The grumpy thread

[warren t claim]

Trust me, I'm expected to do a 20 minute MOT on every unit and trailer I drive.

[scaryoldcortina]

I'm sorry, I thought this was a car forum. Walt who?

[warren t claim]

We're rapidly heading towards 1000 pages in this grumpy thread and I'm not sure if I'm going to feature in the top ten.

[autofive]

^^^Riiii-iii-ii-iiiight.... Walt was a Nazi like I'm a Greenpeacer. That canard is just another leftie "Looney Tune", Mike, by people who think Neil Armstrong jumped off the Lunar Lander in a sound studio, or that George Bush 2 ordered the Pentagon to blow up the Twin Trade Centers.

 

Gunther lessing look him up on google norm

[warren t claim]

[cobblers]

Boot has to open before you even log the test on, if it (or the doors, or bonnet) won't open you refuse to test.

 

Like the man with orthopaedic insoles - I stand corrected

[Justin Case]

B&Q, Focus, Wickes, etc my arse! If you look around there are still proper ironmongers about where you can get everything you need, you get helpful service from people who exactly what you want from the sketchiest of descriptions, and they help make High Streets a place to enjoy, and not just a row of estate agents and charity shops. I try to get everything I need from this one, even waiting till I'm in the area if I'm not around. As a shite bonus, there was even a Ledbury Maestro (Shropshire Y Registration) parked just the other side of the traffic lights yesterday

 

Traditional Ironmongers - Tenbury by geoffp5, on Flickr

[morris_ital_lover]

Birds.. of the feathery kind.

 

Don't the little feathery shits know that no-one actually wants to listen to the stupd bleedin crowing/"singing" all day long. Yesterday I was plagued by something small and un recognisable going "chup-chup" all day... literally all day. Now it seems to have disappeared and there's a friggin magpie flying around making stupid noises as well, what I'd do for a shotgun ATM. /rant

 

m0rris

[Mr H Sceptre]

H, if you have a copy of the deleted thread, could you PM a copy of it to me? I wasn't present when all this went down, would like to understand the plate tectonic shifting that occurred. Not asking for a re-hash, only a private read, if you can. Norm

 

 

Hi there

 

I'm afraid once the thread is deleted its gone forever, so I don't have a copy I can send to you.....

[boobydoo]

Hear! Hear! About old fashioned ironmongers. They seem quite happy to sell you a couple of screws or wall plugs etc whereas at B&Q you have to buy a pack of 200 or summink. Plus the assistants actually know what they're talking about rather than spotty youths who shuffle about like something out of the Thriller video and haven't got a clue.

 

Ref birds...every morning I get a pheasant croaking really loudly at 4.30 am plus the "chup-chups" which i reckon is a robin. Also on Sunday mornings at 8am I get the church bells that are dead opposite.. ...Hence I never sleep in.

[ashmicro]

We have a builder's suppliers near here who'll sell you everything from 10 screws to enough brick to build a house, and everything in between. They even sell work clothes. One time I needed to sink a new 3x3" fencepost, they gave me a Tesco carrier bag of cement for nothing. As someone else said, folks like this know their stuff too.

[Cavcraft]

There is a small, independant hardware shop not too far from me which is ace but alas they don't always have what you want in stock.

 

Ref. birds, I absolutely love listening to them. It was a right pita when some crows were flying round at 4.30am the other year mind you.

Locally to us is an old train way that's been ripped out and made into a cycleway/lesiure path. There is nothing more relaxing than a slow walk down listening to the different birds all singing away. I wish I knew more about the different birds and plan to get a book about them and some binoculars.

[HillmanImp]

I cant understand why anyone buys anything from B&Q etc. Homobase do plants cheap TBH but everyting esle should be bought elsewhere if possible. The only time I go in there is if I am needing something at night as most ironmingers are not open until 8pm like the big places.

 

I was builing a walk in wardrobe the other day and got the wood from a local place with all the fittings I needed. The fittings were 12p each there when the same ones were £4 for 4 at Wickes when I ran out. I was outraged by the price and thought I am not paying that, so I lifted them.

[M'coli]

There is a small, independant hardware shop not too far from me which is ace but alas they don't always have what you want in stock.

 

Ref. birds, I absolutely love listening to them. It was a right pita when some crows were flying round at 4.30am the other year mind you.

Locally to us is an old train way that's been ripped out and made into a cycleway/lesiure path. There is nothing more relaxing than a slow walk down listening to the different birds all singing away. I wish I knew more about the different birds and plan to get a book about them and some binoculars.

Birds are great - we can hear the sparrows etc having a territory fight each morning in the beech hedge outside our house. Dogwalking along the old railway's good too, especially now we have oyster catchers and curlew( ah, the curlew - by favourite birdsong of all ).

