The grumpy thread

[Fumbler]

Fuck this heat. I think I'll go mad if it's like this for the next predicted 4 or so days, even with the thunderstorms.

 

[paulplom]

6 minutes ago, Supernaut said:

Aaaah.

My parents have a C3 Picasso and the mirrors on that just fold in when you lock it.

Very posh!

You had to press a button on my '55 v70 as well.

[Borsuq]

37 minutes ago, Supernaut said:

Was it folded in?

It was not. They don't fold in automatically when you lock the car, you actually need to press a button.

[GMcD]

39 minutes ago, paulplom said:

Very posh!

You had to press a button on my '55 v70 as well.

Same, bad design in my opinion (but then I know nowt).  You can't give a courtesy glance in the mirror before you jump out as your too busy flicking the button. 

[Mally]

There are  ways to make at least some of them, from push button to auto fold,

I  looked into it when I changed from C4 Picasso (auto fold) to Alhambra (push  button).

Must have been difficult, I never bothered doing it.

[LostnotFound]

Last week we had an Ice Cream van stop outside for the first time in the 3 years we've lived here. Didn't have time to nab one then but stuck a tenner on the fridge in prep for next time.

Since then not a sausage, even when it's just under the temperature of the sun, I'm worried I've been affected by the heat and it was actually just a mirage.

[CortinaDave]

its my birthday, and its been crap. Missus is in Aberdeen which is now back in lockdown so I got a short and very cold facebook message last night saying she wasn't a rule breaker so id have to have my birthday some other time. She hasn't even phoned today.

Supposed to be off work but got called in because theres been an Internet meltdown and when I went to get in the car I saw a huge nail in my front tyre.

Worst birthday ever.

[Borsuq]

2 hours ago, Mally said:

There are  ways to make at least some of them, from push button to auto fold,

I  looked into it when I changed from C4 Picasso (auto fold) to Alhambra (push  button).

Must have been difficult, I never bothered doing it.

Yeah, it's like that on my dad's Auris. You can disable autofold and have it button only, which we do for winter in case the mirrors ice over and break cogs trying to unfold. I'm not aware of a way to make the Civic fold its ears automatically. That said, the mechanism isn't very robust to begin with so I'm not sure it could take heavy use for very long anyway.

[High Jetter]

3 hours ago, LostnotFound said:

I'm worried I've been affected by the heat and it was actually just a mirage.

Was it a Mitsubishi?

[Fumbler]

5 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Was it a Mitsubishi?

It was marketed to change perceptions...

[GMcD]

3 hours ago, CortinaDave said:

its my birthday, and its been crap. Missus is in Aberdeen which is now back in lockdown so I got a short and very cold facebook message last night saying she wasn't a rule breaker so id have to have my birthday some other time. She hasn't even phoned today.

Supposed to be off work but got called in because theres been an Internet meltdown and when I went to get in the car I saw a huge nail in my front tyre.

Worst birthday ever.

Ouch! Deffers worthy of a rant!☹️

 

[TataBobu]

29 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Was it a Mitsubishi?

Or maybe a Dassault?

[myglaren]

14 hours ago, Borsuq said:

It was not. They don't fold in automatically when you lock the car, you actually need to press a button.

I have found that.

I have also found that I invariably forget.

[MrDuke]

The Citroen Relays at work are notoriously unreliable (and just generally horrible to drive in every single way), but this week they really excelled themselves.

Backtracking to 6 weeks ago, one of the Lutons had been jumping out of 2nd with increasing regularity, to the point that you had to hold the shifter in place until you could use 3rd. One day in the depths of rural Kent, while in 2nd, it uttered a loud bang and proceeded to empty its gearbox of oil (fortunately we were about to park up anyway). RAC patrol arrived and surmised that the 'box did in all probability have a fairly big hole in it. Oh well, off it goes to Citroen for a new 'box.

Ffwd to this week, and I've been in the very same van since Tuesday. Except it can't be the same van, can it? Because whenever I put it in 2nd, it makes a horrible knocking noise and the shifter jumps halfway out. Must be another one with the same issue, right?
On Thursday afternoon, I'm cruising homewards on the M25 when I hear a weird whining noise, which becomes a rattling hum, which becomes a loud grinding. I start to make my way towards the shoulder, when I notice that it really doesn't want to change gear. As I get off the carriageway, it utters a mahoosive bang, and starts sounding like a large bag of hammers inside a washing machine. It's only dribbling a bit of gearbox oil, probably because most of the oil is spread along 2 miles of the outside lane.

When I eventually get back to the yard, the supervisor confirms that it is indeed the same van that had a "new gearbox" 6 weeks ago. I don't even want to imagine what his conversation with the dealership sounded like.

The directors have (reliably) promised us that they will be replacing the fleet with either Transits or Sprinters in the next month or so, which explains the very shiny demonstrators that have been parked in the yard for the past few days. Every cloud, I guess...

