The grumpy thread

[myglaren]

Left a 20L tub of white emulsion that I had been using at my daughter's in the boot.

Opened the boot after taking the car to my son's.

Emulsion still in the boot, just not in the tub where it was supposed to be

Good thing I have a wet-vac.

 

 

[BertiePuntoCabrio]

Silly Tempra.... 

So, after getting the replacement steering rack fitted, tracking done, ordered a few bits that will be needed for upcoming mot pass (yeah right) and then spending hours on hold to get the insurance transferred over...   

What a lovely idea to take said Tempra to work for the first time tomorrow.....

Go to get him out of the garage ready for my 4.30am start in the morning...   

Flat Battery!!!

Ho Hum.

Battery now on charge.

Maybe next week.

Poo, been looking forward to this for days.....

[RayMK]

30 minutes ago, BertiePuntoCabrio said:

Silly Tempra.... 

So, after getting the replacement steering rack fitted, tracking done, ordered a few bits that will be needed for upcoming mot pass (yeah right) and then spending hours on hold to get the insurance transferred over...   

What a lovely idea to take said Tempra to work for the first time tomorrow.....

Go to get him out of the garage ready for my 4.30am start in the morning...   

Flat Battery!!!

Ho Hum.

Battery now on charge.

Maybe next week.

Poo, been looking forward to this for days.....

Cars can be such ungrateful bar stewards. Any photos of your Tempra?

[BertiePuntoCabrio]

17 minutes ago, RayMK said:

Cars can be such ungrateful bar stewards. Any photos of your Tempra?

It's quite well known on here. If I can ever get the bugger out of the garage, I will be able to wash it at last and take more photos!

(Must update my thread with this and the Suby-Roo too)

[wuvvum]

The Tempra does flatten its battery if left for a few weeks - I reckon it's the aftermarket immobiliser which is the issue.

[jakebullet]

The Mrs. has gone batshit crazy because the free wifi in her flat isn't working properly, and therefore her alexa speaker won't work. Won't listen to me or do any diagnostic checks or walk 6 foot to reboot alexa. Instead has come up with the brilliant* scheme that she's not going to pay her rent, and will claim she's not paid because the free wifi is shit and she can't pay it.

Great plan love. I'm sure they don't accept cheques or direct debit or however the hell you've been paying for the last 20 years. But if you'd like to make yourself homeless in protest about something that's free instead of phoning the internet helpline to report a fault go right ahead.

[xtriple]

Been looking at cars of late (who, to be honest, hasn't?) and I am dismayed and angered by the prices being asked which seem to have gone up rather over the last few months when I would have expected them to go down what with folks being skint and the world at large being in a 'bit of a pickle'. Also, the MOT check thing is an eye-opening experience, the amount of cars that look mint and yet had years of welding done to them in the effort to keep them on the road. It seems my attempt to find a nice Jaguar XKR (convertible for preference) is doomed to failure  

[Jamie]

webuyanycar.

yes, im quite aware they are shitehawks, but not quite as ruthless as i imagined.

Wife had an 18 plate mini cooper, nice thing from brand new, had covered 18,000 miles, its been parked up for almost a year due to it going over its PCP mileage, i since bought her a TT to use whilst she wasnt using it for work anymore. 

couldnt hand it back til next July so thought i'd see what WBAC offer. £10775, being the finance outstanding is £11,400 i said sod it , ill pay the 700 difference (minus their £75 'admin' fee) And get shut.

 

Go to the branch, bearing in mind i've minted it to death, touched up the tiniest of stone chips, they come out with the clipboard 'yes sir, this bonnet is stone chipped, it requires a full respray... well, no it doesnt but ok.  Passenger wheel is kerbed (around 1 inch long) requires full refurb, rear wheel also the same same amount of kerbage - requires full refurb. Smallest scratch on inside of bumper from removing sometihng from the boot (which cant be seen when boot is closed) Rear bumper requires full respray... that means we can now offer you £9300. 

I politley tell  the guy to fuck off, and grab the logbook and walk out. 'oh, let me see what we can do, what were you hoping for?' erm, 10775 mate, its not even wear and tear, if i'd have taken it back to enterprise , they wouldn't have even marked anything down on the sheet, i was looking for at least £10,500. He comes back with £10,100, which is still £1300 to pay but rather than sitting around another 10 months like a mug, i paid the man and walked off muttering obscenities under my breath. at least its gone 

[Spiny Norman]

The Covid MOT extension has been a mixed blessing. A lot of cars you see for sale now have them and given the current attitude of the average motorist towards actually servicing and pro-actively looking after their cars, I suspect a lot of 10 year old cars will be heading towards the scrapyard or banger track in the next month or two.

 

[BertiePuntoCabrio]

6 hours ago, wuvvum said:

The Tempra does flatten its battery if left for a few weeks - I reckon it's the aftermarket immobiliser which is the issue.

