The grumpy thread

[Station]

It's been there for as long as I can remember, at least 10 years! An Alfa Romeo is it's new stablemate, which has been stood for about three years.

 

 

 

 

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I bet the garage owner is always eager to chat to potential buyers of the car.

[Guest]

He's waiting for OSF tax to kick in ; by then it'll be worth £67,000,000 'because my mate's best mate's mum's hamster had one and so did everyone else, which means they're the best car ever so there.'

[Cavcraft]

  greengartside said:

That's the one LT!

 

I'm off to Bagillt so it's not far from there

 

Good luck with that, have you got your chemical suit? Many moons back I was knocking a bird from Bagillt off and her dad was the obligatory council estate Elvis.

 

There is a scrappy sort of across the bypass (on the coast side) of Bagillt that used to be ram full of old chod and possibly worth a look if you're down that way.

[greengartside]

  Cavette said:

  greengartside said:

That's the one LT!

 

I'm off to Bagillt so it's not far from there

 

Good luck with that, have you got your chemical suit? Many moons back I was knocking a bird from Bagillt off and her dad was the obligatory council estate Elvis.

 

There is a scrappy sort of across the bypass (on the coast side) of Bagillt that used to be ram full of old chod and possibly worth a look if you're down that way.

 

That's the scrappy that I plan to dump my borked Almera if I pick my new acquisition up....

[Cavcraft]

Who there Neddy, you can't drive past my manor (Chester) and drop cars at scrapyards. How much are they giving you for it and is it still tested?

[cobblers]

I bought another mk2 golf gti. Looked nice and shiny, had a 150/160bhp ABF engine in it. Was GR8 on test drive and the price was right.

 

Just picked it up and my mate followed me back and he said it was a little bit smokey. You can guess where this is going.

 

Stopped to put some fuel in it, started it up and it smoked the whole bloody forecourt out, Something is "quite shafted" and I'm guessing/hoping its either head gasket or stem seals. It's fairly shiny though.

[greengartside]

  Cavette said:

Who there Neddy, you can't drive past my manor (Chester) and drop cars at scrapyards. How much are they giving you for it and is it still tested?

 

Sorry Cav, the garage has took it in p/ex for 95 squid. At least it won't be scrapped! I would have offered it to you otherwise mate. Thank you

[Cavcraft]

Drat! Not to worry, cheers anyhow!

[greengartside]

I'm off to look/drive/buy this.....

 

 

Toyota Carina-E GTi - 122k, tax and M.o.T'd. Goes like stink but looks like shite! Will keep you posted on the progress

[Guest]

Nice one, they're a cracking motor those. Celica engine!

[Negative Creep]

3s-ge or 3s-fe?

[sludgeguts]

Cracking motors those Carina E.Had a 2.0 GLi auto a few years ago.Plenty of poke and dead reliable.Had the 3s-fe engine if I remember correctly.

[greengartside]

  Negative Creep said:

3s-ge or 3s-fe?

 

Not sure, thought it was the MR2 engine!

[eddyramrod]

  nigel bickle said:

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./..

 

Leave that with me, I'll make enquiries...

[Station]

Getting an MOT done by a lenient MOT tester. 'Leave it with me', he says, giving me a 'It'll be ready on Wednesday'. I let him have a day over, and now he's not answering his phone.

Fucking unreliable people wind me up - it's been a consistant thread for the past month, "Sorry mate, I forgot all about it, etc". Thursday night means I'm three weeks without a fucking car, I've got shite to do that I can't do on a 15 minute late bus which stops running at 6.30pm.

[mk1_4dr]

The Prelude needs an exhaust downpipe as its blown on the flexi.

'No worries' thinks I, I'll pop into Honda and price it up. 'That'll be £360 Sir as we'll have to have one made', Lets try andrew pages '£155 and a week-ish leadtime' No, home and internet ebay comes up trumps £40 delivered, I throw a cheeky offer of £35 (thats £25 for the part and £9.99 48hr delivery) to my door last Thursday evening. The guy accepts and I buy it Friday morning and so expect it to turn up Tuesday to bob it on and make the driving experience of my new whip even better, but no, its now Thursday evening, its still not arrived, Ive wasted my days off waiting in for it and now Im back on nights all weekend.

 

Bugger.

[Lankytim]

  eddyramrod said:

  nigel bickle said:

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./..

 

Leave that with me, I'll make enquiries...

 

Hey Eddie, why not export it to a u.k address, "on paper" (I.E not physically) then re-import it a few months later. Maybe it will start afresh tax wise.

