The grumpy thread

[beko1987]

Take the front off, snip the wires going to that fuse and stick a car fuse line in there? 

[Rovorsche]

The last straw was deep seated anti-tamper screws, I have a bit to fit it but the access is too narrow to get at the screw.

Its old
It came from Halfords
The label on the bottom says it is only rated for batteries up to 70ah

[warch]

3 hours ago, AnthonyG said:

Was this road in Herefordshire by any chance? 

You used to get a physical bump in the car from the transition from the lovely Welsh road, with a surface like a billiard table, to the crappy cart track that was the English side. 
 

This was the A44, the main route to the Mid Wales coast....

I know it well (I went to Lampeter University) . This was between Welshpool and where I live near the Herefordshire border.

[Wack]

On 1/30/2020 at 6:15 PM, HillmanImp said:

Have been in touch with the company that supply the panels. 

They said they were surprised I wasn't happy as they send out about 3 sets per month with no complaints but did chuckle when I said I was surprised too when I opened the box and saw them. 

Anyhow I sent them my photos and got the offer of £10 to cover me sorting them out or a full refund. 

All in all, I wasn't happy with the panels but the suppliers were okay about it and it was an easy refund process. Just chalk it down to experience. 

They were ok about it because it's the law.

10 years ago I wanted a cam chain kit for a 4.0 jaguar , the chains were in short supply so I ordered one from a guy who was taking the piss on the price because he had stock.

1/2 an hour later Steve (mechanic) rang to say he'd found one locally and it'd be delivered in an hour for 2/3 of the price

So I rang back to cancel , this was at 10am 

Sorry it's been despatched 

In 30 minutes you've picked,packed and the courier has collected it 

Yes , if you want to return it there'll be a 20% restocking fee.

Right, you know that's illegal 

What 

I have 7 days to inspect the goods and return them under the distance selling regulations so I'll be doing that , if you dont refund in full I'll be contacting trading standards.

He just put the phone down.

1/2 an hour later he rings back , I've contacted the courier and managed to get them to divert the parcel to another customer so I can refund your payment.

Of course you have , twat 

[FakeConcern]

Daughter was home with C4 VTS this weekend so I gave it a wash and found someone has scratched it all around the boot lid with what I imagine to be a Stanley knife

Pics on this thread..

https://autoshite.com/topic/29249-c4-vts-now-belonging-to-daughter-no2/page/3/

Why are people such bastards?

[angle]

Jesus Christ. I know ECP are a running joke on here but a visit there to buy some oil at the end of a shitty week has nearly made me go full Michael Douglas in Falling Down. Its 15 minutes before closing and they've locked the front door. 

Actually no, they haven't, they've left it open but pulled the security shutter down a foot so you can open it two inches before it smacks into the shutter and everyone in the shop turns and looks at you.

A guy is jetwashing his BMW outside. 'They've closed it mate, there's a big queue and they want to be away at 4'. Not my problem. 'OK, I'll let you in the side'.

And he does. And the lady behind the till asks who's let me in. I tell her. 'Well Aaron can fucking well serve you then, can't he?'. Turns out 1-Series jetwash bloke is meant to be picking the orders but he's buggered off to clean his car leaving her to do everything. Whatever, let's take stock of the clientele. 

Three guys are there to perpetuate the joke, returning parts they've been given that are wrong (rear pads for front, shocks the wrong size etc). Another three are here to pick up click and collect orders as the girl points out their email says it won't be in stock until Tuesday. One man is here to pick up Eicher brake pads because the Brembo ones aren't in stock, except it turns out the Brembo ones are and the Eicher ones aren't. There's a lady buying Steel Seal because her car overheated and died yesterday and she's read on the internet this'll get it running again. The man in front of me is buying discs and pads. This is massively fucking confidence inspiring, as he's also buying screenwash and asking the lady behind the till how to use it. 

Anyway, as she goes to get his bits I ask her if I should just grab my oil of the shelf to save time, as its now five past four (it was a click and collect order). 'No, you'll only get the wrong one, I'll get it out the back'. She gets it out the back. Its the wrong one. I get it off the shelf. As I leave, she shouts after me 'next time, try and get here a few minutes before four!' I pick up a baseball bat, smash the store up, attack a gang member, survive a drive-by shooting, kill a nazi, blow up a building site and get shot by the police. 

 

 

And obviously I've just copied this across from where I posted it in THE WRONG FUCKING THREAD. 

