The grumpy thread

[High Jetter]

  On 03/08/2021 at 18:42, cobblers said:

Massively fucked up turning right at a junction earlier, it was piss pouring monsoon style  rain and the sun was bouncing off the road into my eyes, someone flashed me to let me go and like a complete nobhead I rushed it,  totally misjudged the angle, missed a car in the massive A pillar blindspot of the van, cut the corner and got a well deserved prolonged blast on the horn from some poor bastard who I nearly stoved into.

There should be some sort of "rate my driving" type website where I could  apologise! "yes, I made a complete bollocks of that and you're totally right to call me blind eyed tosser who shouldn't be on the fucking roads" etc etc

Pride damaged etc, what a schoolboy error though, I've been driving for twenty years so I should know a lot better than that!

 

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You didn't hit, or get dented though? It happens, occasionally. Don't stress.

[adw1977]

  On 03/08/2021 at 18:42, cobblers said:

Massively fucked up turning right at a junction earlier, it was piss pouring monsoon style  rain and the sun was bouncing off the road into my eyes, someone flashed me to let me go and like a complete nobhead I rushed it,  totally misjudged the angle, missed a car in the massive A pillar blindspot of the van, cut the corner and got a well deserved prolonged blast on the horn from some poor bastard who I nearly stoved into.

There should be some sort of "rate my driving" type website where I could  apologise! "yes, I made a complete bollocks of that and you're totally right to call me blind eyed tosser who shouldn't be on the fucking roads" etc etc

Pride damaged etc, what a schoolboy error though, I've been driving for twenty years so I should know a lot better than that!

 

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At least you recognise that you ballsed it up, some people seem to think that turns like that are perfectly fine.  We all make mistakes.

[Ghosty]

Impatience is a virtue. 

45 minutes between those messages. Couldn't even have got to the sellers address in that time, if I was on the way there I'd have gone fucking apeshit. 

[Spurious]

  On 04/08/2021 at 15:32, Ghosty said:

Impatience is a virtue. 

45 minutes between those messages. Couldn't even have got to the sellers address in that time, if I was on the way there I'd have gone fucking apeshit. 

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Bad form that. Don't know why it's so hard to say there's someone coming out befor that. 

[MikeR]

Had another go at cutting a finger off .

Best nose reaming finger nearly got decapitated a few days back cutting a lettice up, its nail saved the day ...

Thought i would sharpen the same knife today ...... It slipped ,got my thumb ,  spent an hour holding the wound shut .

Putting knives away now ....In case of the third time lucky rule ...

[Zelandeth]

See fuel has gone up again...£1.559 a litre for super here now.  Big jump too, the usually seem to sneak a penny on here or there in the hope you won't notice...

[iainrcz]

I've had to leave the car parked on the road..

[Bren]

  On 04/08/2021 at 16:09, Zelandeth said:

See fuel has gone up again...£1.559 a litre for super here now.  Big jump too, the usually seem to sneak a penny on here or there in the hope you won't notice...

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I have been looking on ebay - big engined stuff is moving slowly or not at all.

[Minimad5]

So I have this great thing called 'reverse Karma'   do something nice and great - and Karma points come into play but in reverse, so instead of something good, Yep you guessed it ... something bad 😅

So you know I helped that old bloke out in the garden centre the day before ... Well yesterday was reverse Karma day, and I got a nice bit of flint in my eye.

Yesterday I did the water pump for that old boy around the corner, today was reverse Karma day.  I did some plumbing for other halfs mother ... expanding foam went all to fuck and pushed all the push-fit pipes off 🤦‍♂️ So shall await for it to set and re do those bits 😅

[Zelandeth]

  On 04/08/2021 at 17:47, Minimad5 said:

So I have this great thing called 'reverse Karma'   do something nice and great - and Karma points come into play but in reverse, so instead of something good, Yep you guessed it ... something bad 😅

So you know I helped that old bloke out in the garden centre the day before ... Well yesterday was reverse Karma day, and I got a nice bit of flint in my eye.

