The grumpy thread

[Cavcraft]

The grin thread.

[seth]

I'm grumpy 'cos I just broke something I've already spent a while making. 3rd attempt coming up... Will try and figure a slightly different way.

 

Working on a Sunday. I shouldn't have started. Attempt 4 now required.

[Guest]

I'm grumpy 'cos I just broke something I've already spent a while making. 3rd attempt coming up... Will try and figure a slightly different way.

 

Working on a Sunday. I shouldn't have started. Attempt 4 now required.

 

Seconded. I should have stayed at home and read my Bristol history on the toilet.

 

Also, lying nob head bastard customers on the make. Stop fucking fabricating events because you're you too stupid to arrange another day for collection. I couldn't give a flying fuck about how much it cost you to get into town and how much it cost you to feed your stupid kids. Not my problem, YOU DIDN'T RESERVE THE FUCKING THING, tough shit, stop moaning, stop lying.

[Cavcraft]

*You have some more reading material now Jon

 

Pissing me off was buying another marine fish tank and breaking one of the bastarding catches on the lid getting it ouf of the car

[Albert Ross]

Changed the oil and filter on the Focus today. Now I do this kind of thing on a daily basis, using a ramp and proper drainers on wheels. So, doing it on the street outside my house isn't a biggie really. I got my drain tray (plastic) out of the shed, to find that I had left a set of pistons in it, to soak in diesel..... Which has denatured the plastic to such a degree, thet it has stuck the piston crowns to the drain tray. So I found my nice, shiny, sturdy, METAL drain tray, that I use for axle work and things. It's great, beacause it has a handle at ONE end. So, I drained the 4.5 litres of used 5W-30 into it, and tightened up the drain bung. Moved the tray under the filter, and thought I had slopped a bit onto the street. No matter, I will wipe it up when I finish. Finished up, and tried to drain the oil into one of my old empty oil cans. Well. The handle at one end is good, but the TWO FUCKING HOLES AT THE OTHER END WHERE THE OTHER HANDLE WOULD BE IF IT WAS FITTED were actually sending oil all over the path. CUNTS! SO I now have to clean the bastard path. There, said it.

[CIH]

christ, I hate dicking about with old oil.

[cobblers]

Two weeks ago I was tasked with arranging the collection of a mk3 golf (ex pillock) from my mates drive, in exchange for stealing the front suspension from it.

 

step 1: Pop in to see the friendly bloke at a fairly local scrappers to see if he wanted it or knew anyone who could be arsed to pick it up. I felt quite positive at the "I've no wagon but the lad who works here has a trailer, I'll get him to ring you tomorrow and he'll collect it and we'll sort you out with some store credit"

 

No call, We give up.

 

Step two: Google search "Scrap car collection retford" (was at work so no local paper). Results 1, 2 and 3 turn out to be the same place who won't collect it cos of no front wheels (despite it being parked ready to drag onto a flatbed). Several places promise £50 cahs paid FOR ANY CAR. Bollocks.

One bloke says he doesnt want to scratch the bed on his wagon ) Finally one wanker says he will come for it saturday at 11, but then doesnt turn up or answer his phone all day.

 

 

step 3: local free shitty paper - 3 places said NO WAY. Finally we get a very pleasant bloke who turns up, drags it on and actually enquires about taking the rusty old ka wheels and tyres we have, so they get thrown in.

 

The second he drives off, I rememeber the 25 litre drum of used engine oil and thinners that the local tip wont take, and the enpty fuel tank on the golf we've just given away and realise that I'm a moron. The tank could have taken all that and the rest of the oil, and the bloke would have probably appreciated the extra weight.

[Guest]

Tell you what, this happened on Saturday but I'm still really angry about it.

 

I went into Sainsburys to get some snap, they didn't have anything at all. The pasty range was bloody useless - they had some affordable Ginsters slices but only the mushroom ones I don't like, some Pork Farms nonsense (which is all horrible and I don't know why anyone stocks it) and the own-brand stuff was half out of stock. However, amongst it I found something along the lines of a Steak and Ale Cornish Pasty - sounds like an interesting concept! Got two. What a load of balls - thick pastry revealing the most rubbish contents I could imagine, it was like a load of potato scrapings. Couldn't notice any steak or any ale. I was furious. Fair enough if I'd been to some hokey Jet petrol station shop at 3am, but this is meant to be a proper supermarket. Tossers.

