The grumpy thread

[Albert Ross]

3 different people phoned up wanting to view the BMW today.

 

 

Have a guess how many showed up. Really, just take a wild stab in the dark

 

If anyone else rings, be sure to get their phone number ("just in case something comes up or you have to dash out or whatever"). Obv then if they dont turn up you can ring them up and ask 'are you f**king coming then or not'. Just having their number will weed out 85% of no-shows.

 

Or post their number on an "alternative" dating website......

[Negative Creep]

I do have their numbers but probably not a good idea to ring up abusing them seeing as they also have my number (plus one has my address). Still, there's always that minuscule chance they will actually turn up or rearrange.........

[CIH]

3 different people phoned up wanting to view the BMW today.

 

 

Have a guess how many showed up. Really, just take a wild stab in the dark

 

17 ?

[pdg]

Mythbusters - 'nuff said...

[Amazo]

Mythbusters - 'nuff said...

Much as I like that show (especially Kari Byron ), the one thing that annoys me about it is the needless destruction of some lovely old automotive shite.

[Station]

I think it's really good, even though it did repeat itself to death and have adverts every 5 minutes.

At least it doesn't have Jeremy Clarkson/James May/Richard Hammond/Mike Brewer/Dominic Littlewood in it.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I do have their numbers but probably not a good idea to ring up abusing them seeing as they also have my number (plus one has my address). Still, there's always that minuscule chance they will actually turn up or rearrange.........

 

Yeh i'm not saying you should actually abuse them, just ring them up half an hour after their 'appointmemt' to ask whats happened to them.

[Cavcraft]

Nah, sod 'em. Had a bloke ring up once, left an answerphone message with his number twatting on at some length about how he was 'definately going to come down and buy the car'. Called him back an hour later and he denied ever calling me and an arugment developed where I felt obliged to call him some choice names. He then got all keypad warrior on me which was quite amusing. I do know that calling him up at 3.00 in the morning about the taxi service he was(nt) advertising on the web didn't please him too much though.

[maxpower]

fat lazy workshy kids who think food and fuggin electricity come free

 

who won't even go to the shops to replace anything that they have fuggin eaten.... i can see a few suitcases being packed this weekend!

 

and they won't be mine!

 

rant over

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

"thanks for paying for our holidays"

[John F]

WHY do those bastards feel the need to write HORSES on the back of their fucking horse transporters? Eh?

 

WHY THE FUCK?

 

Are we supposed to care?? Or is Mr Bastard just boasting that he has sufficient spare wodge to spoil Mrs Bastard and her little dahlings rotten?

 

Whatever the reason, they are Cunts. All of them.

 

Rant over.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

It's only because they're too polite to write 'CUNTS'. However, it has the same effect (i.e. making it easier for other people to avoid them).

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I saw a massive horsebox the other day, the reg no. was 'HOR5Y'! To be fair though it had a not unattractive (no doubt jodhpur-clad) milf-type character driving it.

[trigger]

Was this horsebox pink?, that could have been Katie "I wouldn't even with yours mate" Price.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

It DEFO WAS NOT Katie Price and looked nowt like her

[Cavcraft]

Saw a brown, early (1986-ish I think) Montego yesterday near Nantwich and didn't have my camera. It looked bloody tidy too.

[meggersdog]

Sold my Merc CLK on fleabay yesterday on the provision I MOT it.Booked the MOT for tomorrow morning,been out to it today and there is a fooking great crack in the windscreen.Eh, the car hasn't moved off the drive since yesterday afternoon so how the blinking heck did that happen ? Phoned the (asian) buyer to tell him and it's all "oh yeah, someone offered more money " no it genuinely has got a crack and I genuinely am p*ssed off about it.

[maxpower]

Sold my Merc CLK on fleabay yesterday on the provision I MOT it.Booked the MOT for tomorrow morning,been out to it today and there is a fooking great crack in the windscreen.Eh, the car hasn't moved off the drive since yesterday afternoon so how the blinking heck did that happen ? Phoned the (asian) buyer to tell him and it's all "oh yeah, someone offered more money " no it genuinely has got a crack and I genuinely am p*ssed off about it.

 

tell him if he still wants it he can have the cracked windscreen thrown in for no extra charge

[trigger]

Hey Meggers what's the story behind this, they sound like a right 'tart.

