The grumpy thread

[beko1987]

I'm. Gonna stay quiet on the tyre front as I have this on my rear...

 

 

 

I was going to fit the spare but decided the worn tyre was probably safer...

 

[MikeR]

another great day ,,,,,

 

son gets in car , sun is in his eyes , but he is not driving , and he adjusts the sun shade ,,,,

 

which falls off in his lap .......

 

we get home , he goes upstairs and ....and I fix car

 

screaming and shouts

 

his curtains have fallen  down .....

 

we go out again in the car looking for curtain rail brackets ..

[anonymous user]

Are you Frank Spencer's dad?

[Uncle Jimmy]

Aye, as some intelligent chappy once said. I don't agree with you, but I agree with your right to say it.

As this chap said, you can call me a cunting son of a cunt and I'll uphold your right to do so.

[Cavcraft]

Unsurprisingly Gumtree. Six million 'be there in five minutes with cash' from the same person who then didn't turn up. Scrap yard booked.

[Bren]

Unsurprisingly Gumtree. Six million 'be there in five minutes with cash' from the same person who then didn't turn up. Scrap yard booked.

Billy I would rather put my dick in a blender than punt something on gumtree. If gumtree is a barometer for measuring the intelligence of somebody then we are fucked.

[Redfred]

Was supposed to be in work for an hour this morning. Went in at half 9 to do some testing, just got out at 4pm. Grr.

[MikeR]

Gumtree ... all my sellings have met with disaster ....people want everything for the sake of a few quid

 

the best being , can I drive a 40 mile return trip to drop off a 20 quid item , at such a time etc

 

No..

 

I quite unwilling to sell things now , If I dont want it I will give it away or scrap it

[AlabamaShrimp]

Unsurprisingly Gumtree. Six million 'be there in five minutes with cash' from the same person who then didn't turn up. Scrap yard booked.

What are you scrapping?

 

Edit: I thought it might have been that Ka but then I've just seen how much you want for it, so it won't be

[mercrocker]

I fucking hate Gumtree.....Or, rather, the folk that use it.   Which I suppose is a large part of the human race.  

 

I don't waste my time with it, as others have found, put it on here or give it away.   However, Acquired Daughter had a habit of getting Mum to transact some of her buying and selling on Gumbleed because she is retired (and obviously has oodles of time to fritter away on fuck-wits) and can therefore wait around all day for some dick-brain to either un-deliver or un-collect something or other. 

 

Without exception, we have either received broken, filthy shit items or had a nobber play stupid cunts when they turn up to buy something they have committed to purchase.    

 

Put a stop to it now - this shit is not going on over my front door step.   Last straw was a some cow who sold AD a car-seat booster pad, failed to turn up on about three occasions and finally lobbed the filthy thing over our front fence when we were out.   It looked like a dog had whelped on it.   Disgusting bastards.

[5speedracer]

Looks like I'm going to have to withdraw the funds from my stocks and shares investment.

 

I'm blaming the fuckwits in London.

 

Second statement in a row with a negative bottom line.

A thousand pounds gone since November last year.

 

It's been slowly ticking over a treat for the last 10 years at least.

If it's a managed one the fund managers should be buying and selling behind the scenes. They'll be looking to maximise when the market picks up.

Remember it's stock market not a savings account, it will not always go up but the long term trend will still be up. Don't panic! (Captain Mainwairing)

 

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[Tadhg Tiogar]

If it's a managed one the fund managers should be buying and selling behind the scenes. They'll be looking to maximise when the market picks up.

Remember it's stock market not a savings account, it will not always go up but the long term trend will still be up. ...

Alternatively, "the value of your investment can go up as well as down".

[New POD]

then I get home and decide to look at why the toilet dont flush right ....

 

best guess to how a F in pencil got into the down pipe to the bowl ???

 

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brat related ?

 

 

and where is the rest of it ?

That's where I lost it.

[Guest Hooli]

I've just opened the calendar thread for the first time and realised I'm on the front cover. I should have looked earlier & ordered one.

 

Bugger.

[Remspoor]

Why do we have to share the roads with morons like this?

2008 Peugeot 307 cc (A neighbour's car) 

 

 

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[Cavcraft]

I wrote the names of everyone I’ve unfriended onto a piece of paper, but my roommate took it and rolled it into a joint.

 

Now he’s high on my list of people I never want to see again.

