The grumpy thread

[Mally]

I used to ride a trike without a helmet at times.

My dad wore a flat cap on his bikes.

[Jazoli]

For the second time in two weeks I put £25 worth of unleaded in the 406.

 

Which bearing in mind it is a HDI , meant I had to brim the tank with diesel to dilute it.  I am hoping it wont do any real damage as will have 45 l of diesel to about 20l of pez.

 

That is quite a high percentage of petrol though at 30%, not sure I'd be comfortable with that.

 

Sigh...

 

+1

 

Just because someone thinks that someone *should* wear a helmet doesn't mean he has to, its perfectly legal to ride without one on a trike, and a lot of people do, some should just mind their own business.

[Kiltox]

For the second time in two weeks I put £25 worth of unleaded in the 406.

 

Which bearing in mind it is a HDI , meant I had to brim the tank with diesel to dilute it. I am hoping it wont do any real damage as will have 45 l of diesel to about 20l of pez.

You need one of those safe fuel caps

[Eddie Honda]

that my speaker is a touch louder

 

"It's one louder...innit?"

 

[bramz7]

It's one of those speakers where the middle of the volume range straddles too loud and not loud enough....god knows what it's like at full whack. I'm very particular with speakers and headphones so it has a bit of clout to it.

[wuvvum]

For the second time in two weeks I put £25 worth of unleaded in the 406.

 

Which bearing in mind it is a HDI , meant I had to brim the tank with diesel to dilute it.  I am hoping it wont do any real damage as will have 45 l of diesel to about 20l of pez.

Like Jazoli said, that's quite a high percentage of petrol for a common rail engine to cope with.  You probably would have been OK with an XUD (one with a Bosch pump at least), but modern* diesels are rather less tolerant.

[junkyarddog]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AUSTIN-MORRIS-PRINCESS-FRONT-WINGS-PAIR-GENUINE-NOS-BL/163329312478

 

 

 

I cannot afford these.  Not even close.  I wants them.

How come that they are not the same?

 

One is missing a mounting bracket and a strengthener?

They look to be welded on.

 

Factory rejects?

[Wack]

It's no wonder the high st is dying , just went into b&q for a bag of sunflower hearts for the birds £25 for 12.7kg , same thing on ebay £15 posted , £25 buys a 20kg bag delivered.

 

I know overheads etc but - £10

[The Moog]

You need one of those safe fuel caps

 

I probably need a minder!  I have been using the mx5 and getz more recently so used to topping them up.  Was just on autopilot this morning. 

 

 

That is quite a high percentage of petrol though at 30%, not sure I'd be comfortable with that.

 

 

Like Jazoli said, that's quite a high percentage of petrol for a common rail engine to cope with.  You probably would have been OK with an XUD (one with a Bosch pump at least), but modern* diesels are rather less tolerant.

 

Fair points - if it goes bang then I am not mega fussed (I can buy another car) but I am hoping that I will get away with it by using quarter of a tank then topping up with diesel x 3 times and then it should be ok. 

 

The last tank went through ok although two in a row cant be great for it. 

[DodgeRover]

I probably need a minder! I have been using the mx5 and getz more recently so used to topping them up. Was just on autopilot this morning.

 

 

 

 

Fair points - if it goes bang then I am not mega fussed (I can buy another car) but I am hoping that I will get away with it by using quarter of a tank then topping up with diesel x 3 times and then it should be ok.

 

The last tank went through ok although two in a row cant be great for it.

If that's your plan I would dump a litre of 2 stroke oil into the tank now and give the car a good shake

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Petrol pumps in the US are black. Diesel is green. We have a hire car. WCPGW?

[forddeliveryboy]

For the second time in two weeks I put £25 worth of unleaded in the 406.

 

Which bearing in mind it is a HDI , meant I had to brim the tank with diesel to dilute it. I am hoping it wont do any real damage as will have 45 l of diesel to about 20l of pez.

Don't rev it too much, adding some 2-stroke or vegoil would minimise the risk of damage.

[New POD]

Why is the world full of lying people who want to rip people off

 

I'll start at the beginning

 

Customer x

 

Customer x got a quote for a respray from a bodyshop and to suit his needs as he couldnt afford alot the bodyshop chap quoted him £1200 for a basic respray, the car was done and the customer wasn't happy with the bonnet so bodyshop guy repainted it for him, customer x went away with the car happy, many months later got taken to court due to customer lying about bits and bobs saying he paid for welding on the floors which the price didnt include the court saw in the customers favour and awarded more money than the respray cost to customer x

 

Customer x then brings car to my mates bodyshop for a respray, and the welding to the floor, the job was done the customer was the most awkward tosser but my mate put up with him, the car looked stunning the customer took the car away happy about 6 months ago, can you guess what's coming....... he has received a trading standards letter through where the customer is claiming that the engine etc was removed and put back in with the mechanicals sub standard, the engine never left the bay of the car as he couldnt afford the Labour, anything engine out gets farmed out to a garage up the road, luckily they have pictures they took of it throughout the work proving the engine was never took out, now he's trying to do them for a full restoration cost with lies

 

This guy is a moron, pisses me right off

You need a proper formal quotation method, with order form, signed by customer and body shop.

