The grumpy thread

[Mr_Bo11ox]

  M said:

  Mr_Bo11ox said:

fucking hell man. 'Maggie stole my milk' 'no she didnt' 'yes she did' 'well she showed the argies a thing or two' 'gordon brown, what a nob end eh?' 'Some lad on another forum about somthing completely different said XYZ, what a wanker' 'Retro-rides is full of clueless hipster tossers' 'yes it is' 'no it isnt'

 

Am I just becoming increasingly grumpy as I enter the second half of my 30's, or is this forum the fucking pits nowadays. discuss. Actually dont bother. Has anyone actually bought, sold, seen or worked on any interesting old cars lately? I know its a fucking fringe topic, but just out of interest, you know, let us know if you have done.

How about you putting up some pleasing anecdotes about your own endeavours on working on cars rather than complaining about others not doing so? You went on holiday, and the first post back was a similar grump to the one above - where were your holiday photos of all sorts of old cars?

 

You're a great contributer to this forum Bollox, but lately the contributions have been less, and of lesser quality, than what is expected, so don't be surprised if the rest of us don't post much about a "fringe" topic.

 

A fair point, I am guilty there, When I was on hols I took a fair few shite snaps but have not been arsed to post em up, i will do so in a 'money where mouth is' type arrangement.

[Station]

  Mr Lobster said:

The station is within the NEC I think. Or at least very close.

 

No I'm not!

[chaseracer]

  Station said:

  Mr Lobster said:

The station is within the NEC I think. Or at least very close.

 

No I'm not!

 

 

Sorry, wrong thread.

 

Ahem...

 

 

[The Moog]

Got a new shiny brake servo for Bernard for less than a third of what a Bedford specialist quoted me. It is NOS girling from sipson car spares (nice and shiny). Excellent but the mountin holes are slightly different. Enough to make it difficult to fit but not enough to be able to drill new holes

 

Will have to get a file tomorrow to widen holes..in between revising for a flipping exam on monday

[warren t claim]

Arse! It's only about 10 weeks to Xmas. This year I want a three pointed star as well as a 50 drum gift pack of John Player Special.

[seth]

  brammy777 said:

Sorry to change the subject here, but I really want to go to the NEC Classic car show next month, the one issue being travel! I can afford the ticket no problem, but it requires me to catch a train from Basingstoke to (I presume) Birmingham International, and Im not really sure if its worth the near two hour journey each way. I havent been to a show since the end of July now, so I am overdue this. Should I go? Is it walking distance from the NEC to the train station? I should probably find someone to go with....

 

The train is the best way to get to the NEC. We went to the show on the Sunday last year, drove to Coventry and parked for free about 100 yards away from Cov station. Our return tickets to Birmingham International were a couple of quid and it took about 10 minutes. You walk under cover from platform to show entrance in about 5 minutes. Contrast this to the stories we heard of TRAFFIC MAYHEM and the £10 or whatever that the NEC relieve you of to park and the train is a very good option.

[Station]

More selling woes - it's almost as if I'm attracting computer generated replies.

 

would you take a £1,000 cash?My Email Address: darren2611@hotmail.co.uk

 

I say yes, as I have a car up for 1200, and it's the most sensible offer I've had.

 

And then...

 

alrite sat navs saying your 4hours away so what would be your bottom line on astra as ive got fuel and that to pay for?My Email Address: darren2611@hotmail.co.uk

 

Tough shit, I say:

 

  Quote

I've already dropped it lower than I wanted, so I can't go any lower. Sorry!

I'd go 950 if you're serious about coming, paying the money, and then take it away, but I really can't go any lower. If you want any photos, just ask as I've had people walking off because there's a scratch were they didn't want it, offering 600 quid, getting offended because I said I wouldn't go any lower, and I don't want you to waste your time coming and then going away because you don't like it. I've sold a load of cars this year and just had 75% of the people getting offended because they've travelled from London expecting to leave with a car they paid half of what they agreed on before leaving.

I'll definitely take photos of the bad points for you and send them later.

 

I haven't heard from him since!

[Pillock]

Will you take £200, cos I've got a drink habit to pay for. And hookers.

[Polystratus]

  seth said:

  brammy777 said:

Sorry to change the subject here, but I really want to go to the NEC Classic car show next month, the one issue being travel! I can afford the ticket no problem, but it requires me to catch a train from Basingstoke to (I presume) Birmingham International, and Im not really sure if its worth the near two hour journey each way. I havent been to a show since the end of July now, so I am overdue this. Should I go? Is it walking distance from the NEC to the train station? I should probably find someone to go with....

