The grumpy thread

[Noel Tidybeard]

On 10/10/2019 at 2:06 PM, vulgalour said:

Allington is where I'm headed.  I have a concern that there's going to be a fairly high Doddery Jazz Pilot population.

if you wear your hat you'll be able to hide in plain sight! ??

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Gave up and worked on the car in the rain. There really is nothing quite like it. The wind helped* too, especially during the bit where I was under the thing on my back. Still, after a few months away from cars doing the house and a very reluctant return, the ice has been broken.

[Pieman]

Going to a motorsport event with some friends and calling at their place on the way back for a cuppa.  Except I didn't stay for the cuppa, because the house stank so strongly of cat piss I made an excuse I was late for Sunday dinner and left.

 

[Split_Pin]

Edinburgh Airport is one of the worst I have been to. Car park hugely confusing as is the rest of the airport. Nothing open when we arrived at 4am and when it did, the only option was All Bar One. £27 for 2 coffees that were so strong they almost took off from the table, 2 waffles that looked like boot mats and a pretentious 'sausage sa(nd)dwich' that was so chuch it absorbed all the moisture in my body. 

Shite Hole.

Glesca Airport is Miles Better.

I hope Stockholm is awesome though

[Cavcraft]

On a very wet M40 yesterday, dreadful visibility and the outside lane is like a swimming pool.

It wasn't the 'executive' car drivers who were the biggest problem, but some absolute botty rocket in a black Vectra C. He'd already tried the outside lane once and must have seen how stupid an idea it was. He then dropped back, I thought presumably realising how fucking stupid he was. Then, shortly after, as I'm the middle lane trying to carefully overtake someone, he hit the outside lane pretty much full tilt and the wall of water was honestly frightening. I couldn't see a think for what seemed like 10 seconds but was probably only 3 or 4. How he didn't wipe himself out I just don't know. Absolute and utter bell end.

[Tenmil Socket]

22 minutes ago, Cavcraft said:

On a very wet M40 yesterday, dreadful visibility and the outside lane is like a swimming pool.

It wasn't the 'executive' car drivers who were the biggest problem, but some absolute botty rocket in a black Vectra C. He'd already tried the outside lane once and must have seen how stupid an idea it was. He then dropped back, I thought presumably realising how fucking stupid he was. Then, shortly after, as I'm the middle lane trying to carefully overtake someone, he hit the outside lane pretty much full tilt and the wall of water was honestly frightening. I couldn't see a think for what seemed like 10 seconds but was probably only 3 or 4. How he didn't wipe himself out I just don't know. Absolute and utter bell end.

For the last 2 years I've been using the M62/M57 to commute. It's been an eye opener to say the least. People driving with no lights on in piss poor visibilty. When you're in a queue joining the motorway and people in the nearside lane don't move over even when they can. The one that does annoy me is people moving into the middle lane immediately after joining the motorway and staying put...

Absolute shaft bulbs!

[Cavcraft]

To make matters worse, I've just spilt Chardonnay on my UB40 single and now it's disappeared. 

[LightBulbFun]

2 hours ago, Tenmil Socket said:

Absolute shaft bulbs!

I have to say thats a new one LOL but I assume it's to be accompanied with the below picture?

[Tenmil Socket]

1 hour ago, LightBulbFun said:

I have to say thats a new one LOL but I assume it's to be accompanied with the below picture?

It's actually a variant of the last two words of the Cavcraft post I quoted but I see what you was thinking...

[New POD]

2 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

To make matters worse, I've just spilt Chardonnay on my UB40 single and now it's disappeared. 

Took me some time.  But there's a rat in my kitchen so what am I going to do??? 

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

58 minutes ago, New POD said:

Took me some time.  But there's a rat in my kitchen so what am I going to do??? 

Some red red wine?

[Spurious]

It's just taken me 15 minutes to get a wheel off. 

When I got tyres fitted and rotated at the Halfrauds Autocentre (they'd actually a good deal at the time) I asked "do you torque the wheels by hand". "Of course we do" was the answer.  Grand or so I thought. 

Just been bouncing on a breaker bar only to get the nasty crack of an overtightened stud. Some lazy fucker used an impact wrench to tighten them I bet. I'd love to wrap the breaker bar round their neck. 

[New POD]

15 minutes ago, Spurious said:

It's just taken me 15 minutes to get a wheel off. 

When I got tyres fitted and rotated at the Halfrauds Autocentre (they'd actually a good deal at the time) I asked "do you torque the wheels by hand". "Of course we do" was the answer.  Grand or so I thought. 

