The grumpy thread

[maxpower]

shill bidding ebay scum!

 

if you want to sell me your van then sell it to me for the price i bid, don't bid on your own item just to up the price so you win then mail me with the pretence that the winning bidder (you) backed out and i can have van on a 2nd chance offer...£100 less than winning bid but £600 more than i would have paid if you were above board!!

 

these scum breathers don't realise that the activity with this seller button gives it all away..... i could'nt even be arsed to report him to ebay

[trigger]

Looks like there's some car changes to be made.

 

Mrs T can't get on with the Mk3, to the point she now doesn't want to drive it anymore and has the hump with me for selling the Mk4 as she liked it, So I now have to ring the chap buying the Mk4 to tell him the deals off and give him his £100 deposit back and bung him a bit extra to say sorry. (I really hate the idea of doing this to someone).

 

I'm going to stick the Kadett up for sale ( Sorry Billy!) I like the car but don't love it, strange to explain i know but i think it's the constant worry of something going wrong on it and not being able to get the parts which worry me plus i really want something more beefy or 60's Ford badged and then push the Mk3 into my classic car duties until the end of the year, In the new year sell the Mk3 and hopefully have enough to another to replace it with a nice classic.

 

This might all change yet but i think it's the way forwards.

[dollywobbler]

Shame Trig, but cars change hands - that's life. Just hope it isn't too much hassle trying to find a buyer for what's a pretty rare car on these shores.

[trigger]

I've got it going on the VODC stand at Billing for the weekend next month, I haven't even got the foggest what it would be worth?, I was thinking of asking for offers?.

[M'coli]

Start at what you paid for it plus 20% - people always like to see a price, and also like to haggle you down.

[trigger]

I was thinking £2995 seems like a good place to start?

[M'coli]

Sounds good. It needs some Doctor-style photos (with gravel drive) though.

[dollywobbler]

Yeah, it deserves some much better pics than I managed to take of it...

[Cavcraft]

 

Say what?

Trig, it's honestly not because it's from the GM stable but you just CANNOT sell the Opel, it's quite probably the nicest car of ever and a once in a lifetime jobbie.

Seriously like I'd be banging that up for around £4,000-£4,500 on a classic car webpage advertising thingy. It's possibly take a bit of time to sell but the right buyer with the right money is out there. I would suspect if you advertise it for £2,995 you'll get a dealer chipping you down and before you blink it'll be on their website for £4750 or so.

 

Mind you if you get MEGA pissed one night and squinted a bit you could look at pictures of my Cortina and offer me a swap. For your sake and because I'm a man of my word I wouldn't pull out of the deal either mate

[Station]

Getting back home to find the freezer totally defrosted due to leccy meter running out, a brown liquid all over the floor and retching on opening the freezer to allow more brown liquid to come tumbling out.

Also, fish dead, plants dead, grass up to knee height, bins not taken out, and washing (which I'd left out to deter burglars) had spun round washing line 50 times in the wind.

[trigger]

Say what?

 

I knew you would be upset Billy!, It is a stunner i know but it's just to rare for me, I know that sounds stupid but I'm a bit out of depth with it if something went wrong on it plus I want something more fun.

 

If i got £4k for it I'd be gob smacked but you never know, I mentioned on the Vauxhall/Opel forum that i might be selling it at Billing at someone reckons that the Vauxhall Heritage museum might be interested in it due to it's rarity, Now that would be good!

 

Oh and I've decided not to pull out of the Escort deal as that's just wrong, Spotted a K10 Micra on ebay I might make a punt on..

[retrogeezer]

well as I've missed out on the mk4 make sure I get 1st dibs on the Mk3 Trigger, a pair on the drive would be sweet!

[trigger]

Will do Simon, Whilst I think about it have you ever been on http://www.seriesoneturbo.co.uk/index.php It's a Mk3 Escort forum which is pretty good and not full of chavy nobs! You should post some photos of yours on there, I got a good response from mine.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Hey...this thread is being left behind...too much happiness on this forum methinks!

 

Onto a mega-grump: the IMBECILES THAT RUN THE GREEK STATE. New taxes were introduced retroactively (!!), the combined impact of which on my pocket will be just over FIVE GRAND which, of course, I don't have unless I start selling stocks etc etc. I am sorely tempted to just stop paying them and let them auction off my real estate- with the possession taxes in force, nobody would be stupid enough to buy it anyway. I know it's only money, and I'm likely to find it one way or another ("hello? Is that the bank of Mum and Dad?"), but I am fucking depressed...

[boobydoo]

I'm going to stick the Kadett up for sale.

 

, Spotted a K10 Micra on ebay I might make a punt on..

 

Just read what you put.

 

Have you taken leave of your senses, Trigsworthy!

[greengartside]

Have tried to remove just one wheel from my 306 so I could paint it.

 

Got the Peugeot jack and wheelbrace from the boot and proceeded to undo the wheelnuts.

 

I think Geoff Capes tightened the nuts followed by Arnold Scwarzenegger double-checking them. I stood on the brace to try and get them to move which resulted in the brace bending almost completely straight - no bother, I thought. There's a 19mm socket & breaker bar in the shed. So off I trundle to find it. I find the breaker bar easily but the socket is somewhere in the toolbox.

