The grumpy thread

[Zelandeth]

Remedial dentist trip 1 of 3 complete.

Anaesthetic now definitely starting to wear off and I'm very much feeling as though I've been punched in the face rather hard.

Going to go hide in a dark corner for a couple of hours now.

[Soundwave]

17 hours ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

My wife has just spent a happy* couple of hours listing stuff on eBay after a few years 'off'. Made her grumpy, made me grumpy.
She's now in the same boat as you - looks like FleaBay has descended into the same sort of pit as FB Marketplace

It's bizarre. I'm STILL getting offers that are about half the current bid - and they make out that they're doing ME a favour. They really do seem to occupy an alternative reality.

[fairkens]

Nothing like whacking your shin on a tow bar to help  you think up new swear words🤬

[dozeydustman]

Well, this was Pirtek.

 

[Talbot]

Fuck me one of my clients is a complete arsehole.

Spent all last week near Glasgow, on site, doing work-ish type things.  Client caused me all manner of delays and come friday we'd done the install, but it wasn't tested or commissioned.  Tough shit from my point of view... you cause delays, we'll have to come back.  When we can.

Except he's shouted and screamed and generally had a toddler-esque meltdown that we've not been back to site IMMEDIATELY to sort out his shit and finish the job.  Personally, I thought being able to be back on site a week later was pretty good.  Nope, not good enough for Mr.FuckingArrogant.

Irritatingly, we've a lot of work riding on the back of this, so having only just come back from Scotland, as of tomorrow evening, I'm driving back up there again.

Fucksssakes.

I know I like Scotland, but I really wasn't expecting to be back there again QUITE so soon!

[Stanky]

4 minutes ago, dozeydustman said:

Well, this was Pirtek.

 

 

try both of these, very local to you RITE NAO

https://hyphose.co.uk/ - Unit 3 The Warrior Business Centre, Fitzherbert Rd, Farlington, Portsmouth PO6 1TX

https://hydraquip.co.uk/ - Skill Centre, Unit 3B, Block A, Limberline Spur, Portsmouth PO3 5LF

 

[dozeydustman]

1 minute ago, Stanky said:

 

try both of these, very local to you RITE NAO

https://hyphose.co.uk/ - Unit 3 The Warrior Business Centre, Fitzherbert Rd, Farlington, Portsmouth PO6 1TX

https://hydraquip.co.uk/ - Skill Centre, Unit 3B, Block A, Limberline Spur, Portsmouth PO3 5LF

 

Found them. They moved round 3 and hadn’t updated their website. Thankfully they can do it and should be done tomorrow.

[Stanky]

Just now, dozeydustman said:

Found them. They moved round 3 and hadn’t updated their website. Thankfully they can do it and should be done tomorrow.

Ah, phew! well done!

[mitsisigma01]

My local Pirtek were great , my mate has also used them since they moved to creepy Crawley and apparently now they are shit , won't make anything 😕 , hope you get it sorted 🤞

[jakebullet]

Idiot sister bitches to Ma screen wash isn't working on her juke-o-doom, and Ma volunteers I will 'look at it' instead of telling her google a garage then.

There is a tiny trickle coming out of the jets. Found a connector in the pipe, and it blasts from there. Hmm, going to be the combo splitter non return valve I can see under the plastic but can't get to without taking everything out. Eventually got it out by jamming fingers painfully where there isn't space. It is indeed fucked. Went round every parts place in town who all have choice of 4mm or 6mm t pieces, and the bastard is 5mm. Took a 6mm and managed to get the pipes on with persuasion. Put the bastard thing back together, and voila, screen wash working.

Idiot comes out, and I say it's done. She thanks me profusely  bitches that it's been a long time, and the car has more important problems that need fixing than the screen wash. When am I going to fit a new exhaust? How about Tuesday the 3rd of Get to fuck? Does that work for you?

Asked Ma why was I volunteered* for this shit, and Ma wanted it done as idiot's answer to no screen wash is lower the window on the motorway and lean out with a can of de-icier to clean the screen.