[Craig the Princess]

5 minutes ago, angle said:

Jesus Christ. I know ECP are a running joke on here but a visit there to buy some oil at the end of a shitty week has nearly made me go full Michael Douglas in Falling Down. Its 15 minutes before closing and they've locked the front door. 

Ask @BeEP about ECP's ability to sell spark plugs ?

[New POD]

I note there is a GSF store just 300 yards from where I'm working in Derby.  So far they appear to be able to pick the right parts.  One oil filter.

[SiC]

35 minutes ago, angle said:

I know ECP are a running joke on here but a visit there to buy some oil at the end of a shitty week has nearly made me go full Michael Douglas in Falling Down. Its 15 minutes before closing and they've locked the front door. 

Whitby Road? 

I've never been to that branch and got out within at least half hour. Really, really slow and never enough people on the counter. I suspect most of the business is the couriered to garages and the shop front is kept minimal to minimise the costs & maximise profits. 

Avonmouth is just as slow and that's a massive warehouse. Usually have stuff that other branches don't. I suspect it's a distribution hub for them. 

GSF in Easton are usually quicker but have less stock. 

[angle]

38 minutes ago, SiC said:

Whitby Road? 

I've never been to that branch and got out within at least half hour. Really, really slow and never enough people on the counter. I suspect most of the business is the couriered to garages and the shop front is kept minimal to minimise the costs & maximise profits. 

Avonmouth is just as slow and that's a massive warehouse. Usually have stuff that other branches don't. I suspect it's a distribution hub for them. 

GSF in Easton are usually quicker but have less stock. 

Glad it's not just me then... 

I normally use GSF in Ashton but I needed to do the food shop and the Sainsburys in St Philips is open later. Obviously they'd sold out of half of what I needed though. 

[Kowalski]

I couldn't deal with all that bullshit. I use my local independent motor factors. Yes I pay slightly more but they are decent blokes with knowledge of actual cars and deserve to be kept in business. 

[New POD]

My local motor factor charges retail twice what traders with an account pay, so erm, I tend not to use them. 

They deliver to trade. 

 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

3 hours ago, FakeConcern said:

....Why are people such bastards?

Inbreeding?

[mitsisigma01]

Allegedly ECP trade accounts cannot use the discount codes that Joe Public can so it costs my mechanic more than me, but my mechanic can get his parts delivered. 

[Burnside]

After nearly 6 months, I've finally managed to locate some correct coloured panel's and interior trim for my Stilo SW at a breakers yard over Derbyshire.  After inspecting it on Saturday, I agreed to come back today and collect them in our Van. 

So get 10 mins up the road and first off the battery light starts coming on, pulled over but couldn't find any thing amiss. So carried on and thankfully despite the light staying on, no breakdown's. Reached the yard to find the doors and bumper pre removed, but the trim I wanted would still need to be removed by me. 

No problem, as I had brought my tool's. Goes to the scrap car. Looked inside and the excellent headlining I've spent the last 6 months searching for. Totally wrecked thank's to them picking the car up through the front windscreen with there forklift an hour before I got there! 

No matter though, bagged some others odds and ends which took an age to remove. Loaded up the Van, feeling cold and tired. Van thankfully starts and I put the heater on, expect now the heater packed in and that dam battery light still on. FFS.

[Zelandeth]

Just looked for the first time...bloody sodding hell audio books are expensive.  Won't be grabbing a few of those then.

[New POD]

7 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Just looked for the first time...bloody sodding hell audio books are expensive.  Won't be grabbing a few of those then.

Pod casts ? . Just found Castbox havent really used it, but seems free. 

[somewhatfoolish]

On 1/14/2020 at 8:57 PM, Cheggers said:

Been done, well worth a read (spoiler, he does the trip in a Ledbury Maestro).

He wrote a shite travelogue, about doing the you-ropean grand tour in a fucked Rolls Royce. Chuckles rather than belly laughs but it passed the time.

[Chas4545]

On 2/1/2020 at 4:31 PM, warch said:

What made me grumpy was riding my Trip to work and back yesterday,  specifically back. I thought I had finally lost my nerve it was that terrible. The bit inside Wales was fine thanks to decent surfacing and no potholes, the bit just over the border was actually horrific. I couldn't ride on the hedgeside due to washed out sections of road and big potholes, the centre of the lane was so built up with mud I couldn't safely ride on it or cross over it in places and the other side of the lane on the centreline was rutted, including a few ruts and potholes hidden by a cut price resurfacing job that actually made them impossible to see. This was a main road too, not a country back road.

