The grumpy thread

[mattblack]

You may remember that I recently overhauled the calipers on on the Sceptre, this involved the purchase of 2 caliper repair kits. Tonight I opened the drawer in the garage where I keep the bits and pieces of spares that I got with the car... to find 2 caliper repair kits.

 

I R A TWUNT.

[sporty-shite]

Footman James have been mostly pissing me off today.

 

Got a SUPA_CHEEP policy off them for the XR2, but then was told, when I was looking to replace it, that they wouldn't cover anything over group 10. This was a mild pisser, but I was getting on with it. Phoned yesterday to check what age of vehicles they would cover.

 

FJ "Anything over 15 years should be fine"

 

S-S "Should be, or wiil be?"

 

FJ "Will be"

 

Fine, thinks I, this should make the search a little easier. So, found this and was quite taken by it.

 

Cue another call to FJ, just to double check before I went and viewed.

 

FJ "That Rover would need to be over twenty years old"

 

S-S "Then could you please tell me one consistent policy, please. I've been told 15 years plus, but sub Group 10. What can I have."

 

FJ "For example, with Fords, you could have 15 year old XR2, XR2i, XR3i...."

 

S-S "But an XR3i is over group 10, I thought I couldn't go above this"

 

FJ "We could still cover it, but with additional premium"

 

S-S "How much, say for an XR3i"

 

FJ (after much faffing) "Oh, an extra £530"

 

Bearing in mind I only paid £130 for the original policy, you'll understand that I thought this was a bit rich.

 

So, the upshot is, no-one seems to know exactly what they're taling about, I can't get a straight answer from anyone, and I'm strugling to find a car. Yes, I could get a modern(ish) and take out a new policy, Flux will even honour my four-year-old NCB, but the whole point of selling the XR2 was to get a few quid in, not spunk it back out on insurance.

 

And I've got shifts on Friday and Saturday, and Mrs S will need her car. FUCKSTICKS!

[STUNO]

Re the Liberty Belle crash, check these pics which explain why the crew survived the accident. Great landing !!

 

http://i845.photobucket.com/albums/ab20 ... 390TH0.jpg

[Pillock]

Sporty.... does sound like they're making it up on the spot. Can you ask them for a list of every car produced and whether it needs to be 15 or 20 years old? Or do they just Google Image Search whatever you try to insure, squint at it a bit and try to decide how classic it it?

 

They were fine on the Golf I got from you (obviously, it was your recommendation I went with them) and they had no hassle at all swapping to an E36 318i - which I would say is pretty much in the same "psuedo classic" bucket as that Rover. That was a 1994 car.

[chaseracer]

Re the Liberty Belle crash, check these pics which explain why the crew survived the accident. Great landing !!

 

http://i845.photobucket.com/albums/ab20 ... 390TH0.jpg

 

I fear that extinguisher in the foreground may not have been quite adequate for the job in hand...

[Angrydicky]

Sporty.... does sound like they're making it up on the spot.

 

Footman James were happy to insure my 1986 2CV, but when I tried to get the Maestro (1985) insured I was told no. I queried this and was told that although they insure 2CV's made before 1990, a Maestro would have to be 30 years old or more, which isn't even possible!

 

I phoned up the next day and spoke to a different advisor who would insure it, but they wanted a grand. So it does seem like they make it up and you may be in luck depending on who you speak to and their mood on the day.

[Lankytim]

An old pal of mine had an accident in his truck a couple of weeks ago. He was coupling up his trailer but it sounds like the trailer brake wasn't set before he connected the airlines, the truck rolled away and he ended up getting badly crushed. He was air lifted to hospital, and was in a serious condition but was on the up although i'm told surgeons had to amputate one of this legs. Unfortunately he deteriorated quite suddenly and died today. He was due to get married the week after the accident too. Life really sucks cock sometimes.

