The grumpy thread

[HillmanImp]

10 hours ago, sierraman said:

Unlimited fine for cutting it down if there’s a TPO on it, could potentially bankrupt them if it went to court and was demonstrated that they’d killed the tree off. 

The protection order is gone. She got someone round to condemn the tree. 

No proof she killed it, I just suspect she did as she whinged about it so much. 

She may have got lucky but my spidey senses are tingling.

[artdjones]

12 hours ago, Fumbler said:

Thing is they took it out of the speedometer (or at least moved it with the binnacle) so they could replace the bulbs. I imagine that was just the thing needed to kill it off. I thought the needle bouncing between 25 and below 0 when crawling along was a bit off.

Probably didn't make sure it was pushed in far enough.

[chaseracer]

12 hours ago, Fumbler said:

Thing is they took it out of the speedometer (or at least moved it with the binnacle) so they could replace the bulbs. I imagine that was just the thing needed to kill it off. I thought the needle bouncing between 25 and below 0 when crawling along was a bit off.

Go back, with the snag list.  Speak with Rob.

[Wgl2019]

Wife's car had a numberplate light out..... Was raining and cold so didn't check first but ordered some led units that just screw in to the existing holders as the internet said they come as a unit...... fitted one today and immediately started to smoke and has melted the connection. Turned out that I could have just put a new bulb in but now need a new holder and either a wiring repair of new mini loom.

£1 bulb turned into £40 of parts.

Fucksticks.

[Metal Guru]

Can nobody overtake these days? I live approx 50 miles in all directions from any motorway / dual carriageway way , so spend most my driving life in rural A roads. Nearly everytime I get stuck in a queue (6-10)  of cars following a slow lorry / bus / caravan or worse tractor at 20-40 mph.  No one will attempt an overtake unless there is a mile long straight and then they pull out at 20 mph in 6th gear and take the whole straight to pass. And then everyone bunches up so you can’t overtake the queue in reasonable bits. Absolute rubbish driving, you might as well be on a train!

[AnnoyingPentium]

35 minutes ago, Metal Guru said:

Can nobody overtake these days? I live approx 50 miles in all directions from any motorway / dual carriageway way , so spend most my driving life in rural A roads. Nearly everytime I get stuck in a queue (6-10)  of cars following a slow lorry / bus / caravan or worse tractor at 20-40 mph.  No one will attempt an overtake unless there is a mile long straight and then they pull out at 20 mph in 6th gear and take the whole straight to pass. And then everyone bunches up so you can’t overtake the queue in reasonable bits. Absolute rubbish driving, you might as well be on a train!

Same here too. There's only one real straight on the road I travel daily and it's hellish because no-one in their big SUVs overtakes anything, just sits up the arse of the thing in front freaking them out.

[fairkens]

FFS

[High Jetter]

Looks pretty though.

[Spiny Norman]

5 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Can nobody overtake these days? I live approx 50 miles in all directions from any motorway / dual carriageway way , so spend most my driving life in rural A roads. Nearly everytime I get stuck in a queue (6-10)  of cars following a slow lorry / bus / caravan or worse tractor at 20-40 mph.  No one will attempt an overtake unless there is a mile long straight and then they pull out at 20 mph in 6th gear and take the whole straight to pass. And then everyone bunches up so you can’t overtake the queue in reasonable bits. Absolute rubbish driving, you might as well be on a train!

Eco driving, innit?
That's how they're taught to drive these days, any inclination to take a motor over 2.5/3k rpm is actively discouraged.
You can wazz it past something in a 1 litre Micra K11 bouncing it off the rev limiter in 2nd at 50 mph then watch the mirror for the next car behind with 3 times the power taking an eternity to do the same manoeuvre.

[AnnoyingPentium]

1 hour ago, Spiny Norman said:

That's how they're taught to drive these days, any inclination to take a motor over 2.5/3k rpm is actively discouraged.

Yep, but once I passed it was time to use all those revs I paid for.

[Fumbler]

3 hours ago, Spiny Norman said:

Eco driving, innit?
That's how they're taught to drive these days, any inclination to take a motor over 2.5/3k rpm is actively discouraged.
You can wazz it past something in a 1 litre Micra K11 bouncing it off the rev limiter in 2nd at 50 mph then watch the mirror for the next car behind with 3 times the power taking an eternity to do the same manoeuvre.

