The grumpy thread

[Fumbler]

Yesterday I booked my hotel for FOTU to check in on 30th July. Paid and thought nothing of it.

But no, they booked it for yesterday and today, so I've pissed £48.00 up the wall with no way I can amend the booking as I'm supposed to have checked out by now.

Fuck Premier Inn's online booking service.

[Zelandeth]

Some git has nicked our garden waste bin.

Just discovered this after trimming a bunch of overhanging greenery.  Great.

[Crackers]

24 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Some git has nicked our garden waste bin.

Just discovered this after trimming a bunch of overhanging greenery.  Great.

Weirdly specific burglary.

[Zelandeth]

8 minutes ago, Crackers said:

Weirdly specific burglary.

Getting an extra one from the council costs about £80 and takes months for them to get around to actioning...and plenty of people round here have big enough gardens it's a struggle to get everything in in the summer - especially as the tips aren't allowing anyone in with trailers at the moment - which is how we usually dispose of everything that doesn't just fit in the bin.

[Fumbler]

48 minutes ago, Fumbler said:

Yesterday I booked my hotel for FOTU to check in on 30th July. Paid and thought nothing of it.

But no, they booked it for yesterday and today, so I've pissed £48.00 up the wall with no way I can amend the booking as I'm supposed to have checked out by now.

Fuck Premier Inn's online booking service.

Two calls and sorted. Yay.

[Remspoor]

On 5/11/2021 at 7:16 PM, Zelandeth said:

Finally!

Took ALL bloody afternoon, but it's in.

That's a bit more plastic banished from the plumbing.  It's probably absolutely fine, but it just never instills confidence and I've had one of these fittings come apart before.  Though that's most likely due to poor fitting...I just don't like them  

Discovered that the locking collars on all but one of the fittings under there hadn't been done up.

I need to revisit it at some point as there is *nothing* supporting anything and because all the elbows are those push fit things everything just flops and flexes around.

I would personally reduce the number of fittings. Too many tees and bends. Greater chance of something leaking, maybe a loss of pressure/flow.

I could write you the whys and hows, but this guy will do it for me and he will be concise.

 

 

[High Jetter]

4 hours ago, Fumbler said:

Two calls and sorted. Yay.

I was going to suggest giving them a ring and explaining - good result.

[OM646]

Hello grumpiness, long time no see, 

A couple days ago, my wonderfully reliable C220 CDI started throwing weird smells when I turned on the AC.

 

Thought it was just me, until a friend says "damn it smells like exhaust in here".

I had no clue what it could be. Rang mechanics, they all said it could be a flex pipe or something.

And then i pop the engine cover off and start it.

Tstststststststststststststststststststststs

Oh god oh fuck when did Mercedes start using garden sprinklers in OM646 diesels?

And then i looked properly.

 

that's right. The "CDI Black Death" finally caught me unnoticed. And this is why I hate plastic engine covers. Because I could have spotted the problem before it started to stink.

But with the cover on, the "tstststststststststs" was completely silent.

 

Off it goes to the mechanic...

[twosmoke300]

That’s not the Black Death ! 
Black Death is when you can’t even see the injectors below the connectors .

[goosey]

Fitted some Moog drop links to the Merc this evening, for some bizarre reason the hex on the end of the thread for you to insert an Allen key to stop the ball joint spinning was round instead of hexagon shaped which made the job of fitting the new parts 10x harder.

[goosey]

2 hours ago, OM646 said:

Hello grumpiness, long time no see, 

A couple days ago, my wonderfully reliable C220 CDI started throwing weird smells when I turned on the AC.

 

Thought it was just me, until a friend says "damn it smells like exhaust in here".

I had no clue what it could be. Rang mechanics, they all said it could be a flex pipe or something.

And then i pop the engine cover off and start it.

Tstststststststststststststststststststststs

Oh god oh fuck when did Mercedes start using garden sprinklers in OM646 diesels?

And then i looked properly.

 

that's right. The "CDI Black Death" finally caught me unnoticed. And this is why I hate plastic engine covers. Because I could have spotted the problem before it started to stink.

But with the cover on, the "tstststststststststs" was completely silent.

 

Off it goes to the mechanic...

At least the injectors are on top and easy to access, the rears on each side of my om642  were a pain.

also that’s the cleanest Black Death I’ve ever seen 

[Talbot]

14 minutes ago, goosey said:

the hex on the end of the thread for you to insert an Allen key to stop the ball joint spinning was round instead of hexagon shaped

The part likely missed the hexing process.  Much like when you sometimes randomly find a screw in a box of 1000 that has no crosshead stamped into it, or a bolt in a bag of 500 that hasn't had a thread rolled on it.

[Talbot]

21 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

they will refund me once a tracking number of some kind shows its arrived at the sellers address

That's begging for a box with a smashed lamp to be sent back to him.  As soon as it shows as delivered, you get your refund.  Even if by some miracle he claims it wasn't the same lamp being sent back, it's been damaged in transit, which isn't your issue.

[LightBulbFun]

3 minutes ago, Talbot said:

That's begging for a box with a smashed lamp to be sent back to him.  As soon as it shows as delivered, you get your refund.  Even if by some miracle he claims it wasn't the same lamp being sent back, it's been damaged in transit, which isn't your issue.

