The grumpy thread

[Guest]

If it looks like this one I'll send you a replacement FOC.

 

 

An eBay twat sent me it when he'd listed "Omega" caps so it's no use to me.

 

Richard, I don't think it's identical, but could probably be made to fit. PM me your paypal, the least I can do is cover a couple of beers for you. And the postage, of course.

 

I love AS!!

 

Jon, I know they were non-standard colour, which pisses me off even more, because it hasn't even been nicked to be used on other chod. Some spotty little youth probably has it on his bedroom wall, the little shit.

 

I'm going to take these wheels off this week, anyway, before they end pp getting damaged or something, so they're here whenever you want them.

 

I suspect this cap is for the 14" wheels Chris.

[Cavcraft]

Has anyone got a 'phone number for Barclay's Bank, ideally head office? I've tried Google and I've tried those chiselling c***s utterly useless 'help line' but to no avail. That shower of shit REALLY need a fucking rocket up their arse.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

http://www.saynoto0870.com is your friend.

 

However, I wouldn't bother calling them. Writing to them is guaranteed* to get you further and, even if it doesn't, you can always pass a copy onto the ombudsman/FSA/OFT or whatever...

[monzaE]

Perhaps it's been covered before but.......................I fucking hate knobheads who sit at traffic lights with their foot on the brake blinding the car behind with high intensity red light. Use the handbrake you Audi/BMW/Reliant driving Cretins!

[autofive]

Perhaps it's been covered before but.......................I fucking hate knobheads who sit at traffic lights with their foot on the brake blinding the car behind with high intensity red light. Use the handbrake you Audi/BMW/Reliant driving Cretins!

 

...or maybe just driving an auto

[John F]

Has anyone got a 'phone number for Barclay's Bank, ideally head office? I've tried Google and I've tried those chiselling c***s utterly useless 'help line' but to no avail. That shower of shit REALLY need a fucking rocket up their arse.

 

Call 0207 116 1000 and ask for Bob Diamond, Chief Executive...

 

You can also get his email address from this site: http://www.ceoemail.com.

 

I used info from that site when Vodafone utterly and repeatedly cocked up delivery of a new iPhone to me a couple of years ago. Wasn't expecting much, but I got an immediate phone call from their head office... my complaint was taken very seriously indeed, two thoroughly-deserving, unhelpful & rude Vodafone mongs got sacked over it and I got a 25% discount on the cost of my phone contract for its entire duration (18 months)

[monzaE]

Perhaps it's been covered before but.......................I fucking hate knobheads who sit at traffic lights with their foot on the brake blinding the car behind with high intensity red light. Use the handbrake you Audi/BMW/Reliant driving Cretins!

 

...or maybe just driving an auto

I drive an auto but it has a lever that you can pull to hold it without blinding drivers behind.

[Albert Ross]

Perhaps it's been covered before but.......................I fucking hate knobheads who sit at traffic lights with their foot on the brake blinding the car behind with high intensity red light. Use the handbrake you Audi/BMW/Reliant driving Cretins!

 

...or maybe just driving an auto

 

Yeah, it's so much effort these days, to put one's finger under the Parking Brake button and lift it, ooooh, 15mm..... Wankers. Being in my Land Rover, I sit "just" to their right, with my offside headlamp shining in their fucking mirror. I see your 69 watts of red, over three lamps, and raise you to 55 watts, of genuine Lucas powered "white" light, in one lamp, with a parabolic reflector, shining into your heated, electrically adjustable, tinted, colour coded, "Objects may be closer than they appear" mirror....... Let that be a lesson to you. Knobs.

[M'coli]

I think it's partly down to the stop-start systems start the engine up as soon as you take your foot off the brake. Well done, designers.

[Cavcraft]

Sadly I'm one of the wankers who does this. The handbrake on the Merc is one of those stupid 'spend half an hour pissing about with your feet trying to put it on' arrangements. I am trying to master it though so I'm arsing about with eleven miles of queues behind me.

[Cavcraft]

Has anyone got a 'phone number for Barclay's Bank, ideally head office? I've tried Google and I've tried those chiselling c***s utterly useless 'help line' but to no avail. That shower of shit REALLY need a fucking rocket up their arse.

