The grumpy thread

[Pieman]

Must be crap motorway week.  Was working in Kunt today (near Brands Hatch to be precise) and waited to leave to head home to the Midlands until after 8pm so I'd miss the usual Friday traffic.

 

Check my posting time.  Thanks to EVERY motorway or other road I tried to drive on being either shut, down to a single lane, or covered in soul-destroying 50mph cameras, I've only just fucking got home.  It'd have been easier to leave at rush hour time I think!

[wuvvum]

I think everyone's trying to use up their roadworks budget for the financial year - should start to calm down a bit from next week.  At least I bloody hope it does - it's costing me a fortune in diesel having to do half a lap of Norfolk every morning to get in to work.

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

Grumpy doesn't come close...... Some utter wankspangling cunt of all cunts is sitting on the tunnel Eurostar uses.... ALL TRAINS CANCELLED

Waste of ungodly hour wake up and now negotiating how I can change the ferry booking for tonight.

I'm seriously, SERIOUSLY wanting this monkey-fisting dog-felching cunts name and address.

COCK

[Timewaster]

Grumpy doesn't come close...... Some utter wankspangling cunt of all cunts is sitting on the tunnel Eurostar uses.... ALL TRAINS CANCELLED

 

Uh? What's all that about?

Some sort of protest?

B**x*t nutter?

 

I fear were might see some more nutter related are ache over the coming weeks.

 

 

Edit: News would appear to confirm. B***** Nutter.

[dome]

First day off in 2 weeks and I've fucked my back so can't do any tat fettling. Or anything for that matter

[Broadsword]

Grumpy doesn't come close...... Some utter wankspangling cunt of all cunts is sitting on the tunnel Eurostar uses.... ALL TRAINS CANCELLED

Waste of ungodly hour wake up and now negotiating how I can change the ferry booking for tonight.

I'm seriously, SERIOUSLY wanting this monkey-fisting dog-felching cunts name and address.

COCK

Really gutted for you on what would otherwise been a good collection caper day with a SUPER car at the end of it.. Nightmare. That prat on the line has ruined the day for many.

[Exiled_Tat_Gatherer]

Really gutted for you on what would otherwise been a good collection caper day with a SUPER car at the end of it.. Nightmare. That prat on the line has ruined the day for many.

 

Truly sorry Joshua, they basically had us all cancelled...... and of course it's a free for all trying to get a later trip - but that will still mean missing the ferry deadline....... then it hits munchkins school morning Monday. in hte terms of AS

 

We're fucking fucked mate......

 

Trying to re-arrange, but it ain't looking great

[somewhatfoolish]

Having been conveyed to work on an HST Scotrail saw fit to give me a shitty old Turbostar to go home on. Sadface. 

[Broadsword]

Truly sorry Joshua, they basically had us all cancelled...... and of course it's a free for all trying to get a later trip - but that will still mean missing the ferry deadline....... then it hits munchkins school morning Monday. in hte terms of AS

 

We're fucking fucked mate......

 

Trying to re-arrange, but it ain't looking great

Yeah, it's one of those things that you just can't really plan for. I really hope they don't try to screw you on the ferry ticket, that is a real worry. The only upside is that I can keep the car stored securely off-site and it is cheap to do so. I best give it a wash and put it back in storage.

 

It's there on the drive ready to pounce back into life, poor thing!

[Fumbler]

Ah the joys of P38 motoring...

 

Fuel filler flap release button didn't engage and got itself stuck in its slot meaning we cannot open the filler at all. And brother's got 59 miles left in his tank. What's even more brilliant is that his model, from 1997, doesn't contain the elergency release in the boot. The 1998 models do so we'll have to jerry rig something. That is, if we don't repeatedly trigger the alarm.

 

The heat also meant that the ECU had a complete wobbly and decided to drop the front suspension, refuse to start the engine and generally not co-operate. We have a feeling it's because the compressor's seizing and it's drawing too much current in the heat. This was in a Morrisons' carpark. Yay!

 

Cue the Beach Boys Fun Fun Fun music on the (probably broken) cassette drive.