[eddyramrod]

Oi, I used to work in a Jet petrol station! Mind, it was 34 years ago, when "shop" meant a few cans of GTX around the office...

 

What really gave me a grump was Mrs Ramrod's reaction to the news of my latest addition to the fleet. Her lack of enthusiasm bordered on hostility. Well no, actually, it went way beyond hostility, bordering on removal of privileges. And when I get it home (to the new house, I daren't bring it here) she's going to do it all over again (experience suggests...).

[trigger]

Exonedai is pissing me off at the moment!!!!

[Angrydicky]

To the mong in the silver Ford Focus KF07 OTD last night: Please refrain from trying to run my 3.5 ton van off the road by cutting me up at 50 mph in a narrow 30 mph street as I approached a junction, causing me to brake and swerve to the left to avoid you. Twat

[messerschmitt owner]

To the mong in the silver Ford Focus KF07 OTD last night: Please refrain from trying to run my 3.5 ton van off the road by cutting me up at 50 mph in a narrow 30 mph street as I approached a junction, causing me to brake and swerve to the left to avoid you. Twat

on a similar note!

 

You, the tosser in the red eurobox this morning, the lines up the middle of the road are there to signify that one side is yours and the other is mine.

 

If you want to be a rally driver, try picking a closed stage, not the side of the road I am driving on around the blind corner!

 

Remember, next time, I may be driving faster!

[pogweasel]

OMG ALL OTHER DRIVRS R BAD DRIVERS etc.

Zzzzzzzz.

[messerschmitt owner]

OMG ALL OTHER DRIVRS R BAD DRIVERS etc.

Zzzzzzzz.

yep - half way across the solid line on a blind corner is bad driving in my book!

[dollywobbler]

£32 for two tyres to be replaced?! (I supplied the tyres). This has left me unamused. As has the incompetence of both the receptionist and the bloke fitting them, neither of whom seemed familiar with the equipment they were using. And that was with me taking the tyres away or there would have been another £7 'environment' charge!

 

I hate moving house, for the simple reason that finding a good garage, with competent staff who understand older cars and a 'cash-in-hand' policy for small jobs is always a costly and frustrating experience. To add to the grumps, the remaining two tyres on the car are not that healthy either. Looks like I've been enjoying myself a bit too much...

[messerschmitt owner]

£32 for two tyres to be replaced?! (I supplied the tyres). This has left me unamused. As has the incompetence of both the receptionist and the bloke fitting them, neither of whom seemed familiar with the equipment they were using. And that was with me taking the tyres away or there would have been another £7 'environment' charge!

 

I hate moving house, for the simple reason that finding a good garage, with competent staff who understand older cars and a 'cash-in-hand' policy for small jobs is always a costly and frustrating experience. To add to the grumps, the remaining two tyres on the car are not that healthy either. Looks like I've been enjoying myself a bit too much...

one of my local places tried that on me - when I swapped tyres from my steel wheels to my alloys - I went elsewhere and now have a sensible garage that does it for a £5 a wheel plus balancing and valves and disposal - less than a tenner all in!

 

One time, they did one for free as they were quiet.

[seth]

An annoying problem Dolly. Norm, His surname isn't Jones.

 

My current grump is March 6th. There's nothing car related to do (except visit the Ace occasionally) for what feels like months (probably because it is months) and then there are FOUR things I'd be quite interested in going to on this one date. I bet there's nothing for weeks after too.

[dollywobbler]

^^You didn't play the "I'm-a-journo-for-a-major-magazine-and-I-could-drop-a hint-of-your-business-details-as-a-side-note-in-my-column" meme?

 

No, because that always feels a bit unfair to me. If someone offers me something, I might accept but I don't go around saying "don't you know who I am" because therein lies the route to your own arsehole.

