The grumpy thread

[MikeR]

Just finished trying to put in a replacement indicator lamp because the sealed in for life one has broke , think I will just run some wires off the front bulbs instead of trying to trace wires ....

[DavieW]

I smell shite. OVO trying the green ransom to get people to install smart meters. 

[horriblemercedes]

11 minutes ago, DavieW said:

I smell shite. OVO trying the green ransom to get people to install smart meters. 

Huh? How do they make sure that you get different electricity to other customers?

[DavieW]

Just now, horriblemercedes said:

Huh? How do they make sure that you get different electricity to other customers?

Exactly. That was the first thing I said when I read it. 

[High Jetter]

I suspect the word tarriff is missing there so those with 'smart' meters get a better* deal. Academic at the moment unless they're offering prices less than the cap.

[camryv6]

4 hours ago, MikeR said:

Just finished trying to put in a replacement indicator lamp because the sealed in for life one has broke , think I will just run some wires off the front bulbs instead of trying to trace wires ....

The tell tale in the instrument cluster ?

If so apparently it is an indicator stalk fault  

[artdjones]

2 hours ago, horriblemercedes said:

Huh? How do they make sure that you get different electricity to other customers?

Especially when companies are always boasting about how much of the power you get is renewable, but still put up the price of every unit in line with the increase in gas prices.

[MikeR]

55 minutes ago, camryv6 said:

The tell tale in the instrument cluster ?

If so apparently it is an indicator stalk fault  

I will look into that thanks ..

[barefoot]

4 hours ago, DavieW said:

I smell shite. OVO trying the green ransom to get people to install smart meters. 

re; this bullshit about planting trees. I always imagined that senior management would gather round with a spade & a sapling. In reality, the company 'plant' millions of trees at a time by carpet bombing seeds over areas adjacent to deserts.

And don't get me started about Nike's use of 'fabrics recovered from the sea'.

 

[RoverFolkUs]

Sodding smart phones

My Nokia has finally died after the ripe* old age of 3 years. That may seem a lot/adequate to a lot of people but I dont really think it is. Especially considering that one element of the fault started happening at around 18 months old  - where its really fiddly to get it to charge. In the past month or so, the battery has gradually died. Kept draining totally flat overnight and you'd be lucky to get an hours actual use out of it. Calculated capacity was around 30% (!) - Its a 3800mAh battery and it was only accepting around 1100-1200mAh to get it to 100%, where it would stop.

And this morning, it had died overnight, predictably. But now it wont accept a charge at all. It just keeps rebooting itself. 

I've rooted around my collection of old spare family phones and found my old Samsung one from 9 years ago and LG from 5 years ago, among various smashed iPhones and others (not me that broke them!) Both still working absolutely perfectly. In fact, they all do. Which is why I kept them. So now I've reverted to the LG, which is what I "upgraded" from 3 or so years ago 🙄 - If only they kept the software up to date so that you can actually run anything new on them, but it'll do for now.

Bollocks to upgrading/planned obsolesence!

So, me being me, I decided to try and fix it. Helpfully (no, really) the battery had ever so slightly swollen and lifted the screen up, meaning I didnt risk damaging it to try and remove it. I've removed the charge port and battery to get the part numbers, and a small grin is that I've got change from a tenner for the replacement parts

Fingers crossed it works!

Another grin is that I've logged into my google account and all of my contacts have automatically imported, which is very handy indeed because if the Nokia really is fucked I probably would have lost them all!

Seems they were never quite able to shake off the name "Nokia BRICK" because its as useful as one at the moment

[RoverFolkUs]

7 hours ago, MikeR said:

Just finished trying to put in a replacement indicator lamp because the sealed in for life one has broke , think I will just run some wires off the front bulbs instead of trying to trace wires ....

Erm, how comes you're in the centre console? The cluster is going to be run by CANbus. Unless you're trying to wire up an LED with the normal indicator bulbs?

9 times out of 10 its the cluster itself on these. Can be sent away for £100 if you can spare use of the car for a few days

https://www.revtronic.com/product/citroen-c1-instrument-cluster-indicator-not-working-copy/

[EyesWeldedShut]

It so fucking well does fit - screw you Mr Bezos! But  I need it yesterday now so I guess I'm doomed to spend more money with the only man on the planet that owns a spacegoing penis.
Mind you - he flies it down to my front door in the middle of nowhere (West Wales) from Dunfermline next working day in his fancy spaceship and saves me the two hour trip to the 'local' factors.

All I have to do now is put the freakin' jigsaw puzzle that was once a van back together - just how difficult can a designer make it to trace electrical faults? There goes Sunday

[Aston Martin]

I posted this in the Smart Motorways thread, but it boiled my piss. So it's here too.

 

Yes that is the M1

[Popsicle]

35 minutes ago, Aston Martin said:

I posted this in the Smart Motorways thread, but it boiled my piss. So it's here too.

 

Yes that is the M1

Dangerously an all to common site nowadays, the pair of them are risking their lives. Best to hop over the barrier and wave your arms about to warn drivers of the obstruction and phone Highways England so they can close the lane and put warning signs on the matrix's.

[Metal Guru]

Who’d have thought turning the hard shoulder into another lane might cause dangerous situations?  Did anyone who’s actually driven on a motorway more than once get involved with the decision making process?

