The grumpy thread

[RoverFolkUs]

2 hours ago, iainrcz said:

Utter fucking arseholes.

Bastards, bound to be no CCTV nearby either I bet  

[iainrcz]

Just now, RoverFolkUs said:

Bastards, bound to be no CCTV nearby either I bet  

My mate is struggling with stuff currently and this has pushed him further. Poor guy 😔

[Wack]

On 3/23/2022 at 11:29 AM, AnnoyingPentium said:

A fella is sitting opposite me on the train drinking a lucozade sport. Or rather he's holding the bottle about an inch from his mouth and squeezing it so it makes the most annoying noise. 

I got on a packed virgin train a few years back , the doors opened and the smell of BO nearly knocked me off the step , I only had 2 stops so got on , that's when I noticed the Download T shirts , fuck me they stunk 

[Wack]

On 3/28/2022 at 9:23 PM, Wibble said:

And how many have business cover for multi drop deliveries I wonder 🤔

All of them 

[Pieman]

Checked in for a flight to Barcelona on Sunday, and now the airline (Vueling) will not let me access my boarding pass either via my phone or as a document to print.

[Popsicle]

5 minutes ago, Wack said:

All of them 

Often wondered about the legalities of this. When you insure your normal vehicle its always states not for hire and reward, not for the motor trade etc. Even if you bump it up to class 3 business use still no hire and reward. So how does this top up trump that you've 'misled' your current insurer? Does it just cover the parcels for theft, as thats goods in transit and has so many get out clauses its ridiculous. You're always covered for the third party even if you've lied through your back teeth on the quote form. Do they have public liability cover, cause if you knock over that priceless ming vase by the front door when you hand the parcel over somebodys going to want to claim for it.

Is it just a case of the big companies looking good and caring and to hell with the consequences for the subby if it goes tits up?

BTW not having a pop at anybody just wondered if anyone had insight into it all.

 

[Wibble]

16 minutes ago, Wack said:

All of them 

That’s good to know but do all courier companies offer this?

[Wack]

24 minutes ago, Popsicle said:

Often wondered about the legalities of this. When you insure your normal vehicle its always states not for hire and reward, not for the motor trade etc. Even if you bump it up to class 3 business use still no hire and reward. So how does this top up trump that you've 'misled' your current insurer? Does it just cover the parcels for theft, as thats goods in transit and has so many get out clauses its ridiculous. You're always covered for the third party even if you've lied through your back teeth on the quote form. Do they have public liability cover, cause if you knock over that priceless ming vase by the front door when you hand the parcel over somebodys going to want to claim for it.

Is it just a case of the big companies looking good and caring and to hell with the consequences for the subby if it goes tits up?

BTW not having a pop at anybody just wondered if anyone had insight into it all.

 

It'll trump your own insurance but your vehicle won't be covered if you crash it , just what you hit , it'll also have a massive excess .

The haulage industry has compensation rates per tonne , it's not much £1500 maybe , if a courier drops a Ming vase it'll be insured for whatever they've paid for , I send a lot of parcels but never insure anything for more than the minimum , in 10 years I've probably made 20 claims on thousands of parcels sent. 

Pack things well enough and they don't get broken.

Goods in transit insurance is optional and generally one of those policies you never claim on if you want to be insured next year .

[Wack]

17 minutes ago, Wibble said:

That’s good to know but do all courier companies offer this?

The big ones do , there are companies that also insure couriers by the hour that work for the likes of DHL UPS etc , also just eat , most of these guys are young , if there wasn't a company that'd cover them hourly there'd be nobody to do the job 

[Popsicle]

20 minutes ago, Wack said:

It'll trump your own insurance but your vehicle won't be covered if you crash it , just what you hit , it'll also have a massive excess .

The haulage industry has compensation rates per tonne , it's not much £1500 maybe , if a courier drops a Ming vase it'll be insured for whatever they've paid for , I send a lot of parcels but never insure anything for more than the minimum , in 10 years I've probably made 20 claims on thousands of parcels sent. 

Pack things well enough and they don't get broken.

Goods in transit insurance is optional and generally one of those policies you never claim on if you want to be insured next year .

