The grumpy thread

[Cord Fourteener]

2 hours ago, Richard said:

What are the speed limits for van-derived cars?

To be honest the only difference is 60 limit on a dual carriageway, but most people don't realise it. Not sure how much it's enforced. See goods vehicle not more than 7.5 t MLW https://www.gov.uk/speed-limits

[shedenvy]

10 hours ago, Tim_E said:

We have rodents in the attic. The joys of the season!

Same here, though I strongly suspect it's a squirrel so that's ok as it's a posh rat.  Plus I can reassure the wife that we don't have a ghost as it's only the squirrel (scratching, scraping, scurrying, gnawing through wires making the lights flicker etc).

[Tadhg Tiogar]

5 minutes ago, shedenvy said:

..... it's only the squirrel (scratching, scraping, scurrying, gnawing through wires making the lights flicker etc).

Does your squirrel run on 240v AC?

[shedenvy]

Just now, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Does your squirrel run on 240v AC?

The first one did, his mate is a little more cautious.

[SRi05]

Some arsehole managed to partially block the extremely tight entrance to my works car park this morning with their cuntish parking and I managed to nick the side of the car on the wall coming in ? very light scrapes just above the rear wheel arch. Managed to buff most of it away just with a wet cloth, wee bit of T Cut should sort it. Fucking raging with myself though, never bumped a car in 10 years driving yet ! And typically I do it to one that has mint bodywork.

[High Jetter]

40 minutes ago, shedenvy said:

Same here, though I strongly suspect it's a squirrel so that's ok as it's a posh rat.  Plus I can reassure the wife that we don't have a ghost as it's only the squirrel (scratching, scraping, scurrying, gnawing through wires making the lights flicker etc).

We had that, bastards chewed up 2 junction boxes. We then wasted spent too much money on a specialist pest firm. In the end I got a £12ish ultrasonic plug-in repeller from Homebase and put it in the loft on an extension lead - not a peep since!

[Cavcraft]

2 hours ago, paulplom said:

Want to lend my battery grinder?

Thanks, but I've got one and the battery went flat yesterday 1/5th of the way trying to cut through it! Now charged and ready for action. 

[Bren]

When did it become the norm to sell a car with only a couple of months MOT? Sorry but I'm not paying over a grand for something 14/15 years old with hardly any MOT. Years ago you could'nt get rid of a £500 snotter unless it had at least six months ticket.

[SRi05]

32 minutes ago, SRi05 said:

Some arsehole managed to partially block the extremely tight entrance to my works car park this morning with their cuntish parking and I managed to nick the side of the car on the wall coming in ? very light scrapes just above the rear wheel arch. Managed to buff most of it away just with a wet cloth, wee bit of T Cut should sort it. Fucking raging with myself though, never bumped a car in 10 years driving yet ! And typically I do it to one that has mint bodywork.

FUCK YOU WALL 

[xtriple]

That's a complete bastard, always the way though trying to compensate for some other twat being a, er, twat!

 

In other news, after a sleepless night with the royal shitbag, he is now fast asleep under the duvet and snoring hapilly. I on the other hand feel like death as wondering around at 6:00 am with a dog in the freezing cold and rain whle wearing just a 'T' shirt and tracky bottoms is not condusive to god health. Off to sleep in a minute... I hope.

[New POD]

28 minutes ago, Bren said:

When did it become the norm to sell a car with only a couple of months MOT? Sorry but I'm not paying over a grand for something 14/15 years old with hardly any MOT. Years ago you could'nt get rid of a £500 snotter unless it had at least six months ticket.

Just ask if you can make the sale conditional on passing an MOT which you are present at.

Watch them panic.

[New POD]

Them speed awareness courses don't work.  I got done for speeding 6 weeks after attending one. DOH.

 

[Mally]

4 hours ago, Richard said:

What are the speed limits for van-derived cars?

Van derived cars, limits are exactly the same as a normal car.

But be sure that your van is derived from a car.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/car-derived-vans-and-dual-purpose-vehicles/car-derived-vans-and-dual-purpose-vehicles

 

 

[SRi05]

36 minutes ago, xtriple said:

That's a complete bastard, always the way though trying to compensate for some other twat being a, er, twat!

 

In other news, after a sleepless night with the royal shitbag, he is now fast asleep under the duvet and snoring hapilly. I on the other hand feel like death as wondering around at 6:00 am with a dog in the freezing cold and rain whle wearing just a 'T' shirt and tracky bottoms is not condusive to god health. Off to sleep in a minute... I hope.

20 minutes of scrubbing has it looking 99.99999% better, hopefully the polish can tidy up the more heavy scuff a bit, I do know someone who has a bodyshop but won't have a free day for weeks 

[paulplom]

Tapatalk has stopped letting you post pictures unless you go premium. Cunts.