[anonymous user]

Cavcraft, Tim Vine has asked you more than once and said if he catches you going through his bin again he will set the dogs on you

[alcyonecorporation]

Unsurprisingly Gumtree. Six million 'be there in five minutes with cash' from the same person who then didn't turn up. Scrap yard booked.

 

The scrap man turns up on time and pays cash. 

 

2/3 of the internet car buying public can't work this out. Scrap's up at the moment anyway; £180 for a 405 near me. 

[Pillock]

Has the bonus of making all the surviving examples of whatever-it-is more valuable, AND if it's a yard that at least strips off the easy parts you've put some spares into the system for others to buy. It's like a win-win-win. 

[Cavcraft]

The scrap man turns up on time and pays cash. 

 

2/3 of the internet car buying public can't work this out. Scrap's up at the moment anyway; £180 for a 405 near me. 

 

Yeah, the lad I use is ace, to be fair. Got a decent price for the Fiesta and a sodding good offer for the Merc. That's not bragging about sacking useable cars off (as that's a right waste) but some people (not on here) just accelerate the whole process.

[Timewaster]

As distasteful as it is to scrap a working car, if no cars got scrapped we would be over run with the bloody things.

 

Not making new ones doesn't seem to be an option.

 

There are at least two cars in my hoard that are only there because I can't face dealing with "buyers".

Sitting there is doing them no good and the bridge awaits eventually.

[alcyonecorporation]

Yeah, the lad I use is ace, to be fair. Got a decent price for the Fiesta and a sodding good offer for the Merc. That's not bragging about sacking useable cars off (as that's a right waste) but some people (not on here) just accelerate the whole process.

 

Yep. Canned a useful spares donor 605 S1 and an automatic sinker Xantia using your method. Money was there within hours and I wasn't kept waiting. 

 

The cars were there, the cars were available. People didn't play the game, so the cars got binned. 

Sometimes your bank balance has to come first. 

 

I've lost so much money being a soft sentimentalist (emphasis wherever) that it strengthened my resolve never to buy a worthless heap again. 

[Remspoor]

keep getting YT recommendations for videos about the politics in the UK and Storage unit purchase/clearance.

[D Spares & Tyres]

Yep. Canned a useful spares donor 605 S1 and an automatic sinker Xantia using your method. Money was there within hours and I wasn't kept waiting. 

The cars were there, the cars were available. People didn't play the game, so the cars got binned. 

Sometimes your bank balance has to come first. 

I've lost so much money being a soft sentimentalist (emphasis wherever) that it strengthened my resolve never to buy a worthless heap again.

 

You are doing it wrong, I don't invest much money in most of my cars so if they piss me off they get weighed in. I'm done with selling cars too. I rarely lose much on them. It doesn't pay to get too financially involved!

[Datsuncog]

Given the well-established ball-achery caused by selling cheap cars online, is there a reason folk here tend not to just punt their old snotters through the auction ring to take their chances?

 

Genuine question. Lack of suitable nearby auctions? Still more hassle than calling the scrappie?

 

I know one or two forum members who use this route to get shot of unwanted rammel quickly, with no comebacks or having to fend off insulting misspelled texts, and they seem largely happy with this solution.

 

Better yet, every now and again some woeful old turd seems to spark an unexpected bidding war, and they come away with far more than expected. Kinda like the penny falls at the seaside amusements, in a way, only car-related.

 

[alcyonecorporation]

You are doing it wrong, I don't invest much money in most of my cars so if they piss me off they get weighed in. I'm done with selling cars too. I rarely lose much on them. It doesn't pay to get too financially involved!

100% correct. 

 

However, sometimes you have to make the mistakes to realise where you're going wrong. 

When a pile of rubbish adds to your financial worries and chronic stress levels, you eventually awake to the fact that the shit cars own you (and not the other way around). 

 

I have enough crap little projects to keep me going 'til doomsday, and unless an XJ Cherokee turns up at a price I can afford, I'm done buying tat for the lolz. I'm forgetting stuff and concentrating on keeping going. All I can do. 

 

Here's a savage run down of everything that transpired last year. 

 

MGF: sold. PBK sold it to someone who sold it to Chris who sold it on to someone else. Sorry, forget your name. 

 

Stellar: sold to SCTSH_ANDY mk2 and his mrs who liked my pew joe. 

 

Applause: sold to a banger racer. 

 

Xantia Auto: scrapped. CCC clucked, cooed and frotted but did sweet FA so it got binned.

