The grumpy thread

[somewhatfoolish]

40 minutes ago, xtriple said:

Just used my brand new Chinese extending hose to wash the car. Guess who's soddin' soaked now after it split and fell apart?

Chester and Phoebe?

[GrumpiusMaximus]

1 hour ago, chaseracer said:

This.  

Don't undervalue yourself.

Without banging on about it too much, that’s not a rate for what I’m doing.  If I were a musician I would definitely angle for that.  I appreciate your point though.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, xtriple said:

Just used my brand new Chinese extending hose to wash the car. Guess who's soddin' soaked now after it split and fell apart?

This book may be of interest

[Floatylight]

Oh feck..

Sent from my Moto G (5) using Tapatalk

[chaseracer]

Needs MOAR boost? ?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

39 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

Needs MOAR boost? ?

Needs MOAR stronger!

[xtriple]

1 hour ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

This book may be of interest

In my own defence, the listing said it was coming from London. However, the reciept said China... didn't know they had started copying our towns and cities but as they copy everything else, I guess I shouldn't be surprised!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

35 minutes ago, xtriple said:

In my own defence, the listing said it was coming from London. However, the reciept said China... didn't know they had started copying our towns and cities but as they copy everything else, I guess I shouldn't be surprised!

Chinese traders usually have stock all over the place. They also manipulate processes to evade VAT and other inconveniences. 

[Tamworthbay]

4 hours ago, Bobthebeard said:

As a taxi 'owner' driver working for Whiteside Taxis I recently joined the team that does the long distance airport and corporate account work rather than just the local jobs. My car is a 19 reg Dacia Logan MCV diesel. Apparently these come with 3 years or 60,000 miles free AA breakdown cover but mine had no windscreen sticker/contact number or indeed any evidence that it did. Clearly doing airport jobs means that customers need to get there on time and any breakdowns etc need fairly immediate assistance.The manager at Whiteside rang Arnold Clarke who supplied the car and was told that I just needed to call in to get the car registered as it did indeed have full breakdown cover. 

I called in to the dealer, explained the situation and was greeted by blank looks from the receptionist. "Errr, hang on, I will get Paul"

Paul shows up after five minutes, speaks to the receptionist and they both rummage in a drawer looking for the windscreen sticker, find one and head over. The receptionist stops Paul, tells him the phone number is for Renault and not Dacia so back he goes....

Paul goes to a nearby Dacia in the showroom to look at the window sticker, crosses out the number and writes a new one in felt tip pen on my sticker.

"Stick that in your window mate, just ring if you break down" 

Hardly inspires confidence does it? Cheers Arnold. As I have my own personal breakdown cover I am not overly concerned, but really? 

Good old Arnold Shark! Who says customer service is dead?

[New POD]

4 hours ago, Bobthebeard said:

As a taxi 'owner' driver working for Whiteside Taxis I recently joined the team that does the long distance airport and corporate account work rather than just the local jobs. My car is a 19 reg Dacia Logan MCV diesel. Apparently these come with 3 years or 60,000 miles free AA breakdown cover but mine had no windscreen sticker/contact number or indeed any evidence that it did. Clearly doing airport jobs means that customers need to get there on time and any breakdowns etc need fairly immediate assistance.The manager at Whiteside rang Arnold Clarke who supplied the car and was told that I just needed to call in to get the car registered as it did indeed have full breakdown cover. 

I called in to the dealer, explained the situation and was greeted by blank looks from the receptionist. "Errr, hang on, I will get Paul"

Paul shows up after five minutes, speaks to the receptionist and they both rummage in a drawer looking for the windscreen sticker, find one and head over. The receptionist stops Paul, tells him the phone number is for Renault and not Dacia so back he goes....

Paul goes to a nearby Dacia in the showroom to look at the window sticker, crosses out the number and writes a new one in felt tip pen on my sticker.

"Stick that in your window mate, just ring if you break down" 

Hardly inspires confidence does it? Cheers Arnold. As I have my own personal breakdown cover I am not overly concerned, but really? 

Although the terms and conditions of the warranty probably disallow a taxi.  And they'll tell you that after the £2k gearbox replacement. 