In 30 odd years of couriering I once tried to claim on my goods in transit insurance, had a control panel for a an aero companies QC machine in the back of Sprinter. Had a head on smash, not my fault, £3k worth of damage to the control panel. GIT company refused to payout as there was no written contract in place specifically asking me to carry the goods from A to B, as my work was always a phone call, ie pick up from XXX take it to XXX. Had to get solicitors onto it who to be fair did get the at fault drivers insurance to cough up. So yep not worth the paper its written on.

[barefoot]

1 hour ago, Wack said:

Pack things well and they don’t get broken.

Eco tossers who moan about small items sent in big boxes should work a night shift at a transit hub.

[captain_70s]

6 hours ago, vulgalour said:

A litre of oil in 400 miles?  Don't mind if I do, said the Princess.

Rookie numbers, the Dolly would quite happily burn 5L in that sort of distance. It was actually costing me more in oil to run than petrol at various points.

One has to assume at this point that the head/block in the Prinny is warped at this point...

[Wack]

15 minutes ago, barefoot said:

Eco tossers who moan about small items sent in big boxes should work a night shift at a transit hub.

I once got sent a vintge radio wrapped in a bin bag with sellotape around it, totally fucked by the time it got to me.

I posted a singer sewing machine that'd seen 2 world wars to the US , they must've thrown it out of the plane door when it got there , smashed the casting into three pieces.

[vulgalour]

6 minutes ago, captain_70s said:

Rookie numbers, the Dolly would quite happily burn 5L in that sort of distance. It was actually costing me more in oil to run than petrol at various points.

That's just because Triumphs are better* cars.

[Dobloseven]

14 hours ago, iainrcz said:

A litre of oil in 400 miles?

Sure you haven't accidentally bought a petrol RCZ?

That's not bad oil consumption.Over 200 miles per pint. When I got rid of my 1.7 O series Ital, it was doing a pint in 36 miles. Are you putting proper old fashioned oil in that doesn't want to come out the can, it's so thick?

[jamescarruthers]

12 hours ago, Pieman said:

Checked in for a flight to Barcelona on Sunday, and now the airline (Vueling) will not let me access my boarding pass either via my phone or as a document to print.

Don’t worry too much over this. It is quite common to not be able to check in online now as some airlines want to physically check some of your documents before you check in now. For example, vaccination, Covid test, insurance, passenger locator form. It does vary massively with airline and destination.
 

For Spain: https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/spain/entry-requirements

[Fumbler]

Tax rules changed today which I forgot about, so I taxed the BX completely unaware it's now £180 per year.

[myglaren]

20 hours ago, cobblers said:

Damn, our wedding only cost £80.  

I think mine was about twenty quid in 1973.

The licence probably cost more.

[Talbot]

1 hour ago, myglaren said:

I think mine was about twenty quid in 1973.

Inflation calculator says that's just shy of £300 now.

[vulgalour]

4 hours ago, Dobloseven said:

That's not bad oil consumption.Over 200 miles per pint. When I got rid of my 1.7 O series Ital, it was doing a pint in 36 miles. Are you putting proper old fashioned oil in that doesn't want to come out the can, it's so thick?

I am not, because I quite like being able to change gear without being The Incredible Hulk.

Got my first full rebuild quote in today of £1500-1800, which includes every part it might need and all the machining it might need.  I don't know if that's a good price, or a bad price.

[artdjones]

47 minutes ago, vulgalour said:

I am not, because I quite like being able to change gear without being The Incredible Hulk.

Got my first full rebuild quote in today of £1500-1800, which includes every part it might need and all the machining it might need.  I don't know if that's a good price, or a bad price.

If it includes a rebore and new pistons it seems fairly reasonable.

[Pieman]

3 hours ago, jamescarruthers said:

Don’t worry too much over this. It is quite common to not be able to check in online now as some airlines want to physically check some of your documents before you check in now. For example, vaccination, Covid test, insurance, passenger locator form. It does vary massively with airline and destination.
 

For Spain: https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/spain/entry-requirements

I've done that and I have checked in online, just when I try to generate my boarding pass I just get error messages from both my phone and my PC.

[Zelandeth]

Ah yes, it's that bloody day where I basically have to not look at anything.

