The grumpy thread

[tonedepear]

I went out for a couple of tins last night, which was a calculated risk as I'm on days this weekend : 7am-7pm. Got home at 01:30 this morning, worrying that I'd be a mess today cos I didn't have time to sleep enough and my alarm was set for 06:20. Eventually after much thought, I re-set it to 06:26, the latest I can likely get away with and still be at work in time.

 

Got called out at 02:30.

 

Struggling now. Only 9 hours to go...

[ProgRocker]

Bugger! Wrong thread.

 

*exits stage left*

[Negative Creep]

Being forced to watch the X Factor. What a load of pathetic, manipulative garbage. Every single contestant in tears, sob story, overblown piano music and they'll all be forgotten within a year. Still, it gives simple people something to do I guess.

[Cavcraft]

Being forced to watch the X Factor. What a load of pathetic, manipulative garbage. Every single contestant in tears, sob story, overblown piano music and they'll all be forgotten within a year. Still, it gives simple people something to do I guess.

 

+1. I do watch it a bit ( ) but they'd be betetr off having a 'no whining' rule as that would eliminate probably 90% of the vacuous bastards. Don't even get me started on the 'hard life' bastards though, most notably the majority of which seem to be cocky, female cockney gobshites.

'Oh boo hoo, my mum got a 31p fine for not returning a library book in 1992, my dad cast a split second glance at a barmaid, my gran was left to bring up the hamster on her own and my life has been ruined ever since'

[michiel]

Grumpy about the fact that last night just around the corner two cars burnt out. Don't know whose (gone already this morning, although the radiators were still there!) but I sure hope it was spontaneous... didn't sleep too well after (happened around 03:00 hours).

[Cavcraft]

http://gadgetjase.blogspot.com/2011/06/ ... -them.html

 

They just get cheekier, don't they?

[tonedepear]

Carcraft et al aren't car showrooms, they're car finance showrooms.

[Guest]

http://gadgetjase.blogspot.com/2011/06/car-supermarkets-i-hate-them.html

 

They just get cheekier, don't they?

 

Yeah Billy, stop messing people around you arsehole!

[Cavcraft]

Look, Warren came down for a cup of tea and a chat and drove home in a Laguna. Three weeks later he's back (on the promise of a cream cake) and took an Escort estate away.

I'm getting the bacon warmed up next Tuesday, there's still a Mondeo to get rid of here.

[Pete-M]

Here's a little tip for you when it comes to Carcraftâ„¢.

 

When you drive in you stop at the little barrier where the security guard asks you what you're doing etc. There's a camera there reading your reg plate, which they then do a HPI check on your car with. As you go in and speak to the salesman he'll ask for your name and address etc, which he'll note down. They then do a credit check on you. Without asking for your permission.

 

As you're talking to Junior Sales Droid they're feverishly in the back room checking out your finance history, whether they can stitch you up properly so to make it worth them having you in their showroom. Junior Droid will keep you talking while he waits for 'the nod', if you have a shonky credit record he'll get the signal to bin you.

 

From what I can gather, it's a highly illegal, but they have been getting away with it for years.

 

If you've got a shonky credit history, do an experian check on yourself (it's only a couple of quid), go visit CarCrap and do the check on yourself again...

[Cavcraft]

Aha, the same trick A****** C***** use then?

[eddyramrod]

The very existence of the X Factor.

EFA

 

Look up "Rubbish" in any dictionary and there'll be a screenshot. Doesn't matter from which year, or even which angle.

[warren t claim]

Look, Warren came down for a cup of tea and a chat and drove home in a Laguna.

 

I'm still not 100% sure how that happened. I distinctly remember spending an hour slagging it off and the next thing I recall is driving it down the M53.

 

It's new owner still hasn't rung me to complain about it yet. He must of lost my number or something.

[maxpower]

Here's a little tip for you when it comes to Carcraftâ„¢.

 

When you drive in you stop at the little barrier where the security guard asks you what you're doing etc. There's a camera there reading your reg plate, which they then do a HPI check on your car with. As you go in and speak to the salesman he'll ask for your name and address etc, which he'll note down. They then do a credit check on you. Without asking for your permission.

 

As you're talking to Junior Sales Droid they're feverishly in the back room checking out your finance history, whether they can stitch you up properly so to make it worth them having you in their showroom. Junior Droid will keep you talking while he waits for 'the nod', if you have a shonky credit record he'll get the signal to bin you.

 

From what I can gather, it's a highly illegal, but they have been getting away with it for years.

 

If you've got a shonky credit history, do an experian check on yourself (it's only a couple of quid), go visit CarCrap and do the check on yourself again...

 

then pull out a massive wad of notes and say "ok i will spend this wedge somewhere else"

[warren t claim]

^^^ They want the finance agreement more than a car sale.

 

I'd go as far as saying that they want people with awful credit to bump up the repayments.

[autofive]

^^^ They want the finance agreement more than a car sale.

 

I'd go as far as saying that they want people with awful credit to bump up the repayments.

