The grumpy thread

[iainrcz]

Ooh leaking flange. Nasty. My Mrs is nearly 41 and so far she hasn't developed that.

[wuvvum]

Buick failed its CT.

Big fail sheet

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Oh bummer.

 

Brakes and emissions aren't a huge surprise given how long it'd been stood up, and I would imagine the bushes and track rod end would be easy enough to get from Rock Auto or somewhere, but the corroded wishbones etc. might be more of an issue - can't see them being easy to get second hand, or cheap to buy new.

 

Are you going to crack on with it?

[wuvvum]

Desks at work.

 

At my current place of work, one does not have an assigned desk. You get a laptop and the desks have docking stations.

We recently got new laptops, and the docking stations for them don't have enough display outputs, so the third monitor is handled by a usb to dvi adapter. It's utter dogshit.

My laptop works fine on some desks, on others the third monitor doesn't work at all, and on others it flickers. A colleague can plug their identical laptop into a desk that mine works on, and the third monitor doesn't work. It's utterly insanity-inducing how random these things are.

 

This all means I end up spending a good quarter of an hour every morning when I come in trying to find a desk that works. Then I have to find a chair! It means I'm guaranteed to be pissed right off before I even start work.

 

They were talking about bringing in hot desking where I work as part of an upcoming office refurb.  Apart from the general shitness of not having an assigned "home" for the place where one spends the majority of one's waking hours during the week, the team I am in works really well together, there's an excellent spread of knowledge across the team, we help each other out if one of us has too much on, and as an added bonus we all get on brilliantly together. 

 

Sadly senior management don't seem to care about intangible stuff like that - the fact that splitting the team up would cause morale and productivity to drop like a stone cannot be entered into an Excel spreadsheet in pounds and pence, and therefore doesn't matter.  So we've all told them in the "additional comments" section of the feedback form that if hot desking is introduced, the entire team will walk.  Which we would.  Whether that will be taken any notice of remains to be seen...

[Kiltox]

Supernaut - is there another shift after you who need the desk?

 

We have this shit at my work (which doesn’t have another shift) - I Kensington lock my laptop to the desk and leave it....

[Supernaut]

Yes, there are other shifts.

 

I'm currently on 9-5 Mon-Fri but once I'm deemed experienced enough (fuck knows when) I'll be on 12 hour shifts. 4 on 4 off.

The place is 24/7 support so there are also night shifts involved.

 

As if 8 hours in an office wasn't bad enough.

[HillmanImp]

944 is broken again, the throttle cable has unravelled itself and is getting stuck open so that's another thing on the looooooong list of shit to do. This car is breaking much much quicker than I can fix it.

 

Nothing too serious (yet) though but it's a right bleedin' Diva.

 

 

Its fecking fit though innit? However, beauty is only skin deep and I am starting to think its a bit mental behind the eyes. 

 

I can't help but think that if it was a bird, it would throw the crockery at me for going to the pub without it and then fuck anyone and everyone behind my back and blame me when it got the clap.

 

Its the exact opposite of Meg which is fugly and nowt special but is absolutely lovely when you look past the crusty exterior. 

 

Will have to see how I get on with it over the next few months to see if it's a keeper or not. The rate of breakage might ease off once it's bedded into life at Imp Towers.

[SiC]

944 is broken again, the throttle cable has unravelled itself and is getting stuck open so that's another thing on the looooooong list of shit to do. This car is breaking much much quicker than I can fix it.

 

Was it that throttle cable that caused the high idle? Or was that caused by something else?

[HillmanImp]

Was it that throttle cable that caused the high idle? Or was that caused by something else?

 

Yeah it was that.

 

 

It's got stuck in the liner leaving it to idle fast. Obviously this will be a Porsche only part and will cost £900.

[Timewaster]

Porsche only part and will cost £900.

Jeebus?! For real, or a prediction based on bitter experience?

[SiC]

Jeebus?! For real, or a prediction based on bitter experience?

Exaggeration, but Porsche-tax is very much a thing.

 

https://www.design911.co.uk/mobile/#part;id=923

70quid for a cable is still pretty pricey.

[beko1987]

That porche description makes me want to puke!

 

I bodged similar on my old green zx with a choc block which then outlasted the car, bet porche will sell you a bit of choc bloc for waaaaay less than £70...

[iainrcz]

That porch description makes me want to puke!

 

I bodged similar on my old green zx with a choc block which then outlasted the car, bet porch will sell you a bit of choc bloc for waaaaay less than £70...