[warren t claim]

An old pal of mine had an accident in his truck a couple of weeks ago. He was coupling up his trailer but it sounds like the trailer brake wasn't set before he connected the airlines, the truck rolled away and he ended up getting badly crushed. He was air lifted to hospital, and was in a serious condition but was on the up although i'm told surgeons had to amputate one of this legs. Unfortunately he deteriorated quite suddenly and died today. He was due to get married the week after the accident too. Life really sucks cock sometimes.

 

Not the first time I've heard of this happening. My sympathies to all.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

that sounds awful...condolences

[Lord Sterling]

Lanky - My condolences mate, not nice.

 

Sporty.... does sound like they're making it up on the spot.

 

Footman James were happy to insure my 1986 2CV, but when I tried to get the Maestro (1985) insured I was told no. I queried this and was told that although they insure 2CV's made before 1990, a Maestro would have to be 30 years old or more, which isn't even possible!

 

I phoned up the next day and spoke to a different advisor who would insure it, but they wanted a grand. So it does seem like they make it up and you may be in luck depending on who you speak to and their mood on the day.

 

It is very true that insurance quotes and rejection on certain cars but not on others seem to be mad eup on the spot. As some know, my 1990 G-reg Sterling had its insurance rejected 20 days after first buying it. Apparently it suddenly didnt meet the insurance underwriters "criteria" and therefore could no longer be insured.

 

Its worth seriously ringing around and seeing what better deals you can get. Peter D James inurers have just insured my Sterling on a fully comp Classic policy for £230 per year.

[trigger]

Sorry to hear that Tim, My condolences to you mate.

[outlaw118]

Myself and Mrs O went away for our anniversary commiserations last weekend, got a call from B & B at 12.00 noon on Friday, saying he's cancelling the booking due to family illness, and we had been booked in at a pub. I purposely didn't book a pub in the first place because of the noise issues, but at such short notice - 4 hours! - I went for it.

It had a licence till 1am, and then it seemed, a lock-in. Great.

Checked out Saturday morning, and rang Ma Outlaw to get us somewhere else, which she did, albeit more expensive, but very nice, Mrs Outlaw feeling shitty, went to bed, I went to the bar, had 2 pints of Diet Coke - out of a 2 litre bottle, not draught, then went out in The Moose, to track down kebab/McD's/KFC etc.

Slept lovely.

Checked ou, got the bill. Breakfast - £10 a head!!!!

 

But; how much do you reckon my Coke cost?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

£7.80.

Fucking Hell.

[maxpower]

£7.80 for coke

 

what is he.. a dealer?

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

But; how much do you reckon my Coke cost?

£7.80.

Fucking Hell.

 

Unfortunately, that's about right for a decent hotel. They 'll sell rooms pretty much at cost (or even below 'average cost' if they have a lot that sit empty) and then try to fleece punters with incidentals. 3 quid of a small bottle of mineral water is not unheard of, either.

[outlaw118]

T'was a 3 Star (AA rating) and the room, was £115 by itself, then £10ph for a very average breakfast - think £5.99 motorway services - then 2 cokes at £3.80 a pint, total spent from 5.00pm Saturday until 10.00 Sunday, £142.60. Thats £8.39ph, and I was asleep for 8 of those...

 

At least the Lone Ranger wore a fucking mask.

[Cavcraft]

If you were going away for a wedding anniversary with your wife and slept for eight hours I'd be more inclined to complain to the domestic manager

[outlaw118]

No point in complaining, it doesn't get you anywhere....you're a married man, you should know that....

[maxpower]

or maybe she raided the mini bar while you slept

 

or maybe they add extra just incase you nick the towels or napkins or something

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

£115 for a 3-star? That's expensive even by London standards!

[scaryoldcortina]

At least the Lone Ranger wore a fucking mask.

 

Dick Turpin? iirc the lone ranger wasn't in the robbery business...

[outlaw118]

^^^^ I R CRETIN, SOZ

[Station]

I stayed in a Holiday Inn in London and it cost 250 quid for two nights. It was 3 star, you can get similar for about 40 quid. Ridiculous. They also had 15 quid a day parking round the back. Grr.

[Cavcraft]

No point in complaining, it doesn't get you anywhere....you're a married man, you should know that....

