The grumpy thread

[High Jetter]

21 minutes ago, junkyarddog said:

First thing is put the rest of the nuts back on,as without them it's increasing the pressure on that one making it even tighter!

 

1 hour ago, myglaren said:

Just got this from my son.  Suspect it may be his Ford Ranger he bought recently.

An axe???? What are the pliers for? That stud at 3 o'clock look off-centre to the hole too.

[Timewaster]

1 hour ago, myglaren said:

Just got this from my son.  Suspect it may be his Ford Ranger he bought recently.

Should have used a gas axe.

"It can't be seized if it's a liquid!"

[Mally]

Angle grinder  would do it in seconds,

A small chisel a little longer, but probably have saved the wheel if you drove it around a bit first on the one nut.

 

[barefoot]

What's wrong with just hammering a smaller socket over it? A tip I learned at great length on here many, many moons ago and will surely never forget.

[sierraman]

Has considered a Stihl Saw to cut the wheel off at the driveshafts and round the strut towers? I say this cause he couldn’t have made any more of a mess than it is now. 🤣

[Rust Collector]

If it's mega fucked the the point nothing can get purchase from the front then you could also undo the wheel bearing and take the whole hub and wheel off to grind or drill the stud from behind before twatting it out with a large persuader. I had to do this on a Mercedes a while back when the locking bolt sheared and the bolt hole was too deep to get a good weld on the remains.

[goosey]

When all other methods have failed, drill through the stud with a 12mm (maybe bigger) cobalt drill bit and after the studs been drilled through you should be able to snap it off. I’ve used this method on several jeeps over the years with great success,

although he will need a new stud afterwards 

[Dick Cheeseburger]

^ You all know it's a joke, right? It made me smile when I saw it online a few years back.

[myglaren]

23 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

^ You all know it's a joke, right? It made me smile when I saw it online a few years back.

Pleased to hear that.  I did suspect it and he hasn't replied yet.

[New POD]

16 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Try a different USB cable. Some are charging only

Email the pictures ? That don't take long. 

[horriblemercedes]

36 minutes ago, New POD said:

Email the pictures ? That don't take long. 

Bloody does if you have gigabytes of them!

[Pieman]

1 hour ago, myglaren said:

Pleased to hear that.  I did suspect it and he hasn't replied yet.

Plus it says "lug nut" and we don't call them that in the UK (unless I have misunderstood completely and you're in the US, in which case I apologise).

[PicantoJon]

This carbuncle irritates me to no end... 

I get that it houses a forward-looking camera gizmo and rain sensor gubbins, but why does it have to extend so bloody far down the windscreen?

[MiniMinorMk3]

19 minutes ago, PicantoJon said:

This carbuncle irritates me to no end... 

I get that it houses a forward-looking camera gizmo and rain sensor gubbins, but why does it have to extend so bloody far down the windscreen?

Fills in the gaps the sun visors leave?

[PicantoJon]

14 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Fills in the gaps the sun visors leave?

It doesn't even do that! Well not particularly well anyway... 

[barefoot]

What sort of car is it?

[RoverFolkUs]

2 hours ago, New POD said:

Email the pictures ? That don't take long. 

Ah yes, 25mb per email. Average photo size could be anywhere between 3 - 8mb. Let's say 5 for simplicity, that's 5 photos per email. 

Multiply by 100, it's reasonable to expect 500 photos on a phone if it's not been backed up for a while. 

Much much quicker to compose an email, scroll through and attach 5 files, rinse and repeat ONE HUNDRED times and then sift through them all and download 5 at a time isn't it than to simply try another fecking cable...

[New POD]

3 hours ago, PicantoJon said:

This carbuncle irritates me to no end... 

I get that it houses a forward-looking camera gizmo and rain sensor gubbins, but why does it have to extend so bloody far down the windscreen?

The rain sensor needs to be cleared by the wipers, otherwise in the rain, they'd always be on. 

[New POD]

4 hours ago, horriblemercedes said:

Bloody does if you have gigabytes of them!

He's my brother in law, and most computer savy in the family so I'm sure he'll work out a solution. 

Plus he's retired, so what else has he got to do ? 

[PicantoJon]

13 minutes ago, New POD said:

The rain sensor needs to be cleared by the wipers, otherwise in the rain, they'd always be on. 

Now why didn't I think of that... 🥴

It's an auto Vauxhall Crossland, one of the motability cars that I have the pleasure* of driving at work... @barefoot

[myglaren]

20 hours ago, Pieman said:

Plus it says "lug nut" and we don't call them that in the UK (unless I have misunderstood completely and you're in the US, in which case I apologise).

He does sometimes use American terminology.  He has spent a lot of time in the US and was married to one of their females for a while.

[hairnet]

Depressed

Biscuit time

 

[danthecapriman]

If you look back through the history of the automobile it’d be fair to say there’s been some outstandingly shit ideas and designs. 
However, the unrivalled king and taker of the title of the most utterly fucking shit idea ever installed on any vehicle ever is without doubt the sunroof! 
How much of a total cunt do you have to be to think cutting a hole in a cars roof is ever going to be a good idea!? Honestly, if I could go back in time and beat the living shit out of someone to stop their future infliction on humanity it’d be the inventor of the sunroof.

Why all this hate and harsh language? Because the sunroof has leaked, again, on the Volvo. Headlining is soaked and ruined, carpets are soaked, passenger seat wet… absolutely shit!

[PicantoJon]

5 minutes ago, hairnet said:

Depressed

Biscuit time

 

Excellent choice, the biscuits that is not the depression! 

[Talbot]

26 minutes ago, hairnet said:

Biscuit time

You mean cake time, shirley?

[hairnet]

handheld = biscuit

[AnnoyingPentium]

11 minutes ago, hairnet said:

handheld = biscuit

You can hold a jam sponge with your hands. Think I'll use that excuse actually.

[High Jetter]

36 minutes ago, hairnet said:

handheld = biscuit

Handheld = fairy cakes & muffins (unless yer really posh)

[Talbot]

1 hour ago, hairnet said:

handheld = biscuit

It says "cake" right there on the packet!

[GrumpiusMaximus]

Cakes go dry when stale, biscuits get soggy.

And not because they're in a public school dormitory.