The grumpy thread

[beko1987]

3 grey hairs! I remember that starting... 😂

I was going grey in my mid 20s,pretty much fully grey now! Thick head of hair though

My grandad on my mums side died in his 90s with a full thick head of hair... (no more males that side to compare it to other than me) whereas my dad and other grandad are balding (dad just has a number 1 all over) so hopefully I'll take after my mums side and it's not all about to fall out over the next 10 years... 

[Crackers]

56 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

I am 56 next week and have about the same number, without chemical intervention!  That portrait of the old bloke in the attic really works...

Smug bastard! 

I have neither a portrait of an old bloke, nor an attic to store it in - fallen at the first hurdle there! 

[junkyarddog]

1 hour ago, Wack said:

Knights of the road my arse , what a cunt , skittling a car rather than just backing off 

 

Or,you know,the car driver could have timed his merge better,sped up and got well in front,or slowed and went in behind,the truck had nowhere to go,seeing as it was being overtaken at the time.

Trucks are heavy old beasts and take longer to stop/slow down.

I think this is firmly the cars fault.

[chaseracer]

8 minutes ago, junkyarddog said:

Or,you know,the car driver could have timed his merge better,sped up and got well in front,or slowed and went in behind,the truck had nowhere to go,seeing as it was being overtaken at the time.

Trucks are heavy old beasts and take longer to stop/slow down.

I think this is firmly the cars fault.

In the truck driver's blind spot too.

[Wack]

48 minutes ago, junkyarddog said:

Or,you know,the car driver could have timed his merge better,sped up and got well in front,or slowed and went in behind,the truck had nowhere to go,seeing as it was being overtaken at the time.

Trucks are heavy old beasts and take longer to stop/slow down.

I think this is firmly the cars fault.

I'm not saying it's not but there was plenty of time to brake and avoid possibly killing her, if you can't see that you need to give your head a wobble, it's not 1956 on drum brakes

 

This is how quick a modern truck can stop , that was entirely avoidable

 

 

[cobblers]

I'd say there's every chance the driver couldn't see the car. The dashcam is mounted right on the screen in the middle, quite different from a drivers view 

[Wack]

53 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

In the truck driver's blind spot too.

the car was visible for at least 8 seconds before the impact , there's no slip road, where else could it have been, they have mirrors and blind spot mirrors

[dean36014]

It's a daily occurrence that drives me mad as a truck driver. Nice empty rd in front of the truck and the car driver matches the trucks speed and makes no attempt to speed up and get in front.  One dab of the loud pedal and the car could have been clear and safely in front but no they blindly turned straight into the truck. It never ceases to amaze me how many people don't check their mirrors until the end of the slip road when it's too late 

[Metal Guru]

On 01/12/2021 at 19:00, anonymous user said:

Why not use a Thesaurus.

A Tyrannosaurus is better!

[Agila]

As a lowly paid, lowly skilled professional steering wheel attendant.

1. White car should of backed off and slotted in behind the truck. (They were following too close to the red car also merging)

2. As the white car didn't, the truck should of backed off then, turns a smash into just a near miss.

3. The next truck video must of been light loaded or empty. They should have been passing the bus slowly expecting some child to run out, they would already have the brake pedal covered. They didn't technically stop in time, they slowed just enough, giving the child time to run further away.

With a full payload, the unit and trailer wheels all splatter that kid.

[junkyarddog]

47 minutes ago, Wack said:

I'm not saying it's not but there was plenty of time to brake and avoid possibly killing her, if you can't see that you need to give your head a wobble, it's not 1956 on drum brakes

 

This is how quick a modern truck can stop , that was entirely avoidable

 

 

If you can't merge with traffic on a busy stretch of road,you have no business being there.

They obviously couldn't. 

Give your own head a wobble,if you think they needed special treatment to join the flow of traffic.

[robinmasters]

3 hours ago, Wack said:

Knights of the road my arse , what a cunt , skittling a car rather than just backing off 

 

The car should have used the slip road properly, but what a stubborn cunt that lorry driver must be.  Causing an accident to prove a point?  Bellend.  

However, the real villain here is whoever made it into a Tiktok video and added that awful music.  

[Wack]

1 hour ago, junkyarddog said:

If you can't merge with traffic on a busy stretch of road,you have no business being there.

They obviously couldn't. 

Give your own head a wobble,if you think they needed special treatment to join the flow of traffic.

She didn't need to be run into a motorway bridge either,

[junkyarddog]

16 minutes ago, Wack said:

She didn't need to be run into a motorway bridge either,

Shit happens. 

Only herself to blame.

She may have learned a valuable lesson and be more careful and vigilant in the future.

Some people have to learn the hard way in life.

[sierraman]

10 hours ago, Minimad5 said:

This

Doesn't just fit in this 

Fancy tool is apparently required. Bollox.

Looks like I'll try have to make one in work 🙈

Guessing some threaded bar, washers and a medley of nuts won’t work. Invest in a press or a few quid at the garage to press it in between jobs

[wuvvum]

5 hours ago, beko1987 said:

3 grey hairs! I remember that starting... 😂

I was going grey in my mid 20s,pretty much fully grey now! Thick head of hair though

My grandad on my mums side died in his 90s with a full thick head of hair... (no more males that side to compare it to other than me) whereas my dad and other grandad are balding (dad just has a number 1 all over) so hopefully I'll take after my mums side and it's not all about to fall out over the next 10 years... 

I'm the other way round - the men on my mum's side tend to go bald early, but that side of the family is late going grey (my mum is 70 and has only just started greying at the temples).  My dad's side they tend to keep their hair but go white.  I'm tending more towards my dad's side.  Probably a good thing - hair dye is cheaper than implants...

