The grumpy thread

[camryv6]

8 minutes ago, New POD said:

 

Need I say more ? 

Probably best not to

[iainrcz]

1 hour ago, iainrcz said:

Some prick has thrown a brick through my mate's windscreen.

Utter fucking arseholes.

[Zelandeth]

4 minutes ago, iainrcz said:

Utter fucking arseholes.

I guess on the plus side, replacing a windscreen is easier than dealing with every panel on one side being keyed or something like that.  Still ridiculous though.

[iainrcz]

It's damaged the A pillar and bonnet too. Tossers.

[vulgalour]

A litre of oil in 400 miles?  Don't mind if I do, said the Princess.  Exhaust in the coolant again?  Why yes, that sounds like an excellent idea.

Anyone want to rebuild an O-series?  Because I fucking don't.  Got most of the gaskets etc. required already and I can pull the engine and gearbox no bother, just want someone else to go through it all and fix it because I'm done trying to DIY it.  I've tried and failed enough times now that I don't even want well-meaning suggestions.  It's engine rebuild/replacement time.  Still, got a few hundred miles out of it since the last time I replaced the head gasket so that's better than the 70 miles previous to that I suppose.

[iainrcz]

A litre of oil in 400 miles?

Sure you haven't accidentally bought a petrol RCZ?

[vulgalour]

56 minutes ago, iainrcz said:

A litre of oil in 400 miles?

Sure you haven't accidentally bought a petrol RCZ?

It made me wonder if it was a Wankel, or at least being a very similar word.

[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.