[catsinthewelder]

Is it like most cars where you can access the sender from under the boot carpet or back seat squab?  If so pull that out and fill tank through hole to get home.

[clayts450]

I think they're still in a precarious financial position, so probably need cash to come in over the counter, for important things like paying the staff at the end of the month, rather than it disappearing into the black hole of debt at the bank.

 

Nope it was nothing that sinister - the machine really was broken. The Openreach engineer had just finished off sorting it when I rocked up yesterday morning with cash wonga in my mitt. I volunteered to be their guinea pig so they could test it worked. It did, and didn't debit my bank account a gazillion times.

[Fumbler]

Is it like most cars where you can access the sender from under the boot carpet or back seat squab?  If so pull that out and fill tank through hole to get home.

We should be good as the entire switch pulled itself apart when I pulled the dash out. Failed, sticky glue. It smells of solvents everywhere today! Bridging the contacts is a tried and true method of opening it up.

[purplebargeken]

Went down to the garage this morning, was going to Toledo fettle. Mate had parked in front of the garage, bonus! No other cunt could block the access then. 

 

He moves his car, I realise that the key for this garage was on the other keyring. Cue swearing. Oh bollocks. Never mind, I have access to the green Dolly so some small fettling happened. I lock the garage up and get ready to go home. I look at the keyring and see the key to the other garage. I had obviously made it simpler for myself except that I had forgotten completely that I had changed things around. A wasted day. A whole wasted fucking day. Fuck my stupid memory. 

[bangernomics]

Garage tidy fatigue

 

 

 

 

[beko1987]

Your doing tidying wrong...

[Fumbler]

Managed to find the lever to open the filler flap, added some twine to push through the emergency release hole. Methinks Rover knew about this issue!

 

MPG on the dash said 13.2. MPG on the back of the envelope once filled up says ~11. Oh my.

[dollywobbler]

Garage tidy fatigue

 

 

 

 

 

Well this makes me feel better!

[bangernomics]

Glad it does one of us. Ffs

[dollywobbler]

You'll get there. On the rare occasions that I've tidied my garage, it's bloody marvellous. For about three days...

[anonymous user]

I remember the time my uncle tidied the storeroom in the old workshop. He got to the point where he had lovely tidy shelves in front of him, but couldn't get out because of all the stuff he'd piled behind him, between him and the door.

[vulgalour]

That went well.  Princess is already broken and back with SoC.  Stupid car.

[loserone]

Bah, sorry to hear that!

 

Not just selfishly either!

[sierraman]

Christ I thought I’d heard it all. Someone went to look at the in laws car and wanted a discount because there was no proof it had had the head gasket replaced. There’s nothing wrong with the cooling system at all. Next I expect they’ll want a discount because the gearbox has done 90k.

 

Gumtree. As you’d expect.

[scaryoldcortina]

That went well. Princess is already broken and back with SoC. Stupid car.

I'm surprised you aren't more annoyed at the AA...

[vulgalour]

It's okay, it'll sort.  Luckily, I've got two pairs of spare discs to sort the problem and SoC is a leg end so it'll get sorted with as minimal fuss as possible.  AA telling me they wouldn't recover the car because I'd limped it back to the garage for fault diagnose was a cracker.  They also wanted to send someone out to confirm what the problem was before recovering the car.  Absolute farce.  Considering how little I've used the AA I'm just dropping the membership and I'll rely on what the insurance company offers instead, because it's cheaper and I doubt the service will be any worse.

 

EDIT:  I am a *slow* typer today, that was me replying to loserone.

[dean36014]

Autoaid, 45'ish quid a year. XM spring a leak and it was on a recovery truck in an hour

[bangernomics]

Getting there, lots to go on the sales area when I manage to post.

 

 

 

[loserone]

Liked because replying to me and because it will sort. Not because it's broken.

[Zelandeth]

So much for a productive evening.

 

Just smacked my right thumb with a 4lb lump hammer. Didn't actually hurt that much at the time - only realised I should probably pay attention to what I'd done about thirty seconds later when I realised that the "drip...drip...drip...drip" I could hear wasn't water dripping from the pipework I had in bits but was blood dripping off said thumb.

 

Oops.