Not too sure on the first point. I think it's more to do with indecisiveness and the lack of teaching progressive driving. I was taught to drive confidently not ecologically and that was a year and a half ago. If that means you press the accelerator more to maintain an appropriate speed, you do so, otherwise you present a hazard to drivers behind. When I was merging onto a dual carriageway, my tutor actively encouraged me to build up as much speed as possible and to use "all the revs". When I had my test I did the same thing and the examiner didn't even comment, so he was happy.

As for blezzing past, you're completely correct. I think people are so precious of their modern wide giant vehicles that they daren't even think about overtaking. They also like to brake for corners while going uphill, too.

[cobblers]

TBH I've gotta say I see the opposite round here (buxton to chesterfield road), loads of fucking deadly unnecessary overtakes, I see four or five a week.

There's a long slog up out of Baslow where lorries are often down to 35mph for a bit, and I often see people overtaking literally around blind bends. And it's usually for nothing as there's another truck in front of it.

[Dyslexic Viking]

I am very bored. And have cabin fever. I hate winter.

[sheffcortinacentre]

23 hours ago, sierraman said:

That’s the problem, it’s obviously not serious enough for them to take the time out of their day to sort the tyres out. Perhaps if the penalty was a months wages for each faulty tyre they’d lose their sense of humour. 

The amount of "caring family motorist" with tyres like this my mates comes across at his garage would make your hair curl most have this attitude.

Their the same ones who if you dare to even vaguely question their parenting skills go mental.

Remember people we share the roads with them!

[Metal Guru]

4 hours ago, Fumbler said:

Not too sure on the first point. I think it's more to do with indecisiveness and the lack of teaching progressive driving. I was taught to drive confidently not ecologically and that was a year and a half ago. If that means you press the accelerator more to maintain an appropriate speed, you do so, otherwise you present a hazard to drivers behind. When I was merging onto a dual carriageway, my tutor actively encouraged me to build up as much speed as possible and to use "all the revs". When I had my test I did the same thing and the examiner didn't even comment, so he was happy.

As for blezzing past, you're completely correct. I think people are so precious of their modern wide giant vehicles that they daren't even think about overtaking. They also like to brake for corners while going uphill, too.

If you do get a long straight and it’s clear and try to clear the whole queue ( 300bhp helps), some Richard head in the middle of the line dwill then think “oh it must be clear , I’ll pull out “. , at 25mph as you reach “60”.

[robinmasters]

On 2/11/2022 at 9:49 PM, sierraman said:

That’s the problem, it’s obviously not serious enough for them to take the time out of their day to sort the tyres out. Perhaps if the penalty was a months wages for each faulty tyre they’d lose their sense of humour. 

It's already £2,500 per tyre, how much do you earn a month??? 🤣

Maybe the police should start incentivising grassing on these people, like they did with drink drivers. 

[Fumbler]

Hermes at its finest

I've looked outside and there's definitely no parcel nor is there a picture of it by the door. Bonus points for only receiving the delivery email 10 minutes ago when it supposedly was delivered ~2 hours ago.

Oh well, at least all I'd bought was a lampshade.

[Metal Guru]

16 minutes ago, robinmasters said:

It's already £2,500 per tyre, how much do you earn a month??? 🤣

Maybe the police should start incentivising grassing on these people, like they did with drink drivers. 

But it’s not £2500 a tyre is it? At best it’s £60 for one or any number, normally it’s “ sorry officer, never noticed, I’ll  go straight to kwik fit “.

[reb]

Yesterday when working on the car I absentmindedly rubbed my eye with a gloved finger. I realised it was stupid immediately, but it seemed fine so thought nothing more of it.

Today said eye is *angry* at me.

It's almost like getting grease and grit in your eye is a bad idea.

[Wgl2019]

On 2/12/2022 at 11:14 AM, Wgl2019 said:

Wife's car had a numberplate light out..... Was raining and cold so didn't check first but ordered some led units that just screw in to the existing holders as the internet said they come as a unit...... fitted one today and immediately started to smoke and has melted the connection. Turned out that I could have just put a new bulb in but now need a new holder and either a wiring repair of new mini loom.

£1 bulb turned into £40 of parts.