 

C15 van: sold to colleague then bought back after I got stuck down a lane and tore the back end off it in error. 

 

305 Estate: in long term storage owing to an utter lack of brakes. Will get the money together to sort out. Turns out it had PAS and I didn't realise. 

 

Amazon: Now goes but doesn't stop; will be having words with Goodridge. Broke the sunroof again. 

 

Piazza: Cracked its head, won't run right. Secondhand panels purchased. IPTOC shall revive. 

 

SVX: Down a bank, blew its bottom hose. Community say I'm stupid for not knowing all the running gear is 'the same' as Imprezas and Legacys (they're not). Passed an MoT late last year. 

 

Impreza: Blebby round the windscreen, MAF fault, new brakes, new boot liner, fitted JDM stereo y0, blew fuses, having earthing issues. Should be MoT'd again early next month. 

 

605: chronic voltage drain means I have to have it hooked up to a charger if I leave it for more than two days. Intact door sourced but not bought. Suspect glow plugs, ricked earth strap and alternator in that order. Is still on the road.

 

Leon: stupid rattling trim but otherwise works. Can knock on the door of 80mpg if driven right. The best car I own objectively.

 

Given the well-established issues with selling cheap cars online, is there a reason folk here tend not to just punt their old snotters through the auction ring to take their chances?

 

Genuine question. Lack of suitable nearby auctions? Still more hassle than calling the scrappie?

 

I know one or two forum members who use this route to get shot of unwanted rammel quickly, with no comebacks or having to fend off insulting misspelled texts, and they seem largely happy with this solution.

 

Better yet, every now and again some woeful old turd seems to spark an unexpected bidding war, and they come away with far more than expected. Kinda like the penny falls at the seaside amusements, in a way, only car-related.

 

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There aren't any local auctions which'll take my shit. I'd end up paying them just to have turned up and have everyone laugh. ACA is too far after trailer fees etc.

 

The scrap man turns up on time and pays cash. 'Tis pity (but t'were it ever thus).

[Cavcraft]

Spot on, uwotM8alchycooperation. Some lessons are learnt quickly, some take ages. Can't be a person on here who hasn't chucked good after bad at some awful motor and ended up losing out.

 

There are still thousands of bargain bangers out there, it's knowing when to call it a day with them.

[loserone]

Sometimes I wish you'd just scrapped the MGF

[Datsuncog]

There aren't any local auctions which'll take my shit. I'd end up paying them just to have turned up and have everyone laugh. ACA is too far after trailer fees etc.

 

The scrap man turns up on time and pays cash. 'Tis pity (but t'were it ever thus).

 

Fair enough so; your options are understandably limited.

 

Was just curious since the outfit closest to me seems to have a considerable stock of unwanted low-end trade-ins and other near-end-of-life heaps, most of which will admittedly have a list of fault codes longer than the Greater London phone directory. Still, at least a dozen no-reserve cars seem to realise less than a £200 hammer price each week, and cracking the £1000 ceiling here would be the exception rather than the rule.

 

There are other auction houses nearby that specialise in fleet disposal/ ex-Motability cars, but even they still turn up the odd battered Rover 200 or pogweaseled Volvo S40 in amongst the rows of white Insignias.

 

I've seen perfectly serviceable MOT'd runabouts like Corsa Bs sell for as little as £70 - but perhaps Ballyclare (and the fabled Cannock) aren't representative of most local auctions anymore.

 

Books about car ownership that I used to devour in the 1980s and 90s (like James Ruppert's Bangernomics) seemed to indicate that the auction ring was a reasonably common route for car disposal, especially when you couldn't be 100% certain that a private buyer via the local rag's classified ads wouldn't be back on your doorstep half an hour later, covered in oil and gripping a stout stick - but mebbe CarTakeBack and WBAC now mop up this end of the market.

 

Pity. It'd save a lot of grief to sellers, if not necessarily buyers - plus avoid halfway reasonable cars being bridged. Anyway, question answered - thanks!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

....Books about car ownership that I used to devour in the 1980s and 90s (like James Ruppert's Bangernomics) seemed to indicate that the auction ring was a reasonably common route for car disposal....

 

OT, but my parents sold their 1989 Jetta GL to the fella who ran a Bangernomics website, and the car got a mention here - incidentally the 90mph he mentions was merely the speed it would comfortably cruise at thanks to a Weber carb conversion (the original Pierburg was a pile o' shite) being fitted; it could in fact go further still (110mph indicated) with alacrity.