]

Students are back, thus the onslaught of stupid support calls about individual personal devices being a bit squiffy on the wifi is also back.

 

My job is to look after the infrastructure and the corporate devices, yet the double standards at my work also mean I get utterly humped with all these sort of calls. For some reason every single call like this gets assigned to me as I've become the unofficial wifi guy. I spend half my time during term wandering around halls of residence with a laptop and some survey software just to tell them no, student, the problem is not with our seven-figure wifi infrastructure that took countless hundreds of (my own) man hours to install, it's your device. However that answer isn't good enough and doesn't help the 'student experience'

99.9% of the time it's the student's own fault for failing to follow the instructions properly. We do sometimes get the odd access point that goes down, admittedly. However rare that is.

 

 

 

I have an interview next Friday. Still in Aberdeen, so part of me isn't hugely excited, but part of me will be massively glad to get away from the university environment.

Good luck with the interview:)

 

Tell WiFi folk that their device needs a factory reset..

[SiC]

what you need is a nice dependable non DPF diesel like a honda civ.......oh hang on :mrgreen:

Oh sush!

 

Naturally it's still going strong and problem free with the in-laws.

[purplebargeken]

Tell him that you have set fire to the head unit and then set fire to it again just to make sure rather than send it to him. 

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Shitting hell. The yoof of today. Wow. We should all be very afraid for the future. 

[alcyonecorporation]

Tell him that you have set fire to the head unit and then set fire to it again just to make sure rather than send it to him.

'Dear boat twat,

 

Sorry your head unit caught fire twice. I took your advice and sent it via Yodel.'

[SiC]

It could be the chain, or could just be the old battery that is struggling (I think its original). The BWA engine in mine doesn't have the trouble with the cam chain like the earlier AXX or later EA888 engine (all branded as the 2.0 TFSi). It's more likely to be the high pressure fuel pump ticking away. I'll have a listen tonight. Could also be simply a air con mix valve sticking too. Or the speaker amplifier in the boot got wet again, playing up and making ticking sounds through the speaker. Or the PCV pipe that is held together with insulation tape not making a good seal.

 

WeBuyAnyCar offering 3.5k. CarTakeback are offering £2.2k. Local Audi independent breaks them and I might try them for a quote. It owes me around £5.5k right now.

 

I have serious levels of cba to sell it. Especially having to explain the gearbox jerkyness when off the line, how to drive around it and how its not actually a problem (history points to it doing it since 80k). It works as a car right now and apart from these fobles it does drive well plus has nice levels of power. Selling it means a couple £k loss and I still have to find something else. Something else that is likely to have its own set of problems.

 

I could change it to something like a Focus/etc but they're boring and slow. Buying something with decent levels of performance will require spending more £k on top.

 

Hence I'll just carry running until something goes bang. In some ways, if the chain tensioner does go, at least it makes the decision to scrap it a lot easier. If it does blow soon, I've lost the older/cheaper car vs new car roulette this time.

 

This is in a nutshell why people spend £300 pcm on a new car that is under warranty.

So I had a poke around it this evening and we had to go out anyway. I couldn't hear any ticking when sat inside. Guessing that's something when cold. Well there is ticking outside but that's normal on direct injected engines. The pumps are quite noisy on all of them - not just VAG.

 

Starting when warm seems fine. Feeling around the engine bay I found the pipe that's taped up is a bit oily. Possibly one of the many places where all the engine oil is going (apart from burning it). I suspect that this is leaking air and could be causing it harder to start?

 

It's due a service in a month or so (1000 miles) so I'll get my garage to replace that pipe then. Might also consider changing the battery. I'll stick my multimeter when I can be bothered next to see if there is a significant voltage drop when starting.