Fucksticks.

It turns out that frying one of the numberplate lights also has some strange effects on the car.

One side marker light, a brake light cluster and a main beam on the opposite side all stopped working. Fuses checked and all ok.

Started to feel a bit concerned that I may have buggered something in the cars brain however disconnecting the battery lead for 10 seconds before reattaching has restored normal service! 🥵

To end the grumpy sandwich I am now trying to source a second hand bit of loom from eBay. Strangely a few sellers have listed cars for breaking but seem confused by requests for parts. A new loom is £30 so may just buy this and avoid the hassle.

[Bren]

Items purchased from ebay seem to be taking longer and longer to arrive. Ordered oil and filter for the vectra last Tuesday - filter arrived Saturday. Oil not arrived as of yet. I can only assume couriers are struggling to get drivers - nothing I have ordered as come from outside the UK .

[templeoffire]

On 2/12/2022 at 3:27 PM, fairkens said:

FFS

Some say there’s a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow…

[templeoffire]

1 hour ago, reb said:

Yesterday when working on the car I absentmindedly rubbed my eye with a gloved finger. I realised it was stupid immediately, but it seemed fine so thought nothing more of it.

Today said eye is *angry* at me.

It's almost like getting grease and grit in your eye is a bad idea.

When the grease hits your eye like a big pizza pie thaaatss amoreeee 

[Wack]

This makes me fucking grumpy , this cunt needs to be relieved of £300 by way of a fine , straight to the cash machine or a trip to court 

Have some fucking respect

 

[myglaren]

44 minutes ago, Bren said:

Items purchased from ebay seem to be taking longer and longer to arrive. Ordered oil and filter for the vectra last Tuesday - filter arrived Saturday. Oil not arrived as of yet. I can only assume couriers are struggling to get drivers - nothing I have ordered as come from outside the UK .

I have ordered quite a lot of stuff over that past couple of weeks, every item delivered early, one the next day, arrived in an Amazon Prime box but I don't have a prime account.  He must be an Amazon seller too.

[Spiny Norman]

Talking of eBay, I sent a message to someone selling a car last night and when the copy appeared in my email it had my full name, email address and phone number showing as part of the message, guy I was speaking to confirmed he could read it too.
Tried to contact eBay to sort it out and spent 45 minutes on chat getting passed around from one disinterested script reader to another so no use there either,

Breach of GDPR, surely?

[Agila]

44 minutes ago, Wack said:

This makes me fucking grumpy , this cunt needs to be relieved of £300 by way of a fine , straight to the cash machine or a trip to court 

Have some fucking respect

 

 

At about 18 seconds I thought the bayonet might accidentally* catch her in the head.

Disappointed.

[Wack]

6 minutes ago, Agila said:

At about 18 seconds I thought the bayonet might accidentally* catch her in the head.

Disappointed.

Pity it didn't , can you imagine this happening 20 years ago , people just think they can do as they wish , the problem is they pretty much can , would she have done that in front of the White House or any state building in another country , I doubt it 

[grogee]

On 2/12/2022 at 10:05 AM, chaseracer said:

Go back, with the snag list.  Speak with Rob.

I'm not enjoying this new list of snags alongside the four figure bill. 

A test drive would have highlighted these faults. Sure, some of them may be coincidental/bad luck but to hand the car back and let you discover them... IMO, that's poor customer service. 

All it needed was a phone call to say, "we're running a bit late and your blower motor controller has failed."

[grogee]

On 2/12/2022 at 11:15 AM, Metal Guru said:

Can nobody overtake these days? I live approx 50 miles in all directions from any motorway / dual carriageway way , so spend most my driving life in rural A roads. Nearly everytime I get stuck in a queue (6-10)  of cars following a slow lorry / bus / caravan or worse tractor at 20-40 mph.  No one will attempt an overtake unless there is a mile long straight and then they pull out at 20 mph in 6th gear and take the whole straight to pass. And then everyone bunches up so you can’t overtake the queue in reasonable bits. Absolute rubbish driving, you might as well be on a train!

Same here, most of my driving is country A- and B-roads. 

I've made peace with it and I just make sure my cars have enough buttons to entertain me while I'm trundling at 20mph. 

To be honest the whole area around us has been decimated by HS2 and associated heavy machinery.