 

[Kiltox]

4 hours ago, Bobthebeard said:

As a taxi 'owner' driver working for Whiteside Taxis I recently joined the team that does the long distance airport and corporate account work rather than just the local jobs. My car is a 19 reg Dacia Logan MCV diesel. Apparently these come with 3 years or 60,000 miles free AA breakdown cover but mine had no windscreen sticker/contact number or indeed any evidence that it did. Clearly doing airport jobs means that customers need to get there on time and any breakdowns etc need fairly immediate assistance.The manager at Whiteside rang Arnold Clarke who supplied the car and was told that I just needed to call in to get the car registered as it did indeed have full breakdown cover. 

I called in to the dealer, explained the situation and was greeted by blank looks from the receptionist. "Errr, hang on, I will get Paul"

Paul shows up after five minutes, speaks to the receptionist and they both rummage in a drawer looking for the windscreen sticker, find one and head over. The receptionist stops Paul, tells him the phone number is for Renault and not Dacia so back he goes....

Paul goes to a nearby Dacia in the showroom to look at the window sticker, crosses out the number and writes a new one in felt tip pen on my sticker.

"Stick that in your window mate, just ring if you break down" 

Hardly inspires confidence does it? Cheers Arnold. As I have my own personal breakdown cover I am not overly concerned, but really? 

They might well not provide that cover for taxi/private hire use anyway - definitely check 

[Tamworthbay]

Fuck fuck fuck, managed to forget that the 2cv  I was watching on eBay finished this afternoon, it only fecking sold for £770 and looked an easy fix. Buggery bollocks.

[Kiltox]

55 minutes ago, Tamworthbay said:

Fuck fuck fuck, managed to forget that the 2cv  I was watching on eBay finished this afternoon, it only fecking sold for £770 and looked an easy fix. Buggery bollocks.

Most eBay sales fall through due to time wasters so you never know!

[Tamworthbay]

Just now, Kiltox said:

Most eBay sales fall through due to time wasters so you never know!

I have messaged them just in case that happens, problem is that I didn’t put a bid on so they may well go to the underbidder first.

[strangeangel]

20 hours ago, vulgalour said:

Funny you should say that because we think we found the leak earlier today. It looks like the passenger door seal is letting water in right on the a pillar to sill seam and the water is then going under the carpet and sitting right in the middle of the footwell.  It's not a lot, it only happens when its absolutely chucking it down, and checking in the car while it's raining has shown it's not coming through the windscreen or anything daft like that.  I'll pull off the seal, inspect, and reseat, see if that improves matters.  The driver's door seal is often wet around the top when it's been chucking it down but doesn't seem to let any water actually into the car, though that might explain the window on that door fogging up as fast as it does sometimes.  Old car nonsense, nothing cracking a window open can't solve most of the time.

 

When I get a minute (and I'm not busy wasting money on shipping crap Russian scooters from Latvia) the door seals on my BX will have to be replaced. Both drivers side and passenger side front door tops leak, and I think the rear ones are knackered too, as not long ago I found woodlice and some sort of mange living in the rear footwells. This car seems to have lived a charmed life with regard to rot, so I really should get on with this.

 

[DoctorRetro]

Grandma passed away this morning. Didn't even know she was ill, as I haven't been in touch for ages. 

Sad, feeling guilty and angry at my self. 

[Rovorsche]

Sorry to hear that

[Cavcraft]

Did a car boot sale with my daughter today. 99% of the people were great, but one pair of 'ladies' managed to steal a sodding £2 make up case off my daughter*, and possibly a couple of other things. They'd already attempted to haggle a whole 25p off one thing and broken something else. They didn't look poor (not that that means much, I suppose) but fancy fucking stealing stuff at a car boot sale! I'd rather give the stuff away to someone than have some dickhead steal it. The bloke in the car next to us said they were known for it and he'd tried to warn me but they were hanging around.

 

*We didn't find out until they'd gone.

[Aston Martin]

I came onto the A63, hit a bit of water and nearly went backwards into a ditch.

 

I went to upullit, the Fiats were surrounded by a foot of water and I was in the Alessi, so I was already annoyed that I was going to get the mats piss wet through. I went through passenger doors and out of drivers doors of a couple of cars to avoid the floor. 