 

Call 0207 116 1000 and ask for Bob Diamond, Chief Executive...

 

You can also get his email address from this site: http://www.ceoemail.com.

 

I used info from that site when Vodafone utterly and repeatedly cocked up delivery of a new iPhone to me a couple of years ago. Wasn't expecting much, but I got an immediate phone call from their head office... my complaint was taken very seriously indeed, two thoroughly-deserving, unhelpful & rude Vodafone mongs got sacked over it and I got a 25% discount on the cost of my phone contract for its entire duration (18 months)

 

Legend, cheers John.

[autofive]

Has anyone got a 'phone number for Barclay's Bank, ideally head office? I've tried Google and I've tried those chiselling c***s utterly useless 'help line' but to no avail. That shower of shit REALLY need a fucking rocket up their arse.

 

Call 0207 116 1000 and ask for Bob Diamond, Chief Executive...

 

You can also get his email address from this site: http://www.ceoemail.com.

 

Thanks

 

[email protected]

[eddyramrod]

Sadly I'm one of the wankers who does this.

 

Just shove it in Park and take both feet off, job done.

[warren t claim]

Sadly I'm one of the wankers who does this.

 

Just shove it in Park and take both feet off, job done.

 

Not a good idea on a steep hill though.

[Spiny Norman]

Sadly I'm one of the wankers who does this. The handbrake on the Merc is one of those stupid 'spend half an hour pissing about with your feet trying to put it on' arrangements. I am trying to master it though so I'm arsing about with eleven miles of queues behind me.

 

+1.

 

Whoever designed Mercedes "parking brakes" was obviously seriously retarded.

Or an American.....

 

There's not much I don't like about driving a Benz but that contraption stands out as a shining beacon of how it's NOT done. Believe me, it pisses me off knowing I'm annoying the bloke behind me but it would be easier to get out and chock the wheels that apply and then release a Merc parking brake.....

 

I mean how the fuck can a company that engineers really neat touches into the car like windscreen wipers that default to intermittent when you stop at the lights so it doesn't go crazy while you're stationary continue with this dumbass system?

[eddyramrod]

Grump: the weather! Since almost the moment I packed my tools away after repairing my carport canopy, we've had nothing here but gale-force winds, lashing rain and thunderstorms. Mostly all together. Not only am I not able to fit my lovely repaired canopy, now the remaining half of the Granada's canopy has shredded too. I dread to think where I'm going to find stuff in the morning. Probably under a foot of water: my pool's full up with rainwater!

[messerschmitt owner]

Grump: the weather! Since almost the moment I packed my tools away after repairing my carport canopy, we've had nothing here but gale-force winds, lashing rain and thunderstorms. Mostly all together. Not only am I not able to fit my lovely repaired canopy, now the remaining half of the Granada's canopy has shredded too. I dread to think where I'm going to find stuff in the morning. Probably under a foot of water: my pool's full up with rainwater!

look on the bright side! Not long till you're back in Barrow.

[eddyramrod]

That's true, I can stop worrying about my swimming pool then...

[messerschmitt owner]

That's true, I can stop worrying about my swimming pool then...

aye, it'll never be empty in Barrow.

[Pete-M]

Perhaps it's been covered before but.......................I fucking hate knobheads who sit at traffic lights with their foot on the brake blinding the car behind with high intensity red light. Use the handbrake you Audi/BMW/Reliant driving Cretins!

 

...or maybe just driving an auto

 

Yeah, it's so much effort these days, to put one's finger under the Parking Brake button and lift it, ooooh, 15mm..... Wankers. Being in my Land Rover, I sit "just" to their right, with my offside headlamp shining in their fucking mirror. I see your 69 watts of red, over three lamps, and raise you to 55 watts, of genuine Lucas powered "white" light, in one lamp, with a parabolic reflector, shining into your heated, electrically adjustable, tinted, colour coded, "Objects may be closer than they appear" mirror....... Let that be a lesson to you. Knobs.

 

Heh, my Jeep has auto-dipping mirrors. Interior and offside. They work, too. So if you're behind a Grand Cherokheap, go to the nearside....