[cort1977]

An oldie, but a goody.  Fucking Kwik Fit.  Needed new tyres on the modern for the upcoming MOT.  Also needed to work, solution use Kwik Fit near my work.  Dropped off car, 600 quids worth of tyres fitted.  Picked it up, correct tyres at least, but bastards too lazy to even wipe the wheels over so dirt and lubricant all over them.  Not to worry.  

Just went to get a wheel off to change a drop link and the fucking wankers have done the bolts up with a windy gun, now broken the locking wheel nut.  20 quid, three days delivery up here, going on holiday on Friday and running out of 10 day retest.  Arrrgh.

This is on top of all the joy of trying to find the correct drop links for this shitty fucking panzerwagen.  I can truly see the appeal of some crappy brand new appliance on the never-never.

[High Jetter]

4 hours ago, dozeydustman said:

Well, this was Pirtek.

Strange, still showing as open on Google. Maybe give Soton a ring?

[Pieman]

1 hour ago, jakebullet said:

Idiot sister bitches to Ma screen wash isn't working on her juke-o-doom, and Ma volunteers I will 'look at it' instead of telling her google a garage then.

There is a tiny trickle coming out of the jets. Found a connector in the pipe, and it blasts from there. Hmm, going to be the combo splitter non return valve I can see under the plastic but can't get to without taking everything out. Eventually got it out by jamming fingers painfully where there isn't space. It is indeed fucked. Went round every parts place in town who all have choice of 4mm or 6mm t pieces, and the bastard is 5mm. Took a 6mm and managed to get the pipes on with persuasion. Put the bastard thing back together, and voila, screen wash working.

Idiot comes out, and I say it's done. She thanks me profusely  bitches that it's been a long time, and the car has more important problems that need fixing than the screen wash. When am I going to fit a new exhaust? How about Tuesday the 3rd of Get to fuck? Does that work for you?

Asked Ma why was I volunteered* for this shit, and Ma wanted it done as idiot's answer to no screen wash is lower the window on the motorway and lean out with a can of de-icier to clean the screen.

If my sister treated me like that, she'd get the shit kicked out of her.  Isn't this the same person who once ran you over?

[Datsuncog]

Let me Google that for you...

[GMcD]

2 hours ago, jakebullet said:

Idiot sister bitches to Ma screen wash isn't working on her juke-o-doom, and Ma volunteers I will 'look at it' instead of telling her google a garage then.

There is a tiny trickle coming out of the jets. Found a connector in the pipe, and it blasts from there. Hmm, going to be the combo splitter non return valve I can see under the plastic but can't get to without taking everything out. Eventually got it out by jamming fingers painfully where there isn't space. It is indeed fucked. Went round every parts place in town who all have choice of 4mm or 6mm t pieces, and the bastard is 5mm. Took a 6mm and managed to get the pipes on with persuasion. Put the bastard thing back together, and voila, screen wash working.

Idiot comes out, and I say it's done. She thanks me profusely  bitches that it's been a long time, and the car has more important problems that need fixing than the screen wash. When am I going to fit a new exhaust? How about Tuesday the 3rd of Get to fuck? Does that work for you?

Asked Ma why was I volunteered* for this shit, and Ma wanted it done as idiot's answer to no screen wash is lower the window on the motorway and lean out with a can of de-icier to clean the screen.

Man, I'd tell the pair of them to sook a shite.

Your sister sounds like a piece of work and your mum should really know better than to volunteer you for stuff.  Knock that shit on the head.

If your sister wants to act like a dangerous tit, then that's completely on her and not you. 

[RoverFolkUs]

5 hours ago, fairkens said:

Nothing like whacking your shin on a tow bar to help  you think up new swear words🤬

I feel your pain.. I was using a strut spreader tool this morning and stupidly decided to use the electric gun slowly on it, it jumped out and spun round and hammered my finger into the lower arm.. nice broken nail to show for it. Don't worry I'll spare you all of a graphic photo

[Back_For_More]

I got fed up with the fridge door opening on the side of the back door and not on the side to the rest of the kitchen..... Small thing but annoyed the fugg put of me after a whole. 

