The grumpy thread

[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.

[xtriple]

Oh yes, another effin' grump... I was behind a Vauxhall, an Astra or something, newish but not a 'big' car. I felt really intimidated by how bloody big it was! From behind I could see nothing ahead and being an ex biker, I always look well ahead, usually straight through the car in fronts windscreen/rear screen but I was far to low. Modern ordinary shit is ust so big and tall.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Someone in my road has bought a white Audi Q7.  Fuck me.  Bad choice.  Especially around here in winter...

[bramz7]

Every single one of my fleet at the moment freezes on the inside. 

Rover letting in water at the back window.

Volvo has a perished door seal

Subaru has those wonderful* pillarless doors which have no doubt had their body mounted window seals perish. 

Great fun scraping this morning. 

[barefoot]

19 hours ago, HillmanImp said:

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. 

The tailgate comes away from the frame at the top, if you open it, you can squeeze Captain Tolley's into the gaps on the inside & the outside. Capillary action,  you'll see it run along the joint until it finds the leak, then it'll all run into it. Leave the tailgate open whilst it dries & then do it again, and again, and again...

[Slowsilver]

18 hours ago, myglaren said:

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.

Cat litter works well but even when it is wrapped in tights material you will get loads of dust coming out.
Try putting some into a container, e.g. a margarine tub, with a lid on with some holes punched into the lid to allow the air in.
Works for me.

 

[TataBobu]

There is a cat litter that looks just like those silica gel you get a satchet of in a new pair of snickers. Use some of that cat litter to fill a pair of socks, and leave in the car.

[Lankytim]

House move DRAMA...

Our buyer HAS to move in by the end of this week, which after much juggling with holidays and getting a storage unit we can do, New house will be ready for mid February unless the likely happens and things go wrong. Fingers crossed. From Friday we'll be living with the wife's parents. 

 

To add to it all I had a call from a work college spoke to me yesterday. I work nights driving a shunter unit, moving trailers around a yard to be loaded and apparently they're getting rid of the warehouse night shift, so no pickers, no loaders, no office staff. Theyve all been put on consultation which is the first step to being made redundant. My transpirt managers says there's no word on how this will effect the drivers and shunters but if there's no loaded trailers to move and no office staff to tell me what to do I think it's pretty obvious.  Worse case scanario I lose my job while the family are in temporary accommodation and I wont be able to get a mortgage as I don't have a job/have a temp job/have a job that doesn't pay enough, but of course, they "haven't announced anything" 

FFS.  

[paulplom]

Wanker

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[5speedracer]

I have just made an effort to eat properly (not something I do often, or indeed, ever) and cooked a cheese and onion omelette all chopped and whisked by my own fair hand. All I can say is: the dogs enjoyed it! It was bloody awful, even by my standards, Now I remember why I don't cook 'proper' meals very often.
Get out of packet, microwave/George Foreman grill (often both) three minutes tops and Robert is your Aunts lovechild.

Aah, the well known phrase "Bob's your cousin".

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[Wack]

16 hours ago, xtriple said:

Oh yes, another effin' grump... I was behind a Vauxhall, an Astra or something, newish but not a 'big' car. I felt really intimidated by how bloody big it was! From behind I could see nothing ahead and being an ex biker, I always look well ahead, usually straight through the car in fronts windscreen/rear screen but I was far to low. Modern ordinary shit is ust so big and tall.

Saw a mini behind a fiesta this week, the mini looked tiny in comparison , the fiesta is bigger than a mk 3 escort 3970 x 1640

New fiesta  4068 × 1735