I fixed the interior door handle on my Rover with one of those. Genius.

[chaseracer]

Well, I thought that was going to read    "  It's been 7 hours     , and 15 days. Since you took ...."     soz  

 

Good one!  Nothing comparez 2 that...

[HillmanImp]

I bodged similar on my old green zx with a choc block which then outlasted the car, bet porche will sell you a bit of choc bloc for waaaaay less than £70...

Yeah but I'm a fucking twat and snapped off the broken bit instead of pulling it taught.

 

Could still just take off the old one and remove the offending strand.

 

Will see.

[twosmoke300]

Most motor cycle shops would repair a cable as long as the outer is ok . Or Oxford do a cable repair kit in a tin for about 8 quid with solderless nipples

[DoctorRetro]

Still awake due to work stress.

It is slowly killing me. Anxiety at an all time high, depression is worse than ever. But can't afford to cut and run, I'm only just making ends meet as it is.

[barefoot]

Exaggeration, but Porsche-tax is very much a thing.

 

https://www.design911.co.uk/mobile/#part;id=923

70quid for a cable is still pretty pricey.

 

 

Before you buy from there, get a price from a dealer, it may be far worse, but then again it may not.

 

Download a parts catalogue from here

https://www.porsche.com/uk/accessoriesandservice/porscheservice/serviceandorgininalparts/originalparts/

Or just give 'em a bell.

[SiC]

According to some on PH, many sellers actually buy from an OPC and resell on. Apparently if you are a Porsche GB club member you get a discount from a OPC on parts too.

[Supernaut]

My experience with old BMWs is that some parts, not all, but some are cheapest direct from BMW.

[barefoot]

According to some on PH, many sellers actually buy from an OPC and resell on. Apparently if you are a Porsche GB club member you get a discount from a OPC on parts too.

 

 

Porsche GB promises that their annual membership will never cost more than a tank of fuel - it's not cheap - and it's full of dick cheese folk that just make you want to sell the car.

Anyway, price from Porsche Nottingham £54.87 + vat

[SiC]

Porsche GB promises that their annual membership will never cost more than a tank of fuel - it's not cheap - and it's full of dick cheese folk that just make you want to sell the car.

Anyway, price from Porsche Nottingham £54.87 + vat

Yes. The only reason I'd join if for cheaper parts. However I'm not sure the £60 p/a would be paid back by any savings. When I do need parts I'm tempted to ask what discounts they offer at the counter anyway.

[Kiltox]

Yes. The only reason I'd join if for cheaper parts. However I'm not sure the £60 p/a would be paid back by any savings. When I do need parts I'm tempted to ask what discounts they offer at the counter anyway.

“Discount? Be gone, peasant!”

[SiC]

“Discount? Be gone, peasant!”

"I need a discount as I'm just a poor man who owns a Poor Man's Porsche"

[barefoot]

I have to forego footwear to afford mine,

it's a shoddy* state of affairs.

[Kiltox]

"I need a discount as I'm just a poor man who owns a Poor Man's Porsche"

TBH I didn’t even realise I would be allowed into an OPC, a bit like when I went to buy a £3 gasket for a 18 year old A6 from an Audi dealer (who, to be fair, sat me down with a coffee and treated me like I’d just bought a brand new one)

[gm]

Porsche GB promises that their annual membership will never cost more than a tank of fuel - it's not cheap - and it's full of dick cheese folk that just make you want to sell the car.

Anyway, price from Porsche Nottingham £54.87 + vat

 

 

try www.tipec.net instead ? friendly and much less 911 centric

[Cavcraft]

Still awake due to work stress.

It is slowly killing me. Anxiety at an all time high, depression is worse than ever. But can't afford to cut and run, I'm only just making ends meet as it is.

 

Hope things turn themselves around for you, chief. Lying awake most of the night due to work is not very nice at all.

[barefoot]

try www.tipec.net instead ? friendly and much less 911 centric

 

 

Can no longer be bothered with single marque clubs, if insurers ask me,

I just give them my member number - 4623 - in the Autoshites.

[myglaren]

Youngest son's laptop died - third one in four years.

Loaned him one of mine that has never had the slightest problem.

48 hours later the hard drive dies

[anonymous user]

Did I oversleep and miss summer? It was spring a couple of days ago, today it's back to winter, really cold and now hailing, I had just started sanding down a table outside and have had to put it all away again. I wouldn't mind too much, but the heating is now officially off (just paid the £575 gas bill for the last quarter) so it's no warmer indoors.