The grumpy thread

[RoverFolkUs]

5 minutes ago, Rust Collector said:

Pretty sure I drove through a speed trap on the A23 whilst travelling at around 90mph… my fault entirely but still sucks to be spending the next couple of weeks waiting for a letter.

I swear I’ve not had as many run ins with speed traps in anything as much as that bloody Honda Insight, a 1 litre engine is obviously far too powerful for me to be trusted with.

Far too many on the A23, they love sitting in so many different places it's impossible to keep track! 

[Don't speed kids 😆]

[Rust Collector]

9 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Far too many on the A23, they love sitting in so many different places it's impossible to keep track! 

[Don't speed kids 😆]

They were sat on a bridge over the brow of a hill just past Pease Pottage. I’d been driving back from Cardiff and was rolling along behind some big Aldi SUV thing keeping pace with him… bearing in mind I meet a speed trap somewhere on the A23 almost every time I travel back from client visits you’d think I’d just drive the bloody speed limit there. I swear they never used to be so proactive at catching people speeding on that road, but lately they’ve been on it like shit on a blanket.

[Wack]

Doesn't this piss you off , mini stolen , spotted on a trailer , police not interested despite it looking like the vehicle towing it is legit

 

 

[Noel Tidybeard]

On 22/05/2023 at 16:09, Datsuncog said:

No idea why Redex decided to redesign their bottle, but the neck's now too short to push past the little valve on the Corolla's filler neck - so it all just floods out and pours down the side of the car.

I had to use a lolly stick out of the bin to jam the flap open, then tip the remains down into the tank.

Last time I'm buying that, then.

hasn't the toyoyo got a she-wee for this very purpose?

[crad]

32 minutes ago, RoverFolkUs said:

Far too many on the A23, they love sitting in so many different places it's impossible to keep track! 

[Don't speed kids 😆]

i don't think i've ever seen a speedtrap on the a23

 

mind you, the clio struggles beyond 75 anyway so it aint as if i can get done for owt anyway! (barring down handcross hill, which is a bit boring these days- bring back the copious danger)

[RoverFolkUs]

16 minutes ago, Rust Collector said:

They were sat on a bridge over the brow of a hill just past Pease Pottage. I’d been driving back from Cardiff and was rolling along behind some big Aldi SUV thing keeping pace with him… bearing in mind I meet a speed trap somewhere on the A23 almost every time I travel back from client visits you’d think I’d just drive the bloody speed limit there. I swear they never used to be so proactive at catching people speeding on that road, but lately they’ve been on it like shit on a blanket.

I think I know the one, handcross hill, the bridge just before the DVSA checkpoint on your right if you're heading southbound. Or there's one of the bridges by the cuckfield turn off they love sitting on.

And they like sitting at that BP station at Pyecombe where the pub is and the road sits back a bit, just out of immediate sight until it's too late...

Road safety and all that, but bastards 😆

[RoverFolkUs]

1 minute ago, crad said:

i don't think i've ever seen a speedtrap on the a23

 

mind you, the clio struggles beyond 75 anyway so it aint as if i can get done for owt anyway! (barring down handcross hill, which is a bit boring these days- bring back the copious danger)

They're fuckin everywhere when they want to be. Have you not been on there much lately 😆

[crad]

Just now, RoverFolkUs said:

They're fuckin everywhere when they want to be. Have you not been on there much lately 😆

not since i left uni to be fair, so about 9 months. I hardly go north of Horsham in the car at the moment 🤣.

[Rust Collector]

1 minute ago, crad said:

(barring down handcross hill, which is a bit boring these days- bring back the copious danger)

I think that every time I drive down that stretch. The old 2 lane section with a double bend and trees down either side was far more exciting as a teenager with no sense of mortality.

[High Jetter]

Just now, crad said:

I hardly go north of Horsham in the car at the moment 🤣.

Wise man!

[RoverFolkUs]

7 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Wise man!

There's not much worth seeing up there 😂

[DavieW]

Swap out

round out

rot out

"Out" can FRO. 🤬

[RoverFolkUs]

2 minutes ago, DavieW said:

Swap out

round out

rot out

"Out" can FRO. 🤬

FRO... Fuck right out...? 🤔😁

[New POD]

11 hours ago, MikeR said:

its been like that for 30 years or more , it used to be a corrugated plastic pipe which leaked at the joints , then one day this washing machine expired ....

You fitted that kitchen in 1986. 

You'd have thought it would last longer.  

[Unlucky Alf]

7 hours ago, RoverFolkUs said:

I think I know the one, handcross hill, the bridge just before the DVSA checkpoint on your right if you're heading southbound. Or there's one of the bridges by the cuckfield turn off they love sitting on.

And they like sitting at that BP station at Pyecombe where the pub is and the road sits back a bit, just out of immediate sight until it's too late...

Road safety and all that, but bastards 😆

Heading southbound past the Handcross DVSA site on the other side, they park the van on the left side of the A23,  where the road climbs  back up the hill,  before where it goes to the cuckfield turn.  Basically getting speeders who wiz down the hill and come up the other side.

Last night they were on the bridge before the Bolney turn off (another favourite place), where they get people wizzing down that hill again. There's a slight curve in the road and they become visible with no chance of slowing down.

