The grumpy thread

[Lord Sterling]

12 hours ago, Parky said:

Read a stat this week that suggested men, confronted with financial worries, family issues, stress, and fear of failure hit their lowest point in their lives aged 47.2 years old.  

I've almost definately reached that point already and I am 10.2 years younger. 

[Timewaster]

47.2? That's next summer for me. 

Just about when the real consequences of B***** become all too apparent. 

 

Paranoia of losing my job (mainly due to imposter syndrome) is already strong. 

 

Not looking forward to this one bit.... 

 

[paulplom]

22 hours ago, Parky said:

Read a stat this week that suggested men, confronted with financial worries, family issues, stress, and fear of failure hit their lowest point in their lives aged 47.2 years old.  

That’s nice.  That’ll be me in May.  At least it means things will start getting better from June onwards!

I'm past that stage now thank god. I'll be 48 in June.

[New POD]

20 hours ago, MikeR said:

I am 10 years past that , the upside is the kids leave home and the utility bills drop ....

then your body goes tits up .. 

just waiting to lose a dodgy kidney and its mate ,  Lurker the lump .

on a even better side , her indoors has taken off to Liverpool on the trains ...peace and quiet for 4 hours ..

No !  the trains are off ..planned engineering again , bloody things should be perfect by now  !

so its a replacement bus service ....... 

but the traffic  lights are out on the one and only main road ..  which means later on  ...

the buses will be in the traffic jam that is building as more people wake up and travel out

At the moment driving kills my back thanks to Lurker , and I will be  off on a rescue mission in the car to get her indoors ...

tonight I will have a bad back , headache .... but the Dr said I should be ok as I should not be able to feel anything , which her indoors believes .....

for some strange reason I dont believe him

 Do you want to borrow the omega ? I can't say you won't have pain, but got to be more comfy than a mk1 focus? 

[hairnet]

very nice galaxie conv on overhaulin

they do nice paint interior and custom bits and bobs then put them god awful (mostly 5 spokes) on them

fuuuuuuck off

[HillmanImp]

Fuxake. I can't see any water getting in and cant find any dampness anywhere but I'm steamed up still after pouring a kettle full of water over the tailgate. 

[High Jetter]

Not just condensation, is it? Sun warming the cold air that's against the glass?

[HillmanImp]

1 minute ago, High Jetter said:

Not just condensation, is it? Sun warming the cold air that's against the glass?

Maybe. I might be overreacting. 

[High Jetter]

You could try parking the other way round - see if it forms on the front screen instead of the rear.

[NorthernMonkey]

On 1/18/2020 at 12:37 PM, Mally said:

Cheers Tim, it's a bit too far though, Stoke istadium is closed as well so I'll pass.

I have an empty flo gas, 19kg. but my local place only has 13kg and won't swop.

I'm looking out for a calor, 13 or 19, but don't really need one now Summer* is almost here.

I’ve plenty kicking around up here in sunny Burnley...let me know which size you’d prefer and I’ll put one on the side for you. Might even be able to drop it off when I’m heading towards the M62 one day ?

[mitsisigma01]

Do you moisture trapped in a dark orifice! 

Or in your underfelt, take out what carpets and trims that you can, dry em out on the central heating indoors, mop up as much as you can in the car, drive for hours with heaters on full blast and windows open, allow interior to cool down before closing up for the night. 

Get up in the morning to find exactly the same... Buy petrol and a box of matches, stand well back. 

 

Could just be condensation, it's a bitch this time of year ?

[xtriple]

My car is getting condensatiion as well, no leaks anywhere (just the idiot owner getting the boot carpet soaked putting a wet roof in it) so I have just bought a dehumidifier bag from Halfords - £6 and it's HUGE. It doesn't take a lot of moisture in a car to get condensation at this time of year - damp carpets from wet feet is often enough and then warm air in the car meets cold air outside and your' in business.

I've ordered two more from eBay as well for the same price,I will report on efficiency (or lack of) asap. I can catagorically state that apart from a bunch of Chinese immigrants crowding around the car, two sachets of rice does nothing to stop condensation.

I;m not racist either, honest!

[Craig the Princess]

Changing the pollen filter made a massive different to the condensation affecting Mrs the Princess's Panda.

[Mally]

1 hour ago, NorthernMonkey said:

I’ve plenty kicking around up here in sunny Burnley...let me know which size you’d prefer and I’ll put one on the side for you. Might even be able to drop it off when I’m heading towards the M62 one day ?

Pm sent, thanks.

[cort1977]

22 hours ago, Wack said:

Thanks for trying , the UK GT comes with the performance pack which includes 6 pot brembo brakes , ford say the UK GT was never designed to have a spare wheel so they don't make one , the only one on the market appears to be the automotive authority one at £579 

Is it a standard ford PCd?  Any pick up truck wheels available? Rock auto?

[myglaren]

1 hour ago, xtriple said:

My car is getting condensatiion as well, no leaks anywhere (just the idiot owner getting the boot carpet soaked putting a wet roof in it) so I have just bought a dehumidifier bag from Halfords - £6 and it's HUGE. It doesn't take a lot of moisture in a car to get condensation at this time of year - damp carpets from wet feet is often enough and then warm air in the car meets cold air outside and your' in business.