When I finally got home after a bollock clenchingly scary hour or so riding I realised both front and rear tyres were coated with slimy road muck so the impression I had of having no grip whatsoever had been caused by me actually having no grip whatsoever. 

Ref the A44,  I agree with you completely.  You can report a whole stretch of road on the Hereford county council website. I regularly report the worst of the potholes, and often they do get done, badly. The A44  worcester to the Welsh border needs dragging into the 2020s, of that there is no doubt.

Take the time to write to Hereford CC as well, sometimes a letter explaining the danger to ratepayers works.  Worcs CC are responsible to around Knightwick.

[LostnotFound]

Found a one day music festival I really liked the line up of. Clicked tickets, seventy five quid.....

Fucks sake, when did Punk music become so far out of reach. Obviously a rhetorical question, 2002 is the answer.

[SRi05]

4 minutes ago, LostnotFound said:

Found a one day music festival I really liked the line up of. Clicked tickets, seventy five quid.....

Fucks sake, when did Punk music become so far out of reach. Obviously a rhetorical question, 2002 is the answer.

I paid £175 for two tickets for Guns N Roses last week, face value !

[LostnotFound]

3 minutes ago, SRi05 said:

I paid £175 for two tickets for Guns N Roses last week, face value !

Fuck me, I hope he turns up on time.....

As far as I'm aware Mr Rose and co have never made a thing of keeping prices down at shows that certain bands have on this bill I was looking at

[SRi05]

6 minutes ago, LostnotFound said:

Fuck me, I hope he turns up on time.....

As far as I'm aware Mr Rose and co have never made a thing of keeping prices down at shows that certain bands have on this bill I was looking at

Year or so ago I went to see Roger Waters at the Hydro, was just over £100 a ticket after "booking fees"

Few weeks or so later seen the Brian Jonestown Massacre at the Barrowlands do a 3 hour set for £15 ?

 

 

[myglaren]

Bloody fly tippers, this was just the tip of the iceberg.

Local industrial estate half buried in litter - drinks bottles and cans, food wrapping and plastic bags.

[Split_Pin]

The garage I have been using for 11 years can get to fucking fuck.

Booked the Audi about a month in advance for its MOT today, carefully telling the foreman that the car needed front dampers, ball joints and a replacement column stalk assembly, all parts supplied by me.

Got there today and the the whole MOT bay was in pieces.

The garage owner looked confused when I dropped off the Audi for its MOT and said that their new MOT station wouldnt be finished until the end of tue week, after which the DVSA needed to come and sign it off. This timescale was unspecified.

Whats more although the owner saw tye entry in the diary, the stupid foreman hadn't made a note of the work required. As their diary was full for weeks to come for non-MOT work, I was turned away completely. 

My words were something along the lines of 'this has fucked up my day's, before I took the keys and left.

Now the Audi is stuck at my parents, with no MOT after today and I'm not likely to get the time off again for months to take it to another garage to make roadworthy and legal.

I am considering selling it to Cartakeback as it is because together with the fucking stress I am having off my job, I simply cannot be fucked with the hassle.

Worst of all the garage owner didnt even say sorry or appear to give one fuck. Hes just lost my 4 cars worth of custom plis my parent's too. He's obviously doing well not to be bothered about this. 

[DVee8]

5 hours ago, LostnotFound said:

Found a one day music festival I really liked the line up of. Clicked tickets, seventy five quid.....

Fucks sake, when did Punk music become so far out of reach. Obviously a rhetorical question, 2002 is the answer.

What festival is this and where?

[Wack]

16 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Just looked for the first time...bloody sodding hell audio books are expensive.  Won't be grabbing a few of those then.

There's some good podcasts on bbc sounds 

The missing cryptoqueen is a good one , investigative documentary but interesting.

[ruffgeezer]

1 hour ago, Split_Pin said:

 

I am considering selling it to Cartakeback as it is because together with the fucking stress I am having off my job, I simply cannot be fucked with the hassle. 

 

 

Nooooooooo9!

[Split_Pin]

I have 2 potential buyers for it now, just waiting to hear back. 

[Fumbler]

And Grandmother FUmbler is back in hospital after dislocating her hip. Now she's in hospital, people have phoned out of concern, but most notably her friends have called and said that her driving is downright dangerous and they fear for their lives. We're not sure what to do now but we're certain she's lied or alterted the truth in some way about her exercise and physio, and this is further proved by the fact this has happened for the second time in a row. Normally, stuff like this doesn't happen at all! Anyway, she's in the hospital, going to be operated on tomorrow, cannot drive again but I'm sure she'll take it upon herself to rectify that...