[High Jetter]

8 hours ago, Rust Collector said:

I think that every time I drive down that stretch. The old 2 lane section with a double bend and trees down either side was far more exciting as a teenager with no sense of mortality.

I remember it well, was a far more engaging road to drive than it is now.

[MikeR]

3 hours ago, New POD said:

You fitted that kitchen in 1986. 

You'd have thought it would last longer.  

Just had to try some "seek n seal" on the joint to stop it weeping , they don't make this fancy plastic pipe stuff to last ...

[Datsuncog]

10 hours ago, Noel Tidybeard said:

hasn't the toyoyo got a she-wee for this very purpose?

If it ever did, it appears to be long gone - just like the parcel shelf, the lid of the dash cubby, the wheelbrace, the handbooks...

I'm not even convinced Redex is all that useful - but my grandfather swore by it for his assorted end-of-life Austins and Morrises, so every now and then when it's on special offer in Tesco I impulsively buy a bottle for £2 or whatever.

But it was absolutely fine going into the Corolla's filler neck up until the latest bottle redesign.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

11 hours ago, Wack said:

Doesn't this piss you off , mini stolen , spotted on a trailer , police not interested despite it looking like the vehicle towing it is legit

 

 

I was reading about that on Twitter. The part which doesn't quite stack up is that the Shogun was followed into the services by someone who red flagged it, yet they decided not to follow as it left? 

[Supernaut]

5 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

I was reading about that on Twitter. The part which doesn't quite stack up is that the Shogun was followed into the services by someone who red flagged it, yet they decided not to follow as it left? 

Perhaps they had somewhere else they needed to be, rather than spending all day playing vigilante.

[loserone]

I've read in some places that the shogun / mini are legit and a different car, but also that the police are still looking for the shogun.  

[Dick Cheeseburger]

56 minutes ago, Supernaut said:

Perhaps they had somewhere else they needed to be, rather than spending all day playing vigilante.

 Apparently not. 

25 minutes ago, loserone said:

I've read in some places that the shogun / mini are legit and a different car, but also that the police are still looking for the shogun.  

I think there was some confusion about the badges on the bottom of the Mini's rear doors. However, the owner is confident it's her car as she recently added badges in the same place as those shown on the Mini on the trailer.

[Wack]

50 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

 Apparently not. 

I think there was some confusion about the badges on the bottom of the Mini's rear doors. However, the owner is confident it's her car as she recently added badges in the same place as those shown on the Mini on the trailer.

I think the car has been(badly) disguised for transport , nobody trailering their pride and joy puts a cover over the paint to flap about in the wind and ratchet straps it across the bonnet

[vulgalour]

The Lanchester is testing my patience once more with the wiring.  The semaphores decided to stop working for no reason, the horns too, the wiring to both of them doesn't want to work either for no reason.  Today I've just been chasing my tail trying and failing to fault find this.

I'm not looking for advice, just a little vent.  If anyone knows, or is, an auto-electrician who would be willing to come out to the car to try and sort it out please get in touch (not as a freebie, we're willing to pay for work done providing we've the budget).  I reckon it's time to hand this part of the job over to someone who knows what they're doing, I can then focus on all the other stuff that I'm actually competent at.

[Vantman]

1 hour ago, vulgalour said:

The Lanchester is testing my patience once more with the wiring.  The semaphores decided to stop working for no reason, the horns too, the wiring to both of them doesn't want to work either for no reason.  Today I've just been chasing my tail trying and failing to fault find this.

I'm not looking for advice, just a little vent.  If anyone knows, or is, an auto-electrician who would be willing to come out to the car to try and sort it out please get in touch (not as a freebie, we're willing to pay for work done providing we've the budget).  I reckon it's time to hand this part of the job over to someone who knows what they're doing, I can then focus on all the other stuff that I'm actually competent at.

These people might be able to help,i am not sure if they offer a mobile service though--http://www.auto-electrics-kent.co.uk/services/classic-car-electrics.html

[vulgalour]

Bitdefender and Firefox do not seem to like that site at all.  I can't even get it to open when I do a search and find it via a search engine.  Not sure what that's about.

[Yoss]

On 5/23/2023 at 12:22 PM, wuvvum said:

There were a couple of those performing some (very noisy) high alpha manoeuvres over my house at the weekend.  I stopped and watched them for a while, was quite impressive to see.

We were visiting the in laws up near Heacham last week and there were a couple of what I think we're Eurofighters having a dogfight over us there. They were very high up but it was still bloody loud. Do you think they are practising for anything in particular? 

[wuvvum]

2 minutes ago, Yoss said:

Do you think they are practising for anything in particular? 

You mean was one of them pretending to be a Sukhoi?

[Yoss]

20 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

You mean was one of them pretending to be a Sukhoi?

Well it was only last week the Americans agreed to let other countries lend Ukraine their F16s. The Ukrainian pilots have to be trained somewhere. I'm sure it's just a coincidence. I'm sure they do these exercises all the time. I don't live in Norfolk so I wouldn't know. 

[Rocket88]

2 hours ago, vulgalour said:

Bitdefender and Firefox do not seem to like that site at all.  I can't even get it to open when I do a search and find it via a search engine.  Not sure what that's about.

This help?