Just been bouncing on a breaker bar only to get the nasty crack of an overtightened stud. Some lazy fucker used an impact wrench to tighten them I bet. I'd love to wrap the breaker bar round their neck. 

They don't understand. Which is why they work in a tyre place and not at NASA designing rocket control systems. 

Not saying everyone who works in a tyre place is as thick as pig shit. I've met a few who did care enough to understand.  Paul's tyres in L37 have different guns for putting on and taking off. The putting on one. Gets the bolt to about 3/4 of a turn from being tight, and they set the torque wrench for every car.  What I've not seen is a torque wrench calibration gauge of the like that I've seen and used in Aerospace assembly operations, where the check.the torque wrench before each job. 

Having said that I had my wheel off to adjust the hand brake and failed to tighten it up. Doh. Lucky the wheel didn't come off. 

[wuvvum]

My local tyre place always torques wheels up to the correct setting.  I've never had any problems getting wheels off again after I've been there.  Had bad experiences with Kwik Fit in the past though. 

[strangeangel]

15 minutes ago, New POD said:

They don't understand. Which is why they work in a tyre place and not at NASA designing rocket control systems. 

 

 

Fair enough, but isn't that what TRAINING is for? I feel Spurious' pain, having had to get the wheel off our Peugeot Boxer after some nob at Kwikfit had wanged the nuts up to about 470000056Nm with a rattle gun. It took two of us armed with a four foot bar with the second brace (the first one broke) to get the fucker off.

 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

There’s a tyre place around here that I always go to (Invicta Tyres) and whilst they don’t check the settings on the car, they do tighten by hand with a torque wrench.  Never had a problem removing them.

Would recommend.

[Aston Martin]

On 10/11/2019 at 11:50 AM, Aston Martin said:

Are you a boring bastard?

Do you have an anecdote about meeting Barry Chuckle or did you once chat to the postman of Brian Connelly?

Will you read out the phone book? 

Yes???

Then don't go on bastard popmaster.

 

"Can I have a quick hello? OK, my wife Maureen, Shiela, Mark and Paul. Tina and Greg, all the lads from The Red Bull darts team.... Alvin, Simon, Theodore. Mark 2, Pauline. If I don't mention Sarah Johnson she'll have me. My mum and dad, my kids Deborah and Terry and their partners John and Malcolm. The two grandkids Greta and Jessica. Everyone I work with at R.LB. Engineering here in Lowestoft... Oh and everyone else who knows me."

 

Nobody wants to know you, you fucking wank.

 

Today's useless bastard.

"Hello to my husband and my mum and dad"

 

I have never been more happy.

[clayts450]

Nottingham has been a nightmare for years, and I believe the first place in the world to have red light cameras.

Average speed cameras on the A610. And yes, Nottingham is very anti-car

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[shedenvy]

Multipla's done broken.

Filled the back up with hardcore & logs and dropped them off down a work colleagues lane.  He had 7 bastardy speed bumps.  Took it very gingerly and not even a scrape.  Unloaded circa 150kg of crap and went back along the lane at what I thought was still a gingerly pace.  First speed bump and I clout the sump.  Black stripe in rear view mirror.  Went into survival mode - DA Motors (Fiat specialist) was 1000yds away, I did the hypermiling technique - accelerate in 2nd, clutch down, engine off, coast until 5mph and repeat until I reached the yard,  The last 3 seconds sounded tappety.

Blokes at the garage reckon £300 and if i'm lucky it'll be done for the weekend.  Hope I haven't trashed a bearing or the turbo. 

I now can't even figure out why I just didn't dump the hardcore at the tip where they charge £2 for 25L. FFS!

[SiC]

House sale looks to be falling through again, for the fourth time in a year. Truly fed up trying to move now.

[Kiltox]

Fuck sake. That’s awful. 

[captain_70s]

38 minutes ago, SiC said:

House sale looks to be falling through again, for the fourth time in a year. Truly fed up trying to move now.

Did Trigger also not have loads of bother trying to move house?

Is there a particular reason selling a property at the mo' seems to be nothing less than a massive nightmare? Especially with housing apparently being so in demand?

[Lord Sterling]

On 10/11/2019 at 7:43 PM, Kiltox said:

Halfords/Yuasa batteries can get in the sea. Massive, expensive one from my van is dead after about 18 months. Took it back today and they won’t do anything until they charge it (aparrently going to do so tonight) and test it. 