Already had three moments of "That's a strange decision, but fair enough..." Before realising about thirty minutes later it was an April Fool "joke."

Fair enough, come up with something, but please just add a disclaimer once you're done which makes it clear it's not true rather than leaving people to figure it out themselves.

It's really not bloody funny if you happen to be autistic.

[Minimad5]

Day off. Eaten something that has disagreed* with me.

*This disagreement has resulted in the mother of all squirty farts, like full on grand canyon material.

Imodium has been eaten. Not helped yet. Parts are now tender 😬 

😪

[vulgalour]

1 hour ago, artdjones said:

If it includes a rebore and new pistons it seems fairly reasonable.

Price was for everything to be replaced that needed it, and any machining work as required.  They even source the parts so I shouldn't even need to worry about that side of things, even though I do have some parts I already sourced in preparation for this job.  General consensus thus far seems to be the price is fair for the work involved, it's not something I want to cheap out on but it's a big scary investment sort of a thing.  If it were any other car I probably wouldn't bother.

[Dobloseven]

2 hours ago, vulgalour said:

I am not, because I quite like being able to change gear without being The Incredible Hulk.

Got my first full rebuild quote in today of £1500-1800, which includes every part it might need and all the machining it might need.  I don't know if that's a good price, or a bad price.

Pretty sure that back in the seventies when Princesses were a thing, they'd have used good old Duckhams Q 20 50 or Castrol GTX or somesuch,like most cars of the day. I'm sure modern oil finders will say to use something thinner and synthetic  but not quite sure how that works with engines that are well used. Regarding gearchanging, I can remember putting SAE 90 stuff in separate gearboxes, as specified, and being able to change gear ok. 

[Zelandeth]

23 minutes ago, vulgalour said:

Price was for everything to be replaced that needed it, and any machining work as required.  They even source the parts so I shouldn't even need to worry about that side of things, even though I do have some parts I already sourced in preparation for this job.  General consensus thus far seems to be the price is fair for the work involved, it's not something I want to cheap out on but it's a big scary investment sort of a thing.  If it were any other car I probably wouldn't bother.

Sounds pretty reasonable to me based on prices from when I was looking at things like that, there's quite a few hours work involved and a lot of little parts that add up in a hurry. Given rust is the biggest killer on these cars I wonder if just finding another engine might be the more sensible option... though again it's presenting the unknown of whether that one too will cause headaches...so it's down to you to weigh up the pros and cons I think.

Finding one someone isn't charging the earth for because it ran great when removed from the car (despite that being 30 years of storage in a damp garage ago) is probably a challenge too.

[barefoot]

And I'd image you had more come back in the event of problems with a rebuilt motor. I had the lump rebuilt in the back of my old T2 a couple of years ago and it feels like it has about twice the capacity it did before, it's great!

[vulgalour]

1 minute ago, Dobloseven said:

Pretty sure that back in the seventies when Princesses were a thing, they'd have used good old Duckhams Q 20 50 or Castrol GTX or somesuch,like most cars of the day. I'm sure modern oil finders will say to use something thinner and synthetic  but not quite sure how that works with engines that are well used. Regarding gearchanging, I can remember putting SAE 90 stuff in separate gearboxes, as specified, and being able to change gear ok. 

Book says 10w40 for the Princess and I've always used that.  I've tried 20w50 and it just made the gear change very stiff and difficult when cold.  Remember, no separate gearbox on the Princess, gearbox-in-sump so it shares the oil with the engine.  That's why it's a ridiculous quantity of oil when you have to do a change, you're changing the gearbox oil at the same time.  It does have the benefit that the gearboxes tend to outlive the cars because they're always getting fresh oil.  Besides, I doubt a heavier oil would actually help the situation I've got at the moment.

@Zelandeth If I get a replacement engine I'll have to get it pulled apart to check it's okay so I'm not really gaining anything.  Makes more sense to fix the one I've got, it runs well enough that I can't imagine it's beyond the point of no return.

[Pieman]

2 hours ago, Pieman said:

I've done that and I have checked in online, just when I try to generate my boarding pass I just get error messages from both my phone and my PC.

Sorted it - nowhere did it tell you on the website that you can't access your boarding pass until 48 hours before departure, even if you check in before then!