[djoptix]

Bloody Microsoft.

• Server 2019 has this stupid issue where the file explorer windows don't have a border. It means that if you put one window on top of another, you can't see where the edge is. Infuriating.
  I eventually found a window shadow preference to turn on (I say "turn on", the box was already ticked, but I had to click "apply" without changing anything else). Then the shadows appeared. I could have had the borders (like every other fucking OS in the world since 198? has) but I would have had to REINSTALL THE SERVER.
• Outlook won't let you select more than one folder of emails to drag to elsewhere. I have well over 2000 folders of emails to move from the old server. I'm going to have to drag them one by one.
• Outlook can't deal with .mbx files, I have to use a third party converter to get them to .pst (which doesn't seem to achieve anything apart from doubling the file size).
• Outlook won't import ITS OWN .PST FILES if there are more than 512 messages in a folder. More than 512 messages? Sorry, unspecified error, but you've definitely only got 512 messages in that folder. But we won't tell you that, you'll have to work it out yourself. FFFFFUUUUUUUUCCCCKKKKKKKK

HOW DOES ANYONE LIVE LIKE THIS

[High Jetter]

In Windows, you can't see the Edge? I'm sticking to 7 and chrome.

[dean36014]

Spent ages rebuilding the passenger door of my c15 van. New lower door skin, and most of the bottom quarter of the door frame itself. Painted it and other than a little wobble it didn't look half bad. Today, nipped round a mates to collect some tools I'd lent him. Car parked outside his house, wheels up kerb. Drinking a coffee and there's a big bang in the road outside. Woman reversed off her drive at a fair rate of knots straight in the side of my van. Newly rebuilt door is now all caved in. Pissed off isn't the word. If I claim on her insurance it will likely get written off, so I'll see if any cash is forthcoming. 

[Volksy]

Can you not insist on her insurers repairing it? 

[dean36014]

Will still have to declare it on renewal. It's not worth the hassle. Have offered to take a cash payment. It's just another dent after all

[PhilA]

[Talbot]

5 hours ago, dean36014 said:

. If I claim on her insurance it will likely get written off,

Remember though, if you claim directly from her insurers (IE not through your own) then even if they decide to give you the write-off value of the vehicle, they have absolutely no claim to it, so you get the cash and by default keep the vehicle.  I'm not even sure that they can add it to the database of written-off vehicles, as you have no contract with them, so they are not able to do anything that relates to your vehicle.

Obviously if the dizzy woman who bashed into it coughs up a decent amount of cash then it's no concern, but if she starts being obstructive about it, claiming directly from her insurance shouldn't see you having problems for the next millennia.

[iainrcz]

Arsehole kids.

Not a fucking sausage all day.

I sit down to watch TV, the little shits come running out to scream and shout like it's 12 in the afternoon.

 

Piss off.

 

Anyone noticed I don't like children?

 

 

[High Jetter]

You're not cooking them right.

[Pieman]

Catapult and a few stones.

[ETCHY]

On 8/7/2020 at 5:02 PM, Borsuq said:

The mirror on the Civic is power folding, hence the cost. I actually hate that function in cars. It's pointless and makes mirrors stupidly expensive and more fragile.

I don't get all this power folding mirror crap either. I just fold ours in by hand if we're parking somewhere it could get whacked.

Toys are nice when a car is brand new but a pain in the arse most of the time thereafter as it's just more expense if something happens/breaks.

[Dabooka]

Just now, ETCHY said:

I don't get all this power folding mirror crap either. I just fold ours in by hand if we're parking somewhere it could get whacked.

Toys are nice when a car is brand new but a pain in the arse most of the time thereafter as it's just more expense if something happens/breaks.

My Cougar takes it even further, by not folding in by hand either.  That's really fucking convenient when backing in to a poxy wide council garage.

[Tenmil Socket]

On 8/6/2020 at 5:21 PM, paulplom said:

Kicked the corner of the settee and it bent my big toe nail back.

It's throbbing LF and now starting to bleed. Whisky may be required.

 

I caught one of my toes on the settee last week and ripped off a nail!

[Tadhg Tiogar]

20 minutes ago, Dabooka said:

My Cougar takes it even further, by not folding in by hand either.  That's really fucking convenient when backing in to a poxy wide council garage.

Imagine how Vauxhall Vectra Mk.1 owners must feel...

[ETCHY]

3 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Imagine how Vauxhall Vectra Mk.1 owners must feel...

Yeah I never thought of that. I wonder if they're the same on DW's Vectra as his is a later one ?

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Just now, ETCHY said:

Yeah I never thought of that. I wonder if they're the same on DW's Vectra as his is a later one ?

I think he had a moan about the mirrors, so it sounds like they're the same!