 

Or so I thought. I had an 18, 20 and a 21mm but no 19mm of course.

 

I chucked everything back in the shed and gave up. FUCK'S SAKE!!!!!!

[meggersdog]

thieving piley scum.

My Escort has been resting at my mother's house for the last three years.My step-father paased away a couple of years ago and the house has been on the market.Since the sold board went up I've had all manner undesirables knocking on my door asking about the old scrap car.Nothing wrong with that but because the car was originally my mother's it has sentimental value.My mother passed away 11 years ago and until three years ago I was running it myself.Most scrapmen types have understood the situation and left me alone.

Luckily my parents nextdoor neighbour is fairly astute so last week when a couple of pikeys began pumping the tyres up he asked them if they had permission to take the car."yeah,Mr Jones said we could take it" He told them Mr Jones doesn't own the car and sent them to see me.Defo pikeys as they were talking jibberish about getting wires crossed then asked if the old "kah" could go for scrap.

They went back that night and ripped the petrol flap off,unable to to remove the filler cap they cut the breather pipes to syphon the pez out.

In one sense they have done me a favour but I'm pissed off about the damage.I now need to get the car shifted so only had three tyres to pump up.Oh yeah,good luck with that three year old pez you thieving cnuts.

[Station]

If I owned a car as old and unreliable as this Maestro, I'd scrap it without hesitation.

 

Excellent motoring journalism.

 

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/mo ... estro.html

[Lord Sterling]

Little things that go wrong when you just want to do something really simple.......

 

This afternoon at a loose end I decided to give the Micra and 820e a hoover out, got the extension cable and hoover out, unfortunately the cable decided it'd be funny to get tangled the shrubbery, so I stepped onto the lawn to get the cable and suddenly smelt something not nice, I'd stepped in some of my cats shit The bloody thing wouldnt shift off my shoe, I tried wiping it on the grass, boiling water etc... Not only that but it got on the path and the front garden smelt horrible. All I wanted to do was simply get the cable out, plug everything up and hoover the cars, very simple, no need for this rubbish to happen.

 

As my cars were parked up on the communal grass area the crap eventually came off and somehow I managed to get the cars hoovered and clean out

[Angrydicky]

The new rear screen rubber for my Austin A55 MK1 arrived yesterday, great I thought, as the old one is rock hard and leaks like a sieve. When I got it out of the box alarm bells started ringing when I saw the label "A50" on it (A40's and A50's have a much smaller back window). Offered it up and it's 18" too short. So that's had to be posted back. Also missed another parcel of Cambridge parts this morning as I was at work so I'll have to wait until Monday afternoon to collect now.

 

And it's started raining again, and I've had no interest in the Landcrab at all. It's got to go, so a no reserve Ebay auction beckons.

[Station]

I'd stepped in some of my cats shit

 

Treading in animal faeces is the worst. I remember going for a run at night and slipping in some. I went horizontal and it went all the way up my arse and back and I put my hands in it. HORRIBLE!

[dollywobbler]

Have you tried Car and Classic yet Rich? Wider exposure should get the Wolzcrab sold - not sure RR is the right market for it. Ads on there will automatically appear in Classic Car Buyer, for even more viewings.

 

I can't take on another classic while we still have the Mini unfortunately, and I am rather a long distance away! (I haven't actually sold the Scimitar yet either! Apart from that, mileage, garage etc...)

[Angrydicky]

Thanks Wobbler. Just listed it on C&C

[Lankytim]

I'd stepped in some of my cats shit

 

Serves you right for owning a cat!!

[boobydoo]

I ran over a cat the other day. I could feel it go under the wheels. Didn't dare look in the rearview mirror to see it 'breakdancing' in the street.

[Lord Sterling]

Not nice

[warren t claim]

Choices. Particularly when it comes to females. I lead a pretty fucked up life that my 14 year old self would be proud of. Welcome to twats anonymous.

[dollywobbler]

I've spent much of the past few days cruising around on Ebay and other classified sites, looking for my dream new car (while being utterly undecided about what this dream new car will be). I have become VERY depressed about the standards of literacy in this country. I'm very hopeful that actually, 80% of people selling cars are utter, brainless twats and that this does not necessarily mean that 80% of the entire population are utter, brainless twats. Yes, I accept - not everyone has it easy with words. I don't mind the odd spelling mistake. What I DO object to is endless use of txt spk, appalling grammar and adverts that contain no information at all. Or right at the bottom, the word SOLD. Oh, and if you feel the need to use a font size larger than the standard setting, your brain is clearly programmed incorrectly and you should be removed from society. At extra speed if you've used a bright colour as well.

[Cavcraft]

hAi M8 do u wanna bye an Hiundi Axent vry gud condishun except as hole in weelarcher a bumbers r scufed?

[M'coli]

hAi M8 do u wanna bye an Hiundi Axent vry gud condishun except as hole in weelarcher a bumbers r scufed?

FAIL - that made sense!