 

The train is the best way to get to the NEC. We went to the show on the Sunday last year, drove to Coventry and parked for free about 100 yards away from Cov station. Our return tickets to Birmingham International were a couple of quid and it took about 10 minutes. You walk under cover from platform to show entrance in about 5 minutes. Contrast this to the stories we heard of TRAFFIC MAYHEM and the £10 or whatever that the NEC relieve you of to park and the train is a very good option.

 

Very useful tip Seth, thanks, Im planning to go for the first time, where you parked was that the station car park?

[seth]

  Polystratus said:

  seth said:

The train is the best way to get to the NEC. We went to the show on the Sunday last year, drove to Coventry and parked for free about 100 yards away from Cov station. Our return tickets to Birmingham International were a couple of quid and it took about 10 minutes. You walk under cover from platform to show entrance in about 5 minutes. Contrast this to the stories we heard of TRAFFIC MAYHEM and the £10 or whatever that the NEC relieve you of to park and the train is a very good option.

 

Very useful tip Seth, thanks, Im planning to go for the first time, where you parked was that the station car park?

 

We parked on Park Road. Its a bit one way like there so you come off the ring road following the signs to the station (under an office block), drive past the station and then straight over into Park Road which is a No Through road. I think there are parking restrictions on Saturdays but not Sundays.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

  warren t claim said:

Arse! It's only about 10 weeks to Xmas. This year I want a three pointed star as well as a 50 drum gift pack of John Player Special.

 

Ugh, thanks for reminding me I hate Christmas shopping, I'm rubbish at it. Even if I think I've bought something good, I'll watch the recipient open it and it'll have somehow become terrible while wrapped.

 

I once bought my mum a bunch of glass chickens. Seemed like a good idea at the time.

[Polystratus]

Thanks, I don't like parking at the NEC due to that parking charge, and would imagine the traffic would be a bit heavy due to Top Gear being on at the same time, and that MPH show, I know you get entry to that with the ticket but was told it was a bit chav/Barryboy.

[Guest]

I've sorted Christmas out in the petrol station shop for the last three years, one of the many advantages of spirits.

[dieselnutjob]

if the classic car show and the mph show are on at the same place at the same time and all on one ticket I might just go

[Station]

"Don't Stop Believin".

If I hear this ropey, rancid, dogshit balladry one more fucking time!

[mattblack]

The current Renault Clio TV ad... if you want me spunk large amounts of cash for your product, Mr Renault, at least make the effort to make a UK-specific ad. Not a badly dubbed 'generic' one with LHD cars on french plates...

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

This is my favourite 'generic international advert'. Pisspoor

 

[Guest]

This is the worst advert even before it is obviously dubbed:

 

"Mum, why did you turn into an Asian lady at the end?"

[Station]

That 207 advert!

 

"<--- Scotland"

 

"Scotland --->".

 

[dieselnutjob]

  dieselnutjob said:

if the classic car show and the mph show are on at the same place at the same time and all on one ticket I might just go

just looked at prices for tickets to MPH show

[CIH]

The Ford Apollo thread over there has cheesed me off. 2 semi-sarci posts, directed at no-one in perticular, and they're all winging their wrists. Someone tell them to reign their necks-in.

[Autoplas]

James Dyson

 

I have just read you have a £15m estate in Gloucestershire, a £3m French chateau and a house in Chelsea. I'm not bloody surprised because your dyson vacuum cleaners are hideously overpriced and are actually totally ****ing shit aren't they ?

 

Dyson number 1 - piece of plastic to hold metal tube onto vacuum head broke requiring repeated taping to hold the bloody thing together before entirely giving up the ghost. Lead spool randomly hauls the electric cable in whenever it feels like causing said lead to overheat. Despite the thing being cleaned and overhauled has all the power of a shagged out FSO Polonez. If it was some crap from China costing £50 you would kind of expect poor build quality, however it cost 250 freaking quid.

 

Give up with dyson 1, buy upright Dyson for further £250 (it has a 'revolutionary' ball like my Dad had on his wheelbarrow in the garden in 1975.....), brush head decides to stop working then decides to start working of its own accord. Two weeks later belt breaks which is going to cost about £50 to get fixed and leaves me to clear up the contents of the hoover it has just shit all over the living room carpet.

 

Rant over

[autofive]

  Autoplas said:

James Dyson

 

I have just read you have a £15m estate in Gloucestershire, a £3m French chateau and a house in Chelsea. I'm not bloody surprised because your dyson vacuum cleaners are hideously overpriced and are actually totally ****ing shit aren't they ?