Yes I had completely forgotten about that @wuvvum However it has not done it with me before. I will remember to pull the battery lead in future.

Ok, it must be silly me not silly car in this instance

 

 

[Parky]

Need to apply for a different visa for NZ because Covid, etc.  Need to send certified copy of passport for said visa.

At the moment I have a certified copy of my passport but no fucking passport.  Somewhere on the quarter mile walk from solicitor to Car I have dropped it.  So that’s a few lost weeks awaiting a replacement as if time wasn’t a little tight anyway.

I have never, ever lost an important document in my life ever.  I have been all over the world and haven’t misplaced it.  One trip to Romford and it’s vanished.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

8 minutes ago, Parky said:

....  One trip to Romford and it’s vanished.

That's what Romford does to people 

[Parky]

Don’t I just know it, I am from there....I have stopped it as I really don’t want to be implicated in some massive drug caper

[Tadhg Tiogar]

21 minutes ago, Parky said:

Don’t I just know it, I am from there....I have stopped it as I really don’t want to be implicated in some massive drug caper

If you've lost your passport, it may well end up being used in the facilitation of illegal immigration. Thing is, which desperate migrant out there looks a bit like you, and when was the last time a Border Farce officer had time to check the face in front with the face on the page?

[Parky]

I am rather hoping that the border force man will scan it and discover it has been blocked.  I have reported it as lost and received an acknowledgement so hopefully that will help.

Either that or they might wonder why someone apparently born in Thurrock isn’t speaking with an estuary accent.  Quite right in what you say though, I don’t think any officers really check that closely so it might be in the hands of a kind lady intending to hand it into Romford Police, or it could be with dodgy Steve....

I was checked once in Schipol Airport.  The guy scrutinised the passport, looked at me, pursed his face and looked at the passport again.  Then back to me with a concerned look.  Just as I am starting to wonder what it’s like to have a Dutchman’s gloved arm up my arse, he hands me the passport, smiles, and says “Happy Birthday, enjoy Amsterdam!”  Where you can have a gloved hands up your arse any time you want.  Unfortunately I was there to meet three fund managers to discuss Emerging Market investment funds rather than experience anything unusual...

[Parky]

Actually yes I did.  A lady in the red light district was convinced I was a bad cop from The Bill.  She said she liked me as I was a naughty boy and she liked that.  I was apparently an excellent actor and she hoped to see me in more things.  

She then offered  me oral for fifty euros.  I told her I would only charge her forty.  At this point a major row broke out to my right as a Japanese man attempted to take photos of some of the women in the windows so I thought it was best to head back to my hotel.  

so yeah, I suppose that was a little unusual

[High Jetter]

I took a lot of effort to go to Romford, once. 1990s IIRC, to a well known music instrument emporium, after a particular synth. OOS, WAFT. Never been back.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

17 hours ago, Parky said:

.... “Happy Birthday, enjoy Amsterdam!”  Where you can have a gloved hands up your arse any time you want.  Unfortunately I was there to meet three fund managers to discuss Emerging Market investment funds rather than experience anything unusual...

Fund managers. That's a different type of hand up the arse.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

15 hours ago, High Jetter said:

I took a lot of effort to go to Romford, once. ...

Some people say they're from Romford, when in fact they're from Dagenham. The shame of it! 😂

[wuvvum]

I was supposed to be doing an oil and filter change on the Mondeo today.  Dropped the oil fine, went to extract the filter to find out that the housing has apparently been done up by a Kwik Fit monkey with an ugga dugga gun.  Breaker bar deployed and it eventually came undone.  Filter cartridge out, new cartridge out of the box and ready to go in.  Except that it's not the same cartridge.  It's the same diameter but much too short, the top is different and the opening at the bottom is much larger.  Googled the reference on the box and they've sent me a filter for a Mk5 Golf 1.6 FSI.  So not even close.  If it was a slightly different variety of Mondeo I might have understood, but that's just taking the piss.

So tomorrow I have to go traipsing round the motor factors of Norwich hoping somebody has the correct filter in stock, 'cos the car can't go anywhere without a proper oil filter.

[Borsuq]

Trying to watch Le Mans and I think Eurosport's definition of "Live and uninterrupted" coverage is somewhat off, because they're piling on commercials like nobody's business. To add insult to injury, they mostly keep advertising their online platform... which I'm already paying for to watch Le Mans on FFS.

[Jazoli]

1 hour ago, Borsuq said:

Trying to watch Le Mans and I think Eurosport's definition of "Live and uninterrupted" coverage is somewhat off, because they're piling on commercials like nobody's business. To add insult to injury, they mostly keep advertising their online platform... which I'm already paying for to watch Le Mans on FFS.

Yeah but its only 20 quid for the year, there's some good in car live streams on youtube, there's been some great WSB and BSB footage on there.