Sent from my SM-G975F using Tapatalk

[LightBulbFun]

7 minutes ago, paulplom said:

Tapatalk has stopped letting you post pictures unless you go premium. Cunts.

Sent from my SM-G975F using Tapatalk
 

I dont use tapatalk

but I did notice that when you uploaded a picture using them, the picture was/is uploaded to a tapatalk server then embedded into the post as an external image

said image is not actually uploaded to autoshite!

so should Tapatalk go bust or pull a Photobucket on us, a shit load of threads are going to be screwed!

its one of the reasons why, if im quoting someone's something invacar related in my thread and I see the image in their post is from an external source, ill download the image, then reupload it directly to autoshite

that way A I have a copy on my computer, and B should that external source go pop, the image is still kept alive because iv uploaded it directly to autoshite  

so yeah, be weary of how you upload photos because you might not actually be uploading them to Autoshite and you dont know it!

[Bren]

1 hour ago, New POD said:

Just ask if you can make the sale conditional on passing an MOT which you are present at.

Watch them panic.

And have an attack of the shits. Surprising how many people want cash money for something with no life left in it.

[Lord Sterling]

13 hours ago, Lord Sterling said:

Fuck sakes.

I'm fed up of this.

May have to sell my BMW to raise the rest to send my wifes Visa. I didn't want to sell it but hey ho. It's come to this....

Well, I've managed to raise most of it without having to sell the BMW! A bit more and I can send the visa! 

[Cord Fourteener]

Still dont know what tapatalk is or why i would need it... Not sure I'm interested now!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Just now, Lord Sterling said:

Well, I've managed to raise most of it! A bit more and I can send the visa!

Has entry clearance already been granted, or are you merely being asked to provide more evidence of meeting the maintenance requirement?

[Lord Sterling]

1 minute ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Has entry clearance already been granted, or are you merely being asked to provide more evidence of meeting the maintenance requirement?

No. The visa hasn't actually been submitted yet. I am due to submit it in the next few days after my solicitor has verified that it has all the evidence required. I have all the evidence up to date etc.... but I need to send it before November gets on as I may not have another pay check for then.

[gm]

strange behaviour from the radio in the civic yesterday - I was enjoying a relaxed drive back form Edinburgh, chilling out with 'the orbs adventures beyond the ultraworld' playing on the stereo - as I was passing Berwick, the radio went crackers and started turning itself off and on again every ten seconds. I turned the volume down and ignored the display flashing on and off, ten minutes later it was back to normal and played fine for the remainder of the journey. 

any thoughts on what that was all about ?

[The Moog]

strange behaviour from the radio in the civic yesterday - I was enjoying a relaxed drive back form Edinburgh, chilling out with 'the orbs adventures beyond the ultraworld' playing on the stereo - as I was passing Berwick, the radio went crackers and started turning itself off and on again every ten seconds. I turned the volume down and ignored the display flashing on and off, ten minutes later it was back to normal and played fine for the remainder of the journey. 
any thoughts on what that was all about ?

Is there any time missing? Do you feel probed? If so I blame aliens..

[Tadhg Tiogar]

1 hour ago, Lord Sterling said:

No. The visa hasn't actually been submitted yet. I am due to submit it in the next few days after my solicitor has verified that it has all the evidence required. I have all the evidence up to date etc.... but I need to send it before November gets on as I may not have another pay check for then.

Ah, OK so. That makes things a bit clearer. I had to assist a couple of clients with something similar recently; one was granted entry clearance, whilst the other was permitted to switch status.

[3VOM]

19 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

I know, I'll go to my garage to get some info off a bike that's someone's asked me about. But I won't will I AND why not, I hear none of you ask?

 

BECAUSE THE COUNCIL HAVE PUT ANOTHER FUCKING LOCK ON IT. FFS!

Get practising so there's no visible damage

 

[Mally]

4 hours ago, New POD said:

Them speed awareness courses don't work.  I got done for speeding 6 weeks after attending one. DOH.

 

Did work then.

Kept you 3 points further away from a ban.

[MikeR]

lego shaped balls , on meds , cant drink ... can it get any worse ?

[MrDuke]

Why do 'modern' keep-fit windows have such low gearing? I could drop a front window in the Dolomite with 1.5 turns - when I pull up to a ticket machine in the C*rsa, I'm pumping away furiously as the glass slides down slower than a stoned snail.

[anonymous user]

19 hours ago, Tim_E said:

We have rodents in the attic. 

Is that all? I have a dragon in the living room, it's not a problem though as the bear and the shark keep him in order.

 

 

 

I'm really not sure about that last batch of anti-depressants.

[hairnet]

6 hours ago, Lord Sterling said:

Well, I've managed to raise most of it without having to sell the BMW! A bit more and I can send the visa! 

diesel or suitcase

sorry  - make life better fcuk beemer off