 

and the commission on a warranty agreement (which they can use to rectify any problems with the car BEFORE you get it)

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I quite enjoyed my trip to The Car People. I went in sceptical but it was a really nice place with a much nicer selection of cars than CarCraft. No pressure salesman happily fetched the keys for the cars we wanted to inspect, the cars were in good order (no poundland wheel trims)... very nice. Can't speak for the prices, I don't know what used cars are worth.

 

^^^ They want the finance agreement more than a car sale.

When my dad retired he wanted to buy a Focus with cash. The Ford dealer wouldn't have it and insisted on selling the car on finance and instructing us to make the payments for X months before paying the rest off in one go. Result: Trip to local Volkswagen dealer to buy Golf with no fuss.

 

This is the same Ford dealer who wanted £100 for 'checks' on top of the 'non-negotiable' price of a used Focus. Result: Trip to local Volkswagen dealer to buy used Polo with no fuss and no extra charges.

[Cavcraft]

Look, Warren came down for a cup of tea and a chat and drove home in a Laguna.

 

1) I'm still not 100% sure how that happened. I distinctly remember spending an hour slagging it off and the next thing I recall is driving it down the M53.

 

2) It's new owner still hasn't rung me to complain about it yet. He must of lost my number or something.

 

1) You've never watched Sergeant Bilko?

 

2) Which bin or river did you throw the sim card into?

 

[fiatdaft]

Aha, the same trick A****** C***** use then?

 

 

Doesn't happen.

[Cavcraft]

Does.

 

There was a complaint about it on another forum (forget where but if I find it I'll dig it out andf post it up) from someone who actually parked outside one of their places and got bombarded with calls and mail. This person wasn't the first to receive this treatment either it seems.

[fiatdaft]

Err it doesn't.

 

Fact.

[Cavcraft]

Will agree to disagree then, there's enough dummy spitting going on around here without the need to add any more into the mix.

[fiatdaft]

Nae bother,but just to let you the reason why a.c doesn't pre credit check,is that a.c. don't do any credit checks,its the finance companies and they need a lot more information than a reg and customers name and address.

[Pete-M]

It was the top sales manager at my local Carcraft who told me about their checks during an interview. He appeared proud of it. This may have been before my local branch opened, but he told me it was their standard practice at all branches.

 

I don't know about Arnie Clarks, but I doubt it as they don't seem to have the same system, barriers on car parks etc.

[cort16]

If I was a dealership and had that ANPR tech I'd hook it up to my customer database so it showed if you're an existing customer with name address etc. If so go and a welcome them by name and ask them how their journey from Crotchington on Wye was thus giving them a warm fuzzy feeling or creeping them out.

 

Onto a real grump. I just cannie seem to shift neither my Merc nor my BMW. My e28's got no rust, never welded, nearly full service history and loads of really fancy bits you never get on these but I can't seem to shift it. Pity as there's a 560 SEC for sale at a localish auction I fancy getting and constantly putting fuel in.

[CIH]

I've managed to get badass cuts on both my thumbs and they hurt quite a bit so I'm down with the lolcatz and can't open doors or anything.

[michiel]

Grumpy about the fact that last night just around the corner two cars burnt out. Don't know whose (gone already this morning, although the radiators were still there!) but I sure hope it was spontaneous... didn't sleep too well after (happened around 03:00 hours).

 

Hmm, apparently someone parked/dumped a BMW and emptied two jerrycans over it, destroying someone's pride & joy Volvo 850 in the process.

[Guest]

When my dad retired he wanted to buy a Focus with cash. The Ford dealer wouldn't have it and insisted on selling the car on finance and instructing us to make the payments for X months before paying the rest off in one go. Result: Trip to local Volkswagen dealer to buy Golf with no fuss.

 

This is the same Ford dealer who wanted £100 for 'checks' on top of the 'non-negotiable' price of a used Focus. Result: Trip to local Volkswagen dealer to buy used Polo with no fuss and no extra charges.

 

Would this be E**** H******, the same dealer who offered me £50 in trade in for my 306 against a hilariously overpriced Focus TDCi?

Net result: For some reason I went a bought a C4 instead.

 

Any dealer who refuses a cash sale there and then should be take out and slapped, hard. A sale's a sale at the end of the day. Even I, with my abject hatred of direct sales and PR (having worked for a Toyota garage for a hilarious 3 month period) could tell you that.

And yes, I lost my job because I told an elderly couple to buy a second hand car on the forecourt for less than half the cost of a heavily financed, ball breaking APR deal on a brand new model. It got rid of a car off the forecourt. And me. Probably for the best, et whasnae fer meeeh, noh.

[andrew e]

I'm Grumpy 'cos one of you lot must have bought my new car, the one I crawled all over friday afternoon when the salesman had buggered off with the trade plates, the one I was going to test drive this morning... go on own up

 

Who else would have bought an automatic metalic brown FIAT Croma?

 

IT WAS MINE

[Mr Lobster]

Err it doesn't.

 

Fact.

 

I can confirm what Mr Daft says is correct. Arnie might do a lot of things but they don't do that.