 

 

Probably best to take someone else's wife. I'd try that theory but I don't think the current Mrs C would take it too kindly.

[Lord Sterling]

MOAR Bloody stupid drivers

 

What is it about me? Or what I drive? Why do I attract these twats? Today, I pull into a well-known Hardware store with Ma_Sterling, the entrance/exit road is a bit tight so its down to the users to use courtesy. I see another car coming the other way driven by an old lady, she is taking her time which is fine so 'I'll wait until she passes, suddenly, a Silver Golf blasts its horn and cuts passed me through the gap nearly colliding head on with the car coming the other way still blasting its horn. I nearly went and lamped the twat, I shoted a few obscenities at him, he looked but carried on walking into the store, then I went to ask what his problem was, his attitude left a lot to be desired, I nearly lamped him one, but I had Ma_Sterling with me.

 

[Station]

I'm selling a car:

 

I'm interested in the fog light, if you still have them, could consider selling them to me ?

 

[maxpower]

back to work tomorrow

 

after 2 weeks holz feel more knackered now than when i did at the start

[Guest]

German customer has finally paid me the massive £2.20 he won my speakers for. Essex twat boy nowhere to be seen.

 

Which is great, except our German friend now wants a section cut out of the Turbo bumper Pete helped me take off. Yeah, because I can sell the rest of the bumper with it split in two, can't I?

 

What the fuck are these people on? From a sale point what use is half a bumper? I tried to explain this but he began to send me a series of increasingly upset messages and he didn't seem to understand that no one would want the rest of the bumper with a fucking huge chunk cut out of it. Plus his car is black, and the bumper is white. Along with 6 other utterly retarded VOC forum messages along the lines of 'I live 400 miles away so can I have [name of spare] for £5 because you're such a bastard and won't post them' I'm beginning to see red.

 

Seriously, if I get much more crap over these spares I'll smash them to pieces with the biggest lump hammer I can find. Why can I not just get someone reasonable with half a cunted brain cell wanting my stuff? Why?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Maybe his idea is that he buys the bumper, you chop out the bit he needs and send it to him, and bin the rest to savee on the cost of posting a bumper to Germany.

[Lankytim]

The wifes grandparents live locally in a quiet cud-de-sac, unfortunately over the last few years the next door neighbour's son has been causing problems, you know, the usual boyish mischief, dealing drugs, burglaries, assault e.t.c. His parents say he isn't their responsibility anymore and basically don't care. Anyway, today he asked Grandad to move his car, as it was parked in the street where he wanted to jet wash his scrambler bike (which he uses to distribute drugs) Grandad said no, as Amy was visiting in the next 5 mins and needed to use the driveway. Lad got annoyed, parked his bike next to the car and jet washed all the shite over it. Seeing this Grandad hobbled over to the hose pipe (He's a sprightly 83) and tried to pinch it to cut the water to the pressure washer, unfortunately the little scamp managed to give him a good soaking and nearly knocked him over with the pressure of the water. Initially this sounds funny, but remember this is an old fella, who has had years of torment from this little shit and he's already had one heart attack too!

 

To cut a long story short, the Police say the lad is known to them (no shit sherlock, you lot are round every other day), but are not interested in pursuing the case as its only "technically" assault, and it wouldn't get to court. Grandparents have been advised to not leave the house if the little toerag is about, as he has "a bad tempter".

 

So, in conclusion, if you are a anti-social little bastard, from a waste-of-space famil come to Stoke. The police will back you up and actually tell people to keep away from you! You will be free to deal drugs too. Apparently the rozzers are not aware of the drug dealing, even though everyone else in Stoke has seen him doing it and he regularly drives around off his face on coke e.t.c.

 

I have been made to promise not to get involved, as my initial reaction was to pour petrol over the lovable rogue and have done with him. Apparently i'm not allowed to do this as its ILLEGAL.

[Albert Ross]

I reckon a visit from the "Autoshite massive" would do the trick. Something along the lines of the bit in "Money Pit" where the workers arrive at the house. We could certainly introduce him to the concept of RESTECP.