[Agila]

Personally I'd fuck the wheel up driving it 1 mile to safety.

Hazards on and drive as quick as you safely could.

[Remspoor]

Parking day.

https://www.myparkingday.org/

[dozeydustman]

For the second year on the hop either me or the mrs (or both) have had to come home midway through our anniversary weekend.

2 years ago we both we full of snot and coughs thinking we had covid but didn’t

Last year we had to cancel our night out because I got food poisoning at lunch.

This year the wife was up all last night speaking in the great white telephone. We came home from our weekend away early yesterday because she wasn’t feeling great after our walk around another stately home.

[cobblers]

13 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

For the second year on the hop either me or the mrs (or both) have had to come home midway through our anniversary weekend.

2 years ago we both we full of snot and coughs thinking we had covid but didn’t

Last year we had to cancel our night out because I got food poisoning at lunch.

This year the wife was up all last night speaking in the great white telephone. We came home from our weekend away early yesterday because she wasn’t feeling great after our walk around another stately home.

 

A few years ago, my wife and I had such a long run of totally ruined days out together - We'd always try and go out for the day together every other weekend, but one week we'd be stuck in traffic, the next week we'd get halfway there and one of our phones would ring with a family emergency, or we'd get to some national trust place to find out it was "DAFT AND NOISY KIDS FUN AND SCREAMING DAY", or my car would break down, or one of us would get the shits. Just one thing after another, we were so disheartened we subconsciously stopped making plans at all. Really damaged the relationship for a while as we both associated spending "nice" time together with an inevitable shitshow.

 

[Metal Guru]

3 hours ago, Remspoor said:

Parking day.

https://www.myparkingday.org/

Usual twats! “We need green spaces” Don’t live in a city then. “Everyone should have a free house”  OK so I’ll never work ( too busy protesting), but I expect all you mugs who do to provide for me . “No one should have a car, you’re killing the planet”. But I’ll just travel around the world creating vast amounts of the rubbish I’m protesting about.

[dozeydustman]

1 hour ago, cobblers said:

 

A few years ago, my wife and I had such a long run of totally ruined days out together - We'd always try and go out for the day together every other weekend, but one week we'd be stuck in traffic, the next week we'd get halfway there and one of our phones would ring with a family emergency, or we'd get to some national trust place to find out it was "DAFT AND NOISY KIDS FUN AND SCREAMING DAY", or my car would break down, or one of us would get the shits. Just one thing after another, we were so disheartened we subconsciously stopped making plans at all. Really damaged the relationship for a while as we both associated spending "nice" time together with an inevitable shitshow.

 

I know the feeling. Because of work constraints and lack of staff I had done 9 six day weeks on the hop and only got to spend an actual day with the mrs (prior to this weekend) for one Sunday in that time. Puts strain on us and when we do get a chance to have some quality time together something else puts the mockers on it

[MikeR]

that was an interesting oil change on the old  1.4 Polo , it came out rather black , not black black or pure black ..

but light absorbing black that stuck to the sides of the oil tray and still looked black  ..  the oil we put in turned up black on the dip stick !!!

I asked when it was last done , err that would be when it was last lived here , err some 7 years ago ...........

we had the cam belt done as well , and thats up for a change again ....

so 7 years and 60k ...... ago 

dont VWs take some shit and keep going !!

any way it sounds a bit better now ....

 

in other good news the roads around here are rammed full thanks to some roadworks .....

[HillmanImp]

I really ought to go out and check the starter motor solenoids earth on the Nissan as its been a bit reluctant to start sometimes in the last few days. 

But its gone a little chilly hasn't it and I'm quite liking sitting here on the sofa watching the lad play on the xbox. 

Lacking in motivation a bit. 

[Wack]

17 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Who’d have thought turning the hard shoulder into another lane might cause dangerous situations?  Did anyone who’s actually driven on a motorway more than once get involved with the decision making process?

How much to widen the motorways

££££££££££££££££££££

How much to not widen the motorways but pay a bloke minimum wage to watch some screens 

££

All in favour say I 

 

 

[MikeR]

talking of motorways , how the fuk do they plan road works , looking at the M6 north of Preston which is getting closed to repair some bridge ..

is any form of forward planning published ????

looks like its open the weekend , but next weekend ???   , and so on ....

 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Guess which twit has to get recovered at his own expense from Pease Pottage to Canterbury.  That right, this twit.

[Wack]

15 minutes ago, GrumpiusMaximus said:

Guess which twit has to get recovered at his own expense from Pease Pottage to Canterbury.  That right, this twit.

Ouch 

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Lesson for you here kids.  Check your MOT hasn’t expired and if you have a PD based car, check the Intercooler hose isn’t worn.  Can’t even bodge it.

At least the van is new.

For a £25 part that even a ham-fisted twat like me can do in less than half an hour.

 

[iainrcz]

Days and nights have tomorrow off. Everyone on my shift are losing their shit about it.

The new HR manager's email address has taken a pounding apparently.

[GrumpiusMaximus]

4 minutes ago, Nyphur said:

 

If you spent less time arguing about the rights of gender benders on the politics forum and more time looking after your motor you might have been able to keep on top of your affairs?

Fuck you too! Ahaha.

Yeah, you’ve got me…

You all get a free shot right now.