Yesterday I did the water pump for that old boy around the corner, today was reverse Karma day.  I did some plumbing for other halfs mother ... expanding foam went all to fuck and pushed all the push-fit pipes off 🤦‍♂️ So shall await for it to set and re do those bits 😅

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Rule of Acquisition number 285: No good deed ever goes unpunished.

Ain't it the bloody truth!

Few weeks back I pulled over to see if I could help someone who had obviously broken down.  Wound up getting a bloody parking ticket from Euro Car Parks for it...Sodding expensive gesture of kindness that turned into!

[Minimad5]

  On 04/08/2021 at 19:45, Zelandeth said:

Rule of Acquisition number 285: No good deed ever goes unpunished.

Ain't it the bloody truth!

Few weeks back I pulled over to see if I could help someone who had obviously broken down.  Wound up getting a bloody parking ticket from Euro Car Parks for it...Sodding expensive gesture of kindness that turned into!

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Don't tell anyone, but me and the missus caught a dog which had got loose, and returned it to its owner (No Karma required !)

Infact I should have taken it the vets rather than hand it to the woman, as it looked like it had fleas and a leaky eye. (Karma points removed 😎)

[Spurious]

  On 04/08/2021 at 16:09, Zelandeth said:

See fuel has gone up again...£1.559 a litre for super here now.  Big jump too, the usually seem to sneak a penny on here or there in the hope you won't notice...

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Yea, I seen that. 1.598 for shell 99 here. 

I'll have to see what Tesco is, it was 1.399 for Momentum about two week back. 

I managed to fill up the Nissan with e5 Regular today, wonder how much longer that will last. 

Now I don't mind filling the Audi with premium as I don't drive it often but the Primera is a daily wagon, it'll get rather expensive to run on premium if it doesn't agree with E10. 

[MikeR]

'reverse Karma'  has got me many times , I tend to move on now , it normally involves chasing some one who wants a favour doing ...

as for petrol

all I can say its a good things we have a C1 in the fleet , if I still had my 240 it would cost a fiver to warm it up !!!

[davidfowler2000]

Edinburgh tomorrow.

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

[Talbot]

  On 04/08/2021 at 15:32, Ghosty said:

Impatience is a virtue. 

45 minutes between those messages. Couldn't even have got to the sellers address in that time, if I was on the way there I'd have gone fucking apeshit. 

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OK

"Good thing I wasn't on the way then isn't it.."

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 04/08/2021 at 16:09, Zelandeth said:

See fuel has gone up again...£1.559 a litre for super here now.  Big jump too, the usually seem to sneak a penny on here or there in the hope you won't notice...

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That sounds more like motorway services' prices

[reb]

Past me is a bastard for cutting these hoses.

The ends don't seem to want to come off.

[MikeR]

deep cleaning the kitchen now and painting after replacing the drawer cases and runners with those nice new kits from Screwfix ...

but

the amount of shite that is kept on top of fridges and cupboards , it was minging with me not being up there for 2 years ..

surprise surprise , a trip to the tip is taking place on Friday ....

[Zelandeth]

Now I have very wet feet after traipsing about 25 minutes along this bloody verge.

Reason why is clearly visible.  Apparently after having tyres fitted one wheel trim wasn't properly secured.

Just glad it escaped other traffic, didn't mow down any pedestrians (these metal trims aren't light!) and didn't disappear into the wooded area in front of me or the giant sea of nettles just behind me.

Safety cable ties will be getting added before I go anywhere in the morning!

 

[brownnova]

Off away in the Campervan tomorrow… better tax it… won’t let me do it as days already taxed. But I Sorned it last October didn’t I? 
 

Fucksticks… apparently not! Well thats over £200 wasted!! How did I not realise! I was sure I had done it!!

Arse. 
 

And as all the tyres are 12 years old I have been told I need to replace them tomorrow before we go away as well… save money… buy a Campervan… 

[Talbot]

  On 05/08/2021 at 18:05, brownnova said:

And as all the tyres are 12 years old I have been told I need to replace them tomorrow before we go away as well

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Whyso?  If they have tread, have no cracks in them and have been fine up until now, they'll continue to be fine.