I've ordered two more from eBay as well for the same price,I will report on efficiency (or lack of) asap. I can catagorically state that apart from a bunch of Chinese immigrants crowding around the car, two sachets of rice does nothing to stop condensation.

I;m not racist either, honest!

Fullers earth cat litter does the job - allegedly.

I bought a (very heavy) bag of it and placed some in a knicker-washing bag on the dashboard.

Son took the car to work, great, no condensation

 

Not so great, car full of bloody fine cat-litter dust, absolutely everywhere

Back to the drawing board it is then.  Should have been in nylons/tights.  The shops I frequent don't sell such items.

[xtriple]

Put fuel in the car - first time this year - and I'd noticed as I pulled in, the headline figure £1.24.9 per litre. So I'm busily pouring gallons of expensive propellant into the tank when I glanced at the gauge - £1.38.9! I was puting super unleaded in the bastard! 14 pence a litre more. Anyway, being the cool dude I am I just did a Gallic shrug (lit a Gitanes...) and carried on. I put £30 in and the gauge didn't even make it past a third full!

It's this I blame for my childish burst of acceleration a little later as I wanted to see how much difference it made to the performance (none).

[Wack]

55 minutes ago, cort1977 said:

Is it a standard ford PCd?  Any pick up truck wheels available? Rock auto?

Couldn't see anything on rock auto 

A few places advertise space saver wheels for the mustang but when you look further they're always 18" so for the EcoBoost or the american gt without the brembo brakes 

Size is 19" 9j ET 45mm , it's the rolling radius that's the problem because of the LSD 

I'm going to france for 2 weeks so am a bit concerned about only having a can of squirty foam 

I'll probably get some tyre plugs because £579 won't be happening 

[hairnet]

10 minutes ago, Wack said:

Couldn't see anything on rock auto 

A few places advertise space saver wheels for the mustang but when you look further they're always 18" so for the EcoBoost or the american gt without the brembo brakes 

Size is 19" 9j ET 45mm , it's the rolling radius that's the problem because of the LSD 

I'm going to france for 2 weeks so am a bit concerned about only having a can of squirty foam 

I'll probably get some tyre plugs because £579 won't be happening 

FLASH COONT

https://www.amazon.com/Aftermarket-19X7-5-5X114-3-finish-listing/dp/B07FQSC53T

would .co.uk be able to sort you out??

[Wack]

Close but no cigar , it'd need to fit in the spare wheel well , that with a normal 19" tyre would take up 1/2 the boot and probably kill us in a crash.

[Wack]

4 hours ago, HillmanImp said:

Maybe. I might be overreacting. 

Smoke tester , saw it on a car show, they filled it with smoke then looked for leaks in out rather than out in.

[richardmorris]

My Mercedes is doing a very good impersonation of a fish tank. Inches of water in the footwells and streaming water inside on the Windows. It’s either the screen or, more likely, the rubber seals around where the heater fan is mounted to the bulkhead.

 

it was so bad this morning, that the hubnut sticker fell off.

[xtriple]

Your Merc a CLK? If so, they have a drain under the scuttle trim that blocks up then all the water floods into the air box for the heater and pollen filter, kills the fan and leaks gallons of water into the footwells.

[HillmanImp]

29 minutes ago, Wack said:

Smoke tester , saw it on a car show, they filled it with smoke then looked for leaks in out rather than out in.

Funnily enough I saw them doing that on Wheeler Dealers the other day on their DB7. Good call. 

[Yoss]

4 hours ago, xtriple said:

I can catagorically state that apart from a bunch of Chinese immigrants crowding around the car, two sachets of rice does nothing to stop condensation.

I;m not racist either, honest!

I'm sure nobody has quoted this for a couple of weeks. Too soon? 

[Bren]

Another bastard cold. I get rid of one and get another. Always on the cards when your immune system is oppressed. And it's bastard freezing here.

[Wack]

6 minutes ago, Bren said:

Another bastard cold. I get rid of one and get another. Always on the cards when your immune system is oppressed. And it's bastard freezing here.

Me too 

Cancelled the pub last night because I could feel it coming on , by 9pm I was in bed with chattering teeth , feel like crap today 

[barmatt]

2 minutes ago, Wack said:

Me too 

Cancelled the pub last night because I could feel it coming on , by 9pm I was in bed with chattering teeth , feel like crap today 

I almost wish I was ill, seems like the only way I'll get any time off work soon.

[richardmorris]

54 minutes ago, xtriple said:

Your Merc a CLK? If so, they have a drain under the scuttle trim that blocks up then all the water floods into the air box for the heater and pollen filter, kills the fan and leaks gallons of water into the footwells.

No a w124. It’s always leaked, but this winter seems worse. I did have all the drains blown through the with a compressor a few years ago. I poured water over the screen this morning to clear the ice and instantly saw it appearing in the footwell. So it’s not the sunroof.

[Wack]

6 minutes ago, barmatt said:

I almost wish I was ill, seems like the only way I'll get any time off work soon.

You dont want this , some would call it man flu , it might not be proper flu but it feels shit enough.