The grumpy thread

[seth]

Just seen this

 

http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/efnews/8880446.ONGAR__Driver_airlifted_to_hospital_after_crash/

 

I think it may be the club's treasuer.

[dollywobbler]

Shee-it. Bad news about the car, but more importantly, hope he recovers. Sounds nasty. Pass on regards if you get the chance.

[HillmanImp]

why is it the people most likely to be seen in tracksuits are the ones most unlikely to need them?

 

t depends where you are, sporty or slummy.

 

You can easily tell which area you are in by popping into any nearby newsagent and seeing how much Special Brew they stock.

[M'coli]

These are the risks we take, when we venture onto the roads in 40-odd year old vehicles weighing less than a tonne, against modern "small family hatchbacks" weighing over 1.5 tonnes... It's an arms race, akin to Darwinian evolution at its finest, with NCAP stars as the selection force.

 

 

Very sad, though.

[shite_meister]

That twat who does the Gillete razor adverts, I would not tire of shaving every layer of skin of his shitty-shiney little face, the way he 'whoops' as he walks into the shitters with the blokes mid-shave makes me want to repeatedly throw stones at the cunt as much as the cunts whom are shaving. I HATE THE CUNT fuck off, I'm at the point where I'd rather use an old scalpel blade to shave with than use a product endorsed buy such an irriating lttle cunt.

[Guest]

I like to daydream about them using a cut-throat razor on him in the context the name suggests.

 

I have many problems.

[ashmicro]

I like to daydream about them using a cut-throat razor on him in the context the name suggests.

 

I have many problems.

 

 

If he frequented my favourite haunts, that's precisely what would happen to him, Dan Hirst.

 

Bars that are dumps=bars that are cheap. PHAKKKKT

[mattblack]

O/Hs brother rang last night, his missus is after another car. Must be:

 

Silver or black.

 

'W' reg onwards.

 

Between £550 and £600.

 

I'll see what I can do....

[chaseracer]

O/Hs brother rang last night, his missus is after another car. Must be:

 

Silver or black.

 

'W' reg onwards.

 

Between £550 and £600.

 

I'll see what I can do....

With such clarity of information, how can you fail...?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Get her a triumph acclaim, I think they started on an 'X' so you should be OK there.

[Guest]

Luckily for her there'll be quite a lot of black Perodua Nippas and silver Kia Prides at that price level and age range.

[chaseracer]

[scaryoldcortina]

Oddly enough, there is a 51 plate rover 25 broken down on the side of the road near me.. it has two flat tyres and a puddle (which could very well be coolant) under it. It is silver, I'm sure whoever owns it would consider £550 a pretty fair price!

[Station]

Fortunately, every car from W reg was available in mostly silver or black!

[Negative Creep]

Or white.

 

 

Also my lack of a job has caused me to miss out on a bargain 328i, for which the owner just wanted beer tokens

[retrogeezer]

Just seen this

 

http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/efnews/8880446.ONGAR__Driver_airlifted_to_hospital_after_crash/

 

I think it may be the club's treasuer.

 

 

Any news on this Seth??

[cobblers]

Who the fup tightens the sump plug so tight that you have to weld a hub nut over the top so you can get a 32mm socket and two blokes on a 24 inch breaker bar to shift it? Obviously, the same person who had put 2 litres too much oil in the engine, and then completely rounded the plug off trying to remove it and then gave up on the car and sold it. nob.

[Richard]

Not many sumps would put up with that, what engine is it?

[cobblers]

Not many sumps would put up with that, what engine is it?

 

By this time I had decided it needed to come out whether I took the sump with it or not, especially considering the amount of sump to ground contact that has occurred - it's smashed to bollocks. It's a cast ally sump on a 16v golf engine - I bought a new plug, but ended up just putting the frankenplug back in. At least I can be sure I'll be able to get it back out.

[myglaren]

Not many sumps would put up with that, what engine is it?

 

By this time I had decided it needed to come out whether I took the sump with it or not, especially considering the amount of sump to ground contact that has occurred - it's smashed to bollocks. It's a cast ally sump on a 16v golf engine - I bought a new plug, but ended up just putting the frankenplug back in. At least I can be sure I'll be able to get it back out.

 

I was told the other day that VW now have a kit of some kind for this problem.

 

My son's sump plug (Golf GTi Turbo) was properly cabbaged and we ended up tapping it out and fitting a larger one.

[seth]

Any news on this Seth??

 

No, not yet.

[Negative Creep]

Not many sumps would put up with that, what engine is it?

 

By this time I had decided it needed to come out whether I took the sump with it or not, especially considering the amount of sump to ground contact that has occurred - it's smashed to bollocks. It's a cast ally sump on a 16v golf engine - I bought a new plug, but ended up just putting the frankenplug back in. At least I can be sure I'll be able to get it back out.