 

The sort of thing with carbon paper and 2 copies.

 

Like what I last saw in a carpet shop.

[beko1987]

I probably need a minder! I have been using the mx5 and getz more recently so used to topping them up. Was just on autopilot this morning.

 

 

 

 

Fair points - if it goes bang then I am not mega fussed (I can buy another car) but I am hoping that I will get away with it by using quarter of a tank then topping up with diesel x 3 times and then it should be ok.

 

The last tank went through ok although two in a row cant be great for it.

When I borrowed the Zafira to help a mate move house last weekend I had to take it straight to the petrol station (thanks love) and had the diesel nozzle in my hand as I was opening the fuel cap before having a flash of reality and a fuck me moment, and swapping it for the green nozzle! Having had diesel cars for the last 4 cars/60k makes one a bit complacent!

[SiC]

Petrol pumps in the US are black. Diesel is green. We have a hire car. WCPGW?

The diesel dispenser doesn't fit in the petrol. At least it didn't in the rental Mustang we had. Luckily.

[CortinaDave]

People who make the lame "just needs some T cut lolz" gag on any photo of a wrecked car on facebook are the scourge of the internet.

[chaseracer]

This should polish out...

 

 

[Richard]

Taxed worse. 

[Fumbler]

Oh. And who's result-of-accident-wreck was that?

[alcyonecorporation]

A totally unexpected, unfair and shocking bill for my Subaru, no sign of my lost wallet anywhere..........and customs have lost the stereo I ordered for my Impreza two months ago.

 

To top it all off, the metal buckle on my belt has sheared clean in half.

 

What a weird fucking day that was.

[vulgalour]

How come that they are not the same?

 

One is missing a mounting bracket and a strengthener?

They look to be welded on.

 

Factory rejects?

 

One is missing the splash guard/mounting bit that allows you to bolt it to the A pillar, which is fitted by folding the outer skin over onto it rather than welding, from what I remember on the ones I took to bits.  Likely removed or fallen off at some point in the last 35-40 years.  It's another reason they're too expensive *but* they come up so rarely in good condition you can't be too picky.  £250-300 each for unused steel Princess wings is not unheard of and while I have spent time sorting mine out, a pair of nice new wings would be my preference rather than the repatched ones I currently have fitted.  There's a pair of used ones up for grabs through the club but they'd be as much work to put right as what I already have on the car so it's a bit pointless me buying those (still tempting though).

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Drove the hire car today for the first time. First time driving in the US and first time driving an automatic. It’s a 2018 RAV4 and it’s actually ok. Apart from the fact that there is absolutely no road feel.

 

Fortunately I’m of the PlayStation generation and honestly, it feels more like playing Gran Turismo than driving a real car.

 

I could get used to it but I’m very glad that I don’t normally drive something with electrically assisted steering.

[Guest Hooli]

Saw a guy on a trike, bandana, sunglasses and a scarf to cover his nose and mouth.

 

Or the cunt could have worn a helmet.

Why wear a helmet if he doesn't have to? Do you wear one in your car 'just in case'?

 

The cunt is the judgemental one here.

[Wack]

Sounds like I screwed up by sending an airbag, I wonder how they knew what was in the parcel? 

 

At least the buyer has been refunded, he's pretty upset though. This saga has taken well over a month and a lot of effort on his part to get his accounts in order so he could pay and the net result is he's back to square one!

 

 

Like everything we buy it's been on a truck and in a van at some point so I don't see what the fuss is, I send 5-10 parcels a week , one of the reasons I stopped going to the PO was I was sick of hearing , for the purposes of safety can you tell me what is in the parcel, even saying , there's no batteries or liquids wasn't enough for some of them,I sent that many, all different so I hadn't got a clue what was in them so just used to make stuff up.

 

when posting a mobile phone I did say to one bossy cow who wanted to know what was in it, it's not likely to burst into flames due to pressure difference going over pennines, she said it might go on a plane, fuck off, a plane Warrington to Leeds

[Wack]

Seen a few where the uj has failed and the prop makes a right mess of the underside whilst flailing around

 

 

mate of mine was a crane engineer in the 80s, he attended a breakdown on the M6 where a UJ had failed on a really big crane, it'd spun round ripping off hydraulic pipes and wires, driver almost got it to the hard shoulder before it locked up but it was sticking out a couple of foot into lane one causing traffic chaos , nearest recovery truck big enough was a couple of hours away , after an hour this young copper in a new range rover drives up ,says" right it's been long enough , I'm going to move it".

 

The driver says you're just the man we've been waiting for, copper puts the chain on pulls off and nothing, doesn't move at all so he gives it more power aaaannnddd nothing , he gets out, doesnt'e even look at them, unhitches and drives off, is laughing at a copper an offence

[Guest Hooli]

Another interview yesterday.

 

Another job I didn't get.

 

I must be fucking useless at interviews as I've been trying to escape this place I fucking hate for two years now and the only job I've been offered I couldn't afford to take.