[Cavcraft]

Cheers John, finally and hopefully getting somewhere now. Couldn't speak to the big cheese but have been conversing with someone seemingly high up. They still suck donkey whang though and don't seem extra specially helpful but there may be light at the end of the tunnel. Thanks again.

[flat4alfa]

Perhaps it's been covered before but.......................I fucking hate knobheads who sit at traffic lights with their foot on the brake blinding the car behind with high intensity red light. Use the handbrake you Audi/BMW/Reliant driving Cretins!

 

...or maybe just driving an auto

 

Yeah, it's so much effort these days, to put one's finger under the Parking Brake button and lift it, ooooh, 15mm..... Wankers.

+100

[cort16]

It's because electronic parking brakes are so shitey and unresponsive. I do this (in my Audi A6 with running lights) because the electronic barking brake is a complete fud and will/won't disengage at will causing me to either roll back or stall when I least expect it. Because of this I've just got used to sitting on the brake or holding it on the clutch.

[John F]

Do people really feel that handbrakes are that good nowadays, where most cars have rear disc brakes and consequently weedy little handbrake shoes in the centre of the tophats?

 

Certainly the crap system fitted to my Calibra only works properly if it's applied with enough force to bend the handbrake lever.

[Pete-M]

Do people really feel that handbrakes are that good nowadays, where most cars have rear disc brakes and consequently weedy little handbrake shoes in the centre of the tophats?

 

Certainly the crap system fitted to my Calibra only works properly if it's applied with enough force to bend the handbrake lever.

 

Yeah, they're ok on the stuff I've got.

 

Not much use for comedy handbrake turn stunts, but they hold 'em on a hill.

 

(There are quite a few cars of a certain make that shall remain nameless but build a lot of cars with V in model name that have tragic handbrakes that let the car roll about two feet before locking on like a pissed off Pitbull)

[John F]

Yeah, they're ok on the stuff I've got.

 

Not much use for comedy handbrake turn stunts, but they hold 'em on a hill.

 

(There are quite a few cars of a certain make that shall remain nameless but build a lot of cars with V in model name that have tragic handbrakes that let the car roll about two feet before locking on like a pissed off Pitbull)

 

Haha! I wouldn't park my Calibra on the flat with just its handbrake on, it's always left in gear. I've got so used to doing that I do it with all of my other stuff now, whether it needs it or not.

[wuvvum]

The Audi appears to have major front suspension issues. It drives smooth as silk in a straight line, but as soon as the OSF wheel is loaded up even slightly (as in a gentle left-hand bend taken at 50mph) it starts juddering so badly at one stage I genuinely thought I was going to lose the wheel. It gets worse if I put any power on in the bend. It ain't loose wheelnuts 'cos I've checked those; an out-of-shape tyre or a knackered driveshaft would give at least some vibration in a straight line, and I couldn't feel any play in the driveshaft when I gave it a tug. So I don't know quite what the problem is, and I'm buggered if I'm jacking the car up and crawling around under there in the dark, but I'm booking it in for an MoT either Friday or Saturday so I guess I'll find out soon enough...

[chaseracer]

Blingo needed a new headlight; £135 for the unit, a fiver for the bulb, plus 85 sheets for labour. Dealer prices obv - have I just been stitched like the proverbial kipper?

[John F]

The Audi appears to have major front suspension issues. It drives smooth as silk in a straight line, but as soon as the OSF wheel is loaded up even slightly (as in a gentle left-hand bend taken at 50mph) it starts juddering so badly at one stage I genuinely thought I was going to lose the wheel. It gets worse if I put any power on in the bend. It ain't loose wheelnuts 'cos I've checked those; an out-of-shape tyre or a knackered driveshaft would give at least some vibration in a straight line, and I couldn't feel any play in the driveshaft when I gave it a tug. So I don't know quite what the problem is, and I'm buggered if I'm jacking the car up and crawling around under there in the dark, but I'm booking it in for an MoT either Friday or Saturday so I guess I'll find out soon enough...

 

Borked shock, perhaps? Have you done a bounce test?

[cort16]

Why does ebay think Glasgow's in the Highlands? I've tried to order brake discs and paint over the last couple of weeks and have been knocked back at the last minute as ebay thinks PA6 is in the outer friggin hebrides.