The grumpy thread

[New POD]

3 hours ago, HarmonicCheeseburger said:

I am convinced at some point Welsh names was simply created by slamming a hammer onto a guys jolly roger and recording whatever he screamed out.

I have expressed a similar belief in a Welsh speaking pub in Llanberis and had to take my pint with me. 

[MikeR]

to quote the TV licensing bastards ... sorry the upright BBC ..

"To remain licensed, please set up a new Direct Debit. It’s quick and easy to do online.

Please take care of this straight away or we may be forced to cancel your licence

or pass your details to a debt collection agency. "

 

For a telly licence  ?  , that you can choose not to have !

I fucked off the DD as they liked to grab the dosh a month early , as is is not due till next week they KMA and wait for it ..

its about time they got reamed out by some commercial company that can run the place for a profit .

 

[Mally]

6 hours ago, New POD said:

 I'm afraid that I told the Doctor, to stop using the words potentially more sinister when they mean potentially cancer

That's the way I see it.  Some people would rather not though.

I found some doctors are quite blunt, whilst others hedge round the subject.

I presume they try to suss you out first to find your take on it.

[Saabnut]

13 hours ago, Mally said:

Does a camera know you are towing a trailer?

Some of the fixed cameras certainly can. I had 3 points and a £60 fine to prove it! Camera was just north of the border on the A1

[beko1987]

37 minutes ago, MikeR said:

to quote the TV licensing bastards ... sorry the upright BBC ..

"To remain licensed, please set up a new Direct Debit. It’s quick and easy to do online.

Please take care of this straight away or we may be forced to cancel your licence

or pass your details to a debt collection agency. "

 

For a telly licence  ?  , that you can choose not to have !

I fucked off the DD as they liked to grab the dosh a month early , as is is not due till next week they KMA and wait for it ..

its about time they got reamed out by some commercial company that can run the place for a profit .

 

I'm on the 'don't need one' list now, and part of where I keep the telly keeps this in mind too as it's the other side of the room to the sky/aerial point! 

I'm waiting for the knock on the door. Whick I won't answer... 

[3VOM]

18 hours ago, MrDuke said:

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.

Dolomite one is metal and can take the high gearing whereas newer stuff is plastic?

[xtriple]

Oh joy, 'tis raining again. That makes every day for weeks but today, just for a change it is also blowing a hoolie and the rain is coming down sideways! Once mre, neither dog while even stick their noses outside the door, glad Chester has got over hi bout of the shits or it really would be most unpleasant!  

I would go outside and check the car for damage but I can't be arsed to get dressed.

[somewhatfoolish]

3 hours ago, MikeR said:

For a telly licence  ?  , that you can choose not to have !

I fucked off the DD as they liked to grab the dosh a month early , as is is not due till next week they KMA and wait for it ..

its about time they got reamed out by some commercial company that can run the place for a profit .

 

It is; the licence is mal-administered by Crapita. If some administrative task is being badly done near you, it's probably being done by Crapita.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

FFS, what is it this time?!??

[somewhatfoolish]

Your hydraulics have morphed into an espresso machine?

[iainrcz]

Fucking rain

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[Zelandeth]

Well now I need to change one of the number plate lights on the van.

Cheers Captain Q3.  Stationary at a set of traffic lights and the idiot drove into the back of the van.  Apparently the 2.6 metre tall 2.3 metre wide white and blue box with no less than four brake lights were too hard for you to spot... Guessing something is bent about the vehicle that did it given the rate at which they fled the scene.

New number plate light is only £12, but that's not the point!

Though we all know that will actually be £24 as they won't match now so they'll both need to be changed...

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

39 minutes ago, somewhatfoolish said:

Your hydraulics have morphed into an espresso machine?

Worse. I think the coolant has turned to coffee and I can see a steam and leak from the water pump.

Not the birthday present I wanted:

 

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Oh dear gawd... The weather is showing itself to be the traditional pain in the arse I expected it to be. Swapped the master cylinder on the Discovery, rolled around on the wet floor under the car, bleeding the thing. The wind helped by blowing away the new master to booster seal, still in it's packet and that was never to be seen again. The test drive was taken, the car stopped. A glimmer of light in the damp darkness perhaps? No chance!

After that I removed the ABS block partially to access the shuttle valve part hidden under it in order to carry out a wiring modification to rid the dash of a few christmas lights. Upon removal I found traces of brake fluid on the shuttle valve itself. Poop. So after a trawl of the interweb I found a place that can supply two tiny rubber seals and 4 even tinyer circlips for £30! That's it... £30 or get it from the states!

Urgh... I tested the shuttle valves and they still work which is something I suppose, and as the block is letting fluid by I don't want to put my new valves on there (even though they've been sitting in the shed for 3 years) or they'll get ruined. So for now at least I'm inside in the warm sticking bits of wire together. 

I'll box the car up tomorrow and do the ABS block when the rings arrive and/ or I can be arsed. It's still raining.

 

[MikeR]

FFS , and it needs baking paper and a tray , might it spoil if I dont follow the instructions ??

 

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

I've just bunged them straight on the oven shelf and stuck a tray under to catch any crap that falls off. 80% success rate.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

22 minutes ago, BoggyMires said:

.... 80% success rate.