 

Dyson number 1 - piece of plastic to hold metal tube onto vacuum head broke requiring repeated taping to hold the bloody thing together before entirely giving up the ghost. Lead spool randomly hauls the electric cable in whenever it feels like causing said lead to overheat. Despite the thing being cleaned and overhauled has all the power of a shagged out FSO Polonez. If it was some crap from China costing £50 you would kind of expect poor build quality, however it cost 250 freaking quid.

 

Give up with dyson 1, buy upright Dyson for further £250 (it has a 'revolutionary' ball like my Dad had on his wheelbarrow in the garden in 1975.....), brush head decides to stop working then decides to start working of its own accord. Two weeks later belt breaks which is going to cost about £50 to get fixed and leaves me to clear up the contents of the hoover it has just shit all over the living room carpet.

 

Rant over

 

dont want to piss off even further, but dyson invented that wheel barrow too

[Autoplas]

  autofive said:

  Autoplas said:

James Dyson

 

I have just read you have a £15m estate in Gloucestershire, a £3m French chateau and a house in Chelsea. I'm not bloody surprised because your dyson vacuum cleaners are hideously overpriced and are actually totally ****ing shit aren't they ?

 

Dyson number 1 - piece of plastic to hold metal tube onto vacuum head broke requiring repeated taping to hold the bloody thing together before entirely giving up the ghost. Lead spool randomly hauls the electric cable in whenever it feels like causing said lead to overheat. Despite the thing being cleaned and overhauled has all the power of a shagged out FSO Polonez. If it was some crap from China costing £50 you would kind of expect poor build quality, however it cost 250 freaking quid.

 

Give up with dyson 1, buy upright Dyson for further £250 (it has a 'revolutionary' ball like my Dad had on his wheelbarrow in the garden in 1975.....), brush head decides to stop working then decides to start working of its own accord. Two weeks later belt breaks which is going to cost about £50 to get fixed and leaves me to clear up the contents of the hoover it has just shit all over the living room carpet.

 

Rant over

 

dont want to piss off even further, but dyson invented that wheel barrow too

 

I hate you Dyson !!!!!!!

[Rusty Pelican]

See stacks of Dyson vacuum cleaners at the tip every time I go which is weekly lately , ive got a 29 year old Henry cleaner that still sucks fine , changed a cable and also the head unit coz the brush wore out , not bad for something used 2 or 3 times a week .

[Des]

I believe the early Dyson were UK made, quite good, and once a good rep was earned production moved abroad. So are probably Chinese made shit now. I've rebuilt a '70s Hoover upright for the missus, quite a low power motor, although seems to function just as well as any modern 20 Kw 400 BHP modern shit, only very quietly. Also has a headlamp, A feckin headlamp! Vacuum cleaner design has followed car design, all manner of features and specification to look attractive, but in reality are futile and pointless, designed primarily to be a lifestyle status trinket rather than of any fucking use.

[brammy777]

We have had a dyson for a few years, its got proper shit lately though! Refuses to pick up quite a lot. Still, its lasted better than the ones it replaced, including some horrific Electrolux contraption (the one they marketed as some amazing vaccuum back in the late 90s) which broke down more times than we used it. Maybe a Henry hoover is the way to go, they are great things.

My grump is that i knelt on a rock earlier on the soft bit immediatly under your knee. Bloody still hurts!

[ashmicro]

Industrial-Spec Nilfisk FTW! My folks bought one in 1986 and it is still used 2/3 times a week in a house containing various dogs and cats, and has never gone wrong. In today's money it was about £225-250.

[Minimad5]

  Pete-M said:

 

I spotted a driveway in Dudley this afternoon that had a very scruffy Metro, an Imp that looked like it hadn't moved for a good few years and I think the other thing was a Chevette (or possibly a Viva). Should have taken a photo.

 

No doubt Wat and MM5 will spot it over the weekend.

 

 

Pete that last bit was great.

 

Grump (and it's car related-ish) .... i need to start wearing gloves, as dirty is fook hard to get out from under the nails

Other than that, be prepaired to see a thread on doing some work on a Cortina

[maxpower]

we have 2 dyson hoovers that work ok... well one works better than the other....

 

also got dyson washing machine... good machine.... warrenty was well worth it due to the constant parts for the machine... now they have stopped making washing machines the parts are gonna phase out over time.... thanks a fuckin bunch dyson for taking the money for a washing machine and 3-5 yrs warrenty money at £60 a time...you robbing bastard