[outlaw118]

I've had 2 abusive phone messages left by an epic BELLEND called Dave Cusack, apparently I'm a "prick" and a "fucking knob".

This is from someone who, despite the card I left saying I need to be contacted within 48 hours, left it 10 days.

And the silly bastard didn't block his caller ID.

Fone 07984176573 for hardcore anal fun.

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

I've had 2 abusive phone messages left by an epic BELLEND called Dave Cusack, apparently I'm a "prick" and a "fucking knob".

This is from someone who, despite the card I left saying I need to be contacted within 48 hours, left it 10 days.

And the silly bastard didn't block his caller ID.

Fone 07984176573 for hardcore anal fun.

 

Was it an early Valentine's card?

[Guest]

I've had 2 abusive phone messages left by an epic BELLEND called Dave Cusack, apparently I'm a "prick" and a "fucking knob".

This is from someone who, despite the card I left saying I need to be contacted within 48 hours, left it 10 days.

And the silly bastard didn't block his caller ID.

Fone 07984176573 for hardcore anal fun.

 

Was it an early Valentine's card?

 

Do you ever have an eBay selling experience that runs smoothly outlaw? Did you sell the aforementioned item elsewhere because DC (special comics) went quiet? Fair play to you.

 

You could do what I did - get in touch with a reprographics company and print out 250 calling cards of a highly dubious nature inviting sexytime. I did this with the manager from my last place at Bolton (the one that sacked me 'because no one liked me') and I had her number. Said number plus cards and a trip to Piccadilly Station = lots of MILF calls I hope.

 

Cackle.

[chaseracer]

You could do what I did - get in touch with a reprographics company and print out 250 calling cards of a highly dubious nature inviting sexytime. I did this with the manager from my last place at Bolton (the one that sacked me 'because no one liked me') and I had her number. Said number plus cards and a trip to Piccadilly Station = lots of MILF calls I hope.

 

Cackle.

The cut of your jib is more than satisfactory, sir. Good work

[eddyramrod]

Cypriot bureaucracy. Continuous taxation might look good on paper, but in reality it means that if you buy (or are given...) a car that's been laid-up for a couple of years, you are liable for the outstanding tax. This is why Cyprus is littered with old cars in fields, hedgerows, pretty much everywhere. If they've stood a while, it simply isn't an economic proposition to restore them, or even fettle them enough for regular use.

 

I can see this spelling the end for my Mazda detour...

[CIH]

I'm grumpy because the cross-member I sent off for machine work and refurb is coming back half done, dspite 6 months of goading on my part, for what should have been no more than a couple of days work. So fuck it, i've ordered some die-grindig bits off ebay and I'll do it myself.

 

That and the fact the 200SX parts specifialists seem incabale of supplying 200SX parts. Despite being specialists. In 200SX.

[Guest]

1. Various crap events not entirely my fault. These include:

 

a. Coursework going for a Burton because of USB drive corruption,

b. Being rear ended by a Fiesta on Washway Road,

c. Our Video Journalism lecturer being an incompetent arse. She is so bad it boils my blood at the thought of what I'm paying to listen to her in class. If I wanted to listen to an ill informed idiot spouting shit ad nauseum I'd have stayed in full time employment. That way at least I was getting paid [something] to tolerate the unending torrent of feculant verbal decrepitude spake often twixt management and employees. Not happy, or impressed.

 

2. The previous owner's idea of 'maintenance'.

 

On a massively curtailed budget, I am slowly putting right the problems with the 480. I can't do anything like a restoration on it, it's not that far gone - but, anyway, I digress. The tyres supplied, though goodly in tread, gripped like teflon socks on a polished wooden floor. They were so cheap you can get a pair fitted for £36.

The NSR kept slowly deflating if left for any amount of time. I had to welly some air in it every 80 - 90 miles on the way back from Paddock Wood and I suspected either a porous alloy or a dodgy valve. Recently I got it down to my friendly tyre fitter in Sale Moor who took the tyre off and found a massive nail through the edge of a previous repair. Yes, a previous repair. How much of a budget was this lad running the car on if he had an £18 tyre repaired?