[Fumbler]

This is my grandmother's new method of parking

Just inside the garage enough so that I cannot close the door, with the keys in the ignition. Oh, and conveniently parked in just the perfect angle so I have a hard time parking my own car. Her new rear bumper has a bollard-sized crack in it now. At this rate all second gen Rav4 body plastics in stock will have gone on this car and been destroyed.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

  On 05/08/2021 at 18:45, Talbot said:

Whyso?  If they have tread, have no cracks in them and have been fine up until now, they'll continue to be fine.

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Tyres which have been stomping along the queen's highway/sat idle for long periods of time for more than a decade are never worth the risk, surely? For the sake of a couple of hundred quid it's decent peace of mind when your family are on board. 

[brownnova]

  On 05/08/2021 at 18:45, Talbot said:

Whyso?  If they have tread, have no cracks in them and have been fine up until now, they'll continue to be fine.

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After once having a blow out on the M5 at 60 mph with an old tyre in a previous Campervan I am wary of old tyres… domestic management even more so. These tyres look like they’ve barely done any miles at all, although in all fairness the van has only done about 2000 miles in the last 8 years… but they are all 2008 or 2009 dated. I’ll drive short distances but SWMBO has put her foot down that I get tyres before this trip. 

Of course the irony being that I can’t take both the littleuns and the wife on board as there aren’t enough seatbelts, and for all my “it’ll be easy to fit extra seatbelts” it really isn’t. So the van may have to go… after just two trips in our ownership unless I can figure out a solution. 

[Talbot]

  On 05/08/2021 at 20:25, brownnova said:

“it’ll be easy to fit extra seatbelts”

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They would need to be attached to steelwork somewhere, that eventually finds it's way back to the body (IE not to any wooden fixtures or similar).  One option would be for a rear-facing seat behind the driver/passenger, but it depends a lot on the layout of your van as to what can or can't be done.  Box section steel and a welder would make something more than safe, but you don't want to compromise the living space of the vehicle.

[brownnova]

  On 05/08/2021 at 20:30, Talbot said:

They would need to be attached to steelwork somewhere, that eventually finds it's way back to the body (IE not to any wooden fixtures or similar).  One option would be for a rear-facing seat behind the driver/passenger, but it depends a lot on the layout of your van as to what can or can't be done.  Box section steel and a welder would make something more than safe, but you don't want to compromise the living space of the vehicle.

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Yeah I had an idea with some seats (Scot seats) with inbuilt seatbelts mounted to the chassis on the front facing rear seats… sadly the water heater spoilt that plan by being in the way. There are frames you can buy to bolt through to the chassis or a plate welded to the chassis, but can’t find any for sale which fits at present. It may be possible to fit something to the rear facing seats behind the drivers seat, that’s the next avenue, but that would lose the one rear lap belt we do have! And 5 seatbelts will likely be a requirement by next summer. 

The 2CV is coming with us this weekend, so it’s not a worry this time. I do hope I work out a solution though.

[brownnova]

  On 05/08/2021 at 20:30, Talbot said:

They would need to be attached to steelwork somewhere, that eventually finds it's way back to the body (IE not to any wooden fixtures or similar).  One option would be for a rear-facing seat behind the driver/passenger, but it depends a lot on the layout of your van as to what can or can't be done.  Box section steel and a welder would make something more than safe, but you don't want to compromise the living space of the vehicle.

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Van layout seems easy, but it’s the lack of structural metal in the coachbuilt section which hinders things. 

[Talbot]

One thing that you could do is have a frame made up that accepts ISOFIX kiddie seats, mounted rear-facing behind the driver.  That way the seats can be mounted for travel, then removed and stored when you get there, thus not interfering with the bed/sofa area.  Would be an interesting little project.

[3VOM]

I think mine (Talbot Express Autohomes Highwayman) had two lap belts in the forward facing seats secured to a bar under the floor and hopefully attached to the chassis.

[Talbot]

There's a very good reason lap belts are no longer legal for use in cars. (and haven't been for a fair while).  I wouldn't travel in one.