As high as that?

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

Well, I can be quite the shef you know...

[anonymous user]

9 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

As high as that?

Pretty sure it will be better than when my mother did them, it took us a while to convince her that you removed the polystyrene underneath before putting it in the oven. 

[Christine]

3 hours ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

FFS, what is it this time?!??

Horse    hoof print after its stepped in red paint?

[barmatt]

I noticed the o/s headlight on the Rover Asbo gti was at a jaunty angle last week so had a look to see what was up and all three of the retaining tabs have broken so it's just flopping around a bit and one tab is broken on the n/s too. I found a decent enough set on ebay with all tabs in tact for not much monies so ordered them.

You know what's coming next...........

 

 

My Frickin Hermes strikes again!.

I really wish I had the funds to start my own parcel delivery company where the workers didn't play football with parcels.

[Parky]

Well it looks like the Mini is dead.  Earlier this week the garage doing the work on behalf of the other parties insurer found the inner sill had rolled and owing to the type of steel used it can’t be straightened.  Basically involves stripping the thing to a bare shell and welding a whole new side in.

So they made an offer which was pretty derisory based on the Glass’s guide valuation and not accounting for any options, etc.  So I contacted my insurer as my policy has new for old within the first 12 months.  Firstly I was basically accused of making it up and they tried telling me I had to get my car (now in bits) to their repair shop five miles away.  After some tooing and froing they agreed that a major insurance firm with links to body shops probably had easier access to low loaders than a bloke in an office in London’s west end.  So they are arranging collection.

So now the car is in bits somewhere else, I have no flipping idea where.  I am slightly concerned though that the new place might try and fix it despite the previous one declaring it a total loss.  Not sure I would have any faith in it anymore to be honest.

Been told despite the other party admitting liability it may take 4-6 months to resolve.  Can you believe that?  They also believe that a 1 litre Corsa is a perfect replacement hire vehicle for a Mini Cooper so I told them to go away and think about it.  After all despite their arguments they couldn’t deny that the purpose of insurance is to ensure that the valid claimant is put back into the same position they were in pre accident, and sitting around with a shitty one litre Corsa while paying for a spec’d up Mini doesn’t seem to fulfil that.  

Honestly don’t ever let anyone crash into you.  I have lost so much time this week sorting this shit out

 

[Timewaster]

Fucks sake Parky, what do you need to do? 

Your insurers should have been chasing this and championing your case from the moment you got hit. 

 

My understanding is it is their car and their problem now. 

Ask them if they can give you the ombudsman's phone number?! 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

5 hours ago, Christine said:

Horse    hoof print after its stepped in red paint?

Coolant is confirmed fucked and probably best to replace water pump as well when flushing.

Great. Must arrange transporter, as not going to risk driving to Garage Dubois-Loizou even though only along the way at Friern Barnet.

[paulplom]

@Parky Go and see a solicitor. One of those that do all the chasing and fucking about for you. They then bill the other party. Where there's blame there's a claim.

[DeeJay]

9 hours ago, barmatt said:

I noticed the o/s headlight on the Rover Asbo gti was at a jaunty angle last week so had a look to see what was up and all three of the retaining tabs have broken so it's just flopping around a bit and one tab is broken on the n/s too. I found a decent enough set on ebay with all tabs in tact for not much monies so ordered them.

You know what's coming next...........

 

 

My Frickin Hermes strikes again!.

I really wish I had the funds to start my own parcel delivery company where the workers didn't play football with parcels.

Glue them back on with super glue and baking soda.

 

[Parky]

3 hours ago, paulplom said:

@Parky Go and see a solicitor. One of those that do all the chasing and fucking about for you. They then bill the other party. Where there's blame there's a claim.

Well interestingly despite having no physical injuries it would seem that the stress and trauma triggering a Crohns flare up and costing me two nights in hospital is worth pursuing.  I don’t see why not, none of that would have happened if it hadn’t been for fucknuts inability to drive on a damp road and ultimately vomiting blood in an ambulance while gasping Entonox on my way to hospital for a nine hour wait for morphine should be worth a little something.  

If my brother in law gets £1200 for a hairdresser just nicking his ear I think I should get something.  Normally I wouldn’t do anything like this but I have a personal injury firm on the case - I hasten to add the insurers encouraged me.  

The fact the other insurer has confirmed in writing that they are 100% accepting the blame should make this pretty easy you would have thought

[hairnet]

16 hours ago, Christine said:

Horse    hoof print after its stepped in red paint?

tony hart would kick ya head in

 

[hairnet]

tyre pressure monitors on 108

went to use it (first time yay)

got to main road light was on - no diff in steering and the m56 sliproad it went round fine

went to check them (regular even on cars cos on bikes its important)

down a little but not a lot

drove off light still on

motherfu........

looked in book and theres a button in the glovebox that resets it (!)

french merde - even simple ones are complicated

[Tadhg Tiogar]

17 minutes ago, hairnet said:

.............looked in book and theres a button in the glovebox that resets it (!)

french merde - even simple ones are complicated

VW Polo 6R has same arrangement. Very sensitive things, those pressure monitors.