 

Anyway, I fitted the set of refurbished 15" Turbo alloys I scored very cheaply on eBay, tedious trip to Dartford notwithstanding. Two had T1R Proxes as boot, the other pair Paradas that had been on something FWD toeing in like an arsehole. Still better than the supplied Wan King Ditchfinders, and you can get Goodyear Eagle F1s in 195 \ 50 flavour for £40 each. Anyway, after a rather testing day at work, I trudged over to the unit to fit them, and all was well with the world, despite it getting dark and having to roll around in a massive puddle to get them fitted. My space in the unit is still full of shit and SCTSH_ANDY wouldn't move his Discovery forward. I do a cursory inspection of the pads and discs and best I can in the fading light.

 

With the unit tidied up and the wheels on, I've not much idea what they look like but decide to go for a test run before I go to the pub for the quiz. I wind the 480 up to a decent speed on the A555 and slow for a roundabout at the top of the dual carriageway. 'DUNKDUNKDUNKDUNKDUNKkrrrrbbbbbpppppppp' goes the nearside wheel. Convinced I've disturbed something changing the rims, or that the inside is catching the caliper, I limp into Heald Green and call the RAC. When matey arrives, I borrow his jack and check the wheelnuts were wellied on enough (first suggestion by the Pete-M division of the Scouse Team of Excellence). They check out fine. Patrolman spins the wheel to check for caliper fouling. No misdeeds occur. We go for a run up the road ('Eeh, I like these') and we get an even louder 'DUNKDUNKDUNKDUNKkrrrrbpppppppppp'. RAC man suspects shagged pads, so we retreat back to the car park and check. Behold! One pad down to the metal and a scored OSF disc. On one side. The NSF is near perfect, and almost new. What the fuck? I didn't think parts places were allowed to sell discs \ pads singly because of wear liability.

 

Seriously, Land Rover owners and brakes. What's their fucking problem? The tyres I can sort of understand being on a budget (the car is more or less worthless), but when you can get NOS OEM discs and pads for that car for less than £50 delivered off eBay, you're not just a skinflint, you're a penny pinching twat doing one side to save a few quid.

I gingerly took the 480 back to the unit (having another bloody evening ruined) and got a full set of front pads \ discs ordered from eBay. In the better weather today I had a look at the rear pads \ discs in the daylight, and they're shagged to the point of being scrap. It's not the fact that they're worn that I'm annoyed about, I'm just concerned at how the hell you can do a 'full service' on a car a month before selling it and miss basic shit like this. And yes, I was stupid to change the wheels in the dark, but it needed to be done. The NSR tyre had had it and the ones on the white 480 breaker would have been rejected by a drifter. I also accept that I've had the car rather a while, driven it, erm, rather hard and haven't done much to it. So it is partially my own fault.

 

Not happy really. Not happy at all.

[M'coli]

Are they a sliding-type caliper? It could be slightly siezed, causing the excessive wear. Or the previous owner could just be an onanist.

 

As to changing the wheels in the dark, do you not have a headtorch? The LED ones are dead cheap, I've changed cylinder heads of a Saturday evening with nowt but mine for light.

[Guest]

Are they a sliding-type caliper? It could be slightly siezed, causing the excessive wear. Or the previous owner could just be an onanist.

 

As to changing the wheels in the dark, do you not have a headtorch? The LED ones are dead cheap, I've changed cylinder heads of a Saturday evening with nowt but mine for light.

 

I think the latter is the best way to describe the former owner of my car. And yes, weirdly enough, I had one given to me today by an old colleague, for exactly the reasons outlined above.

[Rocket88]

Ref the above ;Eurocrap parts [and they are] still sell single discs. They are also epically adept at sending you the wrong parts.............I think they employ people who failed the Halfrauds audition.

[nigel bickle]

Eddie - if the rules are becoming that tight- the rust free shite is effectively worthless?

 

If so -are there stringent rules relating to exporting? If I bought- through you -something 'interesting' -would anyone there get ''hit'' -and are there taxes/rules preventing export?

 

Just a germ of an idea./..

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Hey thats a good idea!!! Tell us more!