[Stanky]

11 hours ago, Minimad5 said:

This

Doesn't just fit in this 

Fancy tool is apparently required. Bollox.

Looks like I'll try have to make one in work 🙈

Have you tried using a hub puller to press it in? Or a socket in a vice?

[Minimad5]

^ All good suggestions, but the bore is 3mm smaller than the Bush.

The official tool is tapered and squeezes the outer plastic sleeve (yes I know, why not stick with metal 🤦‍♂️), so it's all a snug interference fit.

So I'll be trying some clamps around it today. Good old Range Rover.

[Wack]

2 hours ago, junkyarddog said:

Shit happens. 

Only herself to blame.

She may have learned a valuable lesson and be more careful and vigilant in the future.

Some people have to learn the hard way in life.

I used to work with a guy with that attitude , if it's not my fault they can fuck off I'll just ram them , fortunately the boss didn't think the same and got rid of him

People make mistakes , why anyone would think like that I have no idea , hit them and spend the next 5 years ticking the yes box on any accidents to declare 

Or back off and don't , sounds simple enough to me.

[junkyarddog]

7 minutes ago, Wack said:

I used to work with a guy with that attitude , if it's not my fault they can fuck off I'll just ram them , fortunately the boss didn't think the same and got rid of him

People make mistakes , why anyone would think like that I have no idea , hit them and spend the next 5 years ticking the yes box on any accidents to declare 

Or back off and don't , sounds simple enough to me.

Don't matter to me,I wasn't driving the car,I wasn't driving the truck.

The car driver messed up.

That's the reality of it.

[Zelandeth]

Robbing price gouging fuel companies.  Used to be a few pence difference between super and regular unleaded.

Usual garage today, unleaded: 151.9.

Super: 165.9.  So £0.14/litre difference.  An extra £7.30 on today's fill up.

All because they know a fair chunk of their customers don't want to play E10 fuel system failure bingo.

[chaseracer]

And the wholesale price of fuel is apparently way down...

[Timewaster]

The white car pulled out into the path of a truck in a suicidal move. 

That car could easily out accelerate ahead or out brake the truck. 

The truck driver could probably have braked to avoid the accident but the car might have braked last minute or accelerated out of the way. The car driver still pulled out in front of a speeding truck and is therfore an utter prick. 

Unless they were having some sort of seizure or black out at the time then no sympathy. 

 

[grogee]

4 hours ago, Minimad5 said:

^ All good suggestions, but the bore is 3mm smaller than the Bush.

The official tool is tapered and squeezes the outer plastic sleeve (yes I know, why not stick with metal 🤦‍♂️), so it's all a snug interference fit.

"Snug interference fit" = doesn't fit. That's terrible! I can't see how the 'official' tool squeezes the plastic such a large amount without breaking it (but then I am pretty dense)

😬

[Minimad5]

21 minutes ago, grogee said:

"Snug interference fit" = doesn't fit. That's terrible! I can't see how the 'official' tool squeezes the plastic such a large amount without breaking it (but then I am pretty dense)

😬

They are able to deform a good few mm.

I've managed to do it without the official tool, so I'm happy. Although still got the other side to do 😅

As seen below - Got one in:

Jubilee clip used to compress Bush (I wanted an exhaust sleeve, but I'm £broke£ so had to dig about the garage. Anyway 

yep my vice was too close to the wall, so off with the vice and on the floor

probably see my poor attempt at a chamfer all around the front face. But it worked.

So eerr add this to grin thread too 😅

[grogee]

15 minutes ago, Minimad5 said:

They are able to deform a good few mm.

I've managed to do it without the official tool, so I'm happy. Although still got the other side to do 😅

As seen below - Got one in:

Jubilee clip used to compress Bush (I wanted an exhaust sleeve, but I'm £broke£ so had to dig about the garage. Anyway 

yep my vice was too close to the wall, so off with the vice and on the floor

probably see my poor attempt at a chamfer all around the front face. But it worked.

So eerr add this to grin thread too 😅

Well done! That looks like an absolute bastard to get in. How many more to do - 1 or 3?

[Minimad5]

1 minute ago, grogee said:

Well done! That looks like an absolute bastard to get in. How many more to do - 1 or 3?

Just a pair (drivers side)

But also got to remove the high pressure fuel pump, fit new bosch seals, re-fit and time pump. Then inlet manifold etc to go back on and hopefully transfer insurance over .... all before Monday 😅

[Wack]

9 hours ago, dean36014 said:

It's a daily occurrence that drives me mad as a truck driver. Nice empty rd in front of the truck and the car driver matches the trucks speed and makes no attempt to speed up and get in front.  One dab of the loud pedal and the car could have been clear and safely in front but no they blindly turned straight into the truck. It never ceases to amaze me how many people don't check their mirrors until the end of the slip road when it's too late 

I agree with all of that , it was 100% the car drivers fault but I see it over and over , crashes that could be avoided but for belligerent drivers, some people panic when entering a high speed road , do they deserve to die for it  , no 

 

[dean36014]

15 minutes ago, Wack said:

I agree with all of that , it was 100% the car drivers fault but I see it over and over , crashes that could be avoided but for belligerent drivers, some people panic when entering a high speed road , do they deserve to die for it  , no 

 

Just as dangerous for the truck driver to slam brakes on as well. It boils down to lack of training in motorway disciplines. A lot of the modern trucks have an anti collision radar fitted. I've had a few near misses when a car has cut straight across the front of me and the truck decides to perform an emergency stop. Been nearly hit in the rear a few times when it happens. You have to remember a truck is limited to 56mph so it's not hard for most modern cars to exceed that speed up a slip road and forward plan their manoeuvre.

[balford]

As my dad used to say, no point in being in the right when you're dead.