 

I had to hacksaw a part off a Panda and sliced my finger open, I cambered through a Punto mk2 and into a Big Cunto, except the passenger side window was smashed and it looked like dried blood everywhere, which made me fucking annoyed and nauseous. So back out through the drivers door, lobbed a door card on the floor and still ended up with a wet foot. Got a plaster and had to find a different route into the Panda. 

 

 

[rusty998]

18 hours ago, strangeangel said:

 

When I get a minute (and I'm not busy wasting money on shipping crap Russian scooters from Latvia) the door seals on my BX will have to be replaced. Both drivers side and passenger side front door tops leak, and I think the rear ones are knackered too, as not long ago I found woodlice and some sort of mange living in the rear footwells. This car seems to have lived a charmed life with regard to rot, so I really should get on with this.

 

I had leaking door seals on my 106, took them off the car and soaked them I'm a hot soapy bath,  then cleaned them with a brush to get àny remaining dirt out of the gap where it pushes on to the bodywork,  once they were dry I pumped some windscreen sealer in with a fine nozzle then fitted them,  it worked a treat and the car sat outside for another winter but this time without the condensation running down the glass and filling the car with moisture,  I used this stuff as I know how good it is 

[Supernaut]

I uploaded to Redbubble two versions of an outline drawing I did (one white, one black, so you can have it on different backgrounds). It's probably the first thing I've uploaded there that I put any sort of effort into as well.

Both have been suspended for review.

 

I uploaded a block of text with swear words in it this morning (see cms' collection thread) and it didn't bat an eye. WTF?

[somewhatfoolish]

1 hour ago, rusty998 said:

I had leaking door seals on my 106, took them off the car and soaked them I'm a hot soapy bath,  then cleaned them with a brush to get àny remaining dirt out of the gap where it pushes on to the bodywork,  once they were dry I pumped some windscreen sealer in with a fine nozzle then fitted them,  it worked a treat and the car sat outside for another winter but this time without the condensation running down the glass and filling the car with moisture,  I used this stuff as I know how good it is 

Do you mean between the seal and the metal flange it grips on?

[MikeR]

people on auto cruise in the middle lane doing 69.999998mph and outside lane doing 69,9999999mph ........taking like 5 miles to overtake ..

 

and the inside lane is empty because its the slow lane ....

 

vrrrrooooooommm !!  70.999999mph .....  bye suckers !

[rusty998]

1 hour ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Do you mean between the seal and the metal flange it grips on?

Yes, when you remove the rubber seal it's where it pushes on to the bodywork Flange!

[Cavcraft]

Despite being possibly the most unfashionable person on earth, WTF is going in with the way young girls dress now? Big fuck off glasses from a 1970's serial killer and jeans and dungarees that make them look they escaped from a 1950's American prison cotton picking farm for the mentally deranged.

[somewhatfoolish]

Jeans that have had holes put in them by child slavery in a sweatshop have made an unwanted comeback too; I had hoped they would stay in the 1990s where they belonged.

[Slowsilver]

22 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:

Despite being possibly the most unfashionable person on earth, WTF is going in with the way young girls dress now? Big fuck off glasses from a 1970's serial killer and jeans and dungarees that make them look they escaped from a 1950's American prison cotton picking farm for the mentally deranged.

Whenever I make comments like this my wife just sighs and says "It's fashion dear. You wouldn't understand".
 

[dozeydustman]

A Wall’s Feast lolly has mad me unwell. Have lost 5 hours of the afternoon after face swollen up and short of breath.

Wrapper says may contain traces of Soya. Gah!

[dollywobbler]

Drove all the way to Winchester, drove an Austin Ambassador - for the first time. I videoed this moment for prosperity, as the second half of an intriguing head-to-head with a Wolseley 2200 wedge. It was the very last Ambassador - yes, that one we remember seeing parked up on a driveway looking abandoned. It was an amazing day.

I can find no trace of any video files of the Ambassador. I have all the Princess ones, and the video went live today. Where the **** have the Ambassador files gone?!

Not on my laptop, my desktop or either of the phones I used for video recording that day. Undelete software only works if you know where the files were. I can't believe I didn't record any of the separate videos so where the bloody hell are they? I have a two-hour gap in the early afternoon with no footage. I am a little upset and mostly confused.

[richardmorris]

2 hours ago, Slowsilver said:

Whenever I make comments like this my wife just sighs and says "It's fashion dear. You wouldn't understand".