[Datsuncog]

Received an email yesterday morning from The Classic Motoring Review:

 

Poor subscription levels herald the closure of The Classic Motoring Review

 

Regrettably, after just five issues of Britain’s most distinctive classic car periodical, this email marks the end of the road for TCMR. Subscription Renewals following the publication of our Summer issue – the first for which they were due – proved less than 50%, whereas 80-90% is an industry benchmark. Moreover of the subscribers invited to renew their subscriptions with our latest, the Autumn issue, the rate so far is less than 10%. And deliberately lacking advertising or other forms of income, without newcomers taking out subscriptions in numbers sufficient to make the magazine viable, I’ve come to the sorry decision to close it before embarking on the production of issue #6, or financing marketing activities that from past experience just don’t work well enough.

 

It is indeed ironic that virtually all the feedback I’ve had from readers and indeed our esteemed contributors has been gratifyingly positive, and I’m very proud of what’s been achieved. But for what it’s worth, I can only surmise that the reasons for its failure to attract and keep enough readers are one or a combination of the following:

• Classic car enthusiasts are keener to see relatively short articles illustrated with photographs than they are with long ones accompanied by line drawings.
• In these economically uncertain and even challenging times, the cost of a subscription is a deterrent to what is admittedly a personal indulgence.
• Editorially, the mix of subjects just doesn’t work for enough readers.

For those readers whose subscriptions still have one or more issues to run, we will of course refund the relevant proportion of the payments they have made, either by cheque or direct into their PayPal or debit card account as appropriate to the method originally used. Being a one-man-band, this will take me a week or two.

For those who may want to complete their collection of TCMR, we will however continue to sell back issues from our website shop for the next couple of months.
 

www.classicmotoringreview.uk

So whilst I go about the forlorn business of undoing a business, can I thank all of you who did stick with The Classic Motoring Review thus far and hope that you continue ‘reading the road’ in whatever manner suits and satisfies you in the future.

Best regards – Mark Williams: Editor/Publisher

 

 

Ballsacks; I'd been really enjoying a decent-quality, long-read motoring journal through the post every quarter.

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/30704-shitescan-preservation-of-fading-old-newsprint-is-our-concern/?p=1480834

 

Meh. Proper grumpy about that.

 

 

[DVee8]

Mrs V8 received a email yesterday from someone claiming they had hacked her email account,quoting her  password.

 

Demanding 800 bitcoins.

Also stating do not contact the police.

 oh passwords changed.

[Kiltox]

Mrs V8 received a email yesterday from someone claiming they had hacked her email account,quoting her password.

 

Demanding 800 bitcoins.

Also stating do not contact the police.

oh passwords changed.

Variation on this https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/07/sextortion-scam-uses-recipients-hacked-passwords/

 

Password has come from a data breach somewhere.

[panhard65]

Received an email yesterday morning from The Classic Motoring Review:

 

Poor subscription levels herald the closure of The Classic Motoring Review

 

Regrettably, after just five issues of Britain’s most distinctive classic car periodical, this email marks the end of the road for TCMR. Subscription Renewals following the publication of our Summer issue – the first for which they were due – proved less than 50%, whereas 80-90% is an industry benchmark. Moreover of the subscribers invited to renew their subscriptions with our latest, the Autumn issue, the rate so far is less than 10%. And deliberately lacking advertising or other forms of income, without newcomers taking out subscriptions in numbers sufficient to make the magazine viable, I’ve come to the sorry decision to close it before embarking on the production of issue #6, or financing marketing activities that from past experience just don’t work well enough.

 

It is indeed ironic that virtually all the feedback I’ve had from readers and indeed our esteemed contributors has been gratifyingly positive, and I’m very proud of what’s been achieved. But for what it’s worth, I can only surmise that the reasons for its failure to attract and keep enough readers are one or a combination of the following:

• Classic car enthusiasts are keener to see relatively short articles illustrated with photographs than they are with long ones accompanied by line drawings.
• In these economically uncertain and even challenging times, the cost of a subscription is a deterrent to what is admittedly a personal indulgence.
• Editorially, the mix of subjects just doesn’t work for enough readers.

For those readers whose subscriptions still have one or more issues to run, we will of course refund the relevant proportion of the payments they have made, either by cheque or direct into their PayPal or debit card account as appropriate to the method originally used. Being a one-man-band, this will take me a week or two.

 

For those who may want to complete their collection of TCMR, we will however continue to sell back issues from our website shop for the next couple of months.

 

www.classicmotoringreview.uk

So whilst I go about the forlorn business of undoing a business, can I thank all of you who did stick with The Classic Motoring Review thus far and hope that you continue ‘reading the road’ in whatever manner suits and satisfies you in the future.

Best regards – Mark Williams: Editor/Publisher

 

 

Ballsacks; I'd been really enjoying a decent-quality, long-read motoring journal through the post every quarter.

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/30704-shitescan-preservation-of-fading-old-newsprint-is-our-concern/?p=1480834

 

Meh. Proper grumpy about that.

That actually looks like a decent read but at £10.50 is it worthwhile ?  At the moment I get classic and sportscar as it takes a while to read all the articles, roughly how many pages per issue do they have before I go buying a load of back issues