[Negative Creep]

After getting some things out of storage, where they've been since November 2009 it now appears Tesco carrier bags are biodegradable

 

 

 

In a box full of models, so it will be great fun to get that lot out

[RoadworkUK]

The Fiesta full of teenage fucking oxygen theives sitting in the parking bay on Marine Parade, Clacton tonight at 9:00;

 

Throwing all your KFC/ McDonalds wrappers and cartons out the window may make them no longer "your problem", instead it makes them the problem of the thousand or so people who will have to look at YOUR SHIT fucking up the seafront until some poor bastard does the decent thing and cleans up after you. Next time PUT THEM IN THE BIN THAT'S TEN FUCKING FEET FROM YOUR CAR.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

That drives me fuggin mental. Bring back hanging!

[outlaw118]

I R KEEPIN COWSIL WERKAS IN A JOB INIT

[dollywobbler]

  Mr_Bo11ox said:

That drives me fuggin mental. Bring back hanging!

 

Which bit drives you mental? Fiesta, McDonalds or littering?

[Station]

Got both of my cars clamped today. They were parked untaxed in off-road carparking in front of my house. I've managed to remove one from the Metro (half an hour), and the other one doesn't have driveshafts, which will make the job easier. I'll probably have a fine, etc and face a court, but I'm past caring. I've only had the car less than a week, and it was getting on the road tomorrow.

[M'coli]

^^^That really is a bag of shit that you don't need.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

That does suck a GREAT BIG FAT COCK. Good on you for taking the clamps off. I can't wait till the day i read about someone nailing the DVLA's ass 4 DOLLAR after they clamp him/her on some private land or other spot where they have no business clamping.

 

They came into my old works car park and clamped some motors, obv no-one kicked off cos they don’t want hassle at work, but if someone had kicked off I would be interested to see the DVLA's defence of clamping on such 'non-public' areas.

 

At the end of the day when they clamp you there is no avenue whatsoever to challenge it, so I reckon if I thought I had been unfairly clamped I would defo take the bloody thing off and have the discussion about who's right and wrong in a courtroom or whatever.

[dollywobbler]

Apart from the fact that legally, they can clamp you in any public place?

 

If those parking spots are actually assigned to houses, they count as private, so you can tell them to piss off. A car park is another matter I believe.

[Cavcraft]

Tossers did it to my Nova years back after I'd left it in a carpark with no tax. I had a condemming noticed glued to the screen so I shifted into the pub carpark with the permission of the landlord.

Couple of days later my daughter woke me up at 6.30am to tell me my car was getting lifted. Bombed it over to the alehouse only in my scrundapps and the tosser trying to take it away said it was in a carpark. Argument ensued and as he was faffing about I went and got my other car and blocked him in. Gave his boss what for down the phone and they had to release the car from the back of the truck and apologise.

 

Incidentally regarding clamping if it ever happens to one of mine I'm going hide behind the wall a few weeks later and clamp the clampers cars when they fuck off for dinner. Also plan to get an old scrapper, fill the boot with precariously balanced open tins of paint and oil, undo the wheelnuts and leave it there over night. It'd be good to see them tow the bastard away with a big fuck off trail of 'unvironmental' shit leaking out of it and the wheels falling off before they get out of the carpark.

[wuvvum]

I had that happen to my Escort van about ten years ago. Got a ticket on it on a public car park, so moved it to a private car park but it still got towed away. Had to go to the contractor's yard and retrieve it myself, but didn't have to pay owt. Contractor was obviously pissed off at missing out on their "towing fee", as the c*nts had cut a section out of my radiator top hose, which I didn't notice until the van overheated - fortunately only 1/4 mile from home.

[Station]

I think it's unfair as they are both SORN'ed, in an area I'd consider off-road - the DVLA has obviously widened their scope to target every vehicle that doesn't match their criteria, which isn't making any sense anymore. I had no intention of ever driving them without tax (but they are both insured). The DVLA are making their own rules up along the way.

It's frustrating to occasionally read from people who are passionate about their cars and consider themselves a collector (even with two cars) giving quango's like the DVLA their full support with arguments as innocent as parking off-road - I haven't comitted any crime and I'm already in debt to these fuckers by £620. It's a serious issue that is affecting everyone who owns at least two cars, and it's only getting bigger as the DVLA gets more rabid.

They're coming to collect them in 24 hours (I guess they came at around 7.30 in the morning), but neither will be there.

[Rover414]

Knock on the door today, look out the window and there is a Transit outside and the great unwashed at the door. Answer the door:

 

"Is that car for scrap?"

 

That car being the 53-plate Rover 75 that has been on the drive for about 2 years (except now it has a full frontend back on it) and the 6 or 7 times the same person has knocked has not been for scrap? Same clown once asked if the (in use at the time daily...) 414 was for scrap. WHY!?