 

Friendly guy, but he didn't own the car according to the log book. I didn't pay. 1998 MAZDA MX-5 S METALLIC GREEN Mk2 (#250768284715)

[Cavcraft]

Shit the bed, that CLK was cheap enough. Wish I'd realised you were selling this as would have had it a couple of weeks back. If it doesn't sell let me know please and if I can offload some of my shit I'll be on the blower.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1998-MERCEDES ... 7892301336

[trigger]

In the space of two weeks i have gone from having 4 cars in my drive way down to just 1 car, the Golf, What with selling the Escort and both my Mondeo and Kadett being at the garage still.

 

Both me and Mrs T have work in the morning and only one car between us, normally this wouldn't be a problem as there's always someone from work to give me a lift if i get stuck but typical sods law means everyone i can get a lift off is on holiday this week or of sick, Arse.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Public Transit? Is that a passenger transportation network exclusively comprising of Ford-made Marshrutkas?

[Guest]

Public Transit? Is that a passenger transportation network exclusively comprising of Ford-made Marshrutkas?

 

I thought it was some kind of Mopar hop-up program[me].

 

In other news, the 305 STILL won't bloody start, our next door unit neighbour is an epic claart, and I missed RRG because of McDonalds and oversleeping.

 

 

Hot favourite with the Peugeot is that the coil is knackered - the spark is seriously weak. Oh, and the plugs were wrong. It nearly fired up with the timing mega retarded but all MM5 got for his trouble instead was temporary deafness as massive flames shat themselves out of the carb. There was also a spectacular series of backfires that scared the shit out of the horses in the nearby stables.

 

EURGH.

[CreepingJesus]

Sorry to hear that, CJ. Can't you ask for some CCTV footage?

 

No CCTV in local Asda car park. Just the front door, and cash machines are covered.

I'm thinking I'll invoke 'what goes around comes around' instead. Next time I'm forced to squeeze 50-odd foot of artic past someone's car which is parked half up on the pavement, over double yellows, they can kiss goodbye to their wing mirror.

[Spottedlaurel]

In the space of two weeks i have gone from having 4 cars in my drive way down to just 1 car, the Golf, What with selling the Escort and both my Mondeo and Kadett being at the garage still.

 

Both me and Mrs T have work in the morning and only one car between us, normally this wouldn't be a problem as there's always someone from work to give me a lift if i get stuck but typical sods law means everyone i can get a lift off is on holiday this week or of sick, Arse.

 

How long do you need a car for Trig? I'm not using my Camry Sport much right now, you're welcome to borrow it for a week or two.

[meggersdog]

Hey Meggers what's the story behind this, they sound like a right 'tart.

 

Friendly guy, but he didn't own the car according to the log book. I didn't pay. 1998 MAZDA MX-5 S METALLIC GREEN Mk2 (#250768284715)

 

Yeah he was a complete knob.I bought the car from BCA and didn't realise, until he looked at it, that the trade slip was still attached.I offered to write out a full receipt, showed him my trade-plates, the car was outside my house and he still said "how do I know you have permission to sell the car if it's not in your name ?" Those newer style EU V5's even state the document is not proof of ownership.

 

Cavette I only bought the Merc last Tuesday and thought I could make a quick easy profit in a few days.The crack appeared overnight Saturday/Sunday morning as there was definately nothing there when I cleaned it a few days earlier.The cheapest windscreen quote was £240.00 so I won't be selling it to matey.

[warren t claim]

Closedminded gits who won't tolerate new AS members' posts without dogpiling on them. There are no "entitled" people here. This ain't RR, thank god.

 

Hey, guys, I listen to YOUR drivel day after day. If some newbie posts a few drivel posts, comment on it if you wish. But I don't see the need to drum him out of the fold.

 

The last "big-time poster" asswipe who made it his "mission" to shout people down here resigned. And good riddance to him and his ad hominem put-downs of other people. The jackass.

 

I honestly haven't noticed. I thought we were all getting along nicely!

[trigger]

Thanks for the very kind offer Nigel, that's really nice of you but i should be ok thank you.

 

The garage is just waiting for some new bolts to turn up from Ford for the new replacement pulley so once they are here it can hopefully be finished, Hannah had to bike to work this morning instead!

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I had a dig at Amazo, because he's only made about 20 posts on here, and 15 of them are sneering, patronising remarks about R-R (where he seemingly remains a cheerful and active member despite the obvious misery that the site brings him). Of course he's allowed to dislike R-R, but why fill another forum up whining on about it? He hasnt bothered to tell us what cars he's into, but he's found the wherewithal to liken R-R to 'a festering lesion' or some such bilge.

 

Just imagine how shit this forum would be if more members followed that model. (<----- IRONY)

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I love you too Norm! I would leave my kids in your care without a second thought (though I would give them a cyanide pill to take if the subject of public vs private healthcare came up during their time with you).