Sounds like the 5 year warranty isn’t worth the paper and they’re going to say “it’s fucked m8 but it’s not our fault”. 

 

On 10/11/2019 at 7:58 PM, Andyrew said:

As long As you remind them that you DO loads of miles daily and long trips it should be fine.

It's battery season now too,  so months of people getting shirty because we won't fit a battery (as a free favour if we can) in the pissing rain or snow. 

Ah yes. The battery season ?

It would be quite busy on the French team right about now. Plenty of French people moaning about thier battery not working.

Sadly, batteries are built down to a price no matter the make. Bosch and Varta are built in the same factory. We regularly saw batteries that didn't last beyond 4 years.

It is right thay they need to recharge the battery to test it and it can take up to 24 hours to recharge as batteries are run down to the absolute minimum when faulty/or when used with a faulty appliance.

I think it'll pass the test and they'll replace it. Unfortunately the warranty states that a battery must be tested to see if the battery is at fault or whether it has been run down by a faulty alternator or something.

[xtriple]

Struggling a bit at the moment with the damp weather, it really makes me ache but I didn't think I was 'THAT' bad that I needed a chair brought out for me while waiting at the chemists! There were actual old people there, they didn't get offered, just me.

 

also, I was sat with a friend while supposed to be walking the dogs (Phoebe busy in the hedge, couldn't disturb her) said friend thought it was hysterical that after 9 months I am stil avoiding the same woman! I have told her more than once I am not interested, she won't listen... I saw her car coming down the road and hid behind a bush/dog/bad attitude, forgetting completely the big silver dollop parked just by that sort of gives my presence away!

[New POD]

4 hours ago, volvov70 said:

It is the B word along with the new ludicrous affordability criteria - yes you can shell out 50% of your salary on rent but the same for a mortgage? oh no sir

Nobody is buying all over the country. my parents house has been up for sale at a very reasonable price for 18 months now without a single offer - 2000+ square foot 4 bed bungalow in a 6th of an acre for less than 300K.

Rentals on the other hand are booming

Lots of land lords consolidating their assets and selling enough to pay off the mortgages on the others.  This means that the rental properties that are left are often at the lower end of the market where short term yields are higher.  So demand on nicer properties of which there are less available is higher.  

If you can save up a deposit, convince a bank to lend you the money, it will be cheaper than renting.  But if you are renting, explain how you intend to save the deposit. 

Well done to the government for screwing the tax system for buy to lets.  You got what you wanted. Space for big business to come in and screw everyone. 

 

[New POD]

5 hours ago, SiC said:

House sale looks to be falling through again, for the fourth time in a year. Truly fed up trying to move now.

What happened? Anything with a chain is a nightmare. 

[SiC]

1 hour ago, New POD said:

What happened? Anything with a chain is a nightmare. 

First gave up waiting for us to find a house after a month.

Second had his buyer pull out because "he couldn't make the rental yields work". Fuck that, it's because you hoped we'd brexit and the prices drop. We lost the house we wanted on this one. Ended up having to pay £90k more to get what we want as it was a good price. All that extra money I have to pay off scares the shit out of me at times. 

Third pulled out as her financial situation changed.

Fourth has been told by her solicitor to not do any work until her mortgage is thru. Ended up coming through this evening in the end and also our threat of going back on the market meant she started solicitor work earlier today too. Hopefully she'll put her foot down a bit more.

 

Massive shit show basically.

[beko1987]

36 minutes ago, New POD said:

Lots of land lords consolidating their assets and selling enough to pay off the mortgages on the others.  This means that the rental properties that are left are often at the lower end of the market where short term yields are higher.  So demand on nicer properties of which there are less available is higher.  

If you can save up a deposit, convince a bank to lend you the money, it will be cheaper than renting.  But if you are renting, explain how you intend to save the deposit. 

Well done to the government for screwing the tax system for buy to lets.  You got what you wanted. Space for big business to come in and screw everyone. 

 

But if you are renting, explain how you intend to save the deposit. 

 

This, it's impossible, I have £24 before food and fuel a month left, yea course I can save £20k for a deposit on a shit box

[New POD]

10 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

But if you are renting, explain how you intend to save the deposit. 

 

This, it's impossible, I have £24 before food and fuel a month left, yea course I can save £20k for a deposit on a shit box

I used the word IF.  

If you can save a deposit. 

[beko1987]

A boy can dream! 

Id be happy to save up enough for a decent shit personally, much more achievable