Yeah a similar thought did cross my mind! but knowing my luck it would probably backfire on me on some way (and plus id still have to get my sorry ass to the post office and back)

I do wonder If I should of opened an item not arrived case instead of the item not as described case that I did open but its a bit late now, I just decided to end the case and take it on the chin but I have duly left appropriate negative feedback (will be interesting to see if the seller responds in any way!)

 

I am however pleased to report the 1 lamp I did get works lovely  

and is suitably stupidly bright as you would hope for a 1000W Sodium lamp

130,000 lumens baby!  

[Crackers]

Go one better, put an intact lamp in the box, seal it up with some fragile tape, stick the ebay return label on it, then book it in with Hermes. 

Take a step back, and watch with a smile as it gets launched into the back of a bashed up Sprinter at a million mph. You can sleep soundly in the knowledge that the seller will be hoovering up shards for days. 

[jamescarruthers]

18 hours ago, Zelandeth said:

Some git has nicked our garden waste bin.

Just discovered this after trimming a bunch of overhanging greenery.  Great.

Where we live, the bins are actually serialised with a number on top. I remember reading somewhere in house documentation a record of these numbers and they did match what was stamped on the lid of the bin. 
 

How about you ask the council to tell her your bin number is? Then have a good look about on the next bin day.

[OM646]

13 hours ago, twosmoke300 said:

That’s not the Black Death ! 
Black Death is when you can’t even see the injectors below the connectors .

Glad i spotted it pretty early.... Guess using A/C often and being sensitive to smells helped a lot 

[wuvvum]

12 hours ago, LightBulbFun said:

 

and is suitably stupidly bright as you would hope for a 1000W Sodium lamp

130,000 lumens baby!  

Your collection of light-up dildos is still expanding I see.

[Fumbler]

5 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Your collection of light-up dildos is still expanding I see.

The amount of heat they produce makes them rather counter-productive.

[richardmorris]

26 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

Your collection of light-up dildos is still expanding I see.

Light bulb fun all the way!

[Lankytim]

Ordered some parts for the wife's Fusion from Car Parts 4 less. Their website was acting a little odd. I needed 4 spark plugs, an air filter and some HT leads but when I got to the checkout there was only 1 spark plug in my basket. After a few attempts at altering the quantity it finally went though..... after I'd paid I realised I'd actually ordered 1x set of leads, 1x spark plug and 3x air filters. Doh! I immediately rang their number to cancel the order and after 5 mins on hold listening to a message telling that delivery times were now a minimum of 1 week due to COVID I got through to a nice lady who found my order and cancelled it. Great. I was late for work so decided to re-order the correct items the following day. 

The following afternoon I got out of bed after a long night shift to find 1x set of plug leads, 1x spark plug and 3x air filters sat by the front door. My wife had taken delivery that morning. Arsebiscuits. 

[dozeydustman]

4th day of jury service.

4th day of being sent home in the afternoon as not even been called in for selection. If they don't actually need me, I can do something productive, such as go to work or repair the Suzuki's exhaust mounts.

[Floatylight]

1 hour ago, dozeydustman said:

4th day of jury service.

4th day of being sent home in the afternoon as not even been called in for selection. If they don't actually need me, I can do something productive, such as go to work or repair the Suzuki's exhaust mounts.

Could he worse, I ended up on a long case and did September- Christmas, studiously making notes and cross referencing files and files of evidence with 5 solicitors for 5 dependents only for the case to he abandoned...

[dozeydustman]

9 minutes ago, Floatylight said:

Could he worse, I ended up on a long case and did September- Christmas, studiously making notes and cross referencing files and files of evidence with 5 solicitors for 5 dependents only for the case to he abandoned...

That must have been disheartening.

[jakebullet]

I'm going on holiday to sunny* Hull on Wednesday. Taking the disco as more room for crap. Checked all the fluids and had a look round underneath just in case the chassis has snapped or other typical land rover fails.

Bastard fuel filter is leaking. I know they've put it in the most stupid place possible, but does nobody make a filter that doesn't rust thru within a year? Think I've had all the major brands now.

[hairnet]

train to cambridge (not till september)

120 fucking quid!!!!!!!!!

flight to stansted return 98 - but theyre not direct one was via belfast the other via dublin

there was one down the page 577!!!

went via istanbul :D

WTF

 

[Remspoor]

Has not affected me or family, but........ WTF?

The stealing of bonnets off Peugeot 5008 is now "a thing" in Rotterdam.

https://nos.nl/artikel/2380548-criminelen-stelen-de-ene-na-de-andere-peugeot-motorkap-in-rotterdam

[High Jetter]

6 hours ago, wuvvum said:

Your collection of light-up dildos is still expanding I see.

I think that one is an Eveready

[wuvvum]

The Iveco has done an Iveco.  Stopped for fuel and it won't restart.  Waiting for the AA - got my money's worth out of them this past year. 

[beko1987]

22 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

The Iveco has done an Iveco.  Stopped for fuel and it won't restart.  Waiting for the AA - got my money's worth out of them this past year. 

Hopefully the AA chap or chapess will be in a good mood when they arrive, having seen what the vehicle is and realising its not an omgmodern/insert_ @Barry Cade _tale_here job (in theory)

Tried hitting bits of it with rocks whilst you wait? Might jar it into life, or people will just leave you alone