All swapped and okee dokee... 

Rest of today I've tanked the fridge put at least 6times and tipped the damn thing twice..... 

Again, not major - but now annoyed I've forgotten I swapped it around..... Utter goon 

[hairnet]

On 3/26/2023 at 7:35 PM, hairnet said:

tldr cos rant

 

 

edit so when they were saying they were having issues changing

actually got on the maybe 3/4 full plane

was in the same place on the plane as the outbound - the plane was the older version

seat layout was same just the loos and other internals were different

seat next to me empty two to the left in the row of 4 empty so for all the faff it was fairly pleasant

got in at 7.30 got home took car to have brakes done then went to bed got up half an hour ago

and heres me thinking abour california - gonna need a week to get over that

 

[Talbot]

3 hours ago, cort1977 said:

the fucking wankers have done the bolts up with a windy gun, now broken the locking wheel nut.  20 quid, three days delivery up here,

Go back to the kwik fit and complain like fuck in a loudish voice that the "technicians" there are utter idiots.  Explain why.   As other punters start to listen in and then leave to go elsewhere, they will almost certainly cover your costs and offer at least a partial refund.

Did this at a tyre fit place once.. complained that the twat had rattle-gunned up my wheel nuts.  Manager asks what the issue is with that.  So I handed him the factory wheel brace and told him to undo just one nut with that, "like if I was at the side of the road with a puncture".  He couldn't.  I got an apology and correctly torqued wheel nuts after showing the cretin how a torque wrench works.

Drove off down the road and two wheels shed all their balance weights, as the fucking numpties had fitted steel-wheel-type clamp weights on an aluminium rim.  Complained A LOT.  Got a refund.

Bunch of incompetent twats.

[mitsisigma01]

4 hours ago, cort1977 said:

and the fucking wankers have done the bolts up with a windy gun, now broken the locking wheel nut.  

Are you a member of the RAC , apparently they are all tooled up to remove broken wheel locknuts 🤞

[RoverFolkUs]

4 hours ago, cort1977 said:

An oldie, but a goody.  Fucking Kwik Fit.  Needed new tyres on the modern for the upcoming MOT.  Also needed to work, solution use Kwik Fit near my work.  Dropped off car, 600 quids worth of tyres fitted.  Picked it up, correct tyres at least, but bastards too lazy to even wipe the wheels over so dirt and lubricant all over them.  Not to worry.  

Just went to get a wheel off to change a drop link and the fucking wankers have done the bolts up with a windy gun, now broken the locking wheel nut.  20 quid, three days delivery up here, going on holiday on Friday and running out of 10 day retest.  Arrrgh.

This is on top of all the joy of trying to find the correct drop links for this shitty fucking panzerwagen.  I can truly see the appeal of some crappy brand new appliance on the never-never.

Just had to take the front wheels off a polo, new tyres fitted about 6 months ago at a fast fit. 

The strongest gun in the workshop wouldn't touch them... Bear in mind this gun can undo hub nuts and even Honda crank pulley bolts (if you know, you know) with total ease. 

A 5ft long scaffold pole on the end of a breaker bar and they cracked off only with me standing on the end.. thankfully no locking wheel nut otherwise the key probably wouldn't have survived that, even being a VW one which tend to be a bit more sturdy 

[PhilA]

German steel manages to rust together like no other.

 

Apart from maybe Honda 

[goosey]

7 hours ago, mitsisigma01 said:

My local Pirtek were great , my mate has also used them since they moved to creepy Crawley and apparently now they are shit , won't make anything 😕 , hope you get it sorted 🤞

There all franchises so the level of service varies, the branch I worked at weren’t keen on doing work for anyone who wasn’t a big account holder so would turn away a lot of trade counter work. We use to charge £10 for hose clean which was basically blasting some compressed air down the new hose before assembly, another £10 assembly charge then £2 per oil soak mat so you would have £30 on your bill before the cost of the hose. 