 

I was told the other day that VW now have a kit of some kind for this problem.

 

My son's sump plug (Golf GTi Turbo) was properly cabbaged and we ended up tapping it out and fitting a larger one.

 

 

I rounded off the one on my mk.2 with shocking ease. Queue that horrible trip to the garage to ask them to correct your mistake - it's like going to your Dad when you were a kid to admit you'd just broken something

[seth]

Any news on this Seth??

 

No, not yet.

 

I spoke too soon. Just got an email.

 

It was Peter. He is out of intensive care but has a broken arm,leg, ribs, lost

his spleen and has his liver rebuilt. so it will be some time to recover.

 

Ouch.

[retrogeezer]

blimey, at least he is alive though which is good news.

[trigger]

On different news making me grumpy, My Escort is pissing water in like a sieve, I noticed the other morning the passenger footwell was full of water and it's hardly stopped raining since.

 

I need to do the hose pipe test once it stops raining i think.

 

It was the battery tray, it's pissing in It goes in for welding on Wednesday so I'll get it plated up.

[RoadworkUK]

This makes me actually incandescent with rage.

 

Just for fun, and because I like things that piss me off, I stuck "redtop" into the eBollocks search box, out poured a deluge of CX20 powered machinery, much of which was originally fitted with something far more modest.

 

Here's a goodun:

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1999-VAUXHALL-CORSA-REDTOP-/180636541404?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item2a0ec6e1dc

 

"...now a 2.0L 16V redtop still logged as 1.0L on the logbook so its cheap to tax and insure up to new owner to change it"

 

'Nother one, this time a Tigra with 170hp:

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/vauxhall-tigra-2-0-16v-red-top-170-bhp-part-ex-swap-/160544646172?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item256134e41c

 

"..red top c20xe, f16 gearbox, 1998, black, still registered as 1.4 so that helps with insurance! "

 

There are dozens of the buggers. And the splendid thing is that the builders clearly had every intention of driving like twats in their morbidly overpowered and underinsured shopping trolleys, or they wouldn't carry such work out!

 

Twat buys car, twat doubles cars power, twat doesn't tell insurers, due to too much power twat (probably) crashes into me / runs my girlfriend over / smashes through my living room wall, everyone in the world is buggered due to non-insurance of said twat.

[eddyramrod]

Shouldn't someone draw the attention of the forces of law and order to these idiots? Ebay has a facility to "share" listings; just cultivate a friendly and interested officer, or even someone at an insurance company, and gaily email them some info. Wouldn't take long before there's a barrage of publicity in the mainstream press, and look, people stop doing it. Sadly it would probably also spell the end for properly-modified cars, as the thick minority always manages to spoil things for the real people...

[Station]

By this time I had decided it needed to come out whether I took the sump with it or not, especially considering the amount of sump to ground contact that has occurred - it's smashed to bollocks. It's a cast ally sump on a 16v golf engine - I bought a new plug, but ended up just putting the frankenplug back in. At least I can be sure I'll be able to get it back out.

 

Did you ... carefully ... unscrew the sump plug, making sure not to drop it into the oil catch tray underneath, watching each thread unscrew, making sure you've got hold of the plug nice and tight, waiting for the first drip of oil as you don't want to drop it into the tray underneath, and then get onto the last thread of the plug, have the first drip of oil and then drop the plug and copper washer into the tray as it fills with black oil?

I do that -every- time.

[cobblers]

By this time I had decided it needed to come out whether I took the sump with it or not, especially considering the amount of sump to ground contact that has occurred - it's smashed to bollocks. It's a cast ally sump on a 16v golf engine - I bought a new plug, but ended up just putting the frankenplug back in. At least I can be sure I'll be able to get it back out.

 

Did you ... carefully ... unscrew the sump plug, making sure not to drop it into the oil catch tray underneath, watching each thread unscrew, making sure you've got hold of the plug nice and tight, waiting for the first drip of oil as you don't want to drop it into the tray underneath, and then get onto the last thread of the plug, have the first drip of oil and then drop the plug and copper washer into the tray as it fills with black oil?

I do that -every- time.

 

I'm lucky enough to have never done that. I've took the plug out and then forgotten to put the bugger back in before refilling the engine. I was once actually looking directly at the sump plug, while filling the engine up with oil and thinking to myself "I need to slip the copper washer round on that before I put it back in"

 

This was 5 years ago, and I have just realised that is the last time the oil in my mums Ka was changed.

[warren t claim]

PAS pumps.

 

For some reason mine shattered on its mounting today causing much swearing and praying. Fortunately I found one in the local scrappy but trying to undo the pully wheel bolts without the belt attatched was a total pita.

 

I suppose I should be grateful that the engine didn't cook after being driven for 8 miles with no fan and waterpump.