[morris_ital_lover]

Birds are great when you have loads of lovely little singers... it's when you don't have any of the nice ones but a set of magpies sqwarking all day that gets me!

 

As for a grump... my car ignorant mate just got back from having his car MoT'd by the garage, on top of the MoT he had to pay £120 for tweaks to make it pass, namely replacing a headlamp bulb, tightening the hand brake cable and, my favorite, tightening the bolts of the drivers seats (which was apparenty £30 for the labour).

 

m0rris

[KruJoe]

What a dick.

While replacing the 214's alternator, I buggered up a hose outlet on the rad. CNUT.

After cursing myself all day, I have a plan for an epic bodge. If it works, I'll post pics in the bodge thread for y'all to laugh at. Wish me luck...

[ashmicro]

What a dick.

While replacing the 214's alternator, I buggered up a hose outlet on the rad. CNUT.

After cursing myself all day, I have a plan for an epic bodge. If it works, I'll post pics in the bodge thread for y'all to laugh at. Wish me luck...

 

 

Happens more often than you may think! I believe Mr Bollox of this parish sucessfully used Araldite or the like.

[BMC Dan]

Just saw a job advert for an MOT tester's assistant on the Directgov website from a small garage a couple of minutes walk from my house. A minimum wage affair but would have suited me fine as no need to consider travel costs and could go home for lunch. So I phoned the number on the garage website only to get "sorry this place was taken a couple of days ago and we haven't removed the advert yet". Typical.

[Negative Creep]

Turned on my laptop to get the blue screen of death. Might be able to salvage it with a recovery disk, if i can find it. Since i had not performed any prior upgrades im guessing the hard drive has lunched itself

[ashmicro]

Continually hit F8 while it's booting, NC, and see if it will start in safe mode. If it does start, right-click on the icon for the hard drive and choose the option to check for errors. Reboot, and the disk check will run at boot. Take it from there.

[Negative Creep]

It wont start in safe mode, or safe mode with command prompt, or last known good settings. Just goes th the same blue screen with unmountable boot problem

[CIH]

I was able to fix my laptop uing the repair console and writing another boot .ex Or something.

 

I like birdsong as I'm a real winter-hater but OMG the amount of birdshat on my silvia today was frickin ridiculous. Almost every panel and every window, including the door mirrors FFS.

[Lord Sterling]

For some reason the garage whewre my Sterling is at have been trying to put some pressure on me to deliver a top-hose it needs, they've now decided they want the car out of the way, fair enough but there is much I can do about it, my mate who has the top-hose is very busy, so I can only collect on Friday morning. I've insured the Sterling awell today to get it ready as I suspect they will wang on an MOT and want it out of the way by sometime next week. My money is fast draining aswell.

[outlaw118]

Birds?

 

NOMNOMNOMNOM

[M'coli]

It wont start in safe mode, or safe mode with command prompt, or last known good settings. Just goes th the same blue screen with unmountable boot problem

It's not a Compaq Presario is it? That's what died on me a fortnight ago, the ATI graphics card has problems (I loaded Ubuntu onto another hard drive and it has to run in low-graphics mode to work) and took the HD with it...

[KruJoe]

What a dick.

Happens more often than you may think! I believe Mr Bollox of this parish sucessfully used Araldite or the like.

I've tried and failed with Araldite on a rad in the past, (it slowly softened and popped) so I've tried summert else.

Bodge: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=11285&start=30#p281926

[warren t claim]

Can anyone here trace a car from a reg number? I've had REK803R buzzing around my head all day and for the life of me I can't remember what it was attached to.

[Negative Creep]

It wont start in safe mode, or safe mode with command prompt, or last known good settings. Just goes th the same blue screen with unmountable boot problem

It's not a Compaq Presario is it? That's what died on me a fortnight ago, the ATI graphics card has problems (I loaded Ubuntu onto another hard drive and it has to run in low-graphics mode to work) and took the HD with it...

 

 

Its a toshiba satellite. To be fair its probably about 6 years old. I bought it in NZ and it has stood up to all kinds of abuse and still kept going. Ive more than got my money's worth from it

[Angrydicky]

Can anyone here trace a car from a reg number? I've had REK803R buzzing around my head all day and for the life of me I can't remember what it was attached to.

 

Registration REK803R

Make TRIUMPH

Model 2000

Description Not Available

Fuel Type Petrol

 

http://www.cartell.ie

[r.welfare]

Can anyone here trace a car from a reg number? I've had REK803R buzzing around my head all day and for the life of me I can't remember what it was attached to.

 

All I can get is a yellow Triumph with a 1998cc engine, 1st reg'd 20 April 1977. TR7 or Dolly Sprint?