[maxxo]

i've basically just lost interest in cars

since selling the XM, i just don't feel excited anymore about cars

i don't look online at cars for sale, don't go to car meets or really care about cars

i don't think of cars i'd like to own, as i know for daily drivers i'll just keep buying C5s, they're the only cars that have managed to completely satisfy me

i just can't be arsed with faff, with cars, with car communities, with anything really

just cars in general, they're a bit crap aren't they?

[High Jetter]

Sounds to me like you have something more important in your life, right now.

[sierraman]

13 hours ago, jakebullet said:

Idiot sister bitches to Ma screen wash isn't working on her juke-o-doom, and Ma volunteers I will 'look at it' instead of telling her google a garage then.

There is a tiny trickle coming out of the jets. Found a connector in the pipe, and it blasts from there. Hmm, going to be the combo splitter non return valve I can see under the plastic but can't get to without taking everything out. Eventually got it out by jamming fingers painfully where there isn't space. It is indeed fucked. Went round every parts place in town who all have choice of 4mm or 6mm t pieces, and the bastard is 5mm. Took a 6mm and managed to get the pipes on with persuasion. Put the bastard thing back together, and voila, screen wash working.

Idiot comes out, and I say it's done. She thanks me profusely  bitches that it's been a long time, and the car has more important problems that need fixing than the screen wash. When am I going to fit a new exhaust? How about Tuesday the 3rd of Get to fuck? Does that work for you?

Asked Ma why was I volunteered* for this shit, and Ma wanted it done as idiot's answer to no screen wash is lower the window on the motorway and lean out with a can of de-icier to clean the screen.

Honestly I would just chuck the ball back in their court and suggest they look for a garage like 90% of the rest of the population does. If it’s going to cost £300 for a new exhaust fitting it’s their problem. 

[sierraman]

9 hours ago, Talbot said:

Go back to the kwik fit and complain like fuck in a loudish voice that the "technicians" there are utter idiots.  Explain why.   As other punters start to listen in and then leave to go elsewhere, they will almost certainly cover your costs and offer at least a partial refund.

Did this at a tyre fit place once.. complained that the twat had rattle-gunned up my wheel nuts.  Manager asks what the issue is with that.  So I handed him the factory wheel brace and told him to undo just one nut with that, "like if I was at the side of the road with a puncture".  He couldn't.  I got an apology and correctly torqued wheel nuts after showing the cretin how a torque wrench works.

Drove off down the road and two wheels shed all their balance weights, as the fucking numpties had fitted steel-wheel-type clamp weights on an aluminium rim.  Complained A LOT.  Got a refund.

Bunch of incompetent twats.

‘Kwik Fit Technician’ a feature on your CV to ensure you don’t get taken seriously at interviews at garages. 🤣

I think Kwik Fit seems to be where all the failed mechanics go. 

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, sierraman said:

‘Kwik Fit Technician’ a feature on your CV to ensure you don’t get taken seriously at interviews at garages. 🤣

I think Kwik Fit seems to be where all the failed mechanics go. 

With all respect to Kwik Fit and other guys who work at similar places, they  not mechanics. They are fitters doing a limited range of mechanical jobs. 
(And before anyone asks, no I can’t fit a tyre , or exhaust although I can manage batteries and oil changes.)

[iainrcz]

Car insurance renewal.

Cost to insure last year 297, this year 423!?

What??

[Rust Collector]

56 minutes ago, iainrcz said:

Car insurance renewal.

Cost to insure last year 297, this year 423!?

What??

Ours shot up this year too, it's gone up some 60%. Couldn't find anyone else cheaper. Can only assume it's to do with the legislation that came in to stop insurers offering a different rate between new business and renewals... Was meant to protect people who don't shop around, but can't help but feel it's left them in the same situation but fucked over the folks who did shop around.