[Angrydicky]

1 hour ago, wuvvum said:

I was supposed to be doing an oil and filter change on the Mondeo today.  Dropped the oil fine, went to extract the filter to find out that the housing has apparently been done up by a Kwik Fit monkey with an ugga dugga gun.  Breaker bar deployed and it eventually came undone.  Filter cartridge out, new cartridge out of the box and ready to go in.  Except that it's not the same cartridge.  It's the same diameter but much too short, the top is different and the opening at the bottom is much larger.  Googled the reference on the box and they've sent me a filter for a Mk5 Golf 1.6 FSI.  So not even close.  If it was a slightly different variety of Mondeo I might have understood, but that's just taking the piss.

So tomorrow I have to go traipsing round the motor factors of Norwich hoping somebody has the correct filter in stock, 'cos the car can't go anywhere without a proper oil filter.

It’s only a Mk3 Mondeo, surely that motor factor in Stalham will have one? (Providing they’re still there, that is)

[wuvvum]

They might do, but I don't think they open on Sundays at the moment.  ECP in Norwich has them in stock as a last resort.

[Chas4545]

Had my day ruined today.  My in car video system got great video of a guy I see too often on a bike doing perhaps 80 to 90 mph flying past me  along the A44 near Worcester. I thought thats it, Ive got him. Thats going off to the police.

But he is hiding his number plate, folded up under his mudguard.

Then his mate  on BT17 YPM  followed him through,   a gap of perhaps 4 feet  between me and an oncoming car. Combined speed about 140 mph. It would not have been a crash, it would have been carnage. Or perhaps just a splash.

I just cannot dob anyone in though. Even though I am a veteran biker who detests this kind of selfish, uncaring, foolish riding, I just cannot do it. So, if anyone out there cares for either of these people, perhaps you should persuade them that

they need to get a honda cub until they realise they can and possibly will finish their own lives, or worse, ruin them.

Please, please, calm down

I am still shuddering at the thought of the impact which will inevitably happen one day.

[Talbot]

29 minutes ago, Chas4545 said:

I just cannot dob anyone in though. Even though I am a veteran biker who detests this kind of selfish, uncaring, foolish riding, I just cannot do it.

Why not?  When you consider not just the carnage they would cause to themselves or their friends/family, but also to the poor innocent sod they hit, it's far better to do something about it when you can than read about it in the newspaper three weeks later.

If I get cut up / tailgated etc. by a sign-written vehicle, I'll always call the company up and complain bitterly.  On one occasion the driver was fired, as apparently I was far from the first complaint regarding one particular arse.

After recent experiences on the road, I'm most definitely investing in a decent quality dashcam and will happily pass on footage of lethally dangerous drivers to the police and let them make a decision as to whether they consider it worth taking any further.  There's just no need for driving in a manner that's likely to kill someone.

[outlaw118]

So, the plan was that TEAM FAT AND BLIND were going to be going to Northampton next weekend to watch @Mally do his thing.

Not happening now as Stepson has dropped the bomb he's moving, so I'll be required to assist. Why his Dad can't help........ let's not go down that road.

Never mind, karma points etc.....

 

So, scanning through the Spedeworth fixture list I spy Ba**er Unlimited World Final for Saturday 3/10.

"Advance Tickets only", okey dokey.

 

FIFTY FUCKING QUID.

Scalping bastards. So, I won't be going to that then.

Fuck You Deane Wood.

[strangeangel]

1 hour ago, Chas4545 said:

Had my day ruined today.  My in car video system got great video of a guy I see too often on a bike doing perhaps 80 to 90 mph flying past me  along the A44 near Worcester. I thought thats it, Ive got him. Thats going off to the police.

But he is hiding his number plate, folded up under his mudguard.

Then his mate  on BT17 YPM  followed him through,   a gap of perhaps 4 feet  between me and an oncoming car. Combined speed about 140 mph. It would not have been a crash, it would have been carnage. Or perhaps just a splash.

I just cannot dob anyone in though. Even though I am a veteran biker who detests this kind of selfish, uncaring, foolish riding, I just cannot do it. So, if anyone out there cares for either of these people, perhaps you should persuade them that

 

 

I am also a biker, and I give zero fucks about the likes of these two oxygen thieves. In an ideal world they'll take no-one else with them when they go straight on into the celestial bend at 155mph, but the chances of that happening are slim at best. No, when they do go, if they don't kill someone else in the process, they'll ruin the life of the poor dude whose car they spread their guts all over the front of. Dob the cunts in.

 

[Pieman]

Agreed.  If your cam's got the number plate, police.

[myglaren]

Looks like granddaughter, who is with her brother currently living with me, has the inconvenientvirus symptoms.

It has been her birthday so she has been in contact with lots of people, despite her party being shelved due to the new restrictions.

Have a test booked for 11 in the morning.  Supposed to be meeting electricians at her house at about the same time - her mother is in hospital and I'm having some repairs done while she can't shout